Deaths in August 1993

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

August 1993

1

• Bob Carter, 71, American jazz bassist and arranger.
• Claire Du Brey, 100, American actress.
• Elmira Gafarova, 59, Azerbaijani politician and diplomat, heart attack.
• Ron Halcombe, 87, Australian cricketer.
• Ewing Kauffman, 76, American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and baseball executive, bone cancer.
• Alfred Manessier, 81, French painter, stained glass artist, and tapestry designer, traffic collision.
• Luciano Montero, 85, Spanish road bicycle racer.
• Theron Newell, 77, American writer.
• George H. Revercomb, 64, American district judge.
• Gerry Sundquist, 37, English actor, suicide.

2

• Guido del Mestri, 82, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
• Archie Fraser, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Hosai Fujisawa, 74, Japanese professional Go player.
• Nigel Henderson, 84, British admiral in the Royal Navy.
• Kamal Mitra, 80, Indian actor.
• John Roxburgh, 61, Australian racing driver, and motor sports administrator.
• Janusz Sidło, 60, Polish javelin thrower and Olympic medalist.

3

• Petr Beckmann, 68, Czechoslovak-American writer and physicist.
• Vittorio Badini Confalonieri, 79, Italian politician and lawyer.
• James Donald, 76, Scottish actor, stomach cancer.
• Alwyn Howard Gentry, 48, American botanist and plant collector, plane crash.
• Siem Heiden, 88, Dutch Olympic speed skater.
• Prem Krishna Khanna, 99, Indian revolutionary and politician.
• Ernie Norman, 80, Australian rugby player.
• Theodore A. Parker III, 40, American ornithologist, plane crash.
• Chinmayananda Saraswati, 77, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and teacher.
• Mercedes Valdivieso, 69, Chilean writer.

4

• Nesmith Ankeny, 66, American mathematician.
• Bernard Barrow, 65, American actor, lung cancer.
• Kenny Drew, 64, American jazz pianist.
• Jack Dwan, 72, American basketball player.
• John Elmer, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Bob Maier, 77, American baseball player.
• John Pickard, 80, American actor, animal attack.
• George M. Wallhauser, 93, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.

5

• Bob Cooper, 67, American jazz musician, heart attack.
• Randy Jo Hobbs, 45, American musician, heart failure.
• Homer A. Jack, 77, American unitarian clergyman, pacifist and social activist.
• Joseph Paul Jernigan, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Karin Nellemose, 88, Danish actress.
• Bill Peterson, 73, American football player and coach.
• Holly Piirainen, 10, American murder victim.
• Francisco Rúa, 82, Argentine football player.
• Willi Sturm, 65, German Olympic water polo player.
• Eugen Suchoň, 84, Slovak composer.

6

• Frog Fagan, 52, Canadian racing driver.
• Tex Hughson, 77, American Major League Baseball player.
• Vice Jurišić, 84, Yugoslavian Olympic rower.
• Bob Kiesel, 81, American sprinter and Olympic champion.
• Ben Klassen, 75, American politician and white supremacist religious leader, suicide.
• Esad Mekuli, 76, Albanian poet, critic and translator.
• Bob Miller, 54, American baseball player.
• Henri Philippe Pharaoun, 92, Lebanese businessman and politician, homicide.
• Milton Orville Thompson, 67, American naval officer and NASA test pilot.
• Bill Thomson, 79, Canadian ice hockey player, and Olympian.

7

• Geert Bakker, 72, Dutch sailor and Olympian.
• Roy Budd, 46, British jazz pianist and composer, stroke.
• John R. Burke, 68, American ambassador to Guyana during the Jonestown Massacre.
• David Fleay, 86, Australian scientist and naturalist.
• Charles Maxwell, 79, American actor and producer.
• Gerhard Neuser, 54, German footballer.
• Louis Sheaffer, 80, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, heart failure.

8

• Harry Bellaver, 88, American actor, pneumonia.
• Nico Habermann, 61, Dutch computer scientist, heart attack.
• Roy London, 50, American actor and acting coach, AIDS-related complications.
• Andor László, 78, Hungarian economist.

9

• Elena Fabrizi, 78, Italian actress and television personality.
• Milorad Mitrović, 85, Yugoslavian Olympic football player.
• Chad Oliver, 65, American anthropologist and science fiction writer.
• Ion Vatamanu, 56, Moldovan writer and politician.

