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

## January 1993
### 1

* Ross Bass, 74, American florist and politician.
* June Clayworth, 87, American actress.
* Shalom Cohen, 66, Israeli politician.
* Phyllis Hill, 72, American dancer and actress, lung cancer.
* Raymond Jack Last, 89, Australian surgeon and anatomist.
* Laurence Marks, 77, American television writer (Hogan's Heroes, M*A*S*H, The New Phil Silvers Show).
* George R. Mather, 81, United States Army general.
* Jean Mayer, 72, French-American scientist.
* Cathie Marsh, 41, British sociologist and statistician, breast cancer.
* Totò Mignone, 86, Italian dancer and actor.

### 2

* Alfred T. Airth, 86, American politician.
* Sean Devereux, 28, British Salesian missionary and aid worker, murdered.
* Vladimir Makogonov, 88, Soviet-Azerbaijan chess player.
* Rudi Supek, 79, Croatian sociologist and philosopher.
* Valerie Wellington, 33, American opera and blues singer, intracranial aneurysm.
* Gerald T. Whelan, 67, American politician.

### 3

* Leah Feldman, 93, Odessa-born anarchist garment worker.
* Johnny Most, 69, American sportscaster, heart attack.
* Simone Vaudry, 86, French film actress.
* Will Walls, 80, American football player and coach.

### 4

* Danie Craven, 82, South African rugby player and coach.
* J. J. Griffin Jr., 79, American politician.
* Leonard Kibrick, 68, American child actor, cancer.
* Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, 79, American geographer.
* Navalpakkam Parthasarthy, 92, Indian geneticist and United Nations official.
* Harold Page Smith, 88, American naval admiral.
* Ernest Leo Unterkoefler, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Charleston (1964–1990).

### 5

* Juan Benet, 65, Spanish novelist, brain cancer.
* Yuri Bezmenov, 53, Soviet-Canadian defected KGB agent and journalist, heart attack.
* Helmut Bischoff, 84, German Nazi official and SS officer.
* George Roseborough Collins, 75, American art historian, Alzheimer's disease.
* Westley Allan Dodd, 31, American convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.
* Nicholas Mayall, 86, American astronomer, diabetes.
* Eliseo Morales, 94, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).
* Sisworo Gautama Putra, 54, Indonesian film director.
* Maynard Street, 94, American football and basketball coach.

### 6

* Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, 70, Austrian royal.
* Ștefan Baciu, 74, Romanian-Brazilian poet, novelist, publicist and academic.
* Tad Danielewski, 71, Polish-American film director, cancer.
* Dizzy Gillespie, 75, American jazz trumpeter, pancreatic cancer.
* Richard Mortensen, 82, Danish painter.
* Rudolf Nureyev, 54, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, AIDS.

### 7

* John Cowley, 87, English army officer.
* Toshihiko Izutsu, 78, Japanese religious scholar.
* Susi Jeans, 81, Austrian-British organist, teacher and musicologist.
* Fred Kohler, Jr., 81, American actor.

### 8

* Hans Bertram, 86, German aviator, screenwriter and film director.
* Theo Bruins, 63, Dutch pianist.
* Asif Nawaz, 56, Pakistani general, heart attack.
* George Rudé, 82, British marxist historian.
* Leonard A. Scheele, 85, American physician, surgeon general (1948–1956).
* Herbert Trantow, 89, German film score composer.
* Hakija Turajlić, 56-57, Bosnian politician and deputy prime minister (since 1992), killed in action.

### 9

* Bruce Campbell, 80, English ornithologist.
* Anton Crihan, 99, Moldovan politician, author, economist, and journalist, cancer.
* Paul Hasluck, 87, Australian politician, governor-general (1969–1974), MP (1949–1969), prostate cancer.
* Keith Mwila, 43, Zambian boxer and Olympic medalist.
* Viveca Serlachius, 69, Finnish-Swedish actress.
* Judit Tóth, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
* Janet Vaughan, 93, English physiologist.

### 10

* Diana Adams, 66, American ballet dancer.
* Adam Aston, 90, Polish-English singer.
* Maurice Brooks, 92, American naturalist.
* Thomas B. Curtis, 81, American politician.
* Luther Gulick, 100, American social scientist.
* Georges Mounin, 82, French linguist.
* Raja Perempuan Zainab II, 75, Malaysian royal.

### 11

* Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano, 89, Italian lawyer and politician.
* Lacey Fosburgh, 50, American writer (Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder), breast cancer.
* Frank Quinn, 65, American baseball player.
* Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talib-ul-Mola, 73, Pakistani politician, scholar and poet.
* Tommy Walker, 77, Scottish football player.

### 12

* Earl Browne, 81, American baseball player and manager.
* Józef Czapski, 96, Polish artist, author, and critic.
* Fred Koenig, 61, American baseball, coach and director.
* Pierre Nihant, 67, Belgian cyclist.
* Joe Orrell, 75, American baseball player.
* Yehezkel Streichman, 87, Israeli painter.
* Margit Tøsdal, 74, Norwegian politician.
* Tito Warnholtz, 86, German Olympic field hockey player (1936).

