Deaths in December 1993


Deaths in December 1993


The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1993.

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.

December 1993

1

  • Lynette Davies, 45, Welsh actress, suicide.
  • Edwin Flavell, 95, British Army officer.
  • Ray Gillen, 34, American rock singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.
  • Sir Ivor Hele, 81, Australian artist.
  • Scott Kolk, 88, American actor.
  • Mary Lobel, 93, British historian.
  • Giulio Marchetti, 82, Italian and actor and television presenter, internal hemorrhage.

2

  • Ali Benfadah, 58, Algerian football player and manager.
  • Paal Brekke, 70, Norwegian lyricist, novelist, and literary critic.
  • Evelyn Dearman, 85, English tennis player.
  • Harry Julius Emeléus, 90, English inorganic chemist.
  • Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist, shot.
  • John Kershaw, 62, British screenwriter and script editor.
  • Tom Monroe, 74, American actor.
  • Leo Paquin, 83, American football player.

3

  • Frank Anthony, 85, Indian politician and Anglo-Indian community leader.
  • George P. Hammond, 97, American professor of Latin American studies.
  • Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer.
  • Lea Mek, 18, Cambodian-American gang member, murdered in gang shooting.
  • Steve Paproski, 65, Canadian politician and football player.
  • Lewis Thomas, 80, American science writer.

4

  • Victor Gunnarsson, 40, Swedish right-wing activist, homicide.
  • Marcel Jean, 92, French painter, writer, and sculptor.
  • Margaret Landon, 90, American writer and missionary.
  • Hugh Moore, 64, British City of London Police commander, heart failure.
  • Jusuf Prazina, 31, Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War, homicide.
  • Frank Sturgis, 68, American CIA operative and one of the Watergate burglars, lung cancer.
  • Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh football player.
  • Frank Zappa, 52, American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, prostate cancer.

5

  • Mike Dowdle, 55, American gridiron football player.
  • Yevgeny Gabrilovich, 94, Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter.
  • Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.
  • Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress and dressmaker, suicide by gunshot.
  • Vince Mazza, 68, Canadian football player.
  • Robert Ochsenfeld, 92, German physicist.
  • Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian film production designer.

6

  • Don Ameche, 85, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places, Heaven Can Wait), Oscar winner (1986), prostate cancer.
  • Bryson Graham, 41, English rock drummer.
  • Anna Hřebřinová, 85, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympian.
  • Hendrik Ooms, 77, Dutch cyclist.
  • Paul-Louis Weiller, 100, French industrialist and philanthropist.

7

  • Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia.
  • Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter, cancer.
  • Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, President of Ivory Coast, cancer.
  • Blaže Koneski, 71, Macedonian poet, writer, and linguistic scholar.
  • Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
  • Robert Taft, Jr., 76, American politician.

8

  • Carl Damm, 66, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
  • Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Russian weightlifter, starvation and hypothermia.
  • Carlotta Monti, 86, American film actress.
  • Cole Palen, 67, American aviator.
  • Philippe Pradayrol, 27, French judoka, traffic collision.
  • Mieczysław Wilczewski, 61, Polish cyclist.

9

  • Salvatore Allegra, 95, Italian composer.
  • Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Irish football player, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, 94, Iranian Grand Ayatollah and Shia islam scholar.
  • Herbert Grevenius, 92, Swedish screenwriter.
  • Matt Guokas, 78, American basketball player and broadcaster.
  • Carter Jefferson, 48, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
  • Alexander Koblencs, 77, Latvian chess master and writer.
  • John Wisdom, 89, British philosopher.

10

  • Maroun Bagdadi, 43, Lebanese film director, fall.
  • Jerzy Juskowiak, 54, Polish sprinter and Olympian.
  • Fernand Mithouard, 84, French cyclist.
  • Alice Tully, 91, American opera singer, music promoter, and philanthropist, influenza.
  • Miljan Zeković, 68, Montenegrin and Yugoslav football player and manager.
  • Alan E. Zimmer, 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke.

11

  • Ku Cheng-kang, 91, Chinese politician and scholar.
  • Francisco Flores del Campo, 86, Chilean composer, instrumentalist and actor, cardiovascular disease.
  • Raymond D. Gary, 85, American businessman and politician.
  • Bohdan Likszo, 53, Polish basketball player.
  • Paul Mebus, 73, German football player.
  • Bill Mumm, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician.
  • Steve Nelson, 90, Croatian-American political activist.
  • Karl-Theodor Molinari, 78, German Army and Bundeswehr officer and politician.
  • Pierre Sarr N'Jie, 84, Gambian lawyer and politician.
  • Phil Perlo, 58, American gridiron football player.
  • Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress and theatre director.
  • Sam Stayman, 84, American bridge player and writer.

