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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.
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December 1993
1
- Wilfredo Coto, 76, Cuban Olympic sports shooter (1948).[1]
- Lynette Davies, 45, Welsh actress, suicide.[2]
- Edwin Flavell, 95, British Army officer.[3]
- Ray Gillen, 34, American rock singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.[4]
- Sir Ivor Hele, 81, Australian artist.[5]
- Scott Kolk, 88, American actor.[6]
- Mary Lobel, 93, British historian.[7]
- Giulio Marchetti, 82, Italian and actor and television presenter, internal hemorrhage.[8]
- Francisco Martínez, 83, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1936).[9]
- Isaac Moraes, 79, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).[10]
2
- Ali Benfadah, 58, Algerian football player and manager.[11]
- Paal Brekke, 70, Norwegian lyricist, novelist, and literary critic.[12]
- Evelyn Dearman, 85, English tennis player.
- Harry Julius Emeléus, 90, English inorganic chemist.[13]
- Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist, shot.[14]
- Walter Frank Foy, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1968).[15]
- John Kershaw, 62, British screenwriter and script editor.
- Augie Vander Meulen, 84, American basketball player.[16]
- Tom Monroe, 74, American actor.
- Leo Paquin, 83, American football player.[17]
3
- Frank Anthony, 85, Indian politician and Anglo-Indian community leader.[18]
- Harry Barnes, 78, American baseball player.[19]
- Henricus Cockuyt, 90, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1924).[20]
- George P. Hammond, 97, American professor of Latin American studies.[21]
- Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer (1928).[22]
- Lea Mek, 18, Cambodian-American gang member, murdered in gang shooting.[23]
- Steve Paproski, 65, Canadian politician and football player.[24]
- Lewis Thomas, 80, American science writer.[25]
4
- Victor Gunnarsson, 40, Swedish right-wing activist, homicide.[26]
- Marcel Jean, 92, French painter, writer, and sculptor.[27]
- Margaret Landon, 90, American writer and missionary.[28]
- Hugh Moore, 64, British City of London Police commander, heart failure.[29]
- Jusuf Prazina, 31, Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War, homicide.[30]
- George Sergienko, 75, American football player.[31]
- Frank Sturgis, 68, American CIA operative and one of the Watergate burglars, lung cancer.[32]
- Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh football player.[33]
- Frank Zappa, 52, American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, prostate cancer.[34]
5
- Mike Dowdle, 55, American gridiron football player (Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers).[35]
- Yevgeny Gabrilovich, 94, Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter.[36]
- Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.[37]
- Les Jones, 88, Australian rules footballer.[38]
- Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress and dressmaker, suicide by gunshot.[39]
- Vince Mazza, 68, Canadian football player.[40]
- Robert Ochsenfeld, 92, German physicist.[41]
- Walter Reisp, 83, Austrian Olympic handball player (1936).[42]
- Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian film production designer.[43]
6
- Don Ameche, 85, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places, Heaven Can Wait), Oscar winner (1986), prostate cancer.[44]
- Bryson Graham, 41, English rock drummer.[45]
- Anna Hřebřinová, 85, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast (1936).[46]
- Sergi Jikia, 95, Georgian historian and orientalist.[47]
- Hendrik Ooms, 77, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936).[48]
- Ray Thomas, 83, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[49]
- Paul-Louis Weiller, 100, French industrialist and philanthropist.[50]
7
- Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia.[51][52]
- Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter, cancer.[53]
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, President of Ivory Coast, cancer.[54]
- Blaže Koneski, 71, Macedonian poet, writer, and linguistic scholar.[55]
- Sándor Németh, 68, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian (1948).[56]
- Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.[57]
- Håkon Solem, 85, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1948).[58]
- Robert Taft, Jr., 76, American politician.[59]
- Anthony J. Travia, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York).[60]
8
- Bob Barnes, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[61]
- Carl Damm, 66, German politician and member of the Bundestag.[62]
- Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Russian Olympic weightlifter (1956, 1960), starvation and hypothermia.[63]
- Carlotta Monti, 86, American film actress.[64]
- Cole Palen, 67, American aviator.
- Philippe Pradayrol, 27, French Olympic judoka (1992), traffic collision.[65]
- Mieczysław Wilczewski, 61, Polish cyclist and Olympian (1960).[66]
9
- Salvatore Allegra, 95, Italian composer.[67]
- Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Irish football player, Alzheimer's disease.[68]
- Glen Brydson, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.[69]
- Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, 94, Iranian Grand Ayatollah and Shia islam scholar.
