Deaths in September 1993

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

September 1993

1

• Hasan Abdullayev, 75, Soviet and Azerbaijani physicist and academic.
• Thomas Brodie, 89, British Army officer.
• Odell M. Conoley, 79, American Marine Corps brigadier general.
• Fritz Cremer, 86, German sculptor.
• Hüseyin Gürsoy, 58–59, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
• Hew Lorimer, 86, Scottish sculptor.
• Bernie Lowe, 75, American musician.
• Neon Park, 52, American painter, comics artist and illustrator, ALS.
• Michael Sobell, 100, British businessman, philanthropist, and thoroughbred racehorses owner.
• Aleksey Vakhonin, 58, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion, injuries sustained during brawl.

2

• Eric Berry, 80, British actor, cancer.
• Reg Cantelon, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Dragotin Cvetko, 81, Slovenian composer and musicologist.
• Carl Anthony Fisher, 47, American Roman Catholic prelate, colorectal cancer.
• Fernando Lapuente, 65, Argentine Olympic sprinter.
• Ingvar Moe, 56, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer.
• Russel B. Nye, 80, American professor of English and Pulitzer Prize winner.

3

• Eric Batten, 79, English rugby player.
• David Brown, 89, English industrialist.
• Keith Chamberlain, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Josep Maria de Porcioles i Colomer, 89, Spanish politician and mayor of Barcelona, heart attack.
• Don Corbitt, 69, American gridiron football player.
• Lionel Fournier, 76, Canadian Olympic athlete.
• Wakasegawa Taiji, 73, Japanese sumo wrestler.

4

• Tommy Cheadle, 74, English football player.
• Haydn Davies, 81, Welsh cricketer.
• Baltasar Lobo, 83, Spanish artist, anarchist and sculptor.
• Semyon Marushkin, 74, Soviet Russian Olympic wrestler.
• Johnny Rae, 59, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist.
• Hervé Villechaize, 50, French-American actor and painter, suicide.
• Aaron Wildavsky, 63, American political scientist, lung cancer.

5

• Baek Du-jin, 84, South Korean politician and Prime Minister of South Korea.
• Samim Kocagöz, 77, Turkish novelist.
• Sam Lieberman, 71, American basketball player.
• Edwin Malindine, 83, British politician.
• Virgilio Mortari, 90, Italian composer and teacher.
• Fernand Payette, 72, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
• Claude Renoir, 79, French cinematographer.
• John Truscott, 57, Australian actor and production- and costume designer, complications during heart surgery.

6

• Pete Bennett, 65, Canadian football player.
• Howard Easterling, 81, American baseball player.
• Kevin Fox, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Bjarne Liller, 57, Danish jazz musician, singer-songwriter, and actor.
• A. L. F. Rivet, 77, British archaeologist and cartographer.
• Paul Arthur Schilpp, 96, German-American philosopher and educator.

7

• Eugen Barbu, 69, Romanian writer and journalist.
• Hall Bartlett, 70, American film producer, director, and screenwriter.
• Jean-Pierre Büchler, 85, Luxembourgish politician.
• Lefty Dizz, 56, American chicago blues guitarist and singer, esophageal cancer.
• Bruno Giorgi, 88, Brazilian sculptor.
• Christian Metz, 61, French film theorist, suicide.
• Guy Overton, 74, New Zealand cricketer.
• John Weld Peck II, 80, American judge.
• Ted Whitfield, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Gábor Zsiborás, 35, Hungarian footballer.

8

• Vincent Dethier, 78, American physiologist and entomologist.
• Santiago Goicoechea, 88, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
• Peter Higgins, 64, British athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, 88, Egyptian intellectual and philosopher.
• Earl Mattingly, 88, American baseball player.
• Tor Skjønsberg, 90, Norwegian resistance leader during World War II.

9

• Jimmy Deuchar, 63, Scottish jazz trumpeter and big band arranger.
• Art Mooney, 80, American singer and bandleader.
• Helen O'Connell, 73, American big band singer and actress, liver cancer.
• David Tendlar, 84, American animator.

10

• Garnet Ault, 87, Canadian swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Nicholas Bayard Dill, 87, Bermudian politician and military officer, heart attack.
• Julien Freund, 72, French sociologist and philosopher.
• Hajime Hana, 63, Japanese actor.
• Charles Harris, 79, American tennis player.
• Cal Howard, 82, American cartoon story artist and animator.
• Rita Karin, 73, Polish-American actress.
• Meinrad Miltenberger, 68, German sprint canoer and Olympian.
• Josef Odložil, 54, Czech middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist, complications after fight.
• Krister Wickman, 69, Swedish politician.

