# Deaths in October 1993
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

## October 1993
### 1

* Fran Bošnjaković, 91, Croatian engineer and thermodynamicist.
* Janine Darcey, 76, French film actress.
* Raymond Bryan Dillard, 49, American theologian and biblical scholar, heart attack.
* Božo Janković, 42, Yugoslav football player.
* Sigurð Joensen, 82, Faroese lawyer, author, and politician.
* Polly Klaas, 12, American murder victim, strangulation.
* M. Vera Peters, 82, Canadian oncologist, breast cancer.
* Hermann Otto Sleumer, 87, Dutch botanist.
* Segundo Castillo Varela, 80, Peruvian football player.
* Giuseppe Vari, 69, Italian film director, editor and screenwriter.

### 2

* Ahmed Abdul-Malik, 66, American jazz double bassist and oud player.
* William Berger, 65, Austrian-American actor, cancer.
* Henry Ringling North, 83, American businessman and circus owner.
* Amin Tarif, 95, Israeli Druze religious leader.

### 3

* Katerina Gogou, 53, Greek poet, author and actress, suicide.
* Gary Gordon, 33, American Army master sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor, killed in action.
* Mihály Korom, 65, Hungarian politician and jurist.
* Patricia Lake, 74, American actress, radio comedian , and socialite.
* Rory Peck, 36, Northern-Irish freelance war cameraman, shot.
* Randy Shughart, 35, American Army Delta Force soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor, killed in action.

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* John Cawas, 83, Indian actor and stuntman.
* Varetta Dillard, 60, American rhythm and blues singer.
* Jim Holton, 42, Scottish football player, heart attack.
* William Henry Scott, 72, American teacher and historian.
* Lorie Tarshis, 82, Canadian economist.

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* Francesco Carpino, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop.
* Willard A. Hanna, 82, American writer.
* Karl Gordon Henize, 66, American astronomer and astronaut, heart attack
* Radhu Karmakar, 74, Indian cinematographer and film director.
* Jane Nigh, 68, American actress, stroke.
* Dumitru Stăniloae, 89, Romanian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian.

### 6

* Sergei Babkov, 72, Soviet and Russian painter.
* Albert Bigelow, 87, American writer and pacifist.
* Ray Broussard, 56, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey .
* Stillman Drake, 82, Canadian historian and academic.
* Nejat Eczacıbaşı, 80, Turkish industrialist and philanthropist
* Victor Razafimahatratra, 72, Malagasy Roman Catholic cardinal.

### 7

* Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, 87, British journalist and scientific writer.
* Cyril Cusack, 82, Irish actor (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Harold and Maude, My Left Foot), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Agnes de Mille, 88, American dancer and choreographer, stroke.
* Kenneth Nelson, 63, American actor (The Boys in the Band, Hellraiser, Seventeen).

### 8

* Gu Cheng, 37, Chinese poet, essayist and novelist, suicide.
* Pete Cooper, 78, American golfer.
* Santiago Navarro, 56, Spanish basketball player.
* Manke Nelis, 73, Dutch levenslied singer.
* Alfred Toepfer, 99, German entrepreneur.

### 9

* Bernard J. Ganter, 65, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Harry Jagielski, 61, American gridiron football player.
* Sachiko Murase, 88, Japanese actress.
* Göta Pettersson, 66, Swedish gymnast and Olympian.
* C. R. Rangachari, 77, Indian cricket player.

### 10

* John Bindon, 50, English actor and bodyguard, cancer.
* Catherine Collard, 46, French classical pianist, cancer.
* Jim Howden, 59, Australian rower and Olympian, cancer.
* Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, 90, British academic.

### 11

* Joe Barzda, 78, American racing driver.
* Nani Bhattacharya, 75, Indian trade union activist and politician.
* Alexandra Hay, 46, American actress.
* Yvar Mikhashoff, 52, American pianist and composer, AIDS-related complications.
* Andy Stewart, 59, Scottish musician, heart attack.
* Jess Thomas, 66, American operatic tenor.
* Lee Walls, 60, American baseball player.

