List of Famous people who died at 94

Stepan Borozenets

First Name Stepan
Last Name Borozenets
Born on August 20, 1922
Died on August 26, 2016 (aged 94)

Stepan Nikolayevich Borozenets (Russian: Степан Николаевич Борозенец; 20 August 1922 – 26 August 2016) was a Soviet Air Force colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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John William Vessey

First Name John
Last Name Vessey
Born on June 29, 1922
Died on August 18, 2016 (aged 94)

John William "Jack" Vessey Jr. was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of general, and is most notable for his service as the tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Elizabeth Hawley

Elizabeth Ann Hawley
First Name Elizabeth
Last Name Hawley
Born on November 9, 1923
Died on January 26, 2018 (aged 94)

Elizabeth Hawley was an American journalist, author, and chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions. Hawley's The Himalayan Database became the unofficial record for climbs in the Nepalese Himalaya. She was also the honorary consul in Nepal for New Zealand.

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P. D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James
First Name P.
Last Name James
Born on August 3, 1920
Died on November 27, 2014 (aged 94)

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park,, known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and politician. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels featuring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.

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Asa Briggs

First Name Asa
Last Name Briggs
Born on May 7, 1921
Died on March 15, 2016 (aged 94)

Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs was an English historian. He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. Briggs achieved international recognition during his long and prolific career for examining various aspects of modern British history. He was made a life peer in 1976.

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Henri de Turenne

First Name Henri
Last Name Turenne
Born on November 19, 1921
Died on August 23, 2016 (aged 94)

Henri de Turenne is a French journalist and screenwriter. He was born in Tours. The son of Armand de Turenne, a World War I flying ace, he was raised in Germany and French Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work. After the Second World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir, and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres. Since the mid-1960s, he worked primarily in television, notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé, making over a hundred documentaries. He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War. His fictional works include Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), made for Arte, for which he shared a 7 d'Or with Michel Deutsch.

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Harry J. Lipkin

First Name Harry
Last Name Lipkin
Born on June 16, 1921
Died on September 15, 2015 (aged 94)

Harry Jeannot Lipkin, also known as Zvi Lipkin, was an Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. He is a recipient of the prestigious Wigner Medal.

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Jacques Monory

Jacques Émile Louis Monory
First Name Jacques
Last Name Monory
Born on June 25, 1924
Died on October 17, 2018 (aged 94)

Jacques Monory was a French painter and filmmaker whose work, highly influenced by photography and cinema, is an allegory of the contemporary world with a focus on the violence of everyday reality. His canvases evoke a heavy atmosphere, pulling subject matter from modern civilization through the lens of his signature monochrome color blue.

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Arnold Paucker

First Name Arnold
Last Name Paucker
Born on January 6, 1921
Died on November 30, 2015 (aged 94)
Born in Germany

Arnold Paucker, OBE was a Jewish German-English historian. He was the long-time editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, published by the Leo Baeck Institute London.

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Cathleen Synge Morawetz

Cathleen Synge
First Name Cathleen
Born on May 5, 1923
Died on August 8, 2017 (aged 94)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Cathleen Synge Morawetz was a Canadian mathematician who spent much of her career in the United States. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow, particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow. She was professor emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University, where she had also served as director from 1984 to 1988. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998.

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