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

## April 1993
### 1

* Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, 79, Spanish royal, laryngeal cancer.
* Kristian Bjørn, 73, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.
* Andrée Brunin, 56, French author.
* Howard Scott Gentry, 89, American botanist.
* Kevin Gilbert, 59, Aboriginal Australian writer, activist, and visual artist.
* Jerry Hausner, 83, American radio and television actor.
* Alan Kulwicki, 38, American racing driver, plane crash.
* Fred Schwengel, 86, American politician.
* Czesław Suszczyk, 71, Polish football player.
* Nicanor Zabaleta Zala, 86, Spanish harpist.
* Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, 88, British public servant and zoologist, thrombosis.

### 2

* Edward Edinborough Chamberlain, 86, New Zealand plant pathologist.
* Hugh Fernando, 76, Sri Lankan politician.
* Thales Monteiro, 68, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian.
* Masaichi Niimi, 106, Japanese naval admiral during World War II.
* Alexander Bell Patterson, 81, Canadian politician, MP (1953–1958, 1962–1968, 1972–1984).
* Asoka Ponnamperuma, 56, Sri Lankan actor, singer, and scriptwriter.
* Donald W. Reynolds, 86, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Sarban, 62, Afghan singer.
* Frank Sharp, 87, American land developer and stock fraudster.
* Ernst von Bodelschwingh, 86, German politician and member of the Bundestag.

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* Red Allen, 63, American bluegrass singer and guitarist.
* Lydia Auster, 80, Estonian composer.
* Eduardo Caballero Calderón, 83, Colombian writer.
* Eugene Church, 55, American R&B singer and songwriter, cancer.
* Sali Herman, 95, Swiss-Australian artist.
* Pinky Lee, 85, American comedian and children's entertainer.
* Eugenie Leontovich, 93-100, Russian-American actress (The Rains of Ranchipur, Homicidal, Naked City), cardiac arrest and pneumonia.
* Alexandre Mnouchkine, 85, Russian-French film producer.
* Leopoldo Nachbin, 71, Brazilian mathematician.
* Lazkao Txiki, 66, Basque bertsolari poet and musician.

### 4

* Alfred Mosher Butts, 93, American architect, inventor of Scrabble.
* Edera Cordiale, 73, Italian Olympic discus thrower (1948).
* Pierre de Cossé-Brissac, 93, French memoirist.
* Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy, 82, British Royal Air Force marshal.
* Terje Rollem, 77, Norwegian resistance officer during World War II.
* Albert Fahmy Tadros, 78, Egyptian basketball player and Olympian.

### 5

* Harbans Bhalla, 62, Indian poet.
* Divya Bharti, 19, Indian actress (Deewana, Shola Aur Shabnam, Vishwatma), fall.
* Joe Coscarart, 83, American baseball player.
* Vernon McCain, 84, American football and basketball coach.

### 6

* Selma Andersson, 98, Swedish Olympic diver (1912, 1920).
* Viktor Avbelj, 79, Slovenian politician.
* Charles Burkill, 93, English mathematician.
* Peter DeFeo, 91, American mobster belonging to the Genovese crime family.
* Cecil B. Lyon, 89, American diplomat.
* Frans Slaats, 80, Dutch cyclist.
* Inge von Wangenheim, 80, German actress and author.
* Chen Zaidao, 84, Chinese general.

### 7

* Edward Adamczyk, 71, Polish athlete and Olympian.
* Tonny Ahm, 78, Danish badminton champion.
* Bob Alexander, 70, Canadian baseball player.
* Gerardo Chiaromonte, 68, Italian communist politician, journalist, and writer.
* Max Croiset, 80, Dutch actor (The Village on the River).
* Billy Griffith, 78, English cricketer.
* Heinz Hoppe, 69, German lyric tenor in opera, lied and operetta.
* Gladys Lehman, 101, American screenwriter, pneumonia.
* Vincent Perera, 74, Sri Lankan statesman.
* Terry Price, 47, Welsh rugby player, traffic collision.
* Hugh E. Rodham, 82, American businessman and father of politician Hillary Clinton, stroke.
* Arleen Whelan, 76, American actress (The Doughgirls), stroke.

### 8

* Marian Anderson, 96, American singer, congestive heart failure.
* Stole Aranđelović, 62, Serbian actor.
* Álida España, 68, Guatemalan activist and politician.
* Billy Gayles, 61, American drummer and singer, cancer.
* Bobby Mitchell, 68, Scottish football player.
* Aleksei Saltykov, 58, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
* Dave Shannon, 70, Australian bomber pilot during World War II.

### 9

* Morteza Avini, 45, Iranian documentary filmmaker and author, landmine explosion.
* Robert B. Claytor, 71, American railroad administrator, cancer.
* Les Cunningham, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, 39, Brazilian Roman Catholic nun, stabbed.
* Joseph B. Soloveitchik, 90, American Orthodox rabbi and philosopher.
* Jess Yates, 74, English television presenter (Stars on Sunday), stroke.

### 10

* Donald Broadbent, 66, English psychologist.
* Chris Hani, 50, South African politician, assassinated.
* Maxim Lieber, 95, American literary agent.
* Leo Metzenbauer, 83, Austrian art director.