### 12

* Leon Ames, 91, American actor (Meet Me in St. Louis, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Mister Ed), stroke.
* Mircea David, 78, Romanian football player.
* Lawrence R. Hafstad, 89, American electrical engineer and physicist.
* Ruth Gilbert, 81, American actress, brain cancer.
* Patrick Holt, 81, English actor.
* Myrtle Lind, 95, American film actress.
* V. Subbiah, 82, Indian communist politician.
* Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah, 72, Indian politician.

### 13

* Tekin Arıburun, 88, Turkish soldier and statesman.
* Espectro I, 54, Mexican luchador known as "El Espectro I" ("The Ghost").
* Wade Flemons, 53, American soul singer, cancer.
* Otmar Gutmann, 56, German filmmaker, cancer.
* John G. Jackson, 86, American lecturer, teacher and writer.
* Gwen Welles, 42, American actress, cancer.

### 14

* Joseph S. Ammerman, 69, American politician.
* Nikolay Baskakov, 75, Soviet and Russian painter.
* Bertie Clarke, 75, Barbadian cricket player.
* Harald Hennum, 65, Norwegian football player.
* Hirohide Ishida, 78, Japanese politician.
* Walter Newman, 77, American radio writer and screenwriter.
* Venmani S. Selvanather, 80, Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Obert C. Tanner, 89, American businessman and philanthropist.

### 15

* Clarence Lung, 78, American actor.
* Aydın Sayılı, 80, Turkish historian of science.
* Dan Turèll, 47, Danish writer, esophageal cancer.
* Satosi Watanabe, 83, Japanese theoretical physicist.

### 16

* Jimmie DeShong, 83, American baseball player.
* Flora Nwapa, 62, Nigerian author, pneumonia.
* Arnie Oliver, 86, American soccer player.
* Bonnie Poe, 81, American actress and voice artist.
* René Sylviano, 89, French composer.

### 17

* Syed Mohammad Ali, 64, Bangladeshi journalist and editor.
* Vijay Bhatt, 86, Indian film director and screenwriter.
* Helmut Gollwitzer, 84, German Lutheran theologian and author.
* Gordon Grieve, 81, New Zealand politician.
* Criss Oliva, 30, American musician, traffic collision.
* Bill Reigel, 61, American basketball player and coach.

### 18

* Bernd Baselt, 59, German musicologist.
* Maria Rosa Candido, 26, Italian short track speed skater and Olympian, traffic collision.
* Lois Kibbee, 71, American actress (The Edge of Night, Caddyshack, One Life to Live), brain cancer.
* Salvador P. Lopez, 82, Filipino writer, journalist, diplomat and statesman.

### 19

* Gidske Anderson, 71, Norwegian journalist and author.
* Pola Illéry, 83, Romanian-American actress and singer.
* John Kerr, 94, American baseball player.
* Carsta Löck, 90, German film actress.

### 20

* Aage Dons, 90, Danish author.
* Gaylord DuBois, 94, American comic book writer.
* Milan Konjović, 95, Serbian painter.
* Bob Olderman, 31, American gridiron football player.
* Yasushi Sugiyama, 84, Japanese painter.

### 21

* Wayne Belardi, 63, American baseball player.
* James Leo Herlihy, 66, American author (Midnight Cowboy) and playwright, suicide.
* Bob Hunter, 80, American sportswriter.
* Melchior Ndadaye, 40, Burundian intellectual and politician, murdered.
* Annie Thayyil, 74, Indian novelist, journalist, and biographer.
* Irv Torgoff, 76, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Sam Zolotow, 94, American theater critic, stomach cancer.

### 22

* Jiří Hájek, 80, Czech politician and diplomat.
* Innes Ireland, 63, British military officer and racing driver, cancer.
* Said Mohamed Jaffar, 75, President of Comoros (1975–1976).
* Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, 80, Venezuelan musician, composer and writer.
* Hans Walter Wolff, 81, German protestant theologian.

