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

## December 1993
### 1

* Lynette Davies, 45, Welsh actress, suicide.
* Edwin Flavell, 95, British Army officer.
* Ray Gillen, 34, American rock singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.
* Sir Ivor Hele, 81, Australian artist.
* Scott Kolk, 88, American actor.
* Mary Lobel, 93, British historian.
* Giulio Marchetti, 82, Italian and actor and television presenter, internal hemorrhage.

### 2

* Ali Benfadah, 58, Algerian football player and manager.
* Paal Brekke, 70, Norwegian lyricist, novelist, and literary critic.
* Evelyn Dearman, 85, English tennis player.
* Harry Julius Emeléus, 90, English inorganic chemist.
* Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist, shot.
* John Kershaw, 62, British screenwriter and script editor.
* Tom Monroe, 74, American actor.
* Leo Paquin, 83, American football player.

### 3

* Frank Anthony, 85, Indian politician and Anglo-Indian community leader.
* George P. Hammond, 97, American professor of Latin American studies.
* Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer.
* Lea Mek, 18, Cambodian-American gang member, murdered in gang shooting.
* Steve Paproski, 65, Canadian politician and football player.
* Lewis Thomas, 80, American science writer.

### 4

* Victor Gunnarsson, 40, Swedish right-wing activist, homicide.
* Marcel Jean, 92, French painter, writer, and sculptor.
* Margaret Landon, 90, American writer and missionary.
* Hugh Moore, 64, British City of London Police commander, heart failure.
* Jusuf Prazina, 31, Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War, homicide.
* Frank Sturgis, 68, American CIA operative and one of the Watergate burglars, lung cancer.
* Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh football player.
* Frank Zappa, 52, American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, prostate cancer.

### 5

* Mike Dowdle, 55, American gridiron football player.
* Yevgeny Gabrilovich, 94, Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter.
* Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.
* Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress and dressmaker, suicide by gunshot.
* Vince Mazza, 68, Canadian football player.
* Robert Ochsenfeld, 92, German physicist.
* Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian film production designer.

### 6

* Don Ameche, 85, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places, Heaven Can Wait), Oscar winner (1986), prostate cancer.
* Bryson Graham, 41, English rock drummer.
* Anna Hřebřinová, 85, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympian.
* Sergi Jikia, 95, Georgian historian and orientalist.
* Hendrik Ooms, 77, Dutch cyclist.
* Paul-Louis Weiller, 100, French industrialist and philanthropist.

### 7

* Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia.
* Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter, cancer.
* Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, President of Ivory Coast, cancer.
* Blaže Koneski, 71, Macedonian poet, writer, and linguistic scholar.
* Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
* Robert Taft, Jr., 76, American politician.

### 8

* Carl Damm, 66, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Russian weightlifter, starvation and hypothermia.
* Carlotta Monti, 86, American film actress.
* Cole Palen, 67, American aviator.
* Philippe Pradayrol, 27, French judoka, traffic collision.
* Mieczysław Wilczewski, 61, Polish cyclist.

### 9

* Salvatore Allegra, 95, Italian composer.
* Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Irish football player, Alzheimer's disease.
* Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, 94, Iranian Grand Ayatollah and Shia islam scholar.
* Herbert Grevenius, 92, Swedish screenwriter.
* Matt Guokas, 78, American basketball player and broadcaster.
* Carter Jefferson, 48, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Alexander Koblencs, 77, Latvian chess master and writer.
* John Wisdom, 89, British philosopher.

### 10

* Maroun Bagdadi, 43, Lebanese film director, fall.
* Jerzy Juskowiak, 54, Polish sprinter and Olympian.
* Fernand Mithouard, 84, French cyclist.
* Alice Tully, 91, American opera singer, music promoter, and philanthropist, influenza.
* Miljan Zeković, 68, Montenegrin and Yugoslav football player and manager.
* Alan E. Zimmer, 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke.

### 11

* Ku Cheng-kang, 91, Chinese politician and scholar.
* Francisco Flores del Campo, 86, Chilean composer, instrumentalist and actor, cardiovascular disease.
* Raymond D. Gary, 85, American businessman and politician.
* Bohdan Likszo, 53, Polish basketball player.
* Paul Mebus, 73, German football player.
* Bill Mumm, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician.
* Steve Nelson, 90, Croatian-American political activist.
* Karl-Theodor Molinari, 78, German Army and Bundeswehr officer and politician.
* Pierre Sarr N'Jie, 84, Gambian lawyer and politician.
* Phil Perlo, 58, American gridiron football player.
* Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress and theatre director.
* Sam Stayman, 84, American bridge player and writer.

