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

## May 1993
### 1

* Pietro Acquarone, 76, Italian footballer (Sanremese, Roma, Pisa).
* Erwan Bergot, 63, French army officer and author.
* Pierre Bérégovoy, 67, French politician and prime minister (1992–1993), suicide by gunshot.
* Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, 84, Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, and diplomat.
* Donald Dupree, 74, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
* Henri Ellenberger, 87, Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist.
* Gerald Fowler, 58, British politician, MP (1966–1970, 1974–1979), cancer.
* Narayan Ganesh Gore, 85, Indian politician.
* Warren P. Knowles, 84, American politician and governor (1965–1971), heart attack.
* Ranasinghe Premadasa, 68, President of Sri Lanka (1989-1993), assassination by suicide bomber.
* Amos Wilder, 97, American poet, minister, and theology professor.

### 2

* Luigi Bestagini, 73, Italian ice hockey player and (Olympian).
* Julio Gallo, 83, American winemaker (E & J Gallo Winery), traffic collision.
* John S. Gleason, Jr., 78, American banker and political figure.
* Thorkild Jacobsen, 88, Danish assyriologist and archaeologist.
* Stephen Juba, 78, Canadian politician.
* Ivan Lapikov, 70, Soviet-Russian actor (Andrei Rublev, The Brothers Karamazov, Eternal Call).
* Karl-Friedrich Merten, 87, German U-boat commander during World War II, cancer.
* André Moynet, 71, French fighter pilot, businessman, and politician, MNA (1946–1967).
* George Southall, 85, British track cyclist.
* Will Weng, 86, American journalist and crossword puzzle editor (The New York Times).

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* Libero Bigiaretti, 86, Italian novelist.
* Robert De Niro Sr., 71, American painter, father of Robert De Niro, cancer.
* Duncan Macpherson, 68, Canadian cartoonist.
* Bjørn Rørholt, 73, Norwegian military officer, and resistance member during World War II.
* Hermína Týrlová, 92, Czech animator, screen writer, and film director.

### 4

* Margret Borgs, 84, German Olympic diver (1928).
* Frank Kudelka, 67, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Washington Capitols, Philadelphia Warriors).
* Ray McDonald, 48, American gridiron football player, complications from sickle cell anemia.
* Ernst Reitermaier, 74, Austrian football player and manager.
* Shianghao Wang, 77, Chinese mathematician.
* France Štiglic, 73, Slovenian film director and screenwriter.

### 5

* Iakov Bielopolski, 76, Soviet architect.
* Dermot Boyle, 88, British RAF marshall.
* Louis Brooks, 82, American R&B saxophonist and bandleader.
* John Brady, 89, Australian trade unionist and politician.
* Georges Carrier, 82, French basketball player.
* Irving Howe, 72, American socialist activist, cardiovascular disease.
* Malcolm Metcalf, 82, American Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).
* Dick Metz, 84, American golfer.
* Algot Törneman, 83, Swedish painter.
* Paul Wegener, 84, German Nazi Party official and politician.

### 6

* Ivy Benson, 79, English musician and bandleader.
* Vane Bor, 84, Serbian artist.
* Rommel Fernández, 27, Panamanian football player, traffic collision.
* Dorothy B. Hughes, 88, American crime writer, literary critic, and historian.
* Ian Mikardo, 84, British politician, stroke.
* Ann Todd, 86, English actress (The Seventh Veil, The Paradine Case, Perfect Strangers), stroke.

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* Zhao Boping, 90, Chinese politician.
* Harold Danforth, 77, Canadian politician, MP (1958–1962, 1963–1974).
* Cee Farrow, 36, German-American new wave singer ("Should I Love You"), complications from AIDS.
* Roger Keesing, 57, American linguist and anthropologist, heart attack.
* Valeriano López, 67, Peruvian footballer (Sport Boys, Deportivo Cali, national team), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Mary Philbin, 90, American silent film actress (The Phantom of the Opera, The Man Who Laughs, Love Me and the World Is Mine), pneumonia.
* Hap Sharp, 65, American race car driver, suicide.
* Thurman Tucker, 75, American baseball player.

### 8

* Dele Charley, 45, Sierra Leonean playwright.
* Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, 74, Indian Marxist philosopher.
* Avram Davidson, 70, American fiction writer (The Phoenix and the Mirror, Masters of the Maze, The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy).
* Enrique Larrinaga, 82, Spanish footballer (Racing de Santander, Asturias, national team).
* Alwin Nikolais, 82, American choreographer, cancer.
* Gabriel Pita da Veiga y Sanz, 84, Spanish naval admiral, minister of the Navy (1973–1977).
* Marti Stevens, 54, American educator and theater director, asthma.
* Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor, 87, English-Irish hereditary peer.