### 23

* Thomas Begley, 22, Northern Irish IRA Volunteer, bomb explosion.
* Ulf Björlin, 60, Swedish composer and conductor.
* Friedrich Dickel, 79, German politician.
* Wilhelm Feldberg, 92, German-British physiologist and biologist.
* Shota Lomidze, 57, Georgian wrestler and Olympian.

### 24

* Jo Grimond, 80, British politician.
* Přemysl Hajný, 67, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
* Hajibaba Huseynov, 74, Soviet and Azerbaijani poet and pedagogue.
* Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff, 85, Austrian art director.
* Heinz Kubsch, 63, German football goalkeeper.
* Tonino Nardi, 54, Italian film cinematographer.
* Elena Nicolai, 88, Bulgarian operatic mezzo-soprano.

### 25

* Danny Chan, 35, Hong Kong singer, songwriter, records producer and actor.
* Mariya Kapnist, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian actress, complications following car accident.
* Roy Hampton Park, 83, American media executive and entrepreneur.
* Vincent Price, 82, American actor (House of Wax, The Fly, Edward Scissorhands), lung cancer.

### 26

* Maurice Henry Dorman, 81, British diplomat and colonial administrator.
* František Filipovský, 86, Czechoslovak actor.
* Albert Hyzler, 76, Maltese politician and President of Malta.
* Oro, 21, Mexican professional wrestler, wrestling accident.
* Harold Rome, 85, American composer, lyricist, and musical writer.
* Mušan Topalović, 36, Bosnian gangster and warlord, killed.
* Albert Zugsmith, 83, American film producer, film director and screenwriter.

### 27

* Earl Banks, 69, American gridiron football player and coach, car accident.
* Cloyce Box, 70, American gridiron football player.
* David Lawrence McKay, 92, American Mormon leader.
* Peter Quennell, 88, English writer, biographer, and literary historian.
* Peter Tizard, 77, British paediatrician and university professor.

### 28

* Emilio Berio, 88, Italian entomologist and lawyer.
* Doris Duke, 80, American heiress, philanthropist, art collector, and socialite, edema.
* Cal Koonce, 52, American baseball player, lymphoma.
* Juri Lotman, 71, Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian.
* Bob Seeds, 86, American baseball player.

### 29

* Lipman Bers, 79, Latvian-American mathematician.
* Robert P. Dilworth, 78, American mathematician.
* Herbert Lütkebohmert, 45, German football player.
* Masahiro Makino, 85, Japanese film director.
* Stanisław Marusarz, 80, Polish Nordic skiing competitor and Olympian.
* Edie Parker, 71, American author and first wife of writer Jack Kerouac.
* Zdeněk Podskalský, 70, Czech film director and screenwriter.
* George Pope, 82, English cricket player.
* Elliot Scott, 78, English production designer (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Labyrinth, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
* František Tokár, 68, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
* Roger Turner, 92, American figure skater and Olympian.

### 30

* Donald Prentice Booth, 90, American Army general.
* Paul Grégoire, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, stomach cancer.
* Louis B. Heller, 88, American lawyer and politician.
* Peter Kemp, 78, English soldier and writer.
* Maria Matray, 86, German screenwriter and film actress.
* Margaret Vyner, 78, Australian-British model and actress.
* Ted Williams, 77, American gridiron football player.

### 31

* Bob Atcher, 79, American country musician.
* Federico Fellini, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter (8½, La Dolce Vita, La Strada), four-time Oscar winner, heart attack.
* Al Mello, 87, American Olympic and boxer.
* Lajos Papp, 49, Hungarian sport shooter and Olympian.
* River Phoenix, 23, American actor (Running on Empty, Stand by Me, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and musician, drug overdose.
* Gilman Rankin, 82, American actor (Midnight Cowboy, Tombstone Territory, Assault on Precinct 13).
* Edwin Walker, 83, American Army officer, anti-communist, and white supremacist, lung cancer.