List of Famous people who died in 1995

Atef El-Tayeb was an Egyptian film director.

Adolpho Bloch GCIH, born Avram Yossievitch Bloch was one of the most important press and television tycoons in Brazil. Founder of the Bloch Group, he created the weekly magazine Manchete in 1952, and he also established the television network Rede Manchete in 1983.

Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government. He was appointed prime minister in February 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He resigned his position in November of the same year, in protest at the US Embassy takeover and as an acknowledgement of his government's failure in preventing it.

Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in the Manhattan Project and Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme. His obituary in Physics Today described him as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs".

William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American nuclear physicist, later astrophysicist, who, with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is known for his theoretical and experimental research into nuclear reactions within stars and the energy elements produced in the process. and was one of the authors of the influential B²FH paper.

Edward Lowe was an American businessman and entrepreneur, noted for the invention of cat litter. The Small Business School described him as "building a huge business from nothing", and cites him as a textbook example of an individual who "created a product, brought it to marketplace, invented an industry and sold his business for millions". By the time of his death, his company was worth about five hundred million dollars.

Abdul Rozak Fachruddin was the Indonesian Islamic religious leader hailed from Pakualaman, Yogyakarta. He served as the 10th chairman of the Islamic mass organization Muhammadiyah from 1968 to 1990.