Deaths in May 1993

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

May 1993

1

• Pietro Acquarone, 76, Italian footballer.
• Erwan Bergot, 63, French army officer and author.
• Pierre Bérégovoy, 67, French politician and prime minister, suicide by gunshot.
• Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, 84, Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, and diplomat.
• Donald Dupree, 74, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
• Henri Ellenberger, 87, Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist.
• Gerald Fowler, 58, British politician, MP, cancer.
• Narayan Ganesh Gore, 85, Indian politician.
• Warren P. Knowles, 84, American politician and governor, heart attack.
• Ranasinghe Premadasa, 68, President of Sri Lanka, assassination by suicide bomber.
• Amos Wilder, 97, American poet, minister, and theology professor.

2

• Luigi Bestagini, 73, Italian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Jim Cleary, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Julio Gallo, 83, American winemaker, traffic collision.
• John S. Gleason, Jr., 78, American banker and political figure.
• Thorkild Jacobsen, 88, Danish assyriologist and archaeologist.
• Stephen Juba, 78, Canadian politician.
• Ivan Lapikov, 70, Soviet-Russian actor.
• Karl-Friedrich Merten, 87, German U-boat commander during World War II, cancer.
• André Moynet, 71, French fighter pilot, businessman, and politician, MNA.
• George Southall, 85, British Olympic track cyclist.
• Will Weng, 86, American journalist and crossword puzzle editor.

3

• Libero Bigiaretti, 86, Italian novelist.
• Robert De Niro Sr., 71, American painter, father of Robert De Niro, cancer.
• Joe Lukeman, 91, Australian rules footballer.
• Duncan Macpherson, 68, Canadian cartoonist.
• Bjørn Rørholt, 73, Norwegian military officer, and resistance member during World War II.
• Hermína Týrlová, 92, Czech animator, screen writer, and film director.

4

• Margret Borgs, 84, German Olympic diver.
• Frank Kudelka, 67, American basketball player.
• Ray McDonald, 48, American gridiron football player, complications from sickle cell anemia.
• Ernst Reitermaier, 74, Austrian football player and manager.
• Shianghao Wang, 77, Chinese mathematician.
• France Štiglic, 73, Slovenian film director and screenwriter.

5

• Iakov Bielopolski, 76, Soviet architect.
• Dermot Boyle, 88, British RAF marshall.
• Louis Brooks, 82, American R&B saxophonist and bandleader.
• John Brady, 89, Australian trade unionist and politician.
• Georges Carrier, 82, French Olympic basketball player.
• Irving Howe, 72, American socialist activist, cardiovascular disease.
• Taimi Mattsson, 79, Finnish Olympic fencer.
• Malcolm Metcalf, 82, American Olympic javelin thrower.
• Dick Metz, 84, American golfer.
• Algot Törneman, 83, Swedish painter.
• Paul Wegener, 84, German Nazi Party official and politician.

6

• Ivy Benson, 79, English musician and bandleader.
• Vane Bor, 84, Serbian artist.
• Henri Conchy, 84, French footballer.
• Rommel Fernández, 27, Panamanian football player, traffic collision.
• Dorothy B. Hughes, 88, American crime writer, literary critic, and historian.
• Ian Mikardo, 84, British politician, stroke.
• Ann Todd, 86, English actress, stroke.

7

• Zhao Boping, 90, Chinese politician.
• Eddie Cranage, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Harold Danforth, 77, Canadian politician, MP.
• Cee Farrow, 36, German-American new wave singer, complications from AIDS.
• Roger Keesing, 57, American linguist and anthropologist, heart attack.
• Valeriano López, 67, Peruvian footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Jameel Mahmood, 54, Indian army lieutenant general, general commanding officer of the Eastern Command, helicopter crash.
• Eric Olsen, 77, American Olympic sailor.
• Mary Philbin, 90, American silent film actress, pneumonia.
• Hap Sharp, 65, American race car driver, suicide.
• Thurman Tucker, 75, American baseball player.

