List of Famous people who died in 1994
Berrin Menderes
Fatma Berrin Menderes was the wife of Adnan Menderes, the ninth prime minister of Turkey.
Muelle el frescu
Muelle was a trademark signature and design by Juan Carlos Argüello, Spanish graffiti pioneer.
Clara Klabunde
Clara Klabunde, was a German lawyer and the first German in the rank of a court president. On December 1, 1952, she became the first woman at the court to take the post of Regional Labor Court Director of the newly established Third Chamber at the Hamburg Labor Court. Klabunde also had the adjunct in the disciplinary council for judges and since 1953, belonged to the Hamburg Constitutional Court. On September 1, 1966, she called the Hamburg Senate to the President of the State Labor Court thus being the first woman in Germany to reach such a position.
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.
Carlos Gracie
Carlos Gracie was a Brazilian martial artist who is credited with being one of the primary developers of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Along with his younger brother Hélio Gracie and fellow students Luis França and Oswaldo Fadda, he helped develop Brazilian jiu-jitsu based on the teachings of Mitsuyo Maeda in Kano Jiu-Jitsu and is widely considered to be the martial-arts patriarch of the Gracie family. He purportedly acquired his initial knowledge of Jiu-Jitsu by studying in Belem under Maeda and his students. As he taught the techniques to his brothers, he created a martial arts family with Hélio and with other members of the Gracie family who provided key contributions to the style and development, eventually creating their own self defence system named Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.
Malvina Pastorino
Malvina Pastorino was an Argentine film actress.
Tawfiq Ziad
Tawfiq Ziad was an Israeli Arab politician well known for his "poetry of protest".
Neil Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick
Neil Aylmer Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick-Hunter was a British sailor. He won a silver medal in the 5.5 metre class at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Hamoud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Hamoud bin Abdulaziz al Saud was a member of House of Saud and a businessman. He was reportedly the thirty-sixth and youngest son of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz.
Vicente Enrique y Tarancón
Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, known in his country as Cardenal Tarancón or Tarancón, was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Madrid from 1971 to 1983, and as president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference from 1971 to 1981, during the difficult years of the Spanish transition to democracy. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.