- Herbert Grevenius, 92, Swedish screenwriter.[70]
- Matt Guokas, 78, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors), and broadcaster.[71]
- Carter Jefferson, 48, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[72]
- Alexander Koblencs, 77, Latvian chess master and writer.
- John Wisdom, 89, British philosopher.[73]
10
- Maroun Bagdadi, 43, Lebanese film director, fall.[74]
- Jerzy Juskowiak, 54, Polish Olympic sprinter (1960).[75]
- Fernand Mithouard, 84, French cyclist.[76]
- Alice Tully, 91, American opera singer, music promoter, and philanthropist, influenza.[77]
- Miljan Zeković, 68, Montenegrin and Yugoslav football player and manager.[78]
- Alan E. Zimmer, 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke.[79]
11
- James Chapman, 61, Australian rules footballer.[80]
- Ku Cheng-kang, 91, Chinese politician and scholar.
- Francisco Flores del Campo, 86, Chilean composer, instrumentalist and actor, cardiovascular disease.
- Viggo Frederiksen, 77, Danish Olympic boxer (1936).[81]
- Raymond D. Gary, 85, American businessman and politician.
- Bohdan Likszo, 53, Polish basketball player and Olympian (1964, 1968).[82]
- Paul Mebus, 73, German football player.
- Bill Mumm, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician.[83]
- Steve Nelson, 90, Croatian-American political activist.[84]
- 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 (Houston Oilers).[85]
- Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress and theatre director.[86]
- Sam Stayman, 84, American bridge player and writer.
12
- József Antall, 61, Hungarian teacher, historian, and politician, prime minister (1990-1993), cancer.[87]
- Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer.[88]
- Marian Constance Blackton, 92, American screenwriter and actress.
- Fritz Bock, 82, Austrian politician.
- Joan Cross, 93, English soprano.[89]
- Alexandru Drăghici, 80, Romanian communist activist and politician.
- Don Earle, 64, American ice hockey announcer.
- Bob Taylor, 89, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[90]
13
- Ken Anderson, 84, American art director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Sword in the Stone) and screenwriter (Cinderella), stroke.[91]
- Larry Cameron, 41, American gridiron football player and professional wrestler, heart attack in ring during match.[92]
- Avelino Cañizares, 74, Cuban baseball player.[93]
- Vanessa Duriès, 21, French novelist, traffic collision.[94][95]
- Joy Laurey, 50, French novelist, traffic collision.[94]
- Tommy Sexton, 36, Canadian comedian, AIDS-related complications.
- Billy Shantz, 66, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees), and manager.[96]
- Gaziza Zhubanova, 66, Kazakh composer.
14
- Jeff Alm, 25, American gridiron football player (Houston Oilers), suicide.[17][97]
- Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision.[98]
- Frank Fuller, 64, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals Philadelphia Eagles).[99]
- Jennifer Howard, 68, American actress, lung cancer.
- Francis Jones, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms.[100]
- 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.[101]
- Silvina Ocampo, 90, Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist.[102]
- Jerry Scala, 69, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[103]
- Billy Stone, 92, Australian rules footballer.[104]
15
- Tom Bedecki, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Rizzardo Brenioli, 63, Italian racing cyclist.[105]
- Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan football player, homicide.[106][107]
- Jack Ferguson, 71, Australian Olympic water polo player (1948).[108]
- Penaia Ganilau, 75, First President of Fiji, leukemia.[109]
- William Dale Phillips, 68, American physical chemist and academic.[110]
- Rich Snyder, 41, American businessman, president of In-N-Out Burger (since 1976), plane crash.[111]
- Marcel Vandernotte, 84, French rower and Olympian (1932, 1936).[112]
16
- Charizma, 20, American MC, shot.[113]
- Fedele Gentile, 85, Italian film actor.
- Moses Gunn, 64, American actor (Shaft, Little House on the Prairie, Heartbreak Ridge), asthma.[114]
- Riley Hill, 79, American actor.
- Jed Johnson, Jr., 53, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1967).[115]
- Frank Little, 57, American Olympic sports shooter (1964).[116]
- Charles Moore, 68, American architect and writer.[117]
- Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, pneumonia.[118]
17
- Patrick Crowley, 87, Irish politician and trade union official.
- Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee.[119]
- Hilding Hagberg, 94, Swedish communist politician.
- Mirza Ibrahimov, 82, Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, and public figure.