8

• Dele Charley, 45, Sierra Leonean playwright.
• Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, 74, Indian Marxist philosopher.
• Avram Davidson, 70, American fiction writer.
• Enrique Larrinaga, 82, Spanish footballer.
• Alwin Nikolais, 82, American choreographer, cancer.
• Gabriel Pita da Veiga y Sanz, 84, Spanish naval admiral, minister of the Navy.
• Marti Stevens, 54, American educator and theater director, asthma.
• Al Tate, 74, American baseball player.
• Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor, 87, English-Irish hereditary peer.

9

• Mario Baeza, 77, Chilean footballer.
• Reginald Bryan, 77, English cricketer and British Army officer.
• Joe Churchman, 68, Australian rules footballer.
• Ted Cieslak, 80, American Major League Baseball player.
• Jacques Dextraze, 73, Canadian military officer.
• Mary Duncan, 98, American actress.
• Kenneth Eather, 91, Australian Army officer.
• Penelope Gilliatt, 61, English novelist and screenwriter.
• Maggie Hemingway, 47, British novelist, aplastic anemia.
• Freya Madeline Stark, 100, British-Italian travel writer and explorer.
• Albert Sukop, 80, German footballer.
• Pete Sunkett, 75, American baseball player.

10

• Lester del Rey, 77, American science fiction author.
• Peng Mingzhi, 88, Chinese general and diplomat.
• Jack Peel, 72, British trade union leader.
• Stanisław Piłat, 84, Polish Olympic boxer.
• Dermot Sheriff, 72, Irish Olympic basketball player.
• Egon Vogel, 84, German actor.
• Pedro Vuskovic, 69, Croatian-Chilean economist and politician.

11

• Zhao Cangbi, 77, Chinese politician and official.
• Chen Chi-chuan, 94, Taiwanese politician.
• Magli Elster, 80, Norwegian psychoanalyst, literary critic, and poet.
• Minnie Gentry, 77, American actress.
• Hugh Hudson, 62, Australian politician, cancer.
• Sher Mohammad Marri, 58, Pakistani tribal chief and military figure.
• Shahu Modak, 75, Indian actor.
• Gene Selawski, 57, American gridiron football player.
• Nils Sjöblom, 83, Finnish Olympic fencer.
• Torsten Ullman, 84, Swedish Olympic sport shooter.
• Leigh Wiener, 63, American photographer and photojournalist, complications of Sweet's syndrome.

12

• Stanisław Baran, 73, Polish football player.
• Teodor Bârcă, 98, Moldovan politician and professor.
• Zeno Colò, 72, Italian Olympic alpine skier, lung cancer.
• Evert Dolman, 47, Dutch cyclist and Olympian.
• Capt. John Treasure Jones, 87, British sea officer, aneurysm.
• Franjo Palković, 86, Yugoslavian Olympic wrestler.
• Ulf Palme, 72, Swedish film actor.
• Marek Roszczynialski, 75, Polish Olympic equestrian.
• Edda Seippel, 73, German actress, cancer.
• Shamser Bahadur Singh, 82, Indian poet and writer.

13

• Robert Adley, 58, British politician, MP, heart attack.
• Friedrich Dörr, 85, German Catholic priest and professor of theology.
• Elton Fax, 83, American illustrator.
• Shmuel Gogol, 69, Polish-born Israeli harmonica player.
• Bede Griffiths, 86, British priest and Benedictine monk.
• Milt Jordan, 65, American baseball player.
• Wolfgang Lotz, 72, Israeli spy.
• Don Manson, 74, Australian rugby league footballer.
• M. K. Menon, 64, Indian writer.

