List of Famous people who died in 1995
John Cairncross
John Cairncross was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. He is also notable as a translator, literary scholar and writer of non-fiction.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in Germany prior to World War II but achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life magazine after moving to the U.S. Life featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers, and more than 2,500 of his photo stories were published.
Erika Morini
Erika Morini Siracusano was a Jewish Austrian violinist.
Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem, Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. He also worked on philosophy of language.
Daniela Rocca
Daniela Rocca was an Italian actress, model and writer.
Mikel Dufrenne
Mikel Dufrenne was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism and is particularly noted for the work The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience.
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Reinhard Kolldehoff was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.
Martha Genenger
Martha Ludowika Genenger was a German swimmer. She won a European title in 1934 and a silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the 200 m breaststroke event.
Widukind Lenz
Widukind Lenz was a distinguished German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist who was among the first to recognize the thalidomide syndrome in 1961 and alert the world to the dangers of limb and other malformations due to the mother's exposure to this drug during pregnancy.
Elizabeth Roboz Einstein
Elizabeth Roboz-Einstein was a biochemist and neuroscientist known for purifying and characterizing myelin basic protein (MBP), investigating its potential role in the neurodegenerative disease multiple sclerosis (MS), and helping pioneer the field of neurochemistry.