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, United States Representative (1955-1964) and Senator (1964-1967). Italo Bellini, 77, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1952). Helmut Bischoff, 84, German Nazi official and SS officer. June Clayworth, 87, American actress. Shalom Cohen, 66, Israeli politician. Tony Durley, 59, English cricketer. 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. Claude Smeal, 74, Australian Olympic long-distance runner (1952).
2 Alfred T. Airth, 86, American politician. Tom Barling, 86, English cricketer. Sean Devereux, 28, British Salesian missionary and aid worker, murdered. Heinz Kohlhaas, 80, German Olympic boxer (1932). 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 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. Bill Walls, 80, American football player (New York Giants), 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. Oscar Lindelöf, 89, Swedish Olympic wrestler (1928, 1932). 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. George Roseborough Collins, 75, American art historian, Alzheimer's disease. Westley Allan Dodd, 31, American convicted serial killer, execution by hanging. Einar Granath, 56, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1960). 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. Florian Zogg, 92, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
6 Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, 70, Austrian royal. Ștefan Baciu, 74, Romanian-Brazilian poet, novelist, publicist and academic. Zoltán Csányi, 80, Hungarian Olympic athlete (1936). 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. Townsend Tapley, 79, American baseball player.
7 Richard Branda, 57, American actor. 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. Harry Gregory, 90, Australian rules footballer. Ron Grove, 73, Australian rules footballer. 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. Sir Paul Hasluck, 87, Australian politician, governor-general (1969–1974), MP (1949–1969), prostate cancer. Keith Mwila, 26, Zambian boxer and Olympic medalist (1984). Viveca Serlachius, 69, Finnish-Swedish actress. Judit Tóth, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist (1928, 1936). 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, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1969). Iván García, 45, Venezuelan footballer. 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 (Boston Red Sox). 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 (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies), and manager. Józef Czapski, 96, Polish artist, author, and critic. Fred Koenig, 61, American baseball, coach and director. Pierre Nihant, 67, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1948). Joe Orrell, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Yehezkel Streichman, 87, Israeli painter. Margit Tøsdal, 74, Norwegian politician. Tito Warnholtz, 86, German Olympic field hockey player (1936).
13 Albert Wheeler Coffrin, 73, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Vermont). 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. Harlan Pyle, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). 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. Roland English, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1957-1963). Arthur Wallis Exell, 91, English botanist. J. Allen Frear, Jr., 89, American businessman and politician, member of the United States Senate (1949-1961). 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. Ernest Granier, 85, French Olympic sailor (1936). Rafik Khachatryan, 55, Armenian sculptor. Karl-Heinz Scherzinger, 48, German Olympic cross-country skier (1968). Stan Sheriff, 60, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns), 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, manager and Olympian (1964). 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. Harry Gingell, 76, Australian rules footballer. Albert Hourani, 77, English historian. Nick Polly, 75, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Red Sox). Liu Yunchang, 80, Chinese Olympic basketball player (1936). Vilmos Zombori, 87, Romanian footballer.
18 Karl Bosl, 84, German historian. Alfredo Bovet, 83, Swiss-Italian cyclist. Eleanor Alice Burford, 86, English novelist. Jack Cronin, 89, American football player (Providence Steam Roller). 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. Mieczysław Szumiec, 85, Polish footballer. 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. Aleksandr Gorshkov, 64, Soviet Olympic athlete (1956). Audrey Hepburn, 63, British actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady), Oscar winner (1954), appendix cancer. Christos Kapralos, 83, Greek artist. Piet Peters, 71, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1948).
21 Felice Borel, 78, Italian football player. Charlie Gehringer, 89, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Lotte Laserstein, 94, German-Swedish painter. Leo Löwenthal, 92, German sociologist. Ferdinanda Martini-Pautasso, 69, Italian-born Swiss Olympic diver (1952). 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 (Minneapolis Lakers) and coach. Armand Raymond, 80, American ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Hans Schneider, 79, Austrian ice hockey player and Olympian (1948). Erik W. Tawaststjerna, 76, Finnish musicologist, pianist and music teacher. Brett Weston, 81, American photographer, stroke.
23 John Robert Brown, 83, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit). 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.