14

• Aziz El-Shawan, 77, Egyptian composer.
• Patrick Haemers, 40, Belgian criminal, suicide by hanging.
• William Randolph Hearst Jr., 85, American newspaper publisher.
• Karin Luts, 89, Estonian painter and a graphic artist.
• Ross Ousley, 56, Australian rules footballer.
• Melvin Swig, 75, American real estate developer and philanthropist.

15

• Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 94, Indian Commander-in-Chief, arthritis.
• Herbert Grötzsch, 90, German mathematician.
• Francisco Quiroz, 35, Dominican boxing champion, killed in a nightclub brawl.
• John Row, 88, Australian politician.
• Robert Tanneveau, 81, French cyclist.

16

• Jibaraj Ashrit, 48, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
• Madan Kumar Bhandari, 41, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
• Eduardo Campbell, 59, Panamanian Olympic wrestler.
• Bernard Chanda, 41, Zambian football player.
• Dezső Ákos Hamza, 89, Hungarian film director.
• Marv Johnson, 54, American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, stroke.
• John Lookabaugh, 70, American football player.
• James Taylor, 75, Scottish sportsman.

17

• Henrique Anjos, 41, Portuguese Olympic sailor.
• Earl Chudoff, 85, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Joe Ploski, 89, Polish-American film and television actor.
• Andre Resampa, 68, Malagasy government minister.
• Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, 91, English artist.
• Peter E. Perry, 91, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Bill Wallace, 80, American college football player.

18

• Heinrich Albertz, 78, German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin.
• Stephen Cheong, 51, Hong Kong industrialist and politician, heart attack.
• Ronald Haver, 54, American film historian and author, AIDS-related illness.
• Heinz Knoke, 72, German flying ace during World War II and politician.
• Domingo Romo, 76, Chilean football player.

19

• Nemesio Antúnez, 75, Chilean painter.
• Winston Burdett, 79, American broadcast journalist and correspondent.
• Oscar Grimes, 78, American Major League Baseball player.
• Richard Murphy, 81, American film director and screenwriter, stroke.
• Ranga Sohoni, 75, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Lucien Troupel, 74, French football player and manager.
• John A. Wilson, 49, American politician, suicide by hanging.

20

• Al Aber, 65, American baseball player.
• Stevan Bodnarov, 87, Serbian sculptor, painter and political commissar.
• Virginia Cutler, 87, American academic, Alzheimer's disease.
• Dragoljub Janošević, 69, Yugoslav chess grandmaster.
• Carmelo Pace, 86, Maltese composer and music professor.

21

• Paul Anthony, 69, American basketball player.
• John Frost, 80, British Army officer.
• Pete Hecomovich, 74, American basketball player.
• John Holland, 85, American actor.
• Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, 100, Lithuanian architect.
• Omar Pkhakadze, 48, Georgian sprint cyclist and Olympic medalist.

22

• Herbert Callen, 73, American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mieczysław Horszowski, 100, Polish-American pianist.
• David Rees, 57, English author, lecturer and reviewer, AIDS.
• Irma Vila, 76, Mexican ranchera singer and actress.
• Carl Johan Wachtmeister, 90, Swedish army officer and Olympic fencer.
• Juice Wilson, 89, American jazz violinist.

23

• Luigi Brunella, 79, Italian football defender and manager.
• Rags Carter, 64, American race car driver.
• Julian de Ajuriaguerra, 82, Spanish-French psychologist.
• Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits, 83, Soviet engineer and apparatchik.
• Jaime Loyola, 61, Puerto Rican Olympic sport shooter.
• James Millhollin, 77, American actor, cancer.

24

• Carl Billquist, 60, Swedish actor.
• Stanley Butler, 83, British Olympic cyclist.
• Jack Gould, 79, American journalist and critic.
• Hendrik de Kok, 91, South African Olympic rower.
• Carlton E. Morse, 91, American radio producer.
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal, shot.

