The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1993
1 Michael Blundell, 85, Kenyan farmer and politician. José Bravo, 76, Spanish football player. Mehrab Shahrokhi, 48, Iranian football player. Gregg G. Tallas, 84, Greek film director and film editor. Sven Thofelt, 88, Swedish Olympic pentathlete and fencer (1928, 1932, 1936, 1948). Harold Edward Winch, 85, Canadian politician.
2 Merle Anthony, 66, American baseball umpire. Gino Bechi, 79, Italian operatic baritone. Bernard Braden, 76, Canadian-British actor and comedian, stroke. Emilio Bulgarelli, 75, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948). Clemente Fracassi, 75, Italian film producer, director and screenwriter. Michael Klein, 33, Romanian football player, heart attack. Lenny Levy, 79, American baseball player, coach and scout. Reid Miles, 65, American graphic designer and photographer. Emmett Morrison, 77, American basketball player. Harry Nilsson, 77, Swedish football defender. John Peck, 55, Australian rules footballer. Bernard Peters, 82-83, Polish-German nuclear physicist. François Reichenbach, 71, French film director, producer and screenwriter. Alexander Schneider, 84, Lithuanian-American violinist, heart failure.
3 Viktor Ajbek, 72, Croatian footballer. Françoys Bernier, 65, Canadian musician. Rosetta Calavetta, 78, Italian actress and voice dubber. Omar Cañas, 23, Colombian Olympic footballer (1992), shot. Gianni Colombo, 56, Italian artist. Paul Emery, 76, English racing driver. Edith Elizabeth Farkas, 71, Hungarian-New Zealand antarctic researcher and meteorologist, bone cancer. Karel Goeyvaerts, 69, Belgian composer. Perry Hall, 94, American baseball player. Éliane de Meuse, 93, Belgian painter. Alby Newell, 71, Australian rules footballer. Tauno Rinkinen, 68, Finnish Olympic boxer (1948). Tan Shaowen, 63, Chinese politician, lung cancer. Gunnar Werner, 77, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1936). Bill Williams, 88, Australian rules footballer.
4 Eldon Jenne, 93, American Olympic track and field athlete (1920). Daulat Singh Kothari, 86, Indian scientist and educationist. Joaquín Oliva, 66, Spanish football player. Connie Saylor, 52, American NASCAR racecar driver, cancer.
5 T. W. Alley, 50, American football player and coach, heart attack. Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, 94, British businessman and media executive. William Pène du Bois, 76, American writer and book illustrator, stroke. Ed Boland, 84, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators). Seán Flanagan, 71, Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Baharul Islam, 74, Indian politician, MP (1962–1972, 1983–1989). Hans Jonas, 89, German-American philosopher. Adnan Kahveci, 43, Turkish politician, traffic collision. Roxanne Kernohan, 32, Canadian actress, traffic collision. Marcel Léger, 62, Canadian politician, MNA (1970–1985). Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, American film director and screenwriter (All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives), heart attack. Frank McNally, 85, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Tip Tipping, 34, English stuntman (Batman, Willow) and actor (Aliens), parachuting accident. Jack Young, 80, English cricketer. Huang Zhizhen, 72, Chinese politician.
6 Arthur Allsopp, 84, Australian cricketer. Arthur Ashe, 49, American tennis player, AIDS. George Bellew, 93, British officer of arms. Ruggero Biancani, 78, Italian Olympic athlete (1936). Mohammad Natsir, 84, Indonesian islamic scholar and prime minister. Ion Negoițescu, 71, Romanian writer and historian. Jaroslav Sadílek, 79, Czech Olympic figure skater (1936).
7 Shovkat Alakbarova, 70, Azerbaijani singer. Frank Balistrieri, 74, American mobster belonging to the Milwaukee crime family. Duilio Brignetti, 66, Italian Olympic pentathlete (1948, 1952). William Hayman, 89, English Anglican prelate, Archdeacon of Lewisham (1960–1972). Noboru Ito, 90, Japanese composer. Erling Dekke Næss, 91, Norwegian shipowner and businessman. Buddy Pepper, 70, American pianist and songwriter. Mohsen Sarhan, 79, Egyptian actor. Floyd Stromme, 76, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
8 Frank Davies, 85, Australian rules footballer. George Garlick, 71, Australian rules footballer. Teddy Glover, 90, English-American football player. Oto Grigalka, 67, Soviet Latvian track and field athlete and Olympian (1952, 1956). William Ewing Hester, 80, American tennis player and official. Douglas Heyes, 73, American screenwriter, heart attack. Eliot Janeway, 80, American economist. Anthony Kramreither, 66, Australian-Canadian film producer. Charles R. Lord, 61, American intelligence official, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (1986–1988). Roland Mousnier, 85, French historian. Franz Schnyder, 82, Swiss film director. Nagalingam Shanmugathasan, 72, Sri Lankan trade unionist. Bram van der Stok, 77, Dutch fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
9 Marián Filc, 44, Slovak Olympic figure skater (1968), heart attack. Bill Grundy, 69, English journalist and broadcaster, heart attack. Saburo Okita, 78, Japanese politician and economist. Elwood Richard Quesada, 88, American lieutenant general and businessman. Virginie Rausch, 86, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer (1928). Mingun Sayadaw, 81, Burmese theravada Buddhist monk. Kate Wilkinson, 76, American actress, bone cancer.
10 Elmer Barbour, 74, American gridiron football player (New York Giants). James C. H. Bonbright, 90, American diplomat and ambassador. Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, 78, French politician, prime minister (1957). William E. Cleator, Sr., 65, American politician, cancer. Bengt Edlén, 86, Swedish astronomer and academic. Fred Hollows, 63, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist, renal cancer. Gaya Prasad Katiyar, 92, Indian revolutionary. Mickey Murtagh, 88, American football player (New York Giants). Rip Repulski, 64, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers).
