Deaths in April 1993

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

April 1993

1

• Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, 79, Spanish royal, laryngeal cancer.
• Kristian Bjørn, 73, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.
• Andrée Brunin, 56, French author.
• Howard Scott Gentry, 89, American botanist.
• Kevin Gilbert, 59, Aboriginal Australian writer, activist, and visual artist.
• Jerry Hausner, 83, American radio and television actor.
• Alan Kulwicki, 38, American racing driver, plane crash.
• Fred Schwengel, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Czesław Suszczyk, 71, Polish football player and Olympian.
• Nicanor Zabaleta Zala, 86, Spanish harpist.
• Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, 88, British public servant and zoologist, thrombosis.

2

• Edward Edinborough Chamberlain, 86, New Zealand plant pathologist.
• Hugh Fernando, 76, Sri Lankan politician.
• Thales Monteiro, 68, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian.
• Masaichi Niimi, 106, Japanese naval admiral during World War II.
• Alexander Bell Patterson, 81, Canadian politician, MP.
• Asoka Ponnamperuma, 56, Sri Lankan actor, singer, and scriptwriter.
• Donald W. Reynolds, 86, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Sarban, 62, Afghan singer.
• Frank Sharp, 87, American land developer and stock fraudster.
• Ernst von Bodelschwingh, 86, German politician and member of the Bundestag.

3

• Red Allen, 63, American bluegrass singer and guitarist.
• Lydia Auster, 80, Estonian composer.
• Eduardo Caballero Calderón, 83, Colombian writer.
• Eugene Church, 55, American R&B singer and songwriter, cancer.
• Sali Herman, 95, Swiss-Australian artist.
• Pinky Lee, 85, American comedian and children's entertainer.
• Eugenie Leontovich, 93-100, Russian-American actress, cardiac arrest and pneumonia.
• Alexandre Mnouchkine, 85, Russian-French film producer.
• Peter J. De Muth, 101, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Leopoldo Nachbin, 71, Brazilian mathematician.
• Götz Dieter Plage, 56, German cinematographer, airship crash.
• Lazkao Txiki, 66, Basque bertsolari poet and musician.
• Bonifacio Zarcal, 73, Filipino Olympic boxer.

4

• Alfred Mosher Butts, 93, American architect, inventor of Scrabble.
• Edera Cordiale, 73, Italian Olympic discus thrower.
• Pierre de Cossé, 12th Duke of Brissac, 93, French memoirist.
• Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy, 82, British Royal Air Force marshal.
• Terje Rollem, 77, Norwegian resistance officer during World War II.
• Zdzisław Smoliński, 50, Polish Olympic hammer thrower.
• Albert Fahmy Tadros, 78, Egyptian basketball player and Olympian.

5

• Harbans Bhalla, 62, Indian poet.
• Divya Bharti, 19, Indian actress, fall.
• Joe Coscarart, 83, American baseball player.
• Vernon McCain, 84, American football and basketball coach.

6

• Selma Andersson, 98, Swedish Olympic diver.
• George Arceneaux, 64, American district judge.
• Viktor Avbelj, 79, Slovenian politician.
• Charles Burkill, 93, English mathematician.
• Peter DeFeo, 91, American mobster belonging to the Genovese crime family.
• Miguel Ángel Gómez, 24, Spanish sprinter and Olympian.
• Cecil B. Lyon, 89, American diplomat.
• Clarence McGeary, 66, American football player.
• Frans Slaats, 80, Dutch cyclist.
• Inge von Wangenheim, 80, German actress and author.
• Chen Zaidao, 84, Chinese general.

7

• Edward Adamczyk, 71, Polish Olympic athlete.
• Tonny Ahm, 78, Danish badminton champion.
• Bob Alexander, 70, Canadian baseball player.
• Gerardo Chiaromonte, 68, Italian communist politician, journalist, and writer.
• Max Croiset, 80, Dutch actor.
• Billy Griffith, 78, English cricketer.
• Heinz Hoppe, 69, German lyric tenor in opera, lied and operetta.
• Leo Lafrance, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Gladys Lehman, 101, American screenwriter, pneumonia.
• Howie McFarland, 83, American baseball player.
• Vincent Perera, 74, Sri Lankan statesman.
• Terry Price, 47, Welsh rugby player, traffic collision.
• Hugh E. Rodham, 82, American businessman and father of politician Hillary Clinton, stroke.
• Arleen Whelan, 76, American actress, stroke.

