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.[1]
- Edwin Flavell, 95, British Army officer.[2]
- Ray Gillen, 34, American rock singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.[3]
- Sir Ivor Hele, 81, Australian artist.[4]
- Scott Kolk, 88, American actor.[5]
- Mary Lobel, 93, British historian.[6]
- Giulio Marchetti, 82, Italian and actor and television presenter, internal hemorrhage.[7]
2
- Ali Benfadah, 58, Algerian football player and manager.[8]
- Paal Brekke, 70, Norwegian lyricist, novelist, and literary critic.[9]
- Evelyn Dearman, 85, English tennis player.
- Harry Julius Emeléus, 90, English inorganic chemist.[10]
- Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist, shot.[11]
- John Kershaw, 62, British screenwriter and script editor.
- Tom Monroe, 74, American actor.
- Leo Paquin, 83, American football player.[12]
3
- Frank Anthony, 85, Indian politician and Anglo-Indian community leader.[13]
- George P. Hammond, 97, American professor of Latin American studies.[14]
- Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer.[15]
- Lea Mek, 18, Cambodian-American gang member, murdered in gang shooting.[16]
- Steve Paproski, 65, Canadian politician and football player.[17]
- Lewis Thomas, 80, American science writer.[18]
4
- Victor Gunnarsson, 40, Swedish right-wing activist, homicide.[19]
- Marcel Jean, 92, French painter, writer, and sculptor.[20]
- Margaret Landon, 90, American writer and missionary.[21]
- Hugh Moore, 64, British City of London Police commander, heart failure.[22]
- Jusuf Prazina, 31, Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War, homicide.[23]
- Frank Sturgis, 68, American CIA operative and one of the Watergate burglars, lung cancer.[24]
- Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh football player.[25]
- Frank Zappa, 52, American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, prostate cancer.[26]
5
- Mike Dowdle, 55, American gridiron football player.[27]
- Yevgeny Gabrilovich, 94, Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter.[28]
- Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.[29]
- Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress and dressmaker, suicide by gunshot.[30]
- Vince Mazza, 68, Canadian football player.[31]
- Robert Ochsenfeld, 92, German physicist.[32]
- Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian film production designer.[33]
6
- Don Ameche, 85, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places, Heaven Can Wait), Oscar winner (1986), prostate cancer.[34]
- Bryson Graham, 41, English rock drummer.[35]
- Anna Hřebřinová, 85, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympian.[36]
- Hendrik Ooms, 77, Dutch cyclist.[37]
- Paul-Louis Weiller, 100, French industrialist and philanthropist.[38]
7
- Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia.[39][40]
- Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter, cancer.[41]
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, President of Ivory Coast, cancer.[42]
- Blaže Koneski, 71, Macedonian poet, writer, and linguistic scholar.[43]
- Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.[44]
- Robert Taft, Jr., 76, American politician.[45]
8
- Carl Damm, 66, German politician and member of the Bundestag.[46]
- Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Russian weightlifter, starvation and hypothermia.[47]
- Carlotta Monti, 86, American film actress.[48]
- Cole Palen, 67, American aviator.
- Philippe Pradayrol, 27, French judoka, traffic collision.[49]
- Mieczysław Wilczewski, 61, Polish cyclist.[50]
9
- Salvatore Allegra, 95, Italian composer.[51]
- Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Irish football player, Alzheimer's disease.[52]
- Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, 94, Iranian Grand Ayatollah and Shia islam scholar.
- Herbert Grevenius, 92, Swedish screenwriter.[53]
- Matt Guokas, 78, American basketball player and broadcaster.[54]
- Carter Jefferson, 48, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[55]
- Alexander Koblencs, 77, Latvian chess master and writer.
- John Wisdom, 89, British philosopher.[56]
10
- Maroun Bagdadi, 43, Lebanese film director, fall.[57]
- Jerzy Juskowiak, 54, Polish sprinter and Olympian.[58]
- Fernand Mithouard, 84, French cyclist.[59]
- Alice Tully, 91, American opera singer, music promoter, and philanthropist, influenza.[60]
- Miljan Zeković, 68, Montenegrin and Yugoslav football player and manager.[61]
- Alan E. Zimmer, 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke.[62]
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.[63]
- Paul Mebus, 73, German football player.
