List of Famous people who died at 94
Doug Ellis
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.
Robert Frank
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.
Sonja Ziemann
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.
Anne Jeffreys
Anne Jeffreys was an American actress and singer. She was noted as the female lead in the 1950s TV series Topper.
Nikolai Starostin
Nikolai Petrovich Starostin was a Soviet footballer and ice hockey player, and founder of Spartak Moscow.
Josephine Hutchinson
Josephine Hutchinson was an American actress. She acted in several theater plays and films.
Rupert Neve
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..
Lotfia Elnadi
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.
Brigitte Mira
Brigitte Mira was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, later in her career with Rainer Werner Fassbinder on many occasions.
Doris Lessing
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).