10

• Audrey Chapman, 94, American silent film era actress.
• Ken Englund, 79, American screenwriter.
• Euronymous, 25, Norwegian musician of the black metal band Mayhem, stabbed.
• Bill Ferrazzi, 86, American baseball player.
• Diana Holman-Hunt, 79, English memoir writer and art critic.
• Bert Johnson, 81, American football player.
• Eva Olmerová, 59, Czech pop and jazz singer, cirrhosis.
• David Rogers, 57, American country music artist.
• Quincy Trouppe, 80, American baseball player and an amateur boxing champion.

11

• Alyn Beals, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Agamemnon Gratsios, 71, Greek Army general.
• Eysteinn Jónsson, 86, Icelandic politician and minister.
• Bill Wilson, 50, American baseball player, cancer.

12

• Ken Deal, 65, American baseball player and manager.
• John H. Dessauer, 88, German-American chemical engineer and businessman.
• Regina Olson Hughes, 98, American scientific illustrator in botanical art.
• Jack Lott, 73, American big game hunter and writer.
• George Mason, 79, English football player.
• Jerome Thor, 78, American actor.

13

• Bride Adams-Ray, 86, Swedish Olympic high jumper.
• Veli Autio, 83, Finnish rower and Olympian.
• Henri Baudrand, 90, French Olympic weightlifter.
• Jackson Edward Betts, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Barbara Gibbs Golffing, 80, American poet and translator.
• Fred Grafft, 81, American basketball player.
• Frank Gray, 87, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Helene Jacobs, 87, German resistance member during World War II.
• Margarita Padín, 83, Argentine actress.
• Rodolfo Tommasi, 85, Italian football player.

14

• Jiří Adamíra, 67, Czech actor and university educator.
• June Heath, 64, Australian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Hans Henn, 66, German bobsledder and Olympian.
• Francis Mankiewicz, 49, Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer.
• André Méric, 80, French politician, traffic collision.
• Günther van Well, 70, German diplomat and West German ambassador.

15

• Jim Bolwell, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Johnny Bratton, 65, American boxing champion.
• Arthur Grenfell Clarke, 86, Hong Kong politician.
• Patricia St. John, 74, English writer.
• Robert Kempner, 93, German-American lawyer.
• Kalevi Lilja, 67, Finnish football player and Olympian.
• Bob McCulley, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Hans Nordahl, 75, Norwegian football player.
• Nathán Pinzón, 76, Argentine actor, heart attack.

16

• Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, 81, Iranian-Iraqi Shia Grand Ayatollah.
• Jacob D. Beam, 85, American diplomat.
• René Dreyfus, 88, French racecar driver.
• Ernest Fernyhough, 84, British politician.
• Tom Fuccello, 56, American actor, AIDS-related complications.
• Stewart Granger, 80, British film actor, cancer.
• Joan Hughes, 75, English test pilot and stunt performer.
• Kitty Joyner, 77, American electrical engineer with the NACA and NASA.
• Bama Rowell, 77, American baseball player.
• Irene Sharaff, 83, American costume designer, five-time Oscar winner, heart failure.
• Ethelwynn Trewavas, 92, British ichthyologist.

17

• Max Gebhardt, 89, German Olympic long-distance runner.
• Feng Kang, 72, Chinese mathematician.
• Robert C. Maynard, 56, American journalist and newspaper publisher, prostate cancer.
• Phil Seymour, 41, American musician, lymphoma.
• Al Sima, 71, American baseball player.

18

• Tony Barwick, 59, British television scriptwriter, cancer.
• Heinrich Hess, 65, German Olympic canoeist.
• Daisy Lumini, 57, Italian composer, singer and stage actress, suicide.
• Tino Schirinzi, 59, Italian actor and stage director, suicide.
• Paweł Stok, 80, Polish basketball player and Olympian.

19

• Lucinda Ballard, 87, American costume designer, Tony winner, cancer.
• Iris Faircloth Blitch, 81, American politician.
• Mal Drury, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Utpal Dutt, 64, Indian actor, director, and playwright.
• Gérard Hérold, 53, French actor, heart attack.
• Salah Jadid, 67, Syrian general and politician, heart attack.
• Donald William Kerst, 81, American physicist.
• Bob L. Miller, 69, Australian rules footballer.

20

• Tony Barton, 56, English football player and football manager, heart attack.
• Koos de Jong, 81, Dutch sailor and Olympic medalist.
• William J. Murphy, 81, American politician.
• Reiner Schürmann, 52, German Dominican priest and philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
• Viktor Torshin, 45, Russian Olympic sport shooter.

