List of Famous people who died at 95
Karl-Erik Nilsson
Karl-Erik Nilsson was a light-heavyweight (-87 kg) Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won one gold and two bronze medals. He won another bronze medal at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships. He died in December 2017.
Colette Privat
Colette Privat was a French politician. A member of the French Communist Party, she represented the Seine-Maritime department in the National Assembly.
Silvio Gazzaniga
Silvio Gazzaniga was an Italian sculptor. While working for the Stabilimento Artistico Bertoni company, he created the FIFA World Cup Trophy.
R. G. Armstrong
Robert Golden Armstrong Jr. was an American character actor and playwright. A veteran performer who appeared in dozens of Westerns during his 40-year career, he may be best remembered for his work with director Sam Peckinpah.
Élina Labourdette
Elina Labourdette (1919–2014) was a French film actress.
Lucien Villa
Lucien Villa was a French politician.
Endre Balazs
Endre A. Balazs was a Hungarian inventor who transformed a natural lubricant into a palliative for arthritic knees. He devoted seven decades to exploring the therapeutic potential of hyaluronic acid. He was enlisted in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 2012.
Raymond Renard
Raymond Renard was a Belgian writer and linguist who earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1954.
Prince Ludwig of Bavaria
Prince Ludwig of Bavaria was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach.
Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most important magicians of the twentieth century. He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.