Deaths in October 1993


Deaths in October 1993


The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1993

1

  • Fran Bošnjaković, 91, Croatian engineer and thermodynamicist.
  • Janine Darcey, 76, French film actress.
  • Raymond Bryan Dillard, 49, American theologian and biblical scholar, heart attack.
  • Božo Janković, 42, Yugoslav football player.
  • Sigurð Joensen, 82, Faroese lawyer, author, and politician.
  • M. Vera Peters, 82, Canadian oncologist, breast cancer.
  • Hermann Otto Sleumer, 87, Dutch botanist.
  • Segundo Castillo Varela, 80, Peruvian football player.
  • Giuseppe Vari, 69, Italian film director, editor and screenwriter.

2

  • Ahmed Abdul-Malik, 66, American jazz double bassist and oud player.
  • William Berger, 65, Austrian-American actor, cancer.
  • Henry Ringling North, 83, American businessman and circus owner.
  • Amin Tarif, 95, Israeli Druze religious leader.

3

  • Katerina Gogou, 53, Greek poet, author and actress, suicide.
  • Gary Gordon, 33, American Army master sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor, killed in action.
  • Mihály Korom, 65, Hungarian politician and jurist.
  • Patricia Lake, 74, American actress, radio comedian , and socialite.
  • Rory Peck, 36, Northern-Irish freelance war cameraman, shot.
  • Randy Shughart, 35, American Army Delta Force soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor, killed in action.

4

  • John Cawas, 83, Indian actor and stuntman.
  • Varetta Dillard, 60, American rhythm and blues singer.
  • Jim Holton, 42, Scottish football player, heart attack.
  • William Henry Scott, 72, American teacher and historian.
  • Lorie Tarshis, 82, Canadian economist.

5

  • Francesco Carpino, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop.
  • Willard A. Hanna, 82, American writer.
  • Karl Gordon Henize, 66, American astronomer and astronaut, heart attack
  • Radhu Karmakar, 74, Indian cinematographer and film director.
  • Jane Nigh, 68, American actress, stroke.
  • Dumitru Stăniloae, 89, Romanian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian.

6

  • Sergei Babkov, 72, Soviet and Russian painter.
  • Albert Bigelow, 87, American writer and pacifist.
  • Ray Broussard, 56, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey .
  • Stillman Drake, 82, Canadian historian and academic.
  • Nejat Eczacıbaşı, 80, Turkish industrialist and philanthropist
  • Victor Razafimahatratra, 72, Malagasy Roman Catholic cardinal.

7

  • Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, 87, British journalist and scientific writer.
  • Cyril Cusack, 82, Irish actor (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Harold and Maude, My Left Foot), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • Agnes de Mille, 88, American dancer and choreographer, stroke.
  • Kenneth Nelson, 63, American actor (The Boys in the Band, Hellraiser, Seventeen).

8

  • Gu Cheng, 37, Chinese poet, essayist and novelist, suicide.
  • Pete Cooper, 78, American golfer.
  • Santiago Navarro, 56, Spanish basketball player.
  • Manke Nelis, 73, Dutch levenslied singer.
  • Alfred Toepfer, 99, German entrepreneur.

9

  • Bernard J. Ganter, 65, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Harry Jagielski, 61, American gridiron football player.
  • Sachiko Murase, 88, Japanese actress.
  • Göta Pettersson, 66, Swedish gymnast and Olympian.
  • C. R. Rangachari, 77, Indian cricket player.

10

  • John Bindon, 50, English actor and bodyguard, cancer.
  • Catherine Collard, 46, French classical pianist, cancer.
  • Jim Howden, 59, Australian rower and Olympian, cancer.
  • Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, 90, British academic.

11

  • Joe Barzda, 78, American racing driver.
  • Nani Bhattacharya, 75, Indian trade union activist and politician.
  • Alexandra Hay, 46, American actress.
  • Yvar Mikhashoff, 52, American pianist and composer, AIDS-related complications.
  • Andy Stewart, 59, Scottish musician, heart attack.
  • Jess Thomas, 66, American operatic tenor.
  • Lee Walls, 60, American baseball player.

