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

## February 1993
### 1

* Michael Blundell, 85, Kenyan farmer and politician.
* José Bravo, 76, Spanish football player.
* Mehrab Shahrokhi, 48, Iranian football player.
* Gregg G. Tallas, 84, Greek film director and film editor.
* Sven Thofelt, 88, Swedish Olympic pentathlete (1928, 1936, 1948) and fencer.
* Harold Edward Winch, 85, Canadian politician.

### 2

* Gino Bechi, 79, Italian operatic baritone.
* Bernard Braden, 76, Canadian-British actor and comedian, stroke.
* Emilio Bulgarelli, 75, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948).
* Clemente Fracassi, 75, Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.
* Michael Klein, 33, Romanian football player, heart attack.
* Lenny Levy, 79, American baseball player, coach and scout.
* Reid Miles, 65, American graphic designer and photographer.
* Harry Nilsson, 77, Swedish football defender.
* Bernard Peters, 82-83, Polish-German nuclear physicist.
* François Reichenbach, 71, French film director, producer and screenwriter.
* Alexander Schneider, 84, Lithuanian-American violinist, heart failure.

### 3

* Viktor Ajbek, 72, Croatian footballer.
* Françoys Bernier, 65, Canadian musician.
* Rosetta Calavetta, 78, Italian actress and voice dubber.
* Omar Cañas, 23, Colombian footballer, shot.
* Gianni Colombo, 56, Italian artist.
* Paul Emery, 76, English racing driver.
* Edith Elizabeth Farkas, 71, Hungarian-New Zealand antarctic researcher and meteorologist, bone cancer.
* Karel Goeyvaerts, 69, Belgian composer.
* Éliane de Meuse, 93, Belgian painter.
* Tan Shaowen, 63, Chinese politician, lung cancer.

### 4

* Eldon Jenne, 93, American track and field athlete.
* Daulat Singh Kothari, 86, Indian scientist and educationist.
* Joaquín Oliva, 66, Spanish football player.
* Connie Saylor, 52, American NASCAR racecar driver, cancer.

### 5

* T. W. Alley, 50, American football player and coach, heart attack.
* Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, 94, British businessman and media executive.
* William Pène du Bois, 76, American writer and book illustrator, stroke.
* Seán Flanagan, 71, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* Baharul Islam, 74, Indian politician, MP (1962–1972, 1983–1989).
* Hans Jonas, 89, German-American philosopher.
* Adnan Kahveci, 43, Turkish politician, traffic collision.
* Roxanne Kernohan, 32, Canadian actress, traffic collision.
* Marcel Léger, 62, Canadian politician, MNA (1970–1985).
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, American film director and screenwriter (All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives), heart attack.
* Tip Tipping, 34, English stuntman (Batman, Willow) and actor (Aliens), parachuting accident.
* Jack Young, 80, English cricketer.
* Huang Zhizhen, 72, Chinese politician.

### 6

* Arthur Ashe, 49, American tennis player, AIDS.
* George Bellew, 93, British officer of arms.
* Ruggero Biancani, 78, Italian athlete and Olympian.
* Mohammad Natsir, 84, Indonesian islamic scholar and prime minister.
* Ion Negoițescu, 71, Romanian writer and historian.

### 7

* Shovkat Alakbarova, 70, Azerbaijani singer.
* Frank Balistrieri, 74, American mobster belonging to the Milwaukee crime family.
* Duilio Brignetti, 66, Italian Olympic pentathlete (1948, 1952).
* William Hayman, 89, English Anglican prelate, Archdeacon of Lewisham (1960–1972).
* Erling Dekke Næss, 91, Norwegian shipowner and businessman.
* Buddy Pepper, 70, American pianist and songwriter.
* Mohsen Sarhan, 79, Egyptian actor.

### 8

* Teddy Glover, 90, English-American football player.
* Oto Grigalka, 67, Latvian track and field athlete and Olympian.
* William Ewing Hester, 80, American tennis player and official.
* Douglas Heyes, 73, American screenwriter, heart attack.
* Eliot Janeway, 80, American economist.
* Anthony Kramreither, 66, Australian-Canadian film producer.
* Charles R. Lord, 61, American intelligence official, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (1986–1988).
* Roland Mousnier, 85, French historian.
* Franz Schnyder, 82, Swiss film director.
* Nagalingam Shanmugathasan, 72, Sri Lankan trade unionist.
* Bram van der Stok, 77, Dutch fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.

