Deaths in January 1993

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

January 1993

1

• Ross Bass, 74, American florist and politician, United States Representative and Senator.
• Italo Bellini, 77, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Helmut Bischoff, 84, German Nazi official and SS officer.
• June Clayworth, 87, American actress.
• Shalom Cohen, 66, Israeli politician.
• Tony Durley, 59, English cricketer.
• Phyllis Hill, 72, American dancer and actress, lung cancer.
• Raymond Jack Last, 89, Australian surgeon and anatomist.
• Laurence Marks, 77, American television writer.
• George R. Mather, 81, United States Army general.
• Jean Mayer, 72, French-American scientist.
• Cathie Marsh, 41, British sociologist and statistician, breast cancer.
• Totò Mignone, 86, Italian dancer and actor.
• Claude Smeal, 74, Australian Olympic long-distance runner.

2

• Alfred T. Airth, 86, American politician.
• Tom Barling, 86, English cricketer.
• Sean Devereux, 28, British Salesian missionary and aid worker, murdered.
• Heinz Kohlhaas, 80, German Olympic boxer.
• Vladimir Makogonov, 88, Soviet-Azerbaijan chess player.
• Rudi Supek, 79, Croatian sociologist and philosopher.
• Valerie Wellington, 33, American opera and blues singer, intracranial aneurysm.
• Gerald T. Whelan, 67, American politician.

3

• Leah Feldman, 93, Odessa-born anarchist garment worker.
• Johnny Most, 69, American sportscaster, heart attack.
• Simone Vaudry, 86, French film actress.
• Bill Walls, 80, American football player, and coach.

4

• Danie Craven, 82, South African rugby player and coach.
• J. J. Griffin Jr., 79, American politician.
• Leonard Kibrick, 68, American child actor, cancer.
• Oscar Lindelöf, 89, Swedish Olympic wrestler.
• Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, 79, American geographer.
• Navalpakkam Parthasarthy, 92, Indian geneticist and United Nations official.
• Harold Page Smith, 88, American naval admiral.
• Ernest Leo Unterkoefler, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Charleston.

5

• Juan Benet, 65, Spanish novelist, brain cancer.
• Yuri Bezmenov, 53, Soviet-Canadian defected KGB agent and journalist, heart attack.
• George Roseborough Collins, 75, American art historian, Alzheimer's disease.
• Westley Allan Dodd, 31, American convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.
• Einar Granath, 56, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Nicholas Mayall, 86, American astronomer, diabetes.
• Eliseo Morales, 94, Spanish Olympic rower.
• Sisworo Gautama Putra, 54, Indonesian film director.
• Maynard Street, 94, American football and basketball coach.
• Florian Zogg, 92, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier.

6

• Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, 70, Austrian royal.
• Ștefan Baciu, 74, Romanian-Brazilian poet, novelist, publicist and academic.
• Zoltán Csányi, 80, Hungarian Olympic athlete.
• Tad Danielewski, 71, Polish-American film director, cancer.
• Dizzy Gillespie, 75, American jazz trumpeter, pancreatic cancer.
• Richard Mortensen, 82, Danish painter.
• Rudolf Nureyev, 54, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, AIDS.
• Townsend Tapley, 79, American baseball player.

7

• Richard Branda, 57, American actor.
• John Cowley, 87, English army officer.
• Toshihiko Izutsu, 78, Japanese religious scholar.
• Susi Jeans, 81, Austrian-British organist, teacher and musicologist.
• Fred Kohler, Jr., 81, American actor.

8

• Hans Bertram, 86, German aviator, screenwriter and film director.
• Theo Bruins, 63, Dutch pianist.
• Harry Gregory, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Ron Grove, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Asif Nawaz, 56, Pakistani general, heart attack.
• George Rudé, 82, British marxist historian.
• Leonard A. Scheele, 85, American physician, surgeon general.
• Herbert Trantow, 89, German film score composer.
• Hakija Turajlić, 56-57, Bosnian politician and deputy prime minister, killed in action.

