Deaths in February 1993

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

February 1993

1

• Michael Blundell, 85, Kenyan farmer and politician.
• José Bravo, 76, Spanish football player.
• Mehrab Shahrokhi, 48, Iranian football player.
• Gregg G. Tallas, 84, Greek film director and film editor.
• Sven Thofelt, 88, Swedish Olympic pentathlete and fencer.
• Harold Edward Winch, 85, Canadian politician.

2

• Merle Anthony, 66, American baseball umpire.
• Gino Bechi, 79, Italian operatic baritone.
• Bernard Braden, 76, Canadian-British actor and comedian, stroke.
• Emilio Bulgarelli, 75, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Clemente Fracassi, 75, Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.
• Michael Klein, 33, Romanian football player, heart attack.
• Lenny Levy, 79, American baseball player, coach and scout.
• Reid Miles, 65, American graphic designer and photographer.
• Emmett Morrison, 77, American basketball player.
• Harry Nilsson, 77, Swedish football defender.
• John Peck, 55, Australian rules footballer.
• Bernard Peters, 82-83, Polish-German nuclear physicist.
• François Reichenbach, 71, French film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Alexander Schneider, 84, Lithuanian-American violinist, heart failure.

3

• Viktor Ajbek, 72, Croatian footballer.
• Françoys Bernier, 65, Canadian musician.
• Rosetta Calavetta, 78, Italian actress and voice dubber.
• Omar Cañas, 23, Colombian Olympic footballer, shot.
• Gianni Colombo, 56, Italian artist.
• Paul Emery, 76, English racing driver.
• Edith Elizabeth Farkas, 71, Hungarian-New Zealand antarctic researcher and meteorologist, bone cancer.
• Karel Goeyvaerts, 69, Belgian composer.
• Perry Hall, 94, American baseball player.
• Éliane de Meuse, 93, Belgian painter.
• Alby Newell, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Tauno Rinkinen, 68, Finnish Olympic boxer.
• Tan Shaowen, 63, Chinese politician, lung cancer.
• Gunnar Werner, 77, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Bill Williams, 88, Australian rules footballer.

4

• Eldon Jenne, 93, American Olympic track and field athlete.
• Daulat Singh Kothari, 86, Indian scientist and educationist.
• Joaquín Oliva, 66, Spanish football player.
• Connie Saylor, 52, American NASCAR racecar driver, cancer.

5

• T. W. Alley, 50, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, 94, British businessman and media executive.
• William Pène du Bois, 76, American writer and book illustrator, stroke.
• Ed Boland, 84, American baseball player.
• Seán Flanagan, 71, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Baharul Islam, 74, Indian politician, MP.
• Hans Jonas, 89, German-American philosopher.
• Adnan Kahveci, 43, Turkish politician, traffic collision.
• Roxanne Kernohan, 32, Canadian actress, traffic collision.
• Marcel Léger, 62, Canadian politician, MNA.
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, American film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Frank McNally, 85, American football player.
• Tip Tipping, 34, English stuntman and actor, parachuting accident.
• Jack Young, 80, English cricketer.
• Huang Zhizhen, 72, Chinese politician.

6

• Arthur Allsopp, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Arthur Ashe, 49, American tennis player, AIDS.
• George Bellew, 93, British officer of arms.
• Ruggero Biancani, 78, Italian Olympic athlete.
• Mohammad Natsir, 84, Indonesian islamic scholar and prime minister.
• Ion Negoițescu, 71, Romanian writer and historian.
• Jaroslav Sadílek, 79, Czech Olympic figure skater.

7

• Shovkat Alakbarova, 70, Azerbaijani singer.
• Frank Balistrieri, 74, American mobster belonging to the Milwaukee crime family.
• Duilio Brignetti, 66, Italian Olympic pentathlete.
• William Hayman, 89, English Anglican prelate, Archdeacon of Lewisham.
• Noboru Ito, 90, Japanese composer.
• Erling Dekke Næss, 91, Norwegian shipowner and businessman.
• Buddy Pepper, 70, American pianist and songwriter.
• Mohsen Sarhan, 79, Egyptian actor.
• Floyd Stromme, 76, American baseball player.