### 9

* Marian Filc, 44, Slovakian Olympic figure skater (1968), heart attack.
* Bill Grundy, 69, English journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
* Saburo Okita, 78, Japanese politician and economist.
* Elwood Richard Quesada, 88, American lieutenant general and businessman.
* Mingun Sayadaw, 81, Burmese theravada Buddhist monk.
* Kate Wilkinson, 76, American actress, bone cancer.

### 10

* Elmer Barbour, 74, American gridiron football player.
* James C. H. Bonbright, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
* Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, 78, French politician, prime minister (1957).
* William E. Cleator, Sr., 65, American politician, cancer.
* Bengt Edlén, 86, Swedish astronomer and academic.
* Fred Hollows, 63, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist, renal cancer.
* Gaya Prasad Katiyar, 92, Indian revolutionary.
* Mickey Murtagh, 88, American football player.
* Rip Repulski, 64, American baseball player.

### 11

* Kamal Amrohi, 75, Indian film director and screenwriter.
* Charles Eric Dawson, 70, Canadian ichthyologist.
* Joy Garrett, 47, American actress, liver failure.
* Robert W. Holley, 71, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1968), lung cancer.
* Brian Inglis, 76, Irish journalist, historian and television presenter.
* Oksana Kostina, 20, Russian rhythmic gymnast, traffic collision.
* Desanka Maksimović, 94, Serbian poet and writer.
* Félix Ruiz, 52, Spanish footballer.
* Newton Steers, 76, American politician.

### 12

* Joe Booher, 51, American racing driver, racing accident.
* James Bulger, 2, English murder victim.
* Mark W. Ellingson, 88, American academic, president of the Rochester Institute of Technology (1936–1969).
* Thelma G. Thurstone, 95, American psychologist and psychological testing pioneer.

### 13

* Araxie Babayan, 86, Soviet and Armenian organic chemist.
* G. H. Diggle, 90, English chess player.
* Henry Duey, 84, American weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* Willoughby Gray, 76, English actor of stage and screen, cancer.

### 14

* Elek Bacsik, 66, Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist.
* Eleazar Lipsky, 81, American lawyer, writer and playwright, leukemia.
* Eric Lionel Mascall, 87, English Anglican priest and theologian.
* Pedro Cortina y Mauri, 84, Spanish politician and diplomat.
* Veljko Milanković, 38, Bosnian Serb military commander, killed in battle.
* Terry Reardon, 73, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Lester Wilson, 50, American dancer, choreographer, and actor, heart attack.

### 15

* Kay Eakin, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Cary Gilbert, 50, American lyricist ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), diabetes.
* Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen, 64, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
* George Wallington, 68, American jazz pianist.

### 16

* Leland D. Crawford, 63, United States Marine officer.
* Amos Guttman, 38, Israeli film director (Amazing Grace, Drifting), AIDS-related complications.
* Peter Molloy, 83, English football player, manager and referee.
* Richard S. Salant, 78, American news executive.

### 17

* Hans Baur, 95, German flying ace.
* Eşref Bitlis, 59-60, Turkish general, plane crash.
* Jack Froggatt, 70, English football player.
* Rani Gaidinlu, 78, Indian revolutionary.
* Kostas Karagiannis, 60-61, Greek film director.
* Sammy Lowe, 74, American trumpeter.
* Leslie Townsend, 89, English cricketer.

### 18

* Marshall Carter, 83, American Army Lieutenant general.
* Ted Haworth, 75, American production designer (Sayonara, Some Like It Hot, The Longest Day), Oscar winner (1958), cardiovascular disease.
* Jacqueline Hill, 63, English actress (Doctor Who), breast cancer.
* Rita La Roy, 91, American actress and dancer, pneumonia.
* Allen Montgomery Lewis, 83, Saint Lucian barrister and public servant.
* Leslie Norman, 81, English film director.
* Kerry Von Erich, 33, American professional wrestler (WCCW), suicide by gunshot.

