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

## 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.
* 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.
* Dragotin Cvetko, 81, Slovenian composer and musicologist.
* Carl Anthony Fisher, 47, American Roman Catholic prelate, colorectal cancer.
* 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.
* Josep Maria de Porcioles i Colomer, 89, Spanish politician and mayor of Barcelona, heart attack.
* Don Corbitt, 69, American gridiron football player.

### 4

* Tommy Cheadle, 74, English football player.
* Baltasar Lobo, 83, Spanish artist, anarchist and sculptor.
* Johnny Rae, 59, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist.
* Hervé Villechaize, 50, French-American actor (Fantasy Island, The Man with the Golden Gun, Airplane II: The Sequel) and painter, suicide.
* Aaron Wildavsky, 63, American political scientist, lung cancer.

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* Baek Du-jin, 84, South Korean politician and Prime Minister of South Korea.
* Samim Kocagöz, 77, Turkish novelist.
* Edwin Malindine, 83, British politician.
* Virgilio Mortari, 90, Italian composer and teacher.
* 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.
* 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.

### 8

* Vincent Dethier, 78, American physiologist and entomologist.
* Peter Higgins, 64, British athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, 88, Egyptian intellectual and philosopher.
* 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 (Sophie's Choice).
* 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

* 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.

### 12

* Raymond Burr, 76, Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Rear Window, Ironside), Emmy winner (1959, 1961), 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 (Henry V, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Buster).
* Edith Kiel, 89, German film producer, screenwriter, and director.
* Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, 93, Belgian jurist and politician.

### 13

* Austregésilo de Athayde, 94, Brazilian writer and journalist.
* 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.
* 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.
* Glenn E. Smiley, 83, American clergyman and civil rights leader.
* Peter Tranchell, 71, British composer.
* Solange Térac, 86, French screenwriter and film director.

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* 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 gymnast and Olympian.
* Maurice Yaméogo, 71, President of Republic of Upper Volta (1959-1966).

### 16

* 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.
* 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.

### 17

* Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, 93, Canadian classical scholar and Latin prosopographer.
* 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 (The Thing from Another World).
* 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.
* Mufti Muhammad Waqaruddin, 78, Pakistani Islamic scholar.

### 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 sports shooter and Olympian.
* 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.

### 21

* Joe Daher, 80, American college basketball and football coach.
* 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, American classical music conductor.
* Emilio Botín, 90, Spanish banker.
* Niklaus Meienberg, 53, Swiss writer and investigative journalist, suicide.
* Mihai Tänzer, 88, Romanian football player.

### 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.

### 24

* Ian Stuart Donaldson, 36, English neo-Nazi musician and frontman of punk rock band Skrewdriver, car crash.
* Zita Johann, 89, Austrian-American actress.
* Bruno Pontecorvo, 80, Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, Parkinson's disease.
* Tamara Talbot Rice, 89, Russian-English art historian.

### 25

* Willy Fitz, 75, Austrian football player and coach.
* Francis Raymond Fosberg, 85, American botanist.
* John Moores, 97, English businessman, politician and philanthropist.
* Manlio Scopigno, 67, Italian football player and coach, heart attack.

### 26

* Nina Berberova, 92, Russian writer, fall.
* Frank Dunlap, 69, Canadian football player.
* Semyon Pavlovich Ivanov, 86, Soviet general and Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Edith Meiser, 95, American author and actress.
* John Pennel, 53, American pole vaulter, Olympian, and world record holder, cancer.

### 27

* Paolo Caldarella, 29, Italian water polo player, motorcycle accident.
* 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.
* 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.

### 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.
* 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 cyclist.
* Dick Harris, 81, Australian rules football player and coach.
* Alex Lyon, 61, British politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Carlo Vinci, 87, American animator.