11

• Erling Andersen, 88, Norwegian-born American Olympic cross-country skier.
• Dino, 91, Brazilian footballer.
• Luis Antonio Escobar, 68, Colombian composer and musicologist.
• Antoine Izméry, Haitian businessman and pro-democracy activist, shot.
• Charles Lamont, 98, American filmmaker, pneumonia.
• Erich Leinsdorf, 81, Austrian-American conductor.
• Mary Jane Reoch, 48, American cycling champion, road accident.
• Les Scollard, 85, Australian rules footballer.

12

• Charlie Bray, 95, English cricketer and journalist.
• Raymond Burr, 76, Canadian-American actor, Emmy winner, kidney cancer.
• Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai, 78, Indian politician.
• Baligh Hamdi, 61, Egyptian composer, liver disease.
• Granny Hamner, 66, American Major League Baseball player.
• Harold Innocent, 60, English actor.
• Edith Kiel, 89, German film producer, screenwriter, and director.
• Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, 93, Belgian jurist, politician, and Olympic bobsledder.

13

• Austregésilo de Athayde, 94, Brazilian writer and journalist.
• Gordon Bourne, 80, Australian cricketer.
• Steve Jordan, 74, American jazz guitarist.
• Pavel Kouba, 55, Czech football player.
• Yasushi Sasaki, 85, Japanese film director.
• Carl Voss, 86, American ice hockey player.

14

• Adrianne Allen, 86, English stage actress, cancer.
• Bill Atwood, 81, American baseball player.
• Geo Bogza, 85, Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist.
• Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug, 78, Norwegian rifle shooter and Olympic champion.
• Sheelagh Murnaghan, 69, Northern Irish politician.
• Bruno Schlokat, 95, German Olympic javelin thrower.
• Glenn E. Smiley, 83, American clergyman and civil rights leader.
• Peter Tranchell, 71, British composer.
• Solange Térac, 86, French screenwriter and film director.

15

• Ethan Allen, 89, American baseball player.
• Maurice Allingham, 97, Australian rules football player.
• Pino Puglisi, 56, Italian Roman Catholic priest, killed by the mafia.
• Yulian Semyonov, 61, Soviet and Russian writer, scriptwriter and poet.
• Shinsaku Tsukawaki, 62, Japanese Olympic gymnast.
• Maurice Yaméogo, 71, President of Republic of Upper Volta.

16

• Merv Bolger, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• István Grózner, 38, Hungarian Olympic equestrian.
• František Jílek, 80, Czech conductor, composer and pianist.
• Sid Kuller, 82, American comedy writer, producer and composer.
• Henri LaBorde, 84, American discus thrower and Olympian.
• Max Marshall, 79, American baseball player.
• Emil Møller, 88, Danish footballer.
• J. R. Monterose, 66, American jazz saxophonist.
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 72, Aboriginal Australian political activist and artist.
• Vera Orlova, 75, Soviet and Russian actress.
• Rok Petrovič, 27, Yugoslav and Slovenian alpine skier and Olympian, drowned.
• Jim Staton, 66, American football player.

17

• Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, 93, Canadian classical scholar and Latin prosopographer.
• Pete Elko, 75, American baseball player.
• James Griffith, 77, American actor, musician and screenwriter, cancer.
• Jon Jelacic, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Willie Mosconi, 80, American pool player, heart attack.
• Christian Nyby, 80, American film director.
• Tarzie Vittachi, 71, Sri Lankan journalist, liver cancer.

18

• Aris Konstantinidis, 80, Greek modernist architect.
• Henrietta Leaver, 77, American beauty pageant contestant, cancer.
• Hans Schwarzenbach, 80, Swiss equestrian and Olympic medalist.
• Asit Sen, 76, Indian Hindi film director and comedian.

19

• Helen Adam, 83, Scottish poet, collagist and photographer.
• Art Burris, 69, American basketball player.
• John E. Dimon, 77, American politician.
• Marcel Mariën, 73, Belgian artist and filmmaker, cancer.
• András Mihály, 75, Hungarian cellist, composer and academic teacher.
• Moses Simwala, 44, Zambian footballer, coach and Olympian.
• John Tavener, 72, American college football player.
• Mufti Muhammad Waqaruddin, 78, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Frank Wurm, 69, American baseball player.