8

• Frank Davies, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• George Garlick, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Teddy Glover, 90, English-American football player.
• Oto Grigalka, 67, Soviet Latvian track and field athlete and Olympian.
• William Ewing Hester, 80, American tennis player and official.
• Douglas Heyes, 73, American screenwriter, heart attack.
• Eliot Janeway, 80, American economist.
• Anthony Kramreither, 66, Australian-Canadian film producer.
• Charles R. Lord, 61, American intelligence official, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency.
• Roland Mousnier, 85, French historian.
• Franz Schnyder, 82, Swiss film director.
• Nagalingam Shanmugathasan, 72, Sri Lankan trade unionist.
• Bram van der Stok, 77, Dutch fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.

9

• Marian Filc, 44, Slovakian Olympic figure skater, heart attack.
• Bill Grundy, 69, English journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
• Saburo Okita, 78, Japanese politician and economist.
• Elwood Richard Quesada, 88, American lieutenant general and businessman.
• Virginie Rausch, 86, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer.
• Mingun Sayadaw, 81, Burmese theravada Buddhist monk.
• Kate Wilkinson, 76, American actress, bone cancer.

10

• Elmer Barbour, 74, American gridiron football player.
• James C. H. Bonbright, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, 78, French politician, prime minister.
• William E. Cleator, Sr., 65, American politician, cancer.
• Bengt Edlén, 86, Swedish astronomer and academic.
• Fred Hollows, 63, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist, renal cancer.
• Gaya Prasad Katiyar, 92, Indian revolutionary.
• Mickey Murtagh, 88, American football player.
• Rip Repulski, 64, American baseball player.

11

• Kamal Amrohi, 75, Indian film director and screenwriter.
• Charles Eric Dawson, 70, Canadian ichthyologist.
• Joy Garrett, 47, American actress, liver failure.
• Robert W. Holley, 71, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient, lung cancer.
• Brian Inglis, 76, Irish journalist, historian and television presenter.
• Oksana Kostina, 20, Russian rhythmic gymnast, traffic collision.
• Desanka Maksimović, 94, Serbian poet and writer.
• Leo Nolan, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Félix Ruiz, 52, Spanish footballer.
• Newton Steers, 76, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Alex Stewart, 84, Australian rules footballer.

12

• Joe Booher, 51, American racing driver, racing accident.
• James Bulger, 2, English murder victim.
• Mark W. Ellingson, 88, American academic, president of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
• Thelma G. Thurstone, 95, American psychologist and psychological testing pioneer.
• Federico Valle, 85, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter.

13

• Araxie Babayan, 86, Soviet and Armenian organic chemist.
• G. H. Diggle, 90, English chess player.
• William Dodd, 84, English cricketer.
• Henry Duey, 84, American weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
• Willoughby Gray, 76, English actor, cancer.

14

• Elek Bacsik, 66, Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist.
• Eleazar Lipsky, 81, American lawyer, writer and playwright, leukemia.
• Eric Lionel Mascall, 87, English Anglican priest and theologian.
• Pedro Cortina y Mauri, 84, Spanish politician and diplomat.
• Veljko Milanković, 38, Bosnian Serb military commander, killed in battle.
• Terry Reardon, 73, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Lester Wilson, 50, American dancer and choreographer, heart attack.

15

• Kay Eakin, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Cary Gilbert, 50, American lyricist, diabetes.
• Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen, 64, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• George Wallington, 68, American jazz pianist.

16

• Leland D. Crawford, 63, United States Marine officer.
• Amos Guttman, 38, Israeli film director, AIDS-related complications.
• Peter Molloy, 83, English football player, manager and referee.
• Robert Francis Peckham, 72, American district judge.
• Richard S. Salant, 78, American news executive.

17

• Hans Baur, 95, German flying ace.
• Eşref Bitlis, 59-60, Turkish general, plane crash.
• Jack Froggatt, 70, English football player.
• Rani Gaidinlu, 78, Indian revolutionary.
• Kostas Karagiannis, 60-61, Greek film director.
• Sammy Lowe, 74, American trumpeter.
• Paul Masino, 81, French Olympic gymnast.
• Leslie Townsend, 89, English cricketer.

18

• Marshall Carter, 83, American Army Lieutenant general.
• Ted Haworth, 75, American production designer, Oscar winner, cardiovascular disease.
• Jacqueline Hill, 63, English actress, breast cancer.
• Rita La Roy, 91, American actress and dancer, pneumonia.
• Allen Montgomery Lewis, 83, Saint Lucian barrister and public servant.
• Leslie Norman, 81, English film director.
• Arthur Skinner, 73, British Olympic sports shooter.
• Kerry Von Erich, 33, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.