### 12

* József Antall, 61, Hungarian teacher, historian, and politician, prime minister (1990-1993), cancer.
* Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer.
* Marian Constance Blackton, 92, American screenwriter and actress.
* Fritz Bock, 82, Austrian politician.
* Joan Cross, 93, English soprano.
* Alexandru Drăghici, 80, Romanian communist activist and politician.
* Don Earle, 64, American ice hockey announcer.
* Bob Taylor, 89, American ice hockey player.

### 13

* Ken Anderson, 84, American art director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Sword in the Stone) and screenwriter (Cinderella), stroke.
* Larry Cameron, 41, American gridiron football player and professional wrestler, heart attack in ring during match.
* Vanessa Duriès, 21, French novelist, traffic collision.
* Joy Laurey, 50, French novelist, traffic collision.
* Tommy Sexton, 36, Canadian comedian, AIDS-related complications.
* Billy Shantz, 66, American baseball player and manager.
* Gaziza Zhubanova, 66, Kazakh composer.

### 14

* Jeff Alm, 25, American gridiron football player, suicide.
* Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision.
* Frank Fuller, 64, American gridiron football player.
* Jennifer Howard, 68, American actress, lung cancer.
* Francis Jones, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms.
* Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão, 79, Brazilian neurophysiologist and researcher, respiratory failure.
* Myrna Loy, 88, American actress (The Thin Man, The Best Years of Our Lives, Cheaper by the Dozen), lung cancer.
* Silvina Ocampo, 90, Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist.

### 15

* Tom Bedecki, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan football player, homicide.
* Penaia Ganilau, 75, First President of Fiji, leukemia.
* William Dale Phillips, 68, American physical chemist and academic.
* Marcel Vandernotte, 84, French rower and Olympian.

### 16

* Charizma, 20, American MC, shot.
* Fedele Gentile, 85, Italian film actor.
* Moses Gunn, 64, American actor (Shaft, Little House on the Prairie, Heartbreak Ridge), asthma.
* Riley Hill, 79, American actor.
* Jed Johnson, Jr., 53, American politician.
* Charles Moore, 68, American architect and writer.
* Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, pneumonia.

### 17

* Patrick Crowley, 87, Irish politician and trade union official.
* Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee.
* Hilding Hagberg, 94, Swedish communist politician.
* Mirza Ibrahimov, 82, Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, and public figure.
* Len Julians, 60, English football player.
* Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer.

### 18

* Bernard Ayandho, 63, Central African politician and diplomat.
* Joseph H. Ball, 88, American journalist and politician.
* Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and SOE agent during World War II.
* Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs, 93, British-American powerboat racer.
* Gheorghe Cozorici, 60, Romanian actor.
* Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver.
* Steve James, 41, American actor and stunt performer, cancer.
* Tony Kappen, 74, American basketball player.
* Buster Larsen, 73, Danish actor.
* Natalya Sats, 90, Russian stage director.
* Bernhard Sälzer, 53, German politician and member of the European Parliament, traffic collision.
* Sam Wanamaker, 74, American actor and director, prostate cancer.

### 19

* Wallace F. Bennett, 95, American businessman and politician.
* Michael Clarke, 47, American drummer (The Byrds), liver failure.
* Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician.
* Inez James, 74, American film score composer.
* Owain Owain, 64, Welsh novelist, short-story writer and poet.
* Hans Rohrbach, 90, German mathematician and cryptanalyst during World War II.

### 20

* Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes.
* Hubert Deltour, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.
* W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, statistician, author, and lecturer.
* Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer.
* Charles Herman Helmsing, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Hulusi Kentmen, 81, Turkish actor, kidney failure.
* Felix Mackiewicz, 76, American baseball player.

### 21

* Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, 100, British Army officer.
* Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist.
* Frederick J. Harlfinger II, 80, American Navy officer.
* Ivan Kozlovskyi, 93, Soviet and Russian lyric tenor.
* Zack Mosley, 87, American comic strip artist.
* Pekka Niemi, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympian.
* Margarita Nikolaeva, 58, Soviet gymnast and Olympian.

### 22

* Mario Amendola, 83, Italian screenwriter, film director and dramatist, diabetes.
* Sylvia Bataille, 85, French actress, heart attack.
* Oto Bihalji-Merin, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian writer, painter and art critic.
* Marion Burns, 86, American film actress.
* Don DeFore, 80, American actor, heart attack.
* Alexander Mackendrick, 81, American-Scottish film director, pneumonia.
* Salah Zulfikar, 67, Egyptian actor and film producer.

