List of Famous people who died at 95

Charles Tillon

First Name Charles
Last Name Tillon
Born on July 3, 1897
Died on January 13, 1993 (aged 95)
Born in France, Brittany

Charles Joseph Tillon was a French metal worker, Communist, trade union leader, politician and leader of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45).

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Karl Wald

First Name Karl
Last Name Wald
Born on February 17, 1916
Died on July 26, 2011 (aged 95)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Karl Wald was a German football referee.

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Hermann Oberth

First Name Hermann
Last Name Oberth
Born on June 25, 1894
Died on December 28, 1989 (aged 95)

Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and the American Robert Goddard.

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Anatoly Chernyaev

First Name Anatoly
Born on May 26, 1921
Died on March 12, 2017 (aged 95)
Born in Russia

Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev was a Russian historian and writer who was a principal foreign-policy advisor to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during the final days of the Soviet Union.

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Karla Kienzl

First Name Karla
Last Name Kienzl
Born on October 21, 1922
Died on September 2, 2018 (aged 95)
Born in Austria, Styria

Karla Kienzl was an Austrian luger who competed during the 1950s. She won the gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1955 FIL World Luge Championships in Oslo, Norway. Kienzl was the first World champion in luge in this event.

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Jack Goody

John Rankine Goody
First Name Jack
Last Name Goody
Born on July 27, 1919
Died on July 16, 2015 (aged 95)

Sir John Rankine Goody (1919–2015), known as Jack Goody, was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.

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David Willcocks

First Name David
Last Name Willcocks
Born on December 30, 1919
Died on September 17, 2015 (aged 95)

Sir David Valentine Willcocks, was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, which he directed from 1957 to 1974, making frequent broadcasts and recordings. Several of the descants and carol arrangements he wrote for the annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols were published in the series of books Carols for Choirs which he edited along with Reginald Jacques and John Rutter. He was also director of the Royal College of Music in London.

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Pierre Viot

Pierre Michel Viot
First Name Pierre
Last Name Viot
Born on April 9, 1925
Died on August 6, 2020 (aged 95)

Pierre Viot was a French executive. He served as a senior advisor on the French Court of Audit.

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Jean Chabbert

First Name Jean
Last Name Chabbert
Born on December 31, 1920
Died on September 20, 2016 (aged 95)
Born in France, Occitania

Jean-Berchmans-Marcel-Yves-Marie-Bernard Chabbert, OFM was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Romaldo Giurgola

First Name Romaldo
Born on September 2, 1920
Died on May 16, 2016 (aged 95)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Romaldo "Aldo" Giurgola AO was an Italian academic, architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Rome, Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome. He studied architecture at the University of Rome, completing the equivalent of a B.Arch. with honors in 1949. That same year, he moved to the United States and received a master's degree in architecture from Columbia University. In 1954, Giurgola accepted a position as an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter, Giurgola formed Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in Philadelphia with Ehrman B. Mitchell in 1958. In 1966, Giurgola became chair of the Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning in New York City, where he opened a second office of the firm. In 1980 under Giurgola's direction, the firm won an international competition to design a new Australian parliament building. Giurgola moved to Canberra, Australia to oversee the project. In 1989, after its completion and official opening in 1988, the Parliament House was recognized with the top award for public architecture in Australia.

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