List of Famous people who died at 95
Wilhelmine Lübke
Wilhelmine Lübke was a German teacher and the wife of Heinrich Lübke. When he became President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, she represented the country internationally. She founded the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe and was president of the Müttergenesungswerk. The Wilhelmine-Lübke-Preis is named after her.
Chung Chao-cheng
Chung Chao-cheng was a Taiwanese Hakka writer.
Kurt Clemens
Kurt Clemens was a German footballer who played for the Saarland national football team. He turned 95 in November 2020 and died in July 2021.
Erich Lessing
Erich Lessing was an Austrian photographer. Lessing became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1955 and was a contributor since 1979. His portraits of poets, musicians, physicists and astronomers were published in around 60 books.
Gil Parrondo
Gil Parrondo Rico OAXS was a Spanish art director, set decorator and production designer. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.
Karl-Otto Apel
Karl-Otto Apel was a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He specialized on the philosophy of language and was thus considered a communication theorist. He developed a distinctive philosophical approach which he called transcendental pragmatics (Transzendentalpragmatik).
Juliette Benzoni
Juliette Benzoni was a French author and international bestseller in several genres, including historical romance, historical fiction, mystery and screenwriting. In 1998, at the age of 78, she received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National from President Jacques Chirac.
Celeste Rodrigues
Maria Celeste Rebordão Rodrigues ComIH was a Portuguese fadista and the younger sister of Amália Rodrigues.
Nova Pilbeam
Nova Margery Pilbeam was an English film and stage actress. She played leading roles in two Alfred Hitchcock movies of the 1930s, and made her last film in 1948.
Hertha Töpper
Hertha Töpper was an Austrian contralto in opera and concert, and an academic voice teacher. A member of the Bavarian State Opera, she appeared in leading roles at major international opera houses and festivals.