12

  • Leon Ames, 91, American actor (Meet Me in St. Louis, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Mister Ed), stroke.
  • Mircea David, 78, Romanian football player.
  • Lawrence R. Hafstad, 89, American electrical engineer and physicist.
  • Ruth Gilbert, 81, American actress, brain cancer.
  • Patrick Holt, 81, English actor.
  • Myrtle Lind, 95, American film actress.
  • V. Subbiah, 82, Indian communist politician.
  • Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah, 72, Indian politician.

13

  • Tekin Arıburun, 88, Turkish soldier and statesman.
  • Espectro I, 54, Mexican luchador known as "El Espectro I" ("The Ghost").
  • Wade Flemons, 53, American soul singer, cancer.
  • Otmar Gutmann, 56, German filmmaker, cancer.
  • John G. Jackson, 86, American lecturer, teacher and writer.
  • Gwen Welles, 42, American actress, cancer.

14

  • Joseph S. Ammerman, 69, American politician.
  • Nikolay Baskakov, 75, Soviet and Russian painter.
  • Bertie Clarke, 75, Barbadian cricket player.
  • Harald Hennum, 65, Norwegian football player.
  • Hirohide Ishida, 78, Japanese politician.
  • Walter Newman, 77, American radio writer and screenwriter.
  • Venmani S. Selvanather, 80, Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Obert C. Tanner, 89, American businessman and philanthropist.

15

  • Clarence Lung, 78, American actor.
  • Aydın Sayılı, 80, Turkish historian of science.
  • Dan Turèll, 47, Danish writer, esophageal cancer.
  • Satosi Watanabe, 83, Japanese theoretical physicist.

16

  • Jimmie DeShong, 83, American baseball player.
  • Flora Nwapa, 62, Nigerian author, pneumonia.
  • Arnie Oliver, 86, American soccer player.
  • Bonnie Poe, 81, American actress and voice artist.
  • René Sylviano, 89, French composer.

17

  • Syed Mohammad Ali, 64, Bangladeshi journalist and editor.
  • Vijay Bhatt, 86, Indian film director and screenwriter.
  • Helmut Gollwitzer, 84, German Lutheran theologian and author.
  • Gordon Grieve, 81, New Zealand politician.
  • Criss Oliva, 30, American musician, traffic collision.
  • Bill Reigel, 61, American basketball player and coach.

18

  • Bernd Baselt, 59, German musicologist.
  • Maria Rosa Candido, 26, Italian short track speed skater and Olympian, traffic collision.
  • Lois Kibbee, 71, American actress (The Edge of Night, Caddyshack, One Life to Live), brain cancer.
  • Salvador P. Lopez, 82, Filipino writer, journalist, diplomat and statesman.

19

  • Gidske Anderson, 71, Norwegian journalist and author.
  • Pola Illéry, 83, Romanian-American actress and singer.
  • John Kerr, 94, American baseball player.
  • Carsta Löck, 90, German film actress.

20

  • Aage Dons, 90, Danish author.
  • Gaylord DuBois, 94, American comic book writer.
  • Milan Konjović, 95, Serbian painter.
  • Bob Olderman, 31, American gridiron football player.
  • Yasushi Sugiyama, 84, Japanese painter.

21

  • Wayne Belardi, 63, American baseball player.
  • James Leo Herlihy, 66, American author (Midnight Cowboy) and playwright, suicide.
  • Bob Hunter, 80, American sportswriter.
  • Melchior Ndadaye, 40, Burundian intellectual and politician, murdered.
  • Annie Thayyil, 74, Indian novelist, journalist, and biographer.
  • Irv Torgoff, 76, American basketball player, heart attack.
  • Sam Zolotow, 94, American theater critic, stomach cancer.

22

  • Jiří Hájek, 80, Czech politician and diplomat.
  • Innes Ireland, 63, British military officer and racing driver, cancer.
  • Said Mohamed Jaffar, 75, President of Comoros (1975–1976).
  • Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, 80, Venezuelan musician, composer and writer.
  • Hans Walter Wolff, 81, German protestant theologian.