9

• Bruce Campbell, 80, English ornithologist.
• Anton Crihan, 99, Moldovan politician, author, economist, and journalist, cancer.
• Sir Paul Hasluck, 87, Australian politician, governor-general, MP, prostate cancer.
• Keith Mwila, 26, Zambian boxer and Olympic medalist.
• Viveca Serlachius, 69, Finnish-Swedish actress.
• Judit Tóth, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
• Janet Vaughan, 93, English physiologist.

10

• Diana Adams, 66, American ballet dancer.
• Adam Aston, 90, Polish-English singer.
• Maurice Brooks, 92, American naturalist.
• Thomas B. Curtis, 81, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Iván García, 45, Venezuelan footballer.
• Luther Gulick, 100, American social scientist.
• Georges Mounin, 82, French linguist.
• Raja Perempuan Zainab II, 75, Malaysian royal.

11

• Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano, 89, Italian lawyer and politician.
• Lacey Fosburgh, 50, American writer, breast cancer.
• Frank Quinn, 65, American baseball player.
• Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talib-ul-Mola, 73, Pakistani politician, scholar and poet.
• Tommy Walker, 77, Scottish football player.

12

• Earl Browne, 81, American baseball player, and manager.
• Józef Czapski, 96, Polish artist, author, and critic.
• Fred Koenig, 61, American baseball, coach and director.
• Pierre Nihant, 67, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Joe Orrell, 75, American baseball player.
• Yehezkel Streichman, 87, Israeli painter.
• Margit Tøsdal, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Tito Warnholtz, 86, German Olympic field hockey player.

13

• Albert Wheeler Coffrin, 73, American district judge.
• Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, 30, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
• Camargo Guarnieri, 85, Brazilian composer.
• Helene J. Kantor, 73, American archaeologist and art historian.
• Ndrek Luca, 65, Albanian stage, film and theater actor.
• René Pleven, 91, French politician and prime minister, heart failure.
• Harlan Pyle, 87, American baseball player.
• Alexander Soper, 88, American art historian.
• Charles Tillon, 95, French politician.

14

• Victor Abens, 80, Luxembourgish politician.
• Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield, 93, British politician.
• Sathasivam Krishnakumar, 33, Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and Tamil Tigers leader, suicide.
• Manfred Lachs, 78, Polish diplomat and jurist.
• Pepita Ferrer Lucas, 54, Catalan chess player.
• Robert A. Mattey, 82, American special effects artist.
• José Comas Quesada, 64, Spanish watercolor painter.

15

• Billy Brown, 82, English football player.
• Sammy Cahn, 79, American lyricist, heart failure.
• Roland English, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Arthur Wallis Exell, 91, English botanist.
• J. Allen Frear, Jr., 89, American businessman and politician, member of the United States Senate.
• Lucien Grosso, 60, French Olympic bobsledder.
• William G. Hardwick, 82, American politician.
• Henry Iba, 88, American basketball coach.
• Annemarie von Gabain, 91, German scholar.

16

• Phil Chambers, 76, American actor.
• Freddie 'Red' Cochrane, 77, American boxer.
• Glenn Corbett, 59, American actor, lung cancer.
• Florence Desmond, 87, English actress.
• Ernest Granier, 85, French Olympic sailor.
• Rafik Khachatryan, 55, Armenian sculptor.
• Karl-Heinz Scherzinger, 48, German Olympic cross-country skier.
• Stan Sheriff, 60, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
• Jón Páll Sigmarsson, 32, Icelandic bodybuilder and strongman, aortic rupture.
• Đoko Slijepčević, 85, Serbian historian.
• Svetozar Vujović, 52, Bosnian and Yugoslav football player, manager and Olympian.
• Atsushi Yamatoya, 55, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor, esophageal cancer.