8

• Marian Anderson, 96, American singer, congestive heart failure.
• Stole Aranđelović, 62, Serbian actor.
• Álida España, 68, Guatemalan activist and politician.
• Billy Gayles, 61, American drummer and singer, cancer.
• Bobby Mitchell, 68, Scottish football player.
• Aleksei Saltykov, 58, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
• Dave Shannon, 70, Australian bomber pilot during World War II.
• Konrad Srzednicki, 98, Polish painter.

9

• Morteza Avini, 45, Iranian documentary filmmaker and author, landmine explosion.
• Robert B. Claytor, 71, American railroad administrator, cancer.
• Les Cunningham, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, 39, Brazilian Roman Catholic nun, stabbed.
• Joseph B. Soloveitchik, 90, American Orthodox rabbi and philosopher.
• Adolf Vogl, 82, Austrian footballer.
• Jess Yates, 74, English television presenter, stroke.

10

• Donald Broadbent, 66, English psychologist.
• Chris Hani, 50, South African politician, assassinated.
• Maxim Lieber, 95, American literary agent.
• Leo Metzenbauer, 83, Austrian art director.

11

• Fides Benini, 63, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Wacław Dworzecki, 82, Soviet film and theater actor.
• George Albert Hammes, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Superior.
• Rahmon Nabiyev, 62, Tajik politician, president, infarction.
• C. William Johnson, 76, American Olympic skeleton racer.
• Pietro Sessa, 65, Italian Olympic rower.
• Malcolm Wiseman, 79, Canadian Olympic basketball player.

12

• Hussein Kulmiye Afrah, 73, Somalian politician and Vice President.
• Liz Andrew, 45, Australian politician, MLA, cancer.
• Scotty Cameron, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Troy Dandridge, 88, American baseball player.
• Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, 43, Mexican drug lord, shot.
• George Frederick Ives, 111, Canadian supercentenarian.
• Andrew Johnston, 77, Scottish cricketer.

13

• Grigori Abrikosov, 60, Soviet theatre and film actor.
• Andronik Iosifyan, 87, Soviet aerospace engineers.
• Isaac Francisco del Ángel Rojas, 86, Argentine naval admiral and politician, vice president.
• Henning Schwarz, 64, German politician, leukemia.
• Prince Scott, 75, American football player.
• Wallace Stegner, 84, American novelist, traffic collision.
• Ernesto Montagne Sánchez, 76, Peruvian politician.
• Rudolf Wetzer, 92, Romanian football player, manager, and Olympian.

14

• John Golland, 50, English composer.
• Reuben Hecht, 83, Israeli industrialist.
• Walther Kohlhase, 85, German painter.
• Jim McDonnell, 70, American baseball player.
• Negussie Roba, 56, Ethiopian sprinter and Olympian.
• Geza Szabo, 52, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player.

15

• Harry Alexander, 87, Australian cricketer.
• William Bakewell, 84, American actor, leukemia.
• Uwe Beyer, 48, German Olympic hammer thrower.
• Leslie Charteris, 85, English author.
• Bertie Crellin, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Lucette Descaves, 87, French pianist and teacher.
• Alberto Giolitti, 69, Italian-American comic book artist.
• Georges Guillez, 83, French Olympic sprinter.
• John Hunter, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Peter Pietras, 84, American soccer player and Olympian.
• Herbert Dudley Purves, 84, New Zealand chemist, mathematician, and scientist.
• Eduard Rhein, 92, German writer.
• Robert Westall, 63, English author and teacher.
• John Tuzo Wilson, 84, Canadian geophysicist.
• Rafael Ávalos, 66, Mexican football player.