21

• Bert Ashby, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Louis Cools-Lartigue, 88, Dominican politician.
• Paula Deubel, 58, American shot putter and Olympian.
• Felix Evans, 82, American baseball player.
• Ichirō Fujiyama, 82, Japanese singer and composer.
• Graeme Jennings, 47, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Kasdi Merbah, 55, Algerian politician, murdered.
• Vera Romanić, 82, Yugoslavian Olympic sprinter.
• Tatiana Troyanos, 54, American mezzo-soprano, breast cancer.

22

• Eddie Chiles, 83, American businessman and baseball executive.
• Dinmukhamed Konayev, 81, Soviet and Kazakhstan communist politician.
• Len Pigg, 73, American baseball player.
• R. Gundu Rao, 56, Indian politician, leukemia.
• Halsey Royden, 64, American mathematician, heart attack.
• Yoshiko Shigekane, 66, Japanese writer.

23

• Gregory Gaye, 92, Russian-American actor.
• Piero Parini, 98, Italian journalist and politician.
• Edvard Ravnikar, 85, Slovenian architect.
• Jim Reninger, 78, American baseball player.
• Charles Scorsese, 80, American actor.

24

• George Cansdale, 83, British zoologist, writer and television personality.
• Ruben Cantu, 26, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Leopoldo Contarbio, 64, Argentine basketball player and Olympian.
• D. B. Deodhar, 101, Indian cricket player.
• Jack Gaudion, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Boris Levin, 86, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
• David Mason, 36, American serial killer, execution by gas chamber.
• Albert Joseph McConnell, 89, Irish mathematician and mathematical physicist.

25

• Janna Allen, 36, American songwriter, leukemia.
• Amy Biehl, 26, American anti-Apartheid activist, homicide.
• Cecil Bolton, 89, American baseball player.
• Tom Gallery, 95, American film actor and sports promoter.
• Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, 94, Hong Kong industrialist, photographer and philanthropist.
• Boris Moishezon, 55, Soviet and Russian mathematician, heart attack.
• Macauley Smith, 88, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Henri Steenacker, 67, Belgian rower and Olympian.
• Arthur Stott, 83, Canadian Olympic diver.

26

• Karl Bewerunge, 80, German politician.
• Jean Carmen, 80, American film, stage, and radio actress.
• Rockin' Dopsie, 61, American zydeco singer and accordion player, heart attack.
• Jack Maher, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Roy Raymond, 46, American businessman and founder of Victoria's Secret, suicide.
• Alan Wharton, 70, English cricket player.

27

• Rafael Alcayde, 86, Mexican film actor.
• Wolfgang Helck, 78, German egyptologist and writer.
• José Marante, 78, Argentine football player.
• Hazen McAndrew, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Gene Thomas, 50, American gridiron football player, cardiomyopathy.
• Archie Wilcox, 90, Canadian ice hockey defenceman.

28

• George Appleton, 91, British Anglican bishop and writer.
• Bernie Baum, 63, American songwriter.
• Frank Hill, 87, Scottish football player and manager.
• Rene Ray, Countess of Midleton, 81, British stage and screen actress and novelist.
• Paul Rowe, 79, American Olympic ice hockey player.
• William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist.
• E. P. Thompson, 69, English historian, writer, socialist and pacifist.

29

• Dorian Corey, 56, American drag performer and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.
• Jack Hueller, 94, American football player.
• Luciano Marion, 64, Italian Olympic rower.
• Roger McCluskey, 63, American IndyCar racing driver, cancer.
• Carlos Santiago Nino, 49, Argentine philosopher, asthma.
• Gwendoline Porter, 91, British track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Jerre Stockton Williams, 77, American circuit judge.

30

• Ian Folley, 30, English cricket player, heart attack.
• Richard Jordan, 56, American actor, brain cancer.
• Anthony Plowman, 87, British judge.
• Milos Žutić, 53, Serbian actor.

31

• Jess Hill, 86, American baseball player, athlete, and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
• Stella Kramrish, 97, American art historian and curator.
• Stuart Latham, 81, English actor, director and television producer.
• Ligorio López, 60, Mexican football player.
• Alexander Nekrich, 73, Soviet and Russian historian.
• Siegfried Schürenberg, 93, German film actor.
• Al Trace, 92, American songwriter and orchestra leader, stroke.