17

• Barbara Buczek, 53, Polish composer.
• Julio Coll, 73, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
• Harry Gingell, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Albert Hourani, 77, English historian.
• Nick Polly, 75, American baseball player.
• Liu Yunchang, 80, Chinese Olympic basketball player.
• Vilmos Zombori, 87, Romanian footballer.

18

• Karl Bosl, 84, German historian.
• Alfredo Bovet, 83, Swiss-Italian cyclist.
• Eleanor Alice Burford, 86, English novelist.
• Jack Cronin, 89, American football player.
• Arthur Donaldson, 91, Scottish journalist and politician.
• Gordon Higginson, 74, British spiritualist medium.
• C. A. Trypanis, 83, Greek classicist, literary critic, and poet.
• Richard Waring, 82, English-American actor.
• Wasif Ali Wasif, 64, Pakistani writer, poet and sufi.
• Dionysios Zakythinos, 87-88, Greek historian.

19

• Holden Furber, 89, American academic.
• Reginald Hewetson, 84, British Army officer, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
• William LeMassena, 76, American actor, lung cancer.
• Reginald Lewis, 50, American businessman and philanthropist, brain cancer.
• Margaret Marquis, 73, Canadian-American film actress.
• Nagindas Parekh, 89, Indian writer and literary critic.
• Chris Street, 20, American college basketball player, automobile crash.
• Mieczysław Szumiec, 85, Polish footballer.
• Antonello Trombadori, 75, Italian politician, art critic and journalist.

20

• Joe Albertson, 86, American businessman.
• Joseph Anthony, 80, American playwright and actor.
• Françoise Dior, 60, French socialite and neo-Nazifinancier, lung cancer.
• Bindeshwari Dubey, 72, Indian freedom fighter, trade unionist and politician.
• Aleksandr Gorshkov, 64, Soviet Olympic athlete.
• Audrey Hepburn, 63, British actress, Oscar winner, appendix cancer.
• Christos Kapralos, 83, Greek artist.
• Piet Peters, 71, Dutch Olympic cyclist.

21

• Felice Borel, 78, Italian football player.
• Charlie Gehringer, 89, American Hall of Fame baseball player.
• Lotte Laserstein, 94, German-Swedish painter.
• Leo Löwenthal, 92, German sociologist.
• Ferdinanda Martini-Pautasso, 69, Italian-born Swiss Olympic diver.
• Dimitris Nikolaidis, 71, Greek actor.

22

• Kōbō Abe, 68, Japanese writer, heart attack.
• Alexander Bodon, 86, Dutch architect.
• Patricia Brooks, 59, Lyric soprano, actress, and opera singer, multiple sclerosis.
• Jim Pollard, 70, American basketball player and coach.
• Armand Raymond, 80, American ice hockey player.
• Hans Schneider, 79, Austrian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Erik W. Tawaststjerna, 76, Finnish musicologist, pianist and music teacher.
• Brett Weston, 81, American photographer, stroke.

23

• John Robert Brown, 83, American circuit judge.
• Thomas A. Dorsey, 93, American gospel musician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Kong Fei, 82, Chinese politician.
• Charles Greenlee, 65, American jazz trombonist.
• Robert Sutton Harrington, 50, American astronomer, esophageal cancer.
• Keith Laumer, 67, American science fiction author.
• Gábor Péter, 86, Hungarian communist politician.
• Wayne Raney, 71, American country singer and harmonica player, cancer.
• Li Ziming, 90, Chinese martial artist.

24

• Archduchess Assunta of Austria, 90, Austrian-American royal.
• Don Bassman, 64, American sound engineer, Oscar winner.
• Héctor De Bourgoing, 58, French football player.
• Gustav Ernesaks, 84, Estonian composer.
• Detlef Gerstenberg, 35, East Germany hammer thrower and Olympian, liver cirrhosis.
• John A. Lafore, Jr., 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Thurgood Marshall, 84, American judge, associate justice of the Supreme Court, heart failure.
• Rob McEwen, 66, Australian rules footballer.
• Éliane Montel, 94, French physicist and chemist.
• Uğur Mumcu, 50, Turkish investigative journalist, murdered.
• Eino Pentti, 86, American Olympic runner.
• Leland Shaffer, 80, American football player.
• Henry Abel Smith, 92, British Army officer.
• Sergey Zakharov, 92, Soviet-Russian painter.

