List of Famous people who died in 1994
Jean Trogneux
Jean Trogneux is a chocolatier based in Place Notre Dame, in the centre of Amiens, France and run by five generations of the Trogneux family. They are best known for their macarons, of which they manufacture two million every year. As well as seven outlets in Amiens, they have shops in other cities in Picardy and the north of France – Lille, Arras and Saint-Quentin.
Jérôme Lejeune
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities and for his subsequent opposition to prenatal diagnosis and abortion. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 21 January 2021.
Luc Jouret
Luc Jouret, born in Kikwit, Belgian Congo, was a Belgian religious group leader in Switzerland. He co-founded the Parti Communautaire Européen with Jean Thiriart, a leading member of the neo-Nazi Jeune Europe Belgian group. Later, Jouret also founded the Order of the Solar Temple with Joseph Di Mambro in 1984. He committed suicide in the Swiss village of Salvan in October 1994, leading to a mass suicide of his followers.
Irena Krzywicka
Irena Krzywicka née Goldberg, 28 May 1899 in Yeniseysk, Russian Empire – 12 July 1994 in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, was a Polish feminist, writer, translator and activist for women's rights, who promoted sexual education, contraception and planned parenthood.
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia
Louis Ferdinand Victor Eduard Adalbert Michael Hubertus, Prince of Prussia was a member of the princely House of Hohenzollern, and the pretender for over half a century to the abolished German throne. He was also noteworthy as a businessman and patron of the arts.
Karl Schiller
Karl August Fritz Schiller was a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1966 to 1972, he was Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and from 1971 to 1972 Federal Minister of Finance. He was the inventor of the magic square, depicting Economic equilibrium, and of the Concerted activity to reflate the German market. He is thus seen as one of the most influential German economists beside Ludwig Erhard.
Arnold Strippel
Arnold Strippel was a German SS commander during the Nazi era and convicted criminal. As a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, while assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp, he was given the task of murdering the victims of a tuberculosis medical experiment conducted by Kurt Heissmeyer.
Käthe Braun
Käthe Braun was a German stage and film actress. She was married to director Falk Harnack and acted in several of his films.
Behçet Cantürk
Behçet Cantürk was a Kurdish mob boss. His main activity was involvement in the illegal drug trade.
Anita Morris
Anita Rose Morris was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing on Broadway musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Seesaw and Nine, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.