### 13

* Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, 30, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
* Camargo Guarnieri, 85, Brazilian composer.
* Helene J. Kantor, 73, American archaeologist and art historian.
* Ndrek Luca, 65, Albanian stage, film and theater actor.
* René Pleven, 91, French politician and prime minister (1950–1951, 1951–1952), heart failure.
* Alexander Soper, 88, American art historian.
* Charles Tillon, 95, French politician.

### 14

* Victor Abens, 80, Luxembourgish politician.
* Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield, 93, British politician.
* Sathasivam Krishnakumar, 33, Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and Tamil Tigers leader, suicide.
* Manfred Lachs, 78, Polish diplomat and jurist.
* Pepita Ferrer Lucas, 54, Catalan chess player.
* Robert A. Mattey, 82, American special effects artist (Jaws, Mary Poppins, The Absent-Minded Professor).
* José Comas Quesada, 64, Spanish watercolor painter.

### 15

* Billy Brown, 82, English football player.
* Sammy Cahn, 79, American lyricist ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head?", "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", "It's Been a Long, Long Time"), heart failure.
* Arthur Wallis Exell, 91, English botanist.
* J. Allen Frear, Jr., 89, American businessman and politician.
* Lucien Grosso, 60, French Olympic bobsledder (1956).
* William G. Hardwick, 82, American politician.
* Henry Iba, 88, American basketball coach.
* Annemarie von Gabain, 91, German scholar.

### 16

* Phil Chambers, 76, American actor.
* Freddie 'Red' Cochrane, 77, American boxer.
* Glenn Corbett, 59, American actor (The Doctors, Midway, Dallas), lung cancer.
* Florence Desmond, 87, English actress.
* Rafik Khachatryan, 55, Armenian sculptor.
* Stan Sheriff, 60, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
* Jón Páll Sigmarsson, 32, Icelandic bodybuilder and strongman, aortic rupture.
* Đoko Slijepčević, 85, Serbian historian.
* Svetozar Vujović, 52, Bosnian and Yugoslav football player and manager.
* Atsushi Yamatoya, 55, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor, esophageal cancer.

### 17

* Barbara Buczek, 53, Polish composer.
* Julio Coll, 73, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
* Albert Hourani, 77, English historian.
* Nick Polly, 75, American baseball player.
* Vilmos Zombori, 87, Romanian footballer.

### 18

* Karl Bosl, 84, German historian.
* Alfredo Bovet, 83, Swiss-Italian cyclist.
* Eleanor Alice Burford, 86, English novelist.
* Arthur Donaldson, 91, Scottish journalist and politician.
* Gordon Higginson, 74, British spiritualist medium.
* C. A. Trypanis, 83, Greek classicist, literary critic, and poet.
* Richard Waring, 82, English-American actor.
* Wasif Ali Wasif, 64, Pakistani writer, poet and sufi.
* Dionysios Zakythinos, 87-88, Greek historian.

### 19

* Holden Furber, 89, American academic.
* Reginald Hewetson, 84, British Army officer, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
* William LeMassena, 76, American actor (All That Jazz, As the World Turns, See You in the Morning), lung cancer.
* Reginald Lewis, 50, American businessman and philanthropist, brain cancer.
* Margaret Marquis, 73, Canadian-American film actress.
* Nagindas Parekh, 89, Indian writer and literary critic.
* Chris Street, 20, American college basketball player, automobile crash.
* Antonello Trombadori, 75, Italian politician, art critic and journalist.

### 20

* Joe Albertson, 86, American businessman.
* Joseph Anthony, 80, American playwright and actor.
* Françoise Dior, 60, French socialite and neo-Nazifinancier, lung cancer.
* Bindeshwari Dubey, 72, Indian freedom fighter, trade unionist and politician.
* Audrey Hepburn, 63, British actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady), Oscar winner (1954), appendix cancer.
* Christos Kapralos, 83, Greek artist.

### 21

* Felice Borel, 78, Italian football player.
* Charlie Gehringer, 89, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Lotte Laserstein, 94, German-Swedish painter.
* Leo Löwenthal, 92, German sociologist.
* Dimitris Nikolaidis, 71, Greek actor.

### 22

* Kōbō Abe, 68, Japanese writer (The Woman in the Dunes), heart attack.
* Alexander Bodon, 86, Dutch architect.
* Patricia Brooks, 59, Lyric soprano, actress, and opera singer, multiple sclerosis.
* Jim Pollard, 70, American basketball player and coach.
* Erik W. Tawaststjerna, 76, Finnish musicologist, pianist and music teacher.
* Brett Weston, 81, American photographer, stroke.