### 9

* Ted Cieslak, 80, American Major League Baseball player.
* Jacques Dextraze, 73, Canadian military officer.
* Mary Duncan, 98, American actress (City Girl, Morning Glory).
* Kenneth Eather, 91, Australian Army officer.
* Penelope Gilliatt, 61, English novelist and screenwriter (Sunday Bloody Sunday).
* Maggie Hemingway, 47, British novelist, aplastic anemia.
* Freya Madeline Stark, 100, British-Italian travel writer and explorer.
* Albert Sukop, 80, German footballer (Eintracht Braunschweig).

### 10

* Lester del Rey, 77, American science fiction author (Badge of Infamy, Marooned on Mars, Moon of Mutiny).
* Peng Mingzhi, 88, Chinese general and diplomat.
* Jack Peel, 72, British trade union leader.
* Stanisław Piłat, 84, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).
* Dermot Sheriff, 72, Irish basketball player.
* Egon Vogel, 84, German actor.
* Pedro Vuskovic, 69, Croatian-Chilean economist and politician.

### 11

* Zhao Cangbi, 77, Chinese politician and official.
* Chen Chi-chuan, 94, Taiwanese politician.
* Magli Elster, 80, Norwegian psychoanalyst, literary critic, and poet.
* Minnie Gentry, 77, American actress (Def by Temptation, All My Children, School Daze).
* Hugh Hudson, 62, Australian politician, cancer.
* Sher Mohammad Marri, 58, Pakistani tribal chief and military figure.
* Shahu Modak, 75, Indian actor.
* Gene Selawski, 57, American gridiron football player.
* Torsten Ullman, 84, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1936, 1948).
* Leigh Wiener, 63, American photographer and photojournalist, complications of Sweet's syndrome.

### 12

* Stanisław Baran, 73, Polish football player.
* Teodor Bârcă, 98, Moldovan politician and professor.
* Zeno Colò, 72, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1952), lung cancer.
* Evert Dolman, 47, Dutch cyclist and Olympic champion.
* Capt. John Treasure Jones, 87, British sea officer, aneurysm.
* Ulf Palme, 72, Swedish film actor.
* Edda Seippel, 73, German actress, cancer.
* Shamser Bahadur Singh, 82, Indian poet and writer.

### 13

* Robert Adley, 58, British politician, MP (since 1970), heart attack.
* Friedrich Dörr, 85, German Catholic priest and professor of theology.
* Elton Fax, 83, American illustrator.
* Shmuel Gogol, 69, Polish-born Israeli harmonica player.
* Bede Griffiths, 86, British priest and Benedictine monk.
* Wolfgang Lotz, 72, Israeli spy.
* M. K. Menon, 64, Indian writer.

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* Aziz El-Shawan, 77, Egyptian composer.
* Patrick Haemers, 40, Belgian criminal, suicide by hanging.
* William Randolph Hearst Jr., 85, American newspaper publisher.
* Karin Luts, 89, Estonian painter and a graphic artist.
* Melvin Swig, 75, American real estate developer and philanthropist.

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* Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 94, Indian Commander-in-Chief, arthritis.
* Herbert Grötzsch, 90, German mathematician.
* Francisco Quiroz, 35, Dominican boxing champion, killed in a nightclub brawl.
* John Row, 88, Australian politician.
* Robert Tanneveau, 81, French cyclist.

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* Jibaraj Ashrit, 48, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
* Madan Kumar Bhandari, 41, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
* Eduardo Campbell, 59, Panamanian Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).
* Bernard Chanda, 41, Zambian football player.
* Dezső Ákos Hamza, 89, Hungarian film director (Strano appuntamento).
* Marv Johnson, 54, American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, stroke.

### 17

* Henrique Anjos, 41, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1972, 1984, 1988).
* Earl Chudoff, 85, American lawyer and politician.
* Joe Ploski, 89, Polish-American film and television actor.
* Andre Resampa, 68, Malagasy government minister.
* Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, 91, English artist.
* Peter E. Perry, 91, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1968, 1969–1976).

### 18

* Heinrich Albertz, 78, German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin (1966–1967).
* Stephen Cheong, 51, Hong Kong industrialist and politician, heart attack.
* Ronald Haver, 54, American film historian and author, AIDS-related illness.
* Heinz Knoke, 72, German flying ace during World War II and politician.
* Domingo Romo, 76, Chilean football player.

### 19

* Nemesio Antúnez, 75, Chilean painter.
* Winston Burdett, 79, American broadcast journalist and correspondent.
* Oscar Grimes, 78, American Major League Baseball player.
* Richard Murphy, 81, American film director (Three Stripes in the Sun) and screenwriter (Boomerang, The Desert Rats), stroke.
* Ranga Sohoni, 75, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
* Lucien Troupel, 74, French football player and manager.
* John A. Wilson, 49, American politician, suicide by hanging.

### 20

* Al Aber, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics).
* Stevan Bodnarov, 87, Serbian sculptor, painter and political commissar.
* Virginia Cutler, 87, American academic, Alzheimer's disease.
* Dragoljub Janošević, 69, Yugoslav chess grandmaster.
* Carmelo Pace, 86, Maltese composer and music professor.

