# Deaths in August 1993
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1993.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), 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.
* 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.
* Gerry Sundquist, 37, English actor, suicide.

### 2

* Guido del Mestri, 82, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
* 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 (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape, The Vikings), stomach cancer.
* Alwyn Howard Gentry, 48, American botanist and plant collector, plane crash.
* 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.

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* Nesmith Ankeny, 66, American mathematician.
* Bernard Barrow, 65, American actor (Ryan's Hope, Serpico, Rachel, Rachel), lung cancer.
* Kenny Drew, 64, American jazz pianist.
* Jack Dwan, 72, American basketball player.
* Bob Maier, 77, American baseball player.
* John Pickard, 80, American actor (Boots and Saddles, True Grit, Gunslinger), animal attack.
* George M. Wallhauser, 93, American politician.

### 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.
* Eugen Suchoň, 84, Slovak composer.

### 6

* Tex Hughson, 77, American Major League Baseball player.
* 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.
* 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.

### 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.
* Louis Sheaffer, 80, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, heart failure.

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* 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, Serbian 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.
* Diana Holman-Hunt, 79, English memoir writer and art critic.
* 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

* 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.

### 13

* Veli Autio, 83, Finnish rower and Olympian.
* Jackson Edward Betts, 89, American politician.
* Barbara Gibbs Golffing, 80, American poet and translator.
* 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.
* 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.

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* 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.
* Hans Nordahl, 75, Norwegian football player.
* Nathán Pinzón, 76, Argentine actor, heart attack.

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* 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 (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Dallas, Mac and Me), 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.
* Irene Sharaff, 83, American costume designer (West Side Story, Cleopatra, An American in Paris), five-time Oscar winner, heart failure.
* Ethelwynn Trewavas, 92, British ichthyologist.

### 17

* 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.
* 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.

### 19

* Lucinda Ballard, 87, American costume designer (The Gay Life, Another Part of the Forest, A Streetcar Named Desire), Tony winner (1947, 1962), cancer.
* Iris Faircloth Blitch, 81, American politician.
* 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.

### 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 sport shooter and Olympic medalist.

### 21

* Louis Cools-Lartigue, 88, Dominican politician.
* Paula Deubel, 58, American shot putter and Olympian.
* Ichirō Fujiyama, 82, Japanese singer and composer.
* Kasdi Merbah, 55, Algerian politician, murdered.
* 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.
* 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.
* Charles Scorsese, 80, American actor (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Color of Money).

### 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.
* D. B. Deodhar, 101, Indian cricket player.
* 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.
* 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.

### 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.
* 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.
* 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 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.
* 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.

### 30

* Ian Folley, 30, English cricket player, heart attack.
* Richard Jordan, 56, American actor (Logan's Run, Dune, The Hunt for Red October), 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.