19

• David L. Bazelon, 83, American circuit judge.
• Greg Brehaut, 46, Australian rules footballer.
• Judith Chaplin, 53, British politician, pulmonary embolism.
• Alexander Davydov, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist.
• Bernard T. Feld, 73, American nuclear physicist and academic.
• Gerhard Gesell, 82, American judge.
• Mohamed Hamzah, 74, Malaysian vexillographer, architect and field marshal.
• Česlovas Kudaba, 58, Lithuanian politician and geographer.
• Yusif Mirzayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Yaman Okay, 41, Turkish actor, pancreatic cancer.

20

• Mario Abreu, 73, Venezuelan artist.
• Howard Mayer Brown, 62, American musicologist.
• Marian Bublewicz, 42, Polish racing driver, racing collision.
• H. E. Kirchner, 55, American college basketball player.
• Ferruccio Lamborghini, 76, Italian automobile manufacturer, heart attack.

21

• Irma Christenson, 78, Swedish actress.
• Alison Fairlie, 75, English scholar.
• Harvey Kurtzman, 68, American cartoonist, liver cancer.
• Inge Lehmann, 104, Danish seismologist and geophysicist.
• Eddy Tiel, 66, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Dick White, 86, British intelligence officer.

22

• Pierre Dalem, 80, Belgian football player.
• Jean Lecanuet, 72, French politician, cancer.
• Bill Lickiss, 68, Australian politician.
• Hugo Schrader, 90, German television and film actor.
• B. D. Sharma, 75, Indian politician.
• Sirio Vernati, 85, Swiss football player.
• Feng Zhi, 87, Chinese writer and translator.

23

• Helmut Braselmann, 81, German Olympic handball player.
• Chuck Cook, 66, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Anne Dupire, 82, French Olympic swimmer.
• Walter Fyrst, 91, Norwegian filmmaker.
• Joe Hutcheson, 88, American baseball player.
• Krisjānis Kundziņš, 87, Latvian Olympic wrestler.
• Mario Pani, 81, Mexican architect and urbanist.
• Jarrett Robertson, 52, American army major general, helicopter crash.
• Carl Sautter, 44, American film and television writer.
• Phillip Terry, 83, American actor, stroke.
• Robert Triffin, 81, Belgian economist.

24

• Cyril Done, 72, English football player.
• Stuart Fleming, 72, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Danny Gallivan, 75, Canadian sportscaster, heart failure.
• Bobby Moore, 51, English football player and world champion, colorectal cancer.
• Chaim L. Pekeris, 84, Israeli-American physicist and mathematician.
• Roger Rochard, 79, French long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Denis Vaucher, 95, Swiss cross country skier and Olympian.

25

• Hashem Amoli, 93, Iranian scholar and ayatollah.
• Russ Brayshaw, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Toy Caldwell, 45, American guitarist, heart attack.
• Eddie Constantine, 79, American-French actor and singer, heart attack.
• Dave Cook, 51, British communist activist, complications following traffic accident.
• Sonja Mjøen, 94, Norwegian actress, journalist and author.
• Leopold Tajner, 71, Polish Olympic skier.
• Mary Walter, 80, Filipino actress.
• Eren Özker, 44, Turkish-American puppeteer, cancer.

26

• John Besford, 82, English swimmer and Olympian.
• Constance Ford, 69, American actress, cancer.
• Fletcher Knebel, 81, American author, suicide by drug overdose.
• Beaumont Newhall, 84, American art historian.
• Giulio Oggioni, 76, Italian Catholic prelate.
• Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 87, Austrian film director, writer, and author.
• Carl Solomon, 64, American writer.

27

• Pina Carmirelli, 79, Italian violinist.
• Fred Daniels, 100, American baseball player.
• José Álvarez de Bohórquez, 97, Spanish equestrian and Olympic champion.
• Lillian Gish, 99, American actress, heart failure.
• Ambrose A. Holowach, 78, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Steve Levantis, 76, Canadian football player.
• Walker Smith, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Marģeris Zariņš, 82, Latvian composer.
• Zhao Zengyi, 72-73, Chinese politician.

28

• Franco Brusati, 70, Italian film director.
• Joyce Carey, 94, English actress.
• Benoît Carrara, 66, French Olympic cross-country skier.
• Holger Engberg, 84, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Ishirō Honda, 81, Japanese film director, respiratory failure.
• Toshiaki Inoue, 42, Japanese triple jumper and Olympian, accident.
• Ruby Keeler, 83, American actress and dancer, kidney cancer.
• Tamaarashi Kōhei, 51, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Ilkka Koski, 64, Finnish Olympic heavyweight boxer.