- Bill Mumm, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician.[64]
- Steve Nelson, 90, Croatian-American political activist.[65]
- 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.[66]
- Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress and theatre director.[67]
- Sam Stayman, 84, American bridge player and writer.
12
- József Antall, 61, Hungarian teacher, librarian, historian, and statesman, cancer.[68]
- Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer.[69]
- Marian Constance Blackton, 92, American screenwriter and actress.
- Fritz Bock, 82, Austrian politician.
- Joan Cross, 93, English soprano.[70]
- Alexandru Drăghici, 80, Romanian communist activist and politician.
- Don Earle, 64, American ice hockey announcer.
- Bob Taylor, 89, American ice hockey player.[71]
13
- Ken Anderson, 84, American art director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Sword in the Stone) and screenwriter (Cinderella), stroke.[72]
- Larry Cameron, 41, American gridiron football player and professional wrestler, heart attack in ring during match.[73]
- Vanessa Duriès, 21, French novelist, traffic collision.[74][75]
- Joy Laurey (pen name of Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris), 50, French novelist, traffic collision.[74]
- Tommy Sexton, 36, Canadian comedian, AIDS-related complications.
- Billy Shantz, 66, American baseball player and manager.[76]
- Gaziza Zhubanova, 66, Kazakh composer.
14
- Jeff Alm, 25, American gridiron football player, suicide.[12][77]
- Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision.[78]
- Frank Fuller, 64, American gridiron football player.[79]
- Jennifer Howard, 68, American actress, lung cancer.
- Francis Jones, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms.[80]
- 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.[81]
- Silvina Ocampo, 90, Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist.[82]
15
- Tom Bedecki, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan football player, homicide.[83][84]
- Penaia Ganilau, 75, First President of Fiji, leukemia.[85]
- William Dale Phillips, 68, American physical chemist and academic.[86]
- Marcel Vandernotte, 84, French rower and Olympian.[87]
16
- Charizma, 20, American MC, shot.[88]
- Fedele Gentile, 85, Italian film actor.
- Moses Gunn, 64, American actor (Shaft, Little House on the Prairie, Heartbreak Ridge), asthma.[89]
- Riley Hill, 79, American actor.
- Jed Johnson, Jr., 53, American politician.[90]
- Charles Moore, 68, American architect and writer.[91]
- Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, pneumonia.[92]
17
- Patrick Crowley, 87, Irish politician and trade union official.
- Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee.[93]
- Hilding Hagberg, 94, Swedish communist politician.
- Mirza Ibrahimov, 82, Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, and public figure.
- Len Julians, 60, English football player.[94]
- Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer.[95]
18
- Bernard Ayandho, 63, Central African politician and diplomat.
- Joseph H. Ball, 88, American journalist and politician.[96]
- Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and SOE agent during World War II.[97]
- Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs, 93, British-American powerboat racer.
- Gheorghe Cozorici, 60, Romanian actor.
- Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver.[98]
- Steve James, 41, American actor and stunt performer, cancer.[99]
- Tony Kappen, 74, American basketball player.[100]
- 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.[101]
19
- Wallace F. Bennett, 95, American businessman and politician.[102]
- Michael Clarke, 47, American drummer (The Byrds), liver failure.[103]
- Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician.[104]
- 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.[105]
20
- Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes.[106]
- Hubert Deltour, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.[107]
- W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, statistician, author, and lecturer.[108]
- Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer.[109]
- Charles Herman Helmsing, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[110]
- Hulusi Kentmen, 81, Turkish actor, kidney failure.
- Felix Mackiewicz, 76, American baseball player.[111]
21
- Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, 100, British Army officer.[112]
- Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist.[113]
- Frederick J. Harlfinger II, 80, American Navy officer.[114]
- Ivan Kozlovskyi, 93, Soviet and Russian lyric tenor.[115]
- Zack Mosley, 87, American comic strip artist.[116]
- Pekka Niemi, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympian.[117]
- Margarita Nikolaeva, 58, Soviet gymnast and Olympian.[118]
22
- Mario Amendola, 83, Italian screenwriter, film director and dramatist, diabetes.[119]
- Sylvia Bataille, 85, French actress, heart attack.[120][121]
- Oto Bihalji-Merin, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian writer, painter and art critic.
- Marion Burns, 86, American film actress.[122]
- Don DeFore, 80, American actor, heart attack.[123]
- Alexander Mackendrick, 81, American-Scottish film director, pneumonia.[124]
- Salah Zulfikar, 67, Egyptian actor and film producer.[125]
23
- Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, 69, Icelandic religious leader and neopaganist, heart attack.
- Gertrude Blom, 92, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer.[126]
- Lauchlin Currie, 91, American economist.[127]
- James Ellison, 83, American film actor, fall.[128]
- Luigi Giuliano, 63, Italian football player.[129]
- Jean Maréchal, 83, French racing cyclist.[130]
- Chucho Navarro, 80, Mexican singer.
- Marcello Neri, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist.[131]
24
- Pierre Victor Auger, 94, French physicist.[132]
- Yen Chia-kan, 88, President of the Republic of China.[133]
- Anita Dorris, 90, German actress of the silent era.[134]
- Ralph Downes, 89, English organist, organ designer, and music director.[135]
- Ivano Fontana, 67, Italian boxer.[136]
- Andrzej Nadolski, 72, Polish historian, archaeologist, and professor.
- Dorothea Parker, 65, New Zealand sprinter, cancer.[137]
- Norman Vincent Peale, 95, American writer and minister, stroke.[138]
- J. Wayne Reitz, 84, American agricultural economist and university president.[139]
- Vladimir Šimunić, 74, Croatian football player and manager.
25
- Blandine Ebinger, 94, German cabaret singer and actress.[140]
- Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 98, German princess, socialite, and author.
- Ama Naidoo, 85, South African anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.[141]
- Jeff Phillips, 30, American professional skateboarder, suicide by gunshot.[142]
- Ann Ronell, 86, American composer and lyricist.[143]
- Azat Sherents, 80, Soviet and Armenian actor.
- Marian Suski, 88, Polish fencer and Olympian.[144]
- Nikolai Timkov, 81, Soviet and Russian painter.[145]
26
- Dave Beck, 99, American labor leader.[146]
- Lilian Edirisinghe, 71, Sri Lankan actress.
- Jeff Morrow, 86, American actor.[147]
- 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.[148]
- Feliks Kibbermann, 91, Estonian chess master and philologist.[149]
- Nina Lugovskaya, 75, Soviet painter and theatre designer.[150]
- Evald Mikson, 82, Estonian football player.[151][152]
- André Pilette, 75, Belgian racecar driver.[153]
- 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.[154]
- Howard Caine, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, 1776, Judgment at Nuremberg), heart attack.[155][156]
- Augie Galan, 81, American baseball player, manager and coach.[157]
- John Kemp, 53, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.[158]
- Gilles Lamontagne, 69, Canadian baritone[159]
- Jennifer Lash, 55, English novelist and painter, breast cancer.
- William L. Shirer, 89, American journalist and war correspondent.[160]
29
- Axel Corti, 60, Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host.[161]
- Yvonne Desportes, 86, French composer, writer, and music educator.[162]
- Karl Endres, 82, German basketball player.[163]
- Lohengrin Filipello, 75, Swiss television presenter.
- Marie Kean, 75, Irish actress.[164]
- Marshall Meyer, 63, American conservative rabbi, cancer.
- Frunzik Mkrtchyan, 63, Armenian stage and film actor, cancer.[165]
30
- Mack David, 81, American lyricist and songwriter.[166]
- 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.[167]
- Giuseppe Occhialini, 86, Italian physicist.[168]
- George Stone, 47, American basketball player, heart attack.[169]
- İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, 85, Turkish politician.[170][unreliable source?]
31
- Henry A. Byroade, 80, American diplomat.[171]
- Bill Cowley, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Arthur Dreifuss, 85, German-American film director.[172]
- Mikhail Dudin, 77, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.[173]
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 54, Soviet and Georgian politician, dissident, and writer, shot.[174]
- Alexander Girard, 86, American architect and designer.[175]
- Bob Johnson, 73, American actor.
- Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont, 38, Jamaican guitarist and singer, prostate cancer.[176]
- Guy Lefrant, 70, French equestrian and Olympian.[177]
- Betty McDowall, 69, Australian actress.
- Lauriston Sharp, 86, American anthropologist and academic.[178]
- Samuel Steward, 84, American writer, professor, tattoo artist and pornographer.[179]
- Brandon Teena, 21, American trans man and murder victim, shot.[180]
- Thomas Watson, 79, American businessman, politician, and philanthropist, stroke.[181]
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