Aged 94
Famous people who died at 94
111 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 94, including George H. W. Bush, George Bernard Shaw and Naguib Mahfouz. Here are the 100 best known.
- George H. W. Bush41st President of the United States · 1924–2018
- George Bernard ShawIrish playwright, critic, and polemicist · 1856–1950
- Naguib MahfouzEgyptian writer · 1911–2006
- Doris LessingBritish novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer · 1919–2013
- Milton FriedmanAmerican economist and statistician · 1912–2006
- Astrid LindgrenSwedish writer of fiction and screenplays · 1907–2002
- Valéry Giscard d'EstaingFrench official and politician · 1926–2020
- Milan KunderaFranco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist · 1929–2023
- Nancy ReaganFirst Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 · 1921–2016
- Louis de BroglieNobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter · 1892–1987
- Sidney PoitierBahamian and American actor and diplomat · 1927–2022
- Charles AznavourArmenian-French singer and diplomat · 1924–2018
- Jabir ibn Hayyan8th-century Islamic alchemist and author · c. AD 721–815
- Mikhail KalashnikovSoviet and Russian small arms designer · 1919–2013
- Paul SamuelsonAmerican economist · 1915–2009
- Peter HiggsBritish physicist and Nobel Prize winner · 1929–2024
- Pete SeegerAmerican folk singer · 1919–2014
- Giulio AndreottiItalian politician and statesman · 1919–2013
- Richard von WeizsäckerPresident of Germany from 1984 to 1994 · 1920–2015
- Frank CapraItalian-born American film director · 1897–1991
- Emily Greene BalchAmerican economist and writer · 1867–1961
- Elia KazanAmerican director and actor · 1909–2003
- Michelangelo AntonioniItalian film director and screenwriter · 1912–2007
- Leon CooperAmerican physicist · 1930–2024
- Masatoshi KoshibaJapanese physicist and astronomer · 1926–2020
- Willis LambAmerican physicist · 1913–2008
- Yoichiro NambuAmerican theoretical physicist · 1921–2015
- Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient · 1857–1952
- Emilio AguinaldoPresident of the Philippines from 1899 to 1902 · 1869–1964
- Fidel RamosPresident of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998 · 1928–2022
- Juliana of the NetherlandsQueen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980 · 1909–2004
- Andrew Huxley ↗English physiologist and biophysicist · 1917–2012
- Gena Rowlands ↗American actress · 1930–2024
- Hans Georg Dehmelt ↗German physicist · 1922–2017
- Bob Newhart ↗American stand-up comedian and actor · 1929–2024
- Kōnosuke Matsushita ↗Founder of Panasonic · 1894–1989
- Les Paul ↗American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor · 1915–2009
- Norman Angell ↗English politician · 1872–1967
- Shirley Booth ↗American actress · 1898–1992
- Lys Assia ↗Swiss singer · 1924–2018
- Al-Jahiz ↗Arabic writer · c. AD 775–869
- John Carew Eccles ↗Australian neurophysiologist · 1903–1997
- Lady Bird Johnson ↗First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 · 1912–2007
- Artaxerxes II ↗The 10th Achaemenid Emperor · c. 452–358 BC
- Carlo Ponti ↗Italian film producer · 1912–2007
- Cloris Leachman ↗American actress and comedian · 1926–2021
- Idris I of Libya ↗King of Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1969 · 1889–1983
- Robert Cecil ↗Lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom · 1864–1958
- 'Amr ibn al-'As ↗Arab military commander and governor · c. AD 570–664
- Gordon Moore ↗American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation · 1929–2023
- Herbert A. Hauptman ↗American mathematician · 1917–2011
- Jerome Karle ↗American physical chemist · 1918–2013
- Michel Piccoli ↗French actor · 1925–2020
- Eugénie de Montijo ↗Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1870 · 1826–1920
- Gerhard Herzberg ↗German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist · 1904–1999
- Martin Karplus ↗Austrian-born American theoretical chemist · 1930–2024
- Burt Bacharach ↗American pianist, composer, producer · 1928–2023
- Joseph Dalton Hooker ↗British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon · 1817–1911
- Benjamin Spock ↗American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care · 1903–1998
- R. K. Narayan ↗Indian English-language writer · 1906–2001
- Kiro Gligorov ↗President of the Republic of Macedonia · 1917–2012
- Michael Gough ↗English actor · 1916–2011
- Aimé Césaire ↗Martinican writer, poet and politician · 1913–2008
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ↗German physicist · 1912–2007
- Ejnar Hertzsprung ↗Danish astronomer and chemist · 1873–1967
- Hamilton Smith ↗American microbiologist · 1931–2025
- Henry van de Velde ↗Belgian painter, architect and interior designer · 1863–1957
- Leonora Carrington ↗British-born Mexican artist, painter and novelist · 1917–2011
- Andrés Segovia ↗Spanish guitarist · 1893–1987
- C. Rajagopalachari ↗Indian politician and activist · 1878–1972
- Isaac Navon ↗Israeli politician, 5th President of Israel · 1921–2015
- P. D. James ↗English crime writer · 1920–2014
- Nikolai Ryzhkov ↗Soviet-Russian politician · 1929–2024
- Sonia Delaunay ↗French painter · 1885–1979
- Bernard Mannes Baruch ↗American businessman · 1870–1965
- Ciriaco De Mita ↗Italian politician · 1928–2022
- Lewis Mumford ↗American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic · 1895–1990
- Stanley Donen ↗American film director and choreographer · 1924–2019
- Abe Vigoda ↗American actor · 1921–2016
- Benedict XIII ↗Cardinal, antipope from 1394 to 1423 · 1328–1423
- Honor Blackman ↗British actress · 1925–2020
- Lee Iacocca ↗American businessman · 1924–2019
- Rose Marie ↗American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer · 1923–2017
- Abbé Pierre ↗French Catholic priest, founder of the Emmaus movement, subject of sexual abuse scandals · 1912–2007
- Alfred Brendel ↗Austrian composer and pianist · 1931–2025
- Mária Telkes ↗Hungarian–American scientist and inventor · 1900–1995
- Alice Guy-Blaché ↗French film director · 1873–1968
- Angelo Sodano ↗Cardinal of the Catholic Church · 1927–2022
- Étienne Gilson ↗French historian and philosopher · 1884–1978
- Judith Anderson ↗Australian stage and screen actress · 1897–1992
- Liliane Bettencourt ↗French heiress, socialite and businesswoman · 1922–2017
- Akira Yoshizawa ↗Japanese origamist · 1911–2005
- Joseph Needham ↗British biochemist, historian and sinologist · 1900–1995
- Vladimir K. Zworykin ↗Russian-American engineer · 1888–1982
- Norberto Bobbio ↗Italian legal scholar · 1909–2004
- Ann Rutherford ↗Canadian-American actress · 1917–2012
- Dodie Smith ↗English children's novelist and playwright · 1896–1990
- Glafcos Clerides ↗Cypriot lawyer and politician (1919–2013), President of Cyprus from 1993 to 2003 · 1919–2013
- Jin Yong ↗Hong Kong writer · 1924–2018
- Mohamed Al-Fayed ↗Egyptian businessman and billionaire · 1929–2023
"c." means only the years are known, so the age could be a year out. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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