List of Famous people who died in 1994

Álvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano was a Spanish engineer and Roman Catholic bishop. He served as the prelate of Opus Dei between 1982 and 1994 as the successor to Josemaría Escrivá.

Ichiro Ogimura was a Japanese table tennis player, coach, president of the ITTF and former World No. 1 who won 12 World Championship titles during his career. Ogimura was also a key figure in the Ping Pong Diplomacy events of the early 1970s, as well as being instrumental in Korea playing as a unified team at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships.

Ignazio Balsamo was an Italian film and stage actor.

Émile André Jean-Marie Maury was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and was Archbishop of Reims from 1968 to 1972.

Edward Russell Gaines was the Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Auckland (1976–1981) and was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, New Zealand (1980–94).