### 11

* Wacław Dworzecki, 82, Soviet film and theater actor.
* George Albert Hammes, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Superior (1960–1985).
* Rahmon Nabiyev, 62, Tajik politician, president (1991, 1991–1992), infarction.
* C. William Johnson, 76, American skeleton racer and Olympian.
* Malcolm Wiseman, 79, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1936).

### 12

* Hussein Kulmiye Afrah, 73, Somalian politician and Vice President.
* Liz Andrew, 45, Australian politician, MLA (1974–1977), cancer.
* Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, 43, Mexican drug lord, shot.
* George Frederick Ives, 111, Canadian supercentenarian.

### 13

* Grigori Abrikosov, 60, Soviet theatre and film actor.
* Andronik Iosifyan, 87, Soviet aerospace engineers.
* Isaac Francisco del Ángel Rojas, 86, Argentine naval admiral and politician, vice president (1955–1958).
* Henning Schwarz, 64, German politician, leukemia.
* Wallace Stegner, 84, American novelist (Angle of Repose, The Spectator Bird, The Big Rock Candy Mountain), traffic collision.
* Ernesto Montagne Sánchez, 76, Peruvian politician.
* Rudolf Wetzer, 92, Romanian football player and manager.

### 14

* John Golland, 50, English composer.
* Reuben Hecht, 83, Israeli industrialist.
* Jim McDonnell, 70, American baseball player.
* Roba Negousse, 56, Ethiopian sprinter and Olympian.

### 15

* Harry Alexander, 87, Australian cricketer.
* William Bakewell, 84, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Dance, Fools, Dance, Gold Diggers of Broadway), leukemia.
* Uwe Beyer, 48, West German hammer thrower.
* Leslie Charteris, 85, English author (The Saint).
* Lucette Descaves, 87, French pianist and teacher.
* Alberto Giolitti, 69, Italian-American comic book artist.
* Georges Guillez, 83, French Olympic sprinter (1936).
* Herbert Dudley Purves, 84, New Zealand chemist, mathematician, and scientist.
* Eduard Rhein, 92, German writer.
* Robert Westall, 63, English author and teacher.
* John Tuzo Wilson, 84, Canadian geophysicist.
* Rafael Ávalos, 66, Mexican football player.

### 16

* Josef Greindl, 80, German opera singer.
* Ruby Hammond, 57, Australian indigenous rights campaigner.
* Aleksandr Kondratov, 55, Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet.
* Sutan Mohammad Amin Nasution, 89, Indonesian writer and politician.
* Malik Ram, 86, Indian poet and scholar.

### 17

* Joachim Karliczek, 78, Polish Olympic swimmer (1936).
* Nikolai Kryukov, 77, Soviet film and theater actor.
* Mario Maccaferri, 92, Italian luthier, classical guitarist, and inventor.
* Shahen Meghrian, 41, Armenian military commander and political activist, killed in action.
* Turgut Özal, 65, Turkish politician, president (since 1989), prime minister (1983–1989), heart attack.

### 18

* Isgender Aznaurov, 36, Azerbaijani military officer, killed in action.
* Elisabeth Frink, 62, English sculptor, cancer.
* Masahiko Kimura, 75, Japanese judoka, lung cancer.
* Reynold Higgins, 76, British lassical Archaeologist.
* Walter Lohmann, 81, German cyclist.
* Werner Pochath, 53, Austrian film actor, AIDS-related complications.
* Bernie Wayne, 74, American composer, heart failure.

### 19

* Steve Douglas, 54, American saxophonist (The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Dion DiMucci), heart failure.
* Blas Galindo, 83, Mexican composer (Sones de Mariachi).
* Tom Jamieson, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
* David Koresh, 33, American cult leader (Branch Davidians), gunshot wound.
* George S. Mickelson, 52, American politician, governor of South Dakota (since 1987), plane crash.
* Barbara Stoler Miller, 52, American Indologist, cancer.
* Clifford Scott, 64, American saxophonist and flautist.
* Joseph A. Sellinger, 72, American Catholic priest and Jesuit, pancreatic cancer.

### 20

* Leonas Baltrūnas, 78, Lithuanian basketball player and coach.
* Antonio Bello, 58, Italian Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.
* Cantinflas, 81, Mexican actor (Around the World in 80 Days, El bolero de Raquel, Pepe), lung cancer.
* Evelyne Hall, 83, American hurdler and Olympic medalist.
* Frank Stubbs, 83, American Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
* Khairallah Talfah, 82, Iraqi Ba'ath Party official and father-in-law of Saddam Hussein.

### 21

* Galeazzo Benti, 69, Italian actor, heart attack.
* Paul G. Gassman, 57, American chemist, aortic dissection.
* Robert Dale Henderson, 48, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.
* Rowland Hilder, 88, English painter and book illustrator.
* William Curry Holden, 96, American historian and archaeologist.
* Lincoln Hurring, 61, Swimmer from New Zealand, heart attack.
* Hal Schumacher, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants), stomach cancer.
* Raymond Smillie, 89, Canadian boxer.