25

• Frank Freidel, 77, American historian and biographer.
• Nils Kristen Jacobsen, 84, Norwegian politician.
• Leah Neuberger, 77, American table tennis player.
• Hedi Amara Nouira, 81, Tunisian politician, prime minister.
• Pres Slack, 84, American basketball player.

26

• Erminio Bolzan, 78, Italian Olympic boxer.
• Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, 73, German soldier, resistance member, and diplomat.
• Lucia M. Cormier, 83, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives.
• Kenneth Gaburo, 66, American composer.
• Jan Gies, 87, Dutch resistance member, hid Anne Frank, kidney failure.
• Robert Jacobsen, 80, Danish artist.
• Jeanne Sauvé, 70, Canadian politician, governor general, MP, Hodgkin's lymphoma.

27

• Srđan Aleksić, 26, Bosnian Serb amateur actor and soldier, beaten to death.
• Nils Aall Barricelli, 81, Norwegian-Italian mathematician.
• Harold Beverage, 99, American inventor and researcher.
• Allan Buchanan, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• J. T. King, 80, American football player and coach.
• Leon Mandrake, 81, Canadian magician.
• Edward P. Morgan, 82, American journalist and writer.
• Erik Mørk, 67, Danish film actor, traffic collision.
• Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri, 51-52, Pakistani Grand Mufti, heart attack.
• Vern Wilson, 61, Australian rules footballer.

28

• Frank Aked Sr., 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Donald Douglas, 81, Scottish surgeon.
• André the Giant, 46, French professional wrestler and actor, congestive heart failure.
• Erik Herseth, 100, Norwegian Olympic sailor.
• Helen Sawyer Hogg, 87, American-Canadian astronomer.
• Aben Kandel, 95, American screenwriter.
• Vern Kennedy, 85, American baseball player.
• Anatoly Parfyonov, 67, Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion..
• Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole, 81, British politician, soldier and businessman.
• John Steadman, 83, American actor.
• Kay Swift, 95, American composer.
• Tim Ward, 75, English football player and manager.
• Polo Welfring, 66, Luxembourgian Olympic gymnast.
• Hannah Wilke, 52, American artist, lymphoma.

29

• Adetokunbo Ademola, 86, Nigerian jurist.
• Ángel Garma, 88, Spanish-Argentine psychoanalyst.
• Gustav Hasford, 45, American novelist and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Harris Hull, 83, American brigadier general.
• Ron Kostelnik, 53, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Lars Larsson, 81, Swedish steeplechase runner and Olympian.
• Eva Remaeus, 42, Swedish actress, brain tumor.
• Nancy Teed, 43, Canadian politician, traffic collision.

30

• Julia Davis Adams, 92, American author and journalist.
• Ryōichi Hattori, 85, Japanese pop and jazz composer.
• Denise Kramer-Scholer, 82, Swiss Olympic fencer.
• James LuValle, 80, American Olympic athlete, and scientist.
• Dorothy Miles, 61, Welsh poet.
• Taikichiro Mori, 88, Japanese businessman and economist.
• Svetoslav Roerich, 88, Russian painter.
• Toni Wieser, 72, Austrian Olympic ski jumper.
• John Oulton Wisdom, 84, Irish philosopher.
• Alexandra of Yugoslavia, 71, Greek-Yugoslavian royal and queen consort, cancer.

31

• Paul R. Anderson, 85, American academic.
• Ernő Lendvaï, 67, Hungarian music theorist.
• John Poulson, 82, British designer and businessman.
• Frithjof Ulleberg, 81, Norwegian football player and Olympian.
• Douglas Williams, 75, American sound engineer, Oscar winner.