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Deaths in April 1994

Wikimedia list article

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ16709971 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1994.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 1994

1

Cliff Addison, 80, British chemist.

John Chase, 87, American ice hockey player, Olympian (1932), and coach.

Robert Doisneau, 81, French photographer.

Alexander Kaletchitz, 96, American Olympic boxer (1928).

John McMullan, 60, American gridiron football player (New York Titans).

Thomas Head Raddall, 90, Canadian writer.

Netty Simons, 80, American pianist, music editor, and composer.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Deaths in April 1994” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Deaths, April and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1932, 1928—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Deaths, April and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia list article” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16709971. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1932 and 1928.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Deaths in April 1994”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Deaths in April 1994 primary sources, Deaths in April 1994 archive and Deaths research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in April 1994” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.