25

• Lee Roy Abernathy, 79, American gospel musician.
• Ajahn Buddhadasa, 86, Thai Buddhist monk and philosopher, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Poul Cederquist, 76, Danish Olympic hammer thrower.
• Laura Conti, 72, Italian anti-fascist partisan, politician, feminist, and novelist.
• Louis O. Coxe, 75, American writer, playwright, and professor.
• Rudolf Eckstein, 78, German rower and Olympic champion.
• Vincent Eri, 56, Papua New Guinean politician and novelist.
• Kimon Friar, 81, Greek-American poet and translator.
• D. J. Peterson, 33, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.
• Flip Regout, 77, Dutch Olympic rower.
• John Scott, 58, Australian Olympic sailor.
• Dan Seymour, 78, American actor, complications from a stroke.
• Horia Sima, 86, Romanian politician and war criminal.

26

• Catherine Caradja, 100, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist.
• Cor de Groot, 78, Dutch pianist and composer.
• Tsola Dragoycheva, 94, Bulgarian communist politician.
• Francis Lund Van Dusen, 81, American judge.
• Fernando Lopez, 89, Filipino politician.
• Memos Makris, 80, Greek sculptor.
• George Perpich, 72, American football player.
• Jack Priestley, 66, American cinematographer.
• Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 80, American publisher, colon cancer.
• Jan Wiley, 77, American actress, cancer.
• Ulvi Yenal, 85, Turkish Olympic footballer and businessman.

27

• Tony Del Monaco, 57, Italian pop singer and actor.
• Joe Gormley, Baron Gormley, 75, British trade unionist.
• Serge Leroy, 56, French film director.
• Roger MacDougall, 82, Scottish screenwriter and playwright.
• Werner Stocker, 38, German actor, brain cancer.

28

• Tatari Ali, 64, Nigerian politician, governor of Bauchi State, heart failure.
• Charlie Barnett, 82, English cricketer.
• Duncan Browne, 46, English singer-songwriter and musician, cancer.
• William Collins, 61, Canadian Olympic canoeist.
• Fats Dantonio, 74, American baseball player.
• George Faust, 75, American football player.
• Bobby Joe Green, 57, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Derek Hersey, 36, British rock climber, climbing accident.
• Ugo Locatelli, 77, Italian football player and Olympian.
• Doctor Ross, 67, American blues musician, and one-man band.

29

• Billy Conn, 75, American light heavyweight boxing champion.
• Alex Kampouris, 80, American baseball player.
• Paul Malvern, 90, American film producer, child actor, and stuntman.
• Louise McManus, 97, American nurse and academic.
• Rahima Moosa, 70, South African politician and activist.

30

• Qamar Ajnalvi, 73, Pakistani novelist.
• Takeharu Asō, 93, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier.
• H. Gordon Barrett, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Gonzalo Barrios, 91, Venezuelan politician.
• Ted Garrett, 73, British politician.
• Lien Gisolf, 82, Dutch high jumper and Olympic medalist.
• Henry Heerup, 85, Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
• Les Hill, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Marge, 88, American cartoonist, lymphoma.
• Melvin Spencer Newman, 85, American chemist, Ohio State University professor.
• Sun Ra, 79, American jazz composer, bandleader, pianist, and poet, congestive heart failure..
• Mel Rees, 26, Welsh football player, cancer.
• Gil Reese, 92, American gridiron football player.
• Solly Yach, 65, South African Olympic water polo player.

31

• Falkner Allison, 86, English Anglican prelate, Bishop of Chelmsford and Winchester.
• Tolly Burnett, 69, English cricketer.
• Honey Tree Evil Eye, 9, American bull terrier, portrayer of Spuds MacKenzie, kidney failure.
• Jimmy Hill, 74, American baseball player.
• Matti Karumaa, 68, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Mabel McKay, 86, Native American basketweaver and artist.
• John Litchfield, 89, British Royal Navy officer and politician.
• Donn Tatum, 80, American businessman, cancer.
• Joseph E. Vogler, 80, American politician, homicide.