List of Famous people who died at 94

Doug Ellis

First Name Doug
Last Name Ellis
Born on January 3, 1924
Died on October 11, 2018 (aged 94)

Sir Herbert Douglas Ellis, was an English entrepreneur. He was the chairman of Aston Villa Football Club from 1968 to 1975, and again from 1982 until 2006. Ellis was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours List for charitable services.

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Robert Frank

First Name Robert
Last Name Frank
Born on November 9, 1924
Died on September 9, 2019 (aged 94)

Robert Frank was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.

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Sonja Ziemann

Sonja Alice Selma Toni Ziemann
First Name Sonja
Born on February 8, 1926
Died on February 17, 2020 (aged 94)
Born in Germany, Brandenburg

Sonja Alice Selma Toni Ziemann was a German film and television actress. In the 1950s, she was among Germany's most prominent actresses, awarded the 1950 Bambi for appearing, together with Rudolf Prack, in Schwarzwaldmädel. From the 1960s, she turned to more serious acting in international films such as The Secret Ways. She played in several anti-war films such as Strafbataillon 999. She also appeared on stage and in television.

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Anne Jeffreys

Annie Jeffreys Carmichael
First Name Anne
Last Name Jeffreys
Born on January 26, 1923
Died on September 27, 2017 (aged 94)

Anne Jeffreys was an American actress and singer. She was noted as the female lead in the 1950s TV series Topper.

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Nikolai Starostin

First Name Nikolai
Born on February 13, 1902
Died on February 17, 1996 (aged 94)
Born in Russia

Nikolai Petrovich Starostin was a Soviet footballer and ice hockey player, and founder of Spartak Moscow.

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Josephine Hutchinson

First Name Josephine
Last Name Hutchinson
Born on October 12, 1903
Died on June 4, 1998 (aged 94)

Josephine Hutchinson was an American actress. She acted in several theater plays and films.

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Rupert Neve

First Name Rupert
Last Name Neve
Born on July 31, 1926
Died on February 12, 2021 (aged 94)

Rupert Neve, born in Newton Abbot, England, was a British electronics engineer and entrepreneur, who was particularly known as a pioneering designer of professional audio recording equipment. Neve died on 12 February 2021 in Wimberley, Texas, U.S., due to pneumonia and heart failure..

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Lotfia Elnadi

لطفية النادي
First Name Lotfia
Born on October 29, 1907
Died on January 1, 2002 (aged 94)

Lotfia Elnadi was an Egyptian aviator. She was the first Egyptian woman as well as the first woman from Arab world to earn a pilot's license.

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Brigitte Mira

First Name Brigitte
Born on April 20, 1910
Died on March 8, 2005 (aged 94)
Born in Germany

Brigitte Mira was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, later in her career with Rainer Werner Fassbinder on many occasions.

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Doris Lessing

Doris May Tayler
First Name Doris
Last Name Lessing
Born on October 22, 1919
Died on November 17, 2013 (aged 94)

Doris May Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

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