- Len Julians, 60, English football player.[120]
- Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer.[121]
18
- Bernard Ayandho, 63, Central African politician and diplomat.
- Joseph H. Ball, 88, American journalist and politician, member of the United States Senate (1940-1942, 1943-1949).[122]
- Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and SOE agent during World War II.[123]
- Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs, 93, British-American powerboat racer.
- Gheorghe Cozorici, 60, Romanian actor.
- Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver.[124]
- Steve James, 41, American actor and stunt performer, cancer.[125]
- Tony Kappen, 74, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).[126]
- Buster Larsen, 73, Danish actor.
- Carl Malling, 88, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).[127]
- Guy Sabrou, 85, French architect.[128]
- Natalya Sats, 90, Russian stage director.
- Bernhard Sälzer, 53, German politician and member of the European Parliament, traffic collision.
- Ferdinando Smerghetto, 66, Italian Olympic rower (1952).[129]
- Sam Wanamaker, 74, American actor and director, prostate cancer.[130]
19
- Karl Andritz, 79, Austrian footballer.[131]
- Wallace F. Bennett, 95, American businessman and politician, member of the United States Senate (1951-1974).[132]
- Michael Clarke, 47, American drummer (The Byrds), liver failure.[133]
- Kurt Frey, 80, German Olympic sailor (1936).[134]
- Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician.[135]
- 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.[136]
- Bob Syme, 69, Australian rules footballer.[137]
20
- Marlin Carter, 80, American baseball player.[138]
- Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes.[139]
- Hubert Deltour, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.[140]
- W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, statistician, author, and lecturer.[141]
- Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer.[142]
- Charles Herman Helmsing, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[143]
- Hulusi Kentmen, 81, Turkish actor, kidney failure.
- Felix Mackiewicz, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators).[144]
- Jesús Picó, 58, Chilean footballer.[145]
- Linar Salimullin, 61, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1956).[146]
21
- Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, 100, British Army officer.[147]
- Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist.[148]
- Frederick J. Harlfinger II, 80, American Navy officer.[149]
- Vilhelm Johansen, 95, Danish Olympic sports shooter (1936).[150]
- Ernie Kish, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[151]
- Ivan Kozlovskyi, 93, Soviet and Russian lyric tenor.[152]
- Zack Mosley, 87, American comic strip artist.[153]
- Pekka Niemi, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympian (1936).[154]
- Margarita Nikolaeva, 58, Soviet gymnast and Olympian (1960).[155]
- Ham Schulte, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[156]
22
- Mario Amendola, 83, Italian screenwriter, film director and dramatist, diabetes.[157]
- Sylvia Bataille, 85, French actress, heart attack.[158][159]
- Oto Bihalji-Merin, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian writer, painter and art critic.
- Marion Burns, 86, American film actress.[160]
- Don DeFore, 80, American actor, heart attack.[161]
- Ferenc Kropacsek, 94, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1924).[162]
- Alexander Mackendrick, 81, American-Scottish film director, pneumonia.[163]
- Max Tarnogrocki, 89, German middle-distance runner (1928).[164]
- Salah Zulfikar, 67, Egyptian actor and film producer.[165]
23
- Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, 69, Icelandic religious leader and neopaganist, heart attack.
- Gertrude Blom, 92, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer.[166]
- Lauchlin Currie, 91, American economist.[167]
- James Ellison, 83, American film actor, fall.[168]
- Michael Faber, 54, German footballer.[169]
- Luigi Giuliano, 63, Italian football player.[170]
- Jean Maréchal, 83, French racing cyclist.[171]
- Chucho Navarro, 80, Mexican singer.
- Marcello Neri, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist (1928).[172]
24
- Pierre Victor Auger, 94, French physicist.[173]
- Yen Chia-kan, 88, President of the Republic of China.[174]
- Anita Dorris, 90, German actress of the silent era.[175]
- Ralph Downes, 89, English organist, organ designer, and music director.[176]
- Milena Foltýnová-Gschiessl, 43, Czech-Austrian Olympic handball player (1980, 1984).[177]
- Ivano Fontana, 67, Italian Olympic boxer (1948).[178]
- Ralph Goullet, 89, Australian rules footballer.[179]
- Andrzej Nadolski, 72, Polish historian, archaeologist, and professor.
