The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1993
1 Joseph Christopher, 37, American serial killer, male breast cancer. Terry Frost, 86, American actor (Law of the Range, Cheyenne, The Maverick), heart attack. Rudolph Glossop, 91, British mining and civil engineer. Arnold Hirtz, 82, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Patrick Kavanagh, 73, Irish Olympic footballer (1948). Luis Kutner, 84, American lawyer. Ronald McCuaig, 84, Australian poet, journalist, and children's author. Nicola Monti, 72, Italian opera singer. Kari Tolvanen, 76, Finnish Olympic equestrian (1956). Oleg Zaytsev, 53, Soviet ice hockey defenceman and Olympian (1964, 1968).
2 André Bareau, 71, French Buddhologist. Rudolf Demetrovics, 78, Hungarian-born Romanian footballer. Julius Ebert, 94, Danish Olympic long-distance runner (1920). Bob Hammond, 87, Australian rules footballer. Hans Hilfiker, 91, Swiss engineer (Swiss railway clock). Hjalmar Thomsen, 79, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1948). Frans Westergren, 78, Swedish Olympic wrestler (1948). Paul D. Zimmerman, 54, American screenwriter (The King of Comedy), colon cancer.
3 Milton Bororo, 60, Brazilian footballer and Olympian (1952). Mel Bradford, 58, American politician and academic. Robert Carricart, 76, French-American film, television and theatre actor. Bill Draut, 71, American comic book artist (Phantom Stranger, The Flash, House of Mystery). Joey Fischer, 18, American murder victim. Jesús Bal y Gay, 87, Spanish composer, music critic, and musicologist. Harper Goff, 81, American musician, art director, and actor. Yoshio Kojima, 61, Japanese hammer thrower and Olympian (1956), suicide. Carlos Marcello, 83, Italian-American mobster (New Orleans crime family), stroke. Carlos Montoya, 89, Spanish flamenco guitarist, heart failure. James Allen Red Dog, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Albert Sabin, 86, Polish-American virologist, heart failure. Xie Xuegong, 76, Chinese politician.
4 Jerome Ambro, 64, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1975-1981). Bill Antonello, 65, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Georgette Anys, 83, French actress, cancer. Anšlavs Eglītis, 86, Latvian writer, journalist and painter, cancer. Art Hodes, 88, American jazz pianist. Tomislav Ivčić, 40, Croatian pop singer, songwriter and politician, traffic collision. Frank Johnson, 70, Australian rugby league footballer. Varujan Kojian, 57, Armenian-American conductor. Izaak Kolthoff, 99, Dutch-American chemist and academic. Kaisu Leppänen, 88, Finnish actress. Ed Opalewski, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions). Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, 64, English politician, MP (1959–1992), lung cancer. Richard Sale, 81, American screenwriter and director.
5 Colin Allan, 71, New Zealand colonial administrator and author. Alfred Ashley-Brown, 85, Australian politician, MP (1972–1974). Hans Christian Blech, 78, German actor. Cyril Collard, 35, French filmmaker (Savage Nights), AIDS. Herschel Daugherty, 82, American television and film director and actor. Jean Földeák, 89, German Olympic wrestler (1932). Wallace Givens, 82, American mathematician and computer scientist. Egil Borgen Johansen, 58, Norwegian Olympic archer (1972). Robert McCance, 94, British paediatrician, biochemist and nutritionist. Jeyhun Mirzayev, 46, Azerbaijani actor, heart attack. Robert Sawyer, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Mac Speedie, 73, American Hall of Fame gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns).
6 Takahide Aioi, 81, Japanese flying ace during World War II. Kåre Bjørnsen, 58, Norwegian footballer. Valentina Borisenko, 73, Soviet chess player. Andrew Gilchrist, 82, Scottish diplomat. Dan Johnson, 48, Canadian ice hockey player. Bengt Lindblad, 67, Swedish Olympic wrestler (1952, 1956). Douglas Marland, 58, American screenwriter (Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World), complications from abdominal surgery. Walther Siegmund-Schultze, 76, German musicologist. George Stumpf, 82, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox). Pierre Vandame, 79, French Olympic field hockey player (1948).
7 Mariya Barabanova, 81, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. Duane Carter, 79, American racing driver. Arnold Franchetti, 81–82, Italian-American composer. Tony Harris, 76, South African cricket player. Sammy Jones, 81, Irish footballer. Whitey Kachan, 67, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers). J. Merrill Knapp, 78, American musicologist and academic. Martti Larni, 83, Finnish writer. Patricia Lawrence, 67, English actress. Carlo Mazzarella, 73, Italian actor and journalist, lung cancer. Angelo Piccaluga, 86, Italian football player. Jim Spavital, 66, American gridiron football player, coach and executive. Jeremy Tree, 67, British thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Frank Wells, 83, Australian rules footballer. Earl Wrightson, 77, American singer, heart failure.
8 Ria Bancroft, 86, British-New Zealand artist. Don Barksdale, 69, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics), and Olympian (1948), throat cancer. Wilhelm Georg Berger, 63, Romanian composer, violist and conductor. Solomon J. Buchsbaum, 63, Polish-American physicist, multiple myeloma. Billy Eckstine, 78, American jazz musician, stroke. Vincent Salazard, 84, French racing cyclist. Berent Schwineköper, 80, German archivist and historian. Johannes Türn, 93, Estonian chess player. Rens Vis, 88, Dutch football player and Olympian (1928). Carl A. Youngdale, 80, American Marine Corps major general.
9 