### 22

* Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, 91, Venezuelan politician, president of the Senate (1962–1967).
* Mark Koenig, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, New York Giants), cancer.
* Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, 31, Nepalese mountain climber, climbing accident.
* Andries Treurnicht, 72, South African politician, complications during heart surgery.

### 23

* Bertus Aafjes, 78, Dutch poet, cancer.
* Lalith Athulathmudali, 56, Sri Lankan politician, MP (1977–1991), assassinated.
* Robert Bürchler, 77, Swiss sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
* Guido Carli, 79, Italian banker, economist and politician.
* Cesar Chavez, 66, American labor leader and civil rights activist.
* Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, 91, Russian-American Chabad leader.
* Daniel Jones, 80, Welsh composer.
* Séra Martin, 86, French middle-distance runner and Olympian.
* DJ Subroc, 19, American hip-hop artist, traffic accident.

### 24

* Gustl Bayrhammer, 71, German actor, heart attack.
* Richard Donchian, 87, American commodities and futures trader.
* Everett F. Drumright, 86, American diplomat.
* Ian Jacob, 93, British Army officer.
* Ethel Magafan, 76, American painter.
* Pierre Naville, 89, French surrealist writer and sociologist.
* Oliver Reginald Tambo, 75, South African politician, complications from a stroke.
* Tran Duc Thao, 75, Vietnamese philosopher.

### 25

* Geraldo Del Rey, 62, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
* Georges Favre, 87, French composer.
* Ferenc Klics, 69, Hungarian athlete and Olympian.
* S. M. Koya, 70, Fijian politician and statesman.
* Rosita Moreno, 86, Spanish actress (Walls of Gold, Ladies Should Listen, The Scoundrel).
* Henri René, 86, American musician.

### 26

* Bob Broadbent, 68, English cricketer (Worcestershire).
* Floyd Chalmers, 94, Canadian editor, publisher and philanthropist.
* Desmond Crawley, 75, British diplomat.
* Darussalam, 72, Indonesian actor.
* Roger Miller, 38, American baseball player, acetylene tank explosion.

### 27

* France Bezlaj, 82, Slovenian linguist.
* Hans Sahl, 90, German writer.
* Ilie Oană, 74, Romanian football player and manager.
* Victims of the 1993 Zambia national football team plane crash:
** Patrick Banda, 19, Zambian footballer.
** David Chabala, 33, Zambian footballer.
** Whiteson Changwe, 28, Zambian footballer.
** Wisdom Mumba Chansa, 29, Zambian footballer.
** Moses Chikwalakwala, 23, Zambian footballer.
** Godfrey Chitalu, 45, Zambian footballer and coach.
** Alex Chola, 36, Zambian footballer and coach.
** Samuel Chomba, 29, Zambian footballer.
** Godfrey Kangwa, Zambian footballer.
** Derby Makinka, 27, Zambian footballer.
** Moses Masuwa, 21, Zambian footballer.
** Eston Mulenga, 31, Zambian footballer.
** Winter Mumba, Zambian footballer.
** Kelvin Mutale, 23, Zambian footballer.
** Richard Mwanza, 33, Zambian footballer.
** Numba Mwila, 21, Zambian footballer.
** Timothy Mwitwa, 24, Zambian footballer.
** Kenan Simambe, 18, Zambian footballer.
** John Soko, 24, Zambian footballer.
** Robert Watiyakeni, 23, Zambian footballer.

### 28

* Jack Bighead, 63, American football player.
* Diva Diniz Corrêa, 74, Brazilian marine zoologist.
* Harold Darragh, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Momčilo Gavrić, 86, Serbian soldier, youngest participant of World War I.
* Valentina Grizodubova, 84, Soviet aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Chon Sang-pyong, 63, South Korean writer.
* Ben Schwartzwalder, 83, American football player and coach.
* Jim Valvano, 47, American college basketball player (Rutgers) and coach (NC State, Iona), adenocarcinoma.

### 29

* Kenneth Caskey, 89, American athlete and Olympian.
* Michael Gordon, 83, American film director (Pillow Talk, Cyrano de Bergerac).
* Wilhelm Hanle, 92, German experimental physicist.
* Cy Howard, 77, American screenwriter (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour).
* Fernand Prudhomme, 76, French basketball player and Olympian.
* Mick Ronson, 46, English guitarist (The Spiders from Mars), liver cancer.
* Robert Bertram Serjeant, 78, British scholar, traveller, and Arabists.
* Leona E. Tyler, 86, American psychologist.

### 30

* Tommy Caton, 30, English footballer, heart attack.
* Mario Evaristo, 84, Argentine football player.
* Waruhiu Itote, 71, Kenyan rebel leader during the Mau Mau rebellion, stroke.
* Kurt Kuhlmey, 79, German general during World War II.
* Árpád Lengyel, 78, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist.
* Eric Rowan, 83, South African cricket player.
* Dave Waymer, 34, American football player (New Orleans Saints), heart attack.
* Daphne Young, 77, English badminton player.
* Frija Zoaretz, 85, Israeli politician.