12

  • József Antall, 61, Hungarian teacher, librarian, historian, and statesman, cancer.
  • Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer.
  • Marian Constance Blackton, 92, American screenwriter and actress.
  • Fritz Bock, 82, Austrian politician.
  • Joan Cross, 93, English soprano.
  • Alexandru Drăghici, 80, Romanian communist activist and politician.
  • Don Earle, 64, American ice hockey announcer.
  • Bob Taylor, 89, American ice hockey player.

13

  • Ken Anderson, 84, American art director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Sword in the Stone) and screenwriter (Cinderella), stroke.
  • Larry Cameron, 41, American gridiron football player and professional wrestler, heart attack in ring during match.
  • Vanessa Duriès, 21, French novelist, traffic collision.
  • Joy Laurey (pen name of Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris), 50, French novelist, traffic collision.
  • Tommy Sexton, 36, Canadian comedian, AIDS-related complications.
  • Billy Shantz, 66, American baseball player and manager.
  • Gaziza Zhubanova, 66, Kazakh composer.

14

  • Jeff Alm, 25, American gridiron football player, suicide.
  • Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision.
  • Frank Fuller, 64, American gridiron football player.
  • Jennifer Howard, 68, American actress, lung cancer.
  • Francis Jones, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms.
  • Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão, 79, Brazilian neurophysiologist and researcher, respiratory failure.
  • Myrna Loy, 88, American actress (The Thin Man, The Best Years of Our Lives, Cheaper by the Dozen), lung cancer.
  • Silvina Ocampo, 90, Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist.

15

  • Tom Bedecki, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
  • Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan football player, homicide.
  • Penaia Ganilau, 75, First President of Fiji, leukemia.
  • William Dale Phillips, 68, American physical chemist and academic.
  • Marcel Vandernotte, 84, French rower and Olympian.

16

  • Charizma, 20, American MC, shot.
  • Fedele Gentile, 85, Italian film actor.
  • Moses Gunn, 64, American actor (Shaft, Little House on the Prairie, Heartbreak Ridge), asthma.
  • Riley Hill, 79, American actor.
  • Jed Johnson, Jr., 53, American politician.
  • Charles Moore, 68, American architect and writer.
  • Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, pneumonia.

17

  • Patrick Crowley, 87, Irish politician and trade union official.
  • Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee.
  • Hilding Hagberg, 94, Swedish communist politician.
  • Mirza Ibrahimov, 82, Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, and public figure.
  • Len Julians, 60, English football player.
  • Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer.

18

  • Bernard Ayandho, 63, Central African politician and diplomat.
  • Joseph H. Ball, 88, American journalist and politician.
  • Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and SOE agent during World War II.
  • Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs, 93, British-American powerboat racer.
  • Gheorghe Cozorici, 60, Romanian actor.
  • Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver.
  • Steve James, 41, American actor and stunt performer, cancer.
  • Tony Kappen, 74, American basketball player.
  • Buster Larsen, 73, Danish actor.
  • Natalya Sats, 90, Russian stage director.
  • Bernhard Sälzer, 53, German politician and member of the European Parliament, traffic collision.
  • Sam Wanamaker, 74, American actor and director, prostate cancer.

19

  • Wallace F. Bennett, 95, American businessman and politician.
  • Michael Clarke, 47, American drummer (The Byrds), liver failure.
  • Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician.
  • Inez James, 74, American film score composer.
  • Owain Owain, 64, Welsh novelist, short-story writer and poet.
  • Hans Rohrbach, 90, German mathematician and cryptanalyst during World War II.

20

  • Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes.
  • Hubert Deltour, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.
  • W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, statistician, author, and lecturer.
  • Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer.
  • Charles Herman Helmsing, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Hulusi Kentmen, 81, Turkish actor, kidney failure.
  • Felix Mackiewicz, 76, American baseball player.

21

  • Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, 100, British Army officer.
  • Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist.
  • Frederick J. Harlfinger II, 80, American Navy officer.
  • Ivan Kozlovskyi, 93, Soviet and Russian lyric tenor.
  • Zack Mosley, 87, American comic strip artist.
  • Pekka Niemi, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympian.
  • Margarita Nikolaeva, 58, Soviet gymnast and Olympian.

22

  • Mario Amendola, 83, Italian screenwriter, film director and dramatist, diabetes.
  • Sylvia Bataille, 85, French actress, heart attack.
  • Oto Bihalji-Merin, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian writer, painter and art critic.
  • Marion Burns, 86, American film actress.
  • Don DeFore, 80, American actor, heart attack.
  • Alexander Mackendrick, 81, American-Scottish film director, pneumonia.
  • Salah Zulfikar, 67, Egyptian actor and film producer.