11 Kamal Amrohi, 75, Indian film director and screenwriter. Charles Eric Dawson, 70, Canadian ichthyologist. Joy Garrett, 47, American actress (Days of Our Lives), liver failure. Robert W. Holley, 71, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1968), lung cancer. Brian Inglis, 76, Irish journalist, historian and television presenter. Oksana Kostina, 20, Russian rhythmic gymnast, traffic collision. Desanka Maksimović, 94, Serbian poet and writer. Leo Nolan, 83, Australian rules footballer. Félix Ruiz, 52, Spanish footballer. Newton Steers, 76, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1977-1979). Alex Stewart, 84, Australian rules footballer.
12 Joe Booher, 51, American racing driver, racing accident. James Bulger, 2, English murder victim. Mark W. Ellingson, 88, American academic, president of the Rochester Institute of Technology (1936–1969). Thelma G. Thurstone, 95, American psychologist and psychological testing pioneer. Federico Valle, 85, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter (1956).
13 Araxie Babayan, 86, Soviet and Armenian organic chemist. G. H. Diggle, 90, English chess player. William Dodd, 84, English cricketer. Henry Duey, 84, American weightlifter and Olympic medalist (1932). Willoughby Gray, 76, English actor (Howards' Way, The Princess Bride, A View to a Kill), cancer.
14 Elek Bacsik, 66, Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist. Adrian Berce, 34, Australian Olympic field hockey player (1984). Eleazar Lipsky, 81, American lawyer, writer and playwright, leukemia. Eric Lionel Mascall, 87, English Anglican priest and theologian. Pedro Cortina y Mauri, 84, Spanish politician and diplomat. Veljko Milanković, 38, Bosnian Serb military commander, killed in battle. Terry Reardon, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens) and coach. Lester Wilson, 50, American dancer and choreographer (Saturday Night Fever), heart attack.
15 Kay Eakin, 75, American gridiron football player (New York Giants). Cary Gilbert, 50, American lyricist ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), diabetes. Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen, 64, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952). George Wallington, 68, American jazz pianist.
16 Leland D. Crawford, 63, United States Marine officer. Amos Guttman, 38, Israeli film director (Amazing Grace, Drifting), AIDS-related complications. Peter Molloy, 83, English football player, manager and referee. Robert Francis Peckham, 72, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of California). Richard S. Salant, 78, American news executive. Bill Zinser, 73, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
17 Hans Baur, 95, German flying ace. Eşref Bitlis, 59-60, Turkish general, plane crash. Jack Froggatt, 70, English football player. Rani Gaidinlu, 78, Indian revolutionary. Kostas Karagiannis, 60-61, Greek film director. Sammy Lowe, 74, American trumpeter. Paul Masino, 81, French Olympic gymnast (1936). Hans Scherbart, 87, German Olympic field hockey player (1936). Leslie Townsend, 89, English cricketer.
18 Marshall Carter, 83, American Army Lieutenant general. Ted Haworth, 75, American production designer (Sayonara, Some Like It Hot, The Longest Day), Oscar winner (1958), cardiovascular disease. Jacqueline Hill, 63, English actress (Doctor Who), breast cancer. Rita La Roy, 91, American actress and dancer, pneumonia. Allen Montgomery Lewis, 83, Saint Lucian barrister and public servant. Leslie Norman, 81, English film director. Arthur Skinner, 73, British Olympic sports shooter (1960). Kerry Von Erich, 33, American professional wrestler (WCCW), suicide by gunshot.
19 David L. Bazelon, 83, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit). Greg Brehaut, 46, Australian rules footballer. Judith Chaplin, 53, British politician, pulmonary embolism. Alexander Davydov, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist. Bernard T. Feld, 73, American nuclear physicist and academic. Gerhard Gesell, 82, American judge. Mohamed Hamzah, 74, Malaysian vexillographer, architect and field marshal. Česlovas Kudaba, 58, Lithuanian politician and geographer. Yusif Mirzayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle. Yaman Okay, 41, Turkish actor, pancreatic cancer.
20 Mario Abreu, 73, Venezuelan artist. Howard Mayer Brown, 62, American musicologist. Marian Bublewicz, 42, Polish racing driver, racing collision. H. E. Kirchner, 55, American college basketball player (TCU Horned Frogs). Ferruccio Lamborghini, 76, Italian automobile manufacturer (Lamborghini), heart attack.
21 Irma Christenson, 78, Swedish actress. Alison Fairlie, 75, English scholar. Harvey Kurtzman, 68, American cartoonist (Mad, Playboy), liver cancer. Inge Lehmann, 104, Danish seismologist and geophysicist. Eddy Tiel, 66, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952). Dick White, 86, British intelligence officer.
22 Pierre Dalem, 80, Belgian football player. Jean Lecanuet, 72, French politician, cancer. Bill Lickiss, 68, Australian politician. Hugo Schrader, 90, German television and film actor. B. D. Sharma, 75, Indian politician. Sirio Vernati, 85, Swiss football player. Feng Zhi, 87, Chinese writer and translator.
23 Helmut Braselmann, 81, German Olympic handball player (1936). Chuck Cook, 66, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (since 1979). Anne Dupire, 82, French Olympic swimmer (1928). Walter Fyrst, 91, Norwegian filmmaker. Joe Hutcheson, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Krisjānis Kundziņš, 87, Latvian Olympic wrestler (1936). Mario Pani, 81, Mexican architect and urbanist. Jarrett Robertson, 52, American army major general, helicopter crash. Carl Sautter, 44, American film and television writer (Moonlighting, Lucky Luke, Jetsons: The Movie).