### 23

* Thomas A. Dorsey, 93, American gospel musician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Kong Fei, 82, Chinese politician.
* Charles Greenlee, 65, American jazz trombonist.
* Robert Sutton Harrington, 50, American astronomer, esophageal cancer.
* Keith Laumer, 67, American science fiction author.
* Gábor Péter, 86, Hungarian communist politician.
* Wayne Raney, 71, American country singer and harmonica player, cancer.
* Li Ziming, 90, Chinese martial artist.

### 24

* Archduchess Assunta of Austria, 90, Austrian-American royal.
* Don Bassman, 64, American sound engineer (Patton, Die Hard, The Abyss), Oscar winner (1971).
* Héctor De Bourgoing, 58, French football player.
* Gustav Ernesaks, 84, Estonian composer.
* Detlef Gerstenberg, 35, East Germany hammer thrower and Olympian, liver cirrhosis.
* John A. Lafore, Jr., 87, American politician.
* Thurgood Marshall, 84, American judge, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1967–1991), heart failure.
* Éliane Montel, 94, French physicist and chemist.
* Uğur Mumcu, 50, Turkish investigative journalist, murdered.
* Eino Pentti, 86, American Olympic runner (1932, 1936).
* Leland Shaffer, 80, American football player (New York Giants).
* Henry Abel Smith, 92, British Army officer.
* Sergey Zakharov, 92, Soviet-Russian painter.

### 25

* Frank Freidel, 77, American historian and biographer.
* Nils Kristen Jacobsen, 84, Norwegian politician.
* Leah Neuberger, 77, American table tennis player.
* Hedi Amara Nouira, 81, Tunisian politician, prime minister (1970–1980).

### 26

* Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, 73, German soldier, resistance member, and diplomat.
* Lucia M. Cormier, 83, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1947–1950, 1953–1960).
* Kenneth Gaburo, 66, American composer.
* Jan Gies, 87, Dutch resistance member, hid Anne Frank, kidney failure.
* Robert Jacobsen, 80, Danish artist.
* Jeanne Sauvé, 70, Canadian politician, governor general (1984–1990), MP (1972–1984), Hodgkin's lymphoma.

### 27

* Srđan Aleksić, 26, Bosnian Serb amateur actor and soldier, beaten to death.
* Nils Aall Barricelli, 81, Norwegian-Italian mathematician.
* Harold Beverage, 99, American inventor and researcher.
* J. T. King, 80, American football player and coach.
* Leon Mandrake, 81, Canadian magician.
* Edward P. Morgan, 82, American journalist and writer.
* Erik Mørk, 67, Danish film actor, traffic collision.
* Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri, 51-52, Pakistani Grand Mufti, heart attack.

### 28

* Donald Douglas, 81, Scottish surgeon.
* André the Giant, 46, French professional wrestler (WWF) and actor (The Princess Bride), congestive heart failure.
* Erik Herseth, 100, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1920).
* Helen Sawyer Hogg, 87, American-Canadian astronomer.
* Aben Kandel, 95, American screenwriter (I Was a Teenage Werewolf).
* Vern Kennedy, 85, American baseball player.
* Anatoly Parfyonov, 67, Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.
* Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole, 81, British politician, soldier and businessman.
* John Steadman, 83, American actor (The Hills Have Eyes, The Longest Yard, Gator).
* Kay Swift, 95, American composer.
* Tim Ward, 75, English football player and manager.
* Hannah Wilke, 52, American artist, lymphoma.

### 29

* Adetokunbo Ademola, 86, Nigerian jurist.
* Ángel Garma, 88, Spanish-Argentine psychoanalyst.
* Gustav Hasford, 45, American novelist (The Short-Timers) and screenwriter (Full Metal Jacket), heart failure.
* Harris Hull, 83, American brigadier general.
* Ron Kostelnik, 53, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Lars Larsson, 81, Swedish steeplechase runner and Olympian.
* Eva Remaeus, 42, Swedish actress, brain tumor.
* Nancy Teed, 43, Canadian politician, traffic collision.

### 30

* Julia Davis Adams, 92, American author and journalist.
* Ryōichi Hattori, 85, Japanese pop and jazz composer.
* James LuValle, 80, American athlete and scientist.
* Dorothy Miles, 61, Welsh poet.
* Taikichiro Mori, 88, Japanese businessman and economist.
* Svetoslav Roerich, 88, Russian painter.
* John Oulton Wisdom, 84, Irish philosopher.
* Alexandra of Yugoslavia, 71, Greek-Yugoslavian royal and queen consort (1944–1945), cancer.

### 31

* Paul R. Anderson, 85, American academic.
* Ernő Lendvaï, 67, Hungarian music theorist.
* John Poulson, 82, British designer and businessman.
* Frithjof Ulleberg, 81, Norwegian football player.
* Douglas Williams, 75, American sound engineer (Patton, Silver Streak, The Rose), Oscar winner (1971).