List of Famous people who died at 94
Jiří Louda
Jiří Louda was a Czech heraldist and veteran of World War II. Louda was considered among the leading coats of arms designers in the Czech Republic and the former Czechoslovakia. He designed the current coat of arms of the Czech Republic, adopted in 1992, which incorporates the displays of the three historic Czech lands. Louda also designed the standard of President of the Czech Republic, which was adopted in 1993 following the country's independence. Additionally, Louda created coat of arms of the Olomouc Region, as well as the municipal coats of arms for more than 200 towns and cities throughout the Czech Republic.
Anthony Powell
Anthony Dymoke Powell was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.
Dietmar Rosenthal
Dietmar Elyashevich Rosenthal was a Russian linguist.
Paul Samuelson
Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist. The first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize in 1970, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory". Economic historian Randall E. Parker has called him the "Father of Modern Economics", and The New York Times considered him to be the "foremost academic economist of the 20th century".
Prosper Grech
Prosper Grech was a Maltese Augustinian friar, who co-founded the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome. He was created a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 February 2012. He was the second Maltese member of the College of Cardinals, the first since 1843.
Kazimierz Wiłkomirski
Kazimierz Wiłkomirski; was a Polish cellist, composer and conductor. Son of Alfred Wiłkomirski, brother of Wanda Wiłkomirska and violinist Michael Wilkomirski. Graduate of the Moscow Conservatory.
Gunnar Sønsteby
Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby DSO was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in World War II. Known by the nickname "Kjakan" and as "Agent No. 24", he was the most highly decorated citizen in Norway, including being the only person to have been awarded the War Cross with three swords, Norway's highest military decoration.
Victor Wallenberg
Victor Henry Wallenberg was a Swedish sports shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he was part of the Swedish team which finished fourth in the team clay pigeons event. In the individual trap competition he finished 34th. Son of banker André Oscar Wallenberg.
Borislav Stanković
Borislav "Bora" Stanković was a Serbian basketball player and coach, as well as a longtime administrator in the sport's various governing bodies, including FIBA and the International Olympic Committee. He played 36 games for the Yugoslavian national basketball team internationally.
Takao Suzuki
Takao Suzuki was a Japanese sociolinguist, He was the author of ことばと文化, translated into English as Words in Context.