16

• Mac Cara, 78, American football player.
• Josef Greindl, 80, German opera singer.
• Ruby Hammond, 57, Australian indigenous rights campaigner.
• Sharon Herbaugh, 39, American journalist and war correspondent, helicopter crash.
• Aleksandr Kondratov, 55, Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet.
• Sutan Mohammad Amin Nasution, 89, Indonesian writer and politician.
• Geoff Organ, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Malik Ram, 86, Indian poet and scholar.

17

• Joachim Karliczek, 78, Polish Olympic swimmer.
• Nikolai Kryukov, 77, Soviet film and theater actor.
• Mario Maccaferri, 92, Italian luthier, classical guitarist, and inventor.
• Shahen Meghrian, 41, Armenian military commander and political activist, killed in action.
• Turgut Özal, 65, Turkish politician, president, prime minister, heart attack.

18

• Isgender Aznaurov, 36, Azerbaijani military officer, killed in action.
• Elisabeth Frink, 62, English sculptor, cancer.
• Masahiko Kimura, 75, Japanese judoka, lung cancer.
• Reynold Higgins, 76, British lassical Archaeologist.
• Walter Lohmann, 81, German cyclist.
• Werner Pochath, 53, Austrian film actor, AIDS-related complications.
• Bernie Wayne, 74, American composer, heart failure.

19

• Steve Douglas, 54, American saxophonist, heart failure.
• Blas Galindo, 83, Mexican composer.
• Tom Jamieson, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• David Koresh, 33, American cult leader, gunshot wound.
• Rabe Ferguson Marsh Jr., 87, American district judge.
• George S. Mickelson, 52, American politician, governor of South Dakota, plane crash.
• Barbara Stoler Miller, 52, American Indologist, cancer.
• Clifford Scott, 64, American saxophonist and flautist.
• Joseph A. Sellinger, 72, American Catholic priest and Jesuit, pancreatic cancer.

20

• Leonas Baltrūnas, 78, Lithuanian basketball player and coach.
• Antonio Bello, 58, Italian Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.
• Luiz Borracha, 72, Brazilian footballer.
• Cantinflas, 81, Mexican actor, lung cancer.
• Evelyne Hall, 83, American hurdler and Olympic medalist.
• Frank Stubbs, 83, American Olympic ice hockey player.
• Khairallah Talfah, 82, Iraqi Ba'ath Party official and father-in-law of Saddam Hussein.

21

• Galeazzo Benti, 69, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Paul G. Gassman, 57, American chemist, aortic dissection.
• Robert Dale Henderson, 48, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.
• Rowland Hilder, 88, English painter and book illustrator.
• William Curry Holden, 96, American historian and archaeologist.
• Lincoln Hurring, 61, New Zealand swimmer and Olympian, heart attack.
• Niels Rohweder, 87, Danish architect.
• Hal Schumacher, 82, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
• Raymond Smillie, 89, Canadian Olympic boxer.

22

• Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, 91, Venezuelan politician, president of the Senate.
• Mark Koenig, 88, American baseball player, cancer.
• Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, 31, Nepalese mountain climber, climbing accident.
• Andries Treurnicht, 72, South African politician, complications during heart surgery.

23

• Bertus Aafjes, 78, Dutch poet, cancer.
• Lalith Athulathmudali, 56, Sri Lankan politician, MP, assassinated.
• Robert Bürchler, 77, Swiss sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
• Guido Carli, 79, Italian banker, economist and politician.
• Cesar Chavez, 66, American labor leader and civil rights activist.
• Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, 91, Russian-American Chabad leader.
• Fernando Hurtado, 65, Chilean footballer.
• Daniel Jones, 80, Welsh composer.
• Séra Martin, 86, French middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• John Nevius, 72, American lawyer and politician, member and chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
• Janina Skirlińska, 86, Polish Olympic gymnast.
• DJ Subroc, 19, American hip-hop artist, traffic accident.

24

• Gustl Bayrhammer, 71, German actor, heart attack.
• Richard Donchian, 87, American commodities and futures trader.
• Everett F. Drumright, 86, American diplomat.
• Ian Jacob, 93, British Army officer.
• Ethel Magafan, 76, American painter.
• Jim McDonnell, 70, American baseball player.
• Pierre Naville, 89, French surrealist writer and sociologist.
• Oliver Reginald Tambo, 75, South African politician, complications from a stroke.
• Tran Duc Thao, 75, Vietnamese philosopher.

