Famous People Who Died in 1994

• Bukowski, Charles

  The guy who wrote the movie Barfly

• Candy, John

  Steve Martin's hefty co-star in Planes, Trains and Automobiles

• Childress, Alice

  The author of A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich

• Cobain, Kurt

  Lead singer of the group Nirvana

• Cushing, Peter

  The horror film legend who was Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars

• Dahmer, Jeffrey

  The "Milwaukee Cannibal" serial killer

• Ellison, Ralph

  Author of Invisible Man

• Gacy, John Wayne

  The "Killer Clown" who buried his victims in his house

• Julia, Raul

  Gomez in The Addams Family movies

• Kabibble, Ish

  Comic cornetist who chanted 'boop boop' in Three Little Fishies

• Kim Il-sung

  Longtime "Great Leader" of North Korea

• Lancaster, Burt

  The star of From Here to Eternity

• Nilsson, Harry

  The guy who sang "Jump into the Fire"

• Nixon, Richard M.

  The U.S. president who resigned after the Watergate scandal

• O'Donoghue, Michael

  Writer / performer on Saturday Night Live

• Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

  Wife of president John F. Kennedy

• Pauling, Linus

  Vitamin C advocate and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize

• Rudolph, Wilma

  The first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics

• Savalas, Telly

  TV's Kojak

• Vance, Danitra

  The first female African-American regular on Saturday Night Live

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