20

• Edwin Blunt, 75, English football player.
• Erich Hartmann, 71, German fighter pilot and most successful fighter ace during World War II, brain cancer.
• Zlatko Mašek, 64, Yugoslav Olympic sports shooter.
• Leonard Parkin, 64, British television journalist and newscaster, cancer.
• Hans Suess, 83, Austrian physicist.
• Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II, 80, American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer.
• John P. Vukasin Jr., 65, American district judge.

21

• Joe Daher, 80, American college basketball and football coach.
• John Goodell, 86, American baseball player.
• Sverre Johannessen, 72, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.
• Fernand Ledoux, 96, Belgian-French film and theatre actor.
• Antonio Quintana Simonetti, 74, Cuban modernist architect.
• Francis Weldon, 80, British equestrian and Olympic champion.

22

• Maurice Abravanel, 90, Greek-born American conductor.
• Emilio Botín, 90, Spanish banker.
• Niklaus Meienberg, 53, Swiss writer and investigative journalist, suicide.
• Mihai Tänzer, 88, Romanian football player and Olympian.

23

• Tommy Bogan, 73, Scottish football player.
• William Cort, 57, American actor, cancer.
• Myer Galpern, 90, Scottish politician.
• Koichi Hirakida, 55, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Charles Loughlin, 79, British politician.
• Keith Marshall, 86, Australian rules footballer.

24

• Ian Stuart Donaldson, 36, English neo-Nazi musician and frontman of punk rock band Skrewdriver, car crash.
• Izzy Goldstein, 85, American baseball player.
• Zita Johann, 89, Austrian-American actress.
• Mike Kabealo, 77, American football player.
• Wilhelm Marais, 85, South African cricket player and umpire.
• Bruno Pontecorvo, 80, Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, Parkinson's disease.
• Tamara Talbot Rice, 89, Russian-English art historian.
• Alfred Wróbel, 65, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian.

25

• Willy Fitz, 75, Austrian football player and coach.
• Francis Raymond Fosberg, 85, American botanist.
• John Moores, 97, English businessman, politician and philanthropist.
• Scoop Posewitz, 85, American basketball player.
• Rudolf Rasmussen, 75, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• Manlio Scopigno, 67, Italian football player and coach, heart attack.

26

• Nina Berberova, 92, Russian writer, fall.
• Frank Dunlap, 69, Canadian football and ice hockey player.
• Bernie Finn, 86, American football player.
• Semyon Pavlovich Ivanov, 86, Soviet general and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Edith Meiser, 95, American author and actress.
• Bernie Naylor, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• John Pennel, 53, American pole vaulter, Olympian, and world record holder, cancer.

27

• Paolo Caldarella, 29, Italian Olympic water polo player, motorcycle accident.
• Lin Clugston, 85, Irish cricketer.
• Jimmy Doolittle, 96, American military general, aviation pioneer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Fraser MacPherson, 65, Canadian jazz musician.
• Milan Muškatirović, 59, Yugoslav water polo goalkeeper and Olympian.
• Thomas White, 78, Canadian Olympic speed skater.
• Notable people killed during the Sukhumi massacre
• *Mamia Alasania, 50, Georgian Armed Forces colonel
• *Alexander Berulava, 47, Georgian journalist, writer, and human rights activist
• *Raul Eshba, 49, Georgian politician
• *Guram Gabiskiria, 46, Georgian politician and mayor of Sukhumi
• *Zhiuli Shartava, 49, Georgian politician and Prime Minister of Abkhazia
• *Andrey Soloviev, 39, Soviet and Russian war photographer

28

• Peter De Vries, 83, American editor and novelist.
• Chandrashekhar Dubey, 69, Indian actor and radio personality.
• Paul Giguet, 78, French racing cyclist.
• Crawford Greenewalt, 91, American chemical engineer, stroke.
• Galina Makarova, 73, Soviet and Belarusian theater and film actress.
• Dumitru Pavlovici, 81, Romanian football player.
• Jack Richardson, 86, Australian rules footballer.

29

• Matej Bor, 80, Slovenian writer.
• Ian Burn, 53, Australian conceptual artist, drowned.
• Gordon Douglas, 85, American film director and actor, cancer.
• Tatjana Gsovsky, 92, German ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Eugenio Pagnini, 88, Italian Olympic pentathlete.
• Moses Simwala, 44, Zambian football player and coach.
• Ghulam Haider Wyne, 43, Pakistani politician, murdered.

30

• Ronnie Aldrich, 77, British easy listening and jazz musician, prostate cancer.
• Jean Brun, 67, Swiss Olympic cyclist.
• Dick Harris, 81, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Alex Lyon, 61, British politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Carlo Vinci, 87, American animator.