25

• Geraldo Del Rey, 62, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
• Hüseyin Erçetin, 81, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
• Georges Favre, 87, French composer.
• Ferenc Klics, 69, Hungarian athlete and Olympian.
• S. M. Koya, 70, Fijian politician and statesman.
• Rosita Moreno, 86, Spanish actress.
• Henri René, 86, American musician.

26

• Vivek Agarwal, 31, Indian cricketer and flight attendant, plane crash.
• Bob Broadbent, 68, English cricketer.
• Floyd Chalmers, 94, Canadian editor, publisher and philanthropist.
• Desmond Crawley, 75, British diplomat.
• Darussalam, 72, Indonesian actor.
• Roger Miller, 38, American baseball player, acetylene tank explosion.

27

• France Bezlaj, 82, Slovenian linguist.
• Hans Sahl, 90, German writer.
• Ilie Oană, 74, Romanian football player and manager.
• Victims of the 1993 Zambia national football team plane crash:
• *Patrick Banda, 19, Zambian footballer.
• *David Chabala, 33, Zambian footballer and Olympian.
• *Whiteson Changwe, 28, Zambian footballer.
• *Wisdom Mumba Chansa, 29, Zambian footballer and Olympian.
• *Moses Chikwalakwala, 23, Zambian footballer.
• *Godfrey Chitalu, 45, Zambian footballer, coach, and Olympian.
• *Alex Chola, 36, Zambian footballer, coach, and Olympian.
• *Samuel Chomba, 29, Zambian footballer and Olympian.
• *Godfrey Kangwa, Zambian footballer.
• *Derby Makinka, 27, Zambian footballer and Olympian.
• *Moses Masuwa, 21, Zambian footballer.
• *Eston Mulenga, 31, Zambian footballer and Olympian.
• *Winter Mumba, Zambian footballer.
• *Kelvin Mutale, 23, Zambian footballer.
• *Richard Mwanza, 33, Zambian footballer and Olympian.
• *Numba Mwila, 21, Zambian footballer.
• *Timothy Mwitwa, 24, Zambian footballer.
• *Kenan Simambe, 18, Zambian footballer.
• *John Soko, 24, Zambian footballer.
• *Robert Watiyakeni, 23, Zambian footballer.

28

• Jack Bighead, 63, American football player.
• Enrique de Chávarri, 90, Spanish Olympic athlete.
• Diva Diniz Corrêa, 74, Brazilian marine zoologist.
• Harold Darragh, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Momčilo Gavrić, 86, Serbian soldier, youngest participant of World War I.
• Valentina Grizodubova, 84, Soviet aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Stefan Hajduk, 59, Polish Olympic wrestler.
• Santiago Pi, 63, Spanish Olympic sailor.
• Chon Sang-pyong, 63, South Korean writer.
• Ben Schwartzwalder, 83, American football player and Hall of Fame coach.
• Jim Valvano, 47, American college basketball player and coach, adenocarcinoma.
• Len Walsh, 80, Australian rules footballer.

29

• Kenneth Caskey, 89, American Olympic hammer thrower.
• Michael Gordon, 83, American film director.
• Wilhelm Hanle, 92, German experimental physicist.
• Cy Howard, 77, American screenwriter.
• Fernand Prudhomme, 76, French Olympic basketball player.
• Mick Ronson, 46, English guitarist, liver cancer.
• Robert Bertram Serjeant, 78, British scholar, traveller, and Arabists.
• Leona E. Tyler, 86, American psychologist.

30

• Colin Emerson Bennett, 85, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Tommy Caton, 30, English footballer, heart attack.
• Mario Evaristo, 84, Argentine football player.
• Waruhiu Itote, 71, Kenyan rebel leader during the Mau Mau rebellion, stroke.
• Kurt Kuhlmey, 79, German general during World War II.
• Árpád Lengyel, 78, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Eric Rowan, 83, South African cricket player.
• Dave Waymer, 34, American football player, heart attack.
• Daphne Young, 77, English badminton player.
• Frija Zoaretz, 85, Israeli politician.