23

  • Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, 69, Icelandic religious leader and neopaganist, heart attack.
  • Gertrude Blom, 92, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer.
  • Lauchlin Currie, 91, American economist.
  • James Ellison, 83, American film actor, fall.
  • Luigi Giuliano, 63, Italian football player.
  • Jean Maréchal, 83, French racing cyclist.
  • Chucho Navarro, 80, Mexican singer.
  • Marcello Neri, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist.

24

  • Pierre Victor Auger, 94, French physicist.
  • Yen Chia-kan, 88, President of the Republic of China.
  • Anita Dorris, 90, German actress of the silent era.
  • Ralph Downes, 89, English organist, organ designer, and music director.
  • Ivano Fontana, 67, Italian boxer.
  • Andrzej Nadolski, 72, Polish historian, archaeologist, and professor.
  • Dorothea Parker, 65, New Zealand sprinter, cancer.
  • Norman Vincent Peale, 95, American writer and minister, stroke.
  • J. Wayne Reitz, 84, American agricultural economist and university president.
  • Vladimir Šimunić, 74, Croatian football player and manager.

25

  • Blandine Ebinger, 94, German cabaret singer and actress.
  • Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 98, German princess, socialite, and author.
  • Ama Naidoo, 85, South African anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.
  • Jeff Phillips, 30, American professional skateboarder, suicide by gunshot.
  • Ann Ronell, 86, American composer and lyricist.
  • Azat Sherents, 80, Soviet and Armenian actor.
  • Marian Suski, 88, Polish fencer and Olympian.
  • Nikolai Timkov, 81, Soviet and Russian painter.

26

  • Dave Beck, 99, American labor leader.
  • Lilian Edirisinghe, 71, Sri Lankan actress.
  • Jeff Morrow, 86, American actor.
  • Carlos Muñoz, 29, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.
  • Patrick W. Ryan, 1992, Irish politician.

27

  • Michael Callen, 38, American musician, author, and AIDS activist, AIDS-related complications.
  • Feliks Kibbermann, 91, Estonian chess master and philologist.
  • Nina Lugovskaya, 75, Soviet painter and theatre designer.
  • Evald Mikson, 82, Estonian football player.
  • André Pilette, 75, Belgian racecar driver.
  • Paavo Susitaival, 97, Finnish politician and military officer.

28

  • William Austin, 90, Canadian-American film editor.
  • Alfonso Balcázar, 67, Spanish screenwriter, film director and producer.
  • Howard Caine, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, 1776, Judgment at Nuremberg), heart attack.
  • Augie Galan, 81, American baseball player, manager and coach.
  • John Kemp, 53, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.
  • Gilles Lamontagne, 69, Canadian baritone
  • Jennifer Lash, 55, English novelist and painter, breast cancer.
  • William L. Shirer, 89, American journalist and war correspondent.

29

  • Axel Corti, 60, Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host.
  • Yvonne Desportes, 86, French composer, writer, and music educator.
  • Karl Endres, 82, German basketball player.
  • Lohengrin Filipello, 75, Swiss television presenter.
  • Marie Kean, 75, Irish actress.
  • Marshall Meyer, 63, American conservative rabbi, cancer.
  • Frunzik Mkrtchyan, 63, Armenian stage and film actor, cancer.

30

  • Mack David, 81, American lyricist and songwriter.
  • Dick Donald, 82, Scottish football player and administrator.
  • Rita Klímová, 62, Czech economist and politician, leukemia.
  • Irving Paul Lazar, 86, American talent agent and businessman.
  • Giuseppe Occhialini, 86, Italian physicist.
  • George Stone, 47, American basketball player, heart attack.
  • İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, 85, Turkish politician.

31

  • Henry A. Byroade, 80, American diplomat.
  • Bill Cowley, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Arthur Dreifuss, 85, German-American film director.
  • Mikhail Dudin, 77, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.
  • Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 54, Soviet and Georgian politician, dissident, and writer, shot.
  • Alexander Girard, 86, American architect and designer.
  • Bob Johnson, 73, American actor.
  • Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont, 38, Jamaican guitarist and singer, prostate cancer.
  • Guy Lefrant, 70, French equestrian and Olympian.
  • Betty McDowall, 69, Australian actress.
  • Lauriston Sharp, 86, American anthropologist and academic.
  • Samuel Steward, 84, American writer, professor, tattoo artist and pornographer.
  • Brandon Teena, 21, American trans man and murder victim, shot.
  • Thomas Watson, 79, American businessman, politician, and philanthropist, stroke.

References


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