### 21

* John Frost, 80, British Army officer (Battle of Arnhem).
* John Holland, 85, American actor (Perry Mason, My Fair Lady, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).
* Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, 100, Lithuanian architect.
* Omar Pkhakadze, 48, Georgian sprint cyclist and Olympic medalist.

### 22

* Herbert Callen, 73, American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Mieczysław Horszowski, 100, Polish-American pianist.
* David Rees, 57, English author, lecturer and reviewer, AIDS.
* Irma Vila, 76, Mexican ranchera singer and actress (Canta y no llores...).
* Carl Johan Wachtmeister, 90, Swedish army officer and Olympic fencer (1936).
* Juice Wilson, 89, American jazz violinist.

### 23

* Luigi Brunella, 79, Italian football defender and manager.
* Julian de Ajuriaguerra, 82, Spanish-French psychologist.
* Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits, 83, Soviet engineer and apparatchik.
* Jaime Loyola, 61, Puerto Rican Olympic sport shooter (1964).
* James Millhollin, 77, American actor (No Time for Sergeants, Grindl, The Student Teachers), cancer.

### 24

* Carl Billquist, 60, Swedish actor.
* Jack Gould, 79, American journalist and critic.
* Carlton E. Morse, 91, American radio producer (One Man's Family, I Love a Mystery, Adventures by Morse).
* Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal, shot.

### 25

* Lee Roy Abernathy, 79, American gospel musician (A Wonderful Time Up There).
* Buddhadasa, 86, Thai Buddhist monk and philosopher, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Laura Conti, 72, Italian anti-fascist partisan, politician, feminist, and novelist.
* Louis O. Coxe, 75, American writer, playwright, and professor.
* Rudolf Eckstein, 78, German rower and Olympic champion.
* Vincent Eri, 56, Papua New Guinean politician and novelist.
* Kimon Friar, 81, Greek-American poet and translator.
* David Peterson, 33, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.
* Dan Seymour, 78, American actor (To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, Mara Maru), complications from a stroke.
* Horia Sima, 86, Romanian politician and war criminal.

### 26

* Catherine Caradja, 100, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist.
* Cor de Groot, 78, Dutch pianist and composer.
* Tsola Dragoycheva, 94, Bulgarian communist politician.
* Fernando Lopez, 89, Filipino politician.
* Memos Makris, 80, Greek sculptor.
* George Perpich, 72, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
* Jack Priestley, 66, American cinematographer.
* Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 80, American publisher (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), colon cancer.
* Jan Wiley, 77, American actress (She-Wolf of London, A Fig Leaf for Eve, The Brute Man), cancer.
* Ulvi Yenal, 85, Turkish Olympic footballer (1928) and businessman (Turkish Airlines).

### 27

* Tony Del Monaco, 57, Italian pop singer and actor.
* Joe Gormley, 75, British trade unionist.
* Serge Leroy, 56, French film director (Le mataf, The Track, The Passengers).
* Roger MacDougall, 82, Scottish screenwriter and playwright.
* Werner Stocker, 38, German actor, brain cancer.

### 28

* Tatari Ali, 64, Nigerian politician, governor of Bauchi State (1979–1983), heart failure.
* Charlie Barnett, 82, English cricketer.
* Duncan Browne, 46, English singer-songwriter and musician, cancer.
* William Collins, 61, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1956).
* George Faust, 75, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
* Bobby Joe Green, 57, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Derek Hersey, 36, British rock climber, climbing accident.
* Ugo Locatelli, 77, Italian football player.
* Doctor Ross, 67, American blues musician, and one-man band.

### 29

* Billy Conn, 75, American light heavyweight boxing champion.
* Alex Kampouris, 80, American baseball player.
* Paul Malvern, 90, American film producer, child actor, and stuntman.
* Louise McManus, 97, American nurse and academic.
* Rahima Moosa, 70, South African politician and activist.

### 30

* Qamar Ajnalvi, 73, Pakistani novelist.
* Takeharu Asō, 93, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
* Gonzalo Barrios, 91, Venezuelan politician.
* Ted Garrett, 73, British politician.
* Lien Gisolf, 82, Dutch high jumper and Olympic medalist.
* Henry Heerup, 85, Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
* Marge, 88, American cartoonist (Little Lulu), lymphoma.
* Melvin Spencer Newman, 85, American chemist, Ohio State University professor.
* Sun Ra, 79, American jazz composer, bandleader, pianist, and poet, congestive heart failure. .
* Mel Rees, 26, Welsh football player, cancer.
* Gil Reese, 92, American gridiron football player.

### 31

* Falkner Allison, 86, English Anglican prelate, Bishop of Chelmsford (1951–1961) and Winchester (1961–1974).
* Honey Tree Evil Eye, 9, American bull terrier, portrayer of Spuds MacKenzie, kidney failure.
* Mabel McKay, 86, Native American basketweaver and artist.
* John Litchfield, 89, British Royal Navy officer and politician.
* Donn Tatum, 80, American businessman (Walt Disney Productions), cancer.
* Joe Vogler, 80, American politician, homicide.