- Dorothea Parker, 65, New Zealand sprinter, cancer.[180]
- Norman Vincent Peale, 95, American writer and minister, stroke.[181]
- J. Wayne Reitz, 84, American agricultural economist and university president.[182]
- Vladimir Šimunić, 74, Croatian football player and manager.[183]
25
- Blandine Ebinger, 94, German cabaret singer and actress.[184]
- Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 98, German princess, socialite, and author.
- Ama Naidoo, 85, South African anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.[185]
- Jeff Phillips, 30, American professional skateboarder, suicide by gunshot.[186]
- Ann Ronell, 86, American composer and lyricist.[187]
- Azat Sherents, 80, Soviet and Armenian actor.
- Marian Suski, 88, Polish Olympic fencer (1932, 1936).[188]
- Nikolai Timkov, 81, Soviet and Russian painter.[189]
26
- Dave Beck, 99, American labor leader.[190]
- Ray Bray, 76, American football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers).[191]
- Lilian Edirisinghe, 71, Sri Lankan actress.
- René Fonjallaz, 85-86, Swiss bobsledder and Olympian (1928).[192]
- Jeff Morrow, 86, American actor.[193]
- Carlos Muñoz, 29, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.
- Patrick W. Ryan, Irish politician.
- Erkki Savolainen, 76, Finnish Olympic boxer (1936).[194]
27
- Michael Callen, 38, American musician, author, and AIDS activist, AIDS-related complications.[195]
- Ivo Ghezze, 52, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1964).[196]
- Runar Holmberg, 70, Finnish Olympic sprinter (1948).[197]
- Feliks Kibbermann, 91, Estonian chess master and philologist.[198]
- Nina Lugovskaya, 75, Soviet painter and theatre designer.[199]
- Evald Mikson, 82, Estonian football player.[200][201]
- André Pilette, 75, Belgian racecar driver.[202]
- Royce H. Savage, 89, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma).[203]
- 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.[204]
- Howard Caine, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, 1776, Judgment at Nuremberg), heart attack.[205][206]
- Augie Galan, 81, American baseball player, manager and coach.[207]
- John Kemp, 53, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.[208]
- Gilles Lamontagne, 69, Canadian baritone[209]
- Jennifer Lash, 55, English novelist and painter, breast cancer.
- William L. Shirer, 89, American journalist and war correspondent.[210]
29
- Axel Corti, 60, Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host.[211]
- Yvonne Desportes, 86, French composer, writer, and music educator.[212]
- Karl Endres, 82, German Olympic basketball player (1936).[213]
- Lohengrin Filipello, 75, Swiss television presenter.
- Hans Houtzager, 83, Dutch Olympic hammer thrower (1936, 1948).[214]
- Shirley Jameson, 75, American baseball player.[215]
- Marie Kean, 75, Irish actress.[216]
- Marshall Meyer, 63, American conservative rabbi, cancer.
- Frunzik Mkrtchyan, 63, Armenian stage and film actor, cancer.[217]
30
- Tom Alston, 67, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[218]
- Mack David, 81, American lyricist and songwriter.[219]
- Dick Donald, 82, Scottish football player and administrator.
- David Helliwell, 58, Canadian Olympic rower (1956).[220]
- Rita Klímová, 62, Czech economist and politician, leukemia.
- Irving Paul Lazar, 86, American talent agent and businessman.[221]
- Giuseppe Occhialini, 86, Italian physicist.[222]
- George Stone, 47, American basketball player (Los Angeles/Utah Stars, Carolina Cougars), heart attack.[223]
- İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, 85, Turkish politician.[224][unreliable source?]
31
- Henry A. Byroade, 80, American diplomat.[225]
- Bill Cowley, 81, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (St. Louis Eagles, Boston Bruins).[226]
- Arthur Dreifuss, 85, German-American film director.[227]
- Mikhail Dudin, 77, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.[228]
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 54, Soviet and Georgian politician, dissident, and writer, shot.[229]
- Alexander Girard, 86, American architect and designer.[230]
- Jørgen Iversen, 75, Danish footballer.[231]
- Bob Johnson, 73, American actor.
- Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont, 38, Jamaican guitarist and singer, prostate cancer.[232]
- Guy Lefrant, 70, French equestrian and Olympian (1952, 1960, 1964).[233]
- Betty McDowall, 69, Australian actress.
- Lauriston Sharp, 86, American anthropologist and academic.[234]
- Samuel Steward, 84, American writer, professor, tattoo artist and pornographer.[235]
- Brandon Teena, 21, American trans man and murder victim, shot.[236]
- Thomas Watson, 79, American businessman, politician, and philanthropist, stroke.[237]
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