### 19

* Judith Chaplin, 53, British politician, pulmonary embolism.
* Alexander Davydov, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist.
* Bernard T. Feld, 73, American nuclear physicist and academic.
* Gerhard Gesell, 82, American judge.
* Mohamed Hamzah, 74, Malaysian vexillographer, architect and field marshal.
* Česlovas Kudaba, 58, Lithuanian politician and geographer.
* Yusif Mirzayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Yaman Okay, 42, Turkish actor, pancreatic cancer.

### 20

* Mario Abreu, 73, Venezuelan artist.
* Howard Mayer Brown, 62, American musicologist.
* Marian Bublewicz, 42, Polish racing driver, racing collision.
* Ferruccio Lamborghini, 76, Italian automobile manufacturer (Lamborghini), heart attack.

### 21

* Irma Christenson, 78, Swedish actress.
* Alison Fairlie, 75, English scholar.
* Harvey Kurtzman, 68, American cartoonist (Mad, Playboy), liver cancer.
* Inge Lehmann, 104, Danish seismologist and geophysicist.
* Eddy Tiel, 66, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Dick White, 86, British intelligence officer.

### 22

* Pierre Dalem, 80, Belgian football player.
* Jean Lecanuet, 72, French politician, cancer.
* Bill Lickiss, 68, Australian politician.
* Hugo Schrader, 90, German television and film actor.
* B. D. Sharma, 75, Indian politician.
* Sirio Vernati, 85, Swiss football player.
* Feng Zhi, 87, Chinese writer and translator.

### 23

* Helmut Braselmann, 81, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
* Walter Fyrst, 91, Norwegian filmmaker.
* Mario Pani, 81, Mexican architect and urbanist.
* Carl Sautter, 44, American film and television writer (Moonlighting, Lucky Luke, Jetsons: The Movie).
* Phillip Terry, 83, American actor, stroke.
* Robert Triffin, 81, Belgian economist.

### 24

* Cyril Done, 72, English football player.
* Danny Gallivan, 75, Canadian sportscaster, heart failure.
* Bobby Moore, 51, English football player and world champion (1966), colorectal cancer.
* Chaim L. Pekeris, 84, Israeli-American physicist and mathematician.
* Roger Rochard, 79, French long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Denis Vaucher, 95, Swiss cross country skier and Olympian.

### 25

* Hashem Amoli, 93, Iranian scholar and ayatollah.
* Toy Caldwell, 45, American guitarist (The Marshall Tucker Band), heart attack.
* Eddie Constantine, 75, American-French actor and singer, heart attack.
* Dave Cook, 51, British communist activist, complications following traffic accident.
* Sonja Mjøen, 94, Norwegian actress, journalist and author.
* Mary Walter, 80, Filipino actress.
* Eren Özker, 44, Turkish-American puppeteer, cancer.

### 26

* John Besford, 82, English swimmer and Olympian.
* Constance Ford, 69, American actress (Another World, A Summer Place), cancer.
* Fletcher Knebel, 81, American author, suicide by drug overdose.
* Beaumont Newhall, 84, American art historian.
* Giulio Oggioni, 76, Italian Catholic prelate.
* Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 87, Austrian film director, writer, and author.
* Carl Solomon, 64, American writer.

### 27

* Pina Carmirelli, 79, Italian violinist.
* José Álvarez de Bohórquez, 97, Spanish equestrian and Olympic champion.
* Lillian Gish, 99, American actress (The Birth of a Nation, Duel in the Sun, The Whales of August), heart failure.
* Ambrose A. Holowach, 78, Canadian businessman and politician.
* Steve Levantis, 76, Canadian football player.
* Walker Smith, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Marģeris Zariņš, 82, Latvian composer.
* Zhao Zengyi, 72-73, Chinese politician.

### 28

* Franco Brusati, 70, Italian film director (To Forget Venice).
* Joyce Carey, 94, English actress.
* Ishirō Honda, 81, Japanese film director (Godzilla), respiratory failure.
* Toshiaki Inoue, 42, Japanese triple jumper, accident.
* Ruby Keeler, 83, American actress and dancer, kidney cancer.
* Ilkka Koski, 64, Finnish heavyweight boxer.