### 23

* Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, 69, Icelandic religious leader and neopaganist, heart attack.
* Gertrude Blom, 92, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer.
* Lauchlin Currie, 91, American economist.
* James Ellison, 83, American film actor, fall.
* Luigi Giuliano, 63, Italian football player.
* Jean Maréchal, 83, French racing cyclist.
* Chucho Navarro, 80, Mexican singer.
* Marcello Neri, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist.

### 24

* Pierre Victor Auger, 94, French physicist.
* Yen Chia-kan, 88, President of the Republic of China.
* Anita Dorris, 90, German actress of the silent era.
* Ralph Downes, 89, English organist, organ designer, and music director.
* Ivano Fontana, 67, Italian boxer.
* Andrzej Nadolski, 72, Polish historian, archaeologist, and professor.
* Dorothea Parker, 65, New Zealand sprinter, cancer.
* Norman Vincent Peale, 95, American writer and minister, stroke.
* J. Wayne Reitz, 84, American agricultural economist and university president.
* Vladimir Šimunić, 74, Croatian football player and manager.

### 25

* Blandine Ebinger, 94, German cabaret singer and actress.
* Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 98, German princess, socialite, and author.
* Ama Naidoo, 85, South African anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.
* Jeff Phillips, 30, American professional skateboarder, suicide by gunshot.
* Ann Ronell, 86, American composer and lyricist.
* Azat Sherents, 80, Soviet and Armenian actor.
* Marian Suski, 88, Polish fencer and Olympian.
* Nikolai Timkov, 81, Soviet and Russian painter.

### 26

* Dave Beck, 99, American labor leader.
* Lilian Edirisinghe, 71, Sri Lankan actress.
* Jeff Morrow, 86, American actor.
* Carlos Muñoz, 29, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.
* Patrick W. Ryan, Irish politician.

### 27

* Michael Callen, 38, American musician, author, and AIDS activist, AIDS-related complications.
* Feliks Kibbermann, 91, Estonian chess master and philologist.
* Nina Lugovskaya, 75, Soviet painter and theatre designer.
* Evald Mikson, 82, Estonian football player.
* André Pilette, 75, Belgian racecar driver.
* Paavo Susitaival, 97, Finnish politician and military officer.

### 28

* William Austin, 90, Canadian-American film editor.
* Alfonso Balcázar, 67, Spanish screenwriter, film director and producer.
* Howard Caine, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, 1776, Judgment at Nuremberg), heart attack.
* Augie Galan, 81, American baseball player, manager and coach.
* John Kemp, 53, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.
* Gilles Lamontagne, 69, Canadian baritone
* Jennifer Lash, 55, English novelist and painter, breast cancer.
* William L. Shirer, 89, American journalist and war correspondent.

### 29

* Axel Corti, 60, Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host.
* Yvonne Desportes, 86, French composer, writer, and music educator.
* Karl Endres, 82, German basketball player.
* Lohengrin Filipello, 75, Swiss television presenter.
* Marie Kean, 75, Irish actress.
* Marshall Meyer, 63, American conservative rabbi, cancer.
* Frunzik Mkrtchyan, 63, Armenian stage and film actor, cancer.

### 30

* Mack David, 81, American lyricist and songwriter.
* Dick Donald, 82, Scottish football player and administrator.
* Rita Klímová, 62, Czech economist and politician, leukemia.
* Irving Paul Lazar, 86, American talent agent and businessman.
* Giuseppe Occhialini, 86, Italian physicist.
* George Stone, 47, American basketball player, heart attack.
* İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, 85, Turkish politician.

### 31

* Henry A. Byroade, 80, American diplomat.
* Bill Cowley, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Arthur Dreifuss, 85, German-American film director.
* Mikhail Dudin, 77, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.
* Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 54, Soviet and Georgian politician, dissident, and writer, shot.
* Alexander Girard, 86, American architect and designer.
* Bob Johnson, 73, American actor.
* Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont, 38, Jamaican guitarist and singer, prostate cancer.
* Guy Lefrant, 70, French equestrian and Olympian.
* Betty McDowall, 69, Australian actress.
* Lauriston Sharp, 86, American anthropologist and academic.
* Samuel Steward, 84, American writer, professor, tattoo artist and pornographer.
* Brandon Teena, 21, American trans man and murder victim, shot.
* Thomas Watson, 79, American businessman, politician, and philanthropist, stroke.