23

  • Thomas Begley, 22, Northern Irish IRA Volunteer, bomb explosion.
  • Ulf Björlin, 60, Swedish composer and conductor.
  • Friedrich Dickel, 79, German politician.
  • Wilhelm Feldberg, 92, German-British physiologist and biologist.
  • Shota Lomidze, 57, Georgian wrestler and Olympian.

24

  • Jo Grimond, 80, British politician.
  • Přemysl Hajný, 67, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
  • Hajibaba Huseynov, 74, Soviet and Azerbaijani poet and pedagogue.
  • Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff, 85, Austrian art director.
  • Heinz Kubsch, 63, German football goalkeeper.
  • Tonino Nardi, 54, Italian film cinematographer.
  • Elena Nicolai, 88, Bulgarian operatic mezzo-soprano.

25

  • Danny Chan, 35, Hong Kong singer, songwriter, records producer and actor.
  • Mariya Kapnist, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian actress, complications following car accident.
  • Roy Hampton Park, 83, American media executive and entrepreneur.
  • Vincent Price, 82, American actor (House of Wax, The Fly, Edward Scissorhands), lung cancer.

26

  • Maurice Henry Dorman, 81, British diplomat and colonial administrator.
  • František Filipovský, 86, Czechoslovak actor.
  • Albert Hyzler, 76, Maltese politician and President of Malta.
  • Oro, 21, Mexican professional wrestler, wrestling accident.
  • Harold Rome, 85, American composer, lyricist, and musical writer.
  • Mušan Topalović, 36, Bosnian gangster and warlord, killed.
  • Albert Zugsmith, 83, American film producer, film director and screenwriter.

27

  • Earl Banks, 69, American gridiron football player and coach, car accident.
  • Cloyce Box, 70, American gridiron football player.
  • David Lawrence McKay, 92, American Mormon leader.
  • Peter Quennell, 88, English writer, biographer, and literary historian.
  • Peter Tizard, 77, British paediatrician and university professor.

28

  • Emilio Berio, 88, Italian entomologist and lawyer.
  • Doris Duke, 80, American heiress, philanthropist, art collector, and socialite, edema.
  • Cal Koonce, 52, American baseball player, lymphoma.
  • Juri Lotman, 71, Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian.
  • Bob Seeds, 86, American baseball player.

29

  • Lipman Bers, 79, Latvian-American mathematician.
  • Robert P. Dilworth, 78, American mathematician.
  • Herbert Lütkebohmert, 45, German football player.
  • Masahiro Makino, 85, Japanese film director.
  • Stanisław Marusarz, 80, Polish Nordic skiing competitor and Olympian.
  • Edie Parker, 71, American author and first wife of writer Jack Kerouac.
  • Zdeněk Podskalský, 70, Czech film director and screenwriter.
  • George Pope, 82, English cricket player.
  • Elliot Scott, 78, English production designer (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Labyrinth, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
  • František Tokár, 68, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
  • Roger Turner, 92, American figure skater and Olympian.

30

  • Donald Prentice Booth, 90, American Army general.
  • Paul Grégoire, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, stomach cancer.
  • Louis B. Heller, 88, American lawyer and politician.
  • Peter Kemp, 78, English soldier and writer.
  • Maria Matray, 86, German screenwriter and film actress.
  • Margaret Vyner, 78, Australian-British model and actress.
  • Ted Williams, 77, American gridiron football player.

31

  • Bob Atcher, 79, American country musician.
  • Federico Fellini, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter (8½, La Dolce Vita, La Strada), four-time Oscar winner, heart attack.
  • Al Mello, 87, American Olympic and boxer.
  • Lajos Papp, 49, Hungarian sport shooter and Olympian.
  • River Phoenix, 23, American actor (Running on Empty, Stand by Me, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and musician, drug overdose.
  • Gilman Rankin, 82, American actor (Midnight Cowboy, Tombstone Territory, Assault on Precinct 13).
  • Edwin Walker, 83, American Army officer, anti-communist, and white supremacist, lung cancer.

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