Chronology of Notable Deaths

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1993

April 1
  • Alan Kulwicki, American stock car racer, dies in plane crash at age 38 (born 1954). [1] [31]
  • Ihsan Mohamed Salem [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed. [1]
  • Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies. [1]
  • Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at age 68. [1]
April 2
  • Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (Four Sons, Homicidal), dies at age 93. [1]
April 3
  • Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at age 83. [1]
  • Death of Pinky Lee AKA Pincus Leff at age 85 after a heart attack; American children's television host (The Pinky Lee Show). [1] [5] [31] [457]
April 4
  • Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at age 93. [1]
April 6
  • Divya Bharati "Baby Doll", Indian actress (Diwana), dies in car accident at 19 (born 1974). [1] [31]
  • Hedi Amira Nouira, Prime Minister of Tunisia (1970-80), dies. [1]
April 7
  • Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at age 80. [1]
  • S C (Billy) Griffith, cricket player (England 1948-49, MCC secretary), dies. [1]
April 8
  • H Earnest, bishop of Breda, dies. [1]
  • Marian Anderson, American contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at age 96 (born 1897). [1] [31]
April 9
  • Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch Member of Parliament (KVP), dies at age 74. [1]
April 10
  • Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at age 50. [1] [31]

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April 11
  • Mohammed el-Himi, Brigadier-General of Egyptian police, murdered. [1]
  • Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973-92), dies at age 63. [1]
April 12
  • Isaac Rojas, Vice President of Argentina (1955-58), dies. [1]
April 13
  • Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies. [1]
  • Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/Member of Parliament, dies at age 72. [1]
  • Death of Wallace Stegner, American writer (car accident) (born 1909). [31]
April 14
  • Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir), dies at age 85. [1]
  • Sam Ntombani, African National Congress-Secretary in Soweto South Africa, shot to death. [1]
April 15
  • George Ives dies at age 111. [1]
  • H H "Bull" Alexander, cricket player (Test for Australia 1933, average 154), dies. [1]
  • Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at age 85. [1]
April 16
  • John P W Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at age 77. [1]
April 17
  • Turgut Özal, President of Turkey (1989-93), dies at age 65 (born 1927). [1] [31]
April 18
  • Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at age 76. [1]
April 19
  • A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire and shooting that kills 86 people (17 children), including leader David Koresh. [1] [31] [457]
  • George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and seven others, die in a plane crash. [1]
  • Death of Steve Douglas at age 55 of heart failure in Los Angeles during a recording session with Ry Cooder; saxophonist (Ritchie Valens, Duane Eddy and the Rebels). [457]
April 20
  • Cantinflas [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at age 81. [1]
April 22
  • Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at age 72. [1]
  • Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at age 66. [1]
  • Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (New York Yankees), dies at age 88. [1]
April 23
  • Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at age 78. [1]
  • Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at age 59. [1]
  • Death of César Estrada Chávez, civil rights activist (born 1927). [31]
April 24
  • Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at age 75. [1]
April 25
  • Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at age 85. [1]
April 27
  • Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at age 90. [1]
April 28
  • Jim Valvano, basketball coach (North Carolina State), dies of cancer at age 47. [1]
April 29
  • Death of Cy Howard at age 77 of heart failure; director (Lovers and Other Strangers, My Friend Irma). [1] [457]
  • Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at age 83. [1]
  • Death of Mick Ronson at age 46 of cancer of the liver in London, England; guitarist, producer (David Bowie, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, Mott the Hoople). [1] [457]
April 30
  • David Waymer, NFL player (New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders), dies at age 34. [1]
  • Eric Rowan, cricket player (26 Tests for South Africa), dies. [1]
May 1
  • A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka. 25 others die as well. [1] [31]
  • Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at age 50. [1]
  • Pierre Bérégovoy, former Prime Minister of France (1992-93), commits suicide at age 67. [1] [31]
May 2
  • Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at age 82. [1]
  • Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at age 86. [1]
May 5
  • Balak Brahmachari [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at age 73. [1]
  • Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at age 72. [1]
May 6
  • Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at age 84. [1]
  • Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at age 77. [1]
May 7
  • Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at age 89. [1]
May 9
  • Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at age 61. [1]
May 13
  • Borolas [Joaquin Garcia], Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies of heart attack at age 71. [1]
  • Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist (Olympics-gold-1964), dies at age 47. [1]
May 14
  • William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at age 85. [1]
May 16
  • Death of Marv Johnson at age 54 of a stroke at a concert in Columbia, South Carolina, USA; singer ("Come to Me" (1959), "You Got What it Takes"). [1] [457]
May 18
  • Heinrich Albertz, theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at age 78. [1]
  • Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at age 67. [1]
May 19
  • Richard Murphy, director (Three Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at age 81. [1]
  • S W Sohoni, cricket player (4 Tests for India), dies. [1]
May 20
  • Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at age 77. [1]
May 21
  • John Frost, English Lieutenant-Colonel (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at age 80. [1]
  • John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at age 65. [1]
May 22
  • Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at age 100. [1]
May 23
  • James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster - Grindl), dies at age 77. [1]
May 24
  • Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at age 66. [1]
  • Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at age 66. [1]
May 25
  • Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies at age 78. [1]
May 26
  • Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at age 91. [1]
  • Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at age 78. [1]
  • Marvin Young, producer/child actor (Player), dies at age 90. [1]
May 27
  • Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies. [1]
May 28
  • Charles Barnett, cricket player (20 Tests for England), dies. [1]
May 29
  • Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), actor (Pittsburgh Kid), dies of pneumonia at age 75. [1]
  • Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at age 68. [1]
May 30
  • Death of Sun Ra AKA Herman S Blount at age 79 from strokes; American blues pianist/orchestra leader (Solar Arkestra) (born 1914). [1] [31]
May 31
  • John Granger, actor (Advise and Consent), dies at age 69. [1]
June 5
  • Death of Conway Twitty at age 59 of a ruptured stomach vessel in Branson, Missouri, USA; country singer (39 No. 1 Billboard country hits). [31] [457]
June 8
  • In Paris, Christian Didier breaks into the home of Rene Bousquet, banker and former Vichy France administrator, and shoots him dead. [31]
June 9
  • Death of Alexis Smith at age 72 of brain cancer; actress (Dallas). [31] [457]
June 15
  • Death of John Connally, Governor of Texas (born 1917). [31]
  • Death by heart attack of James Hunt, former British racing driver and commentator in Formula One (born 1947). [31]
June 19
  • Death of William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911). [31]
June 21
  • Death of Louis W. Parker at age 86; inventor of the intercarrier sound system for television sets, the modern basis for coordinating sound and picture. [457]
June 22
  • Death of Patricia Nixon, First Lady of the United States (born 1912). [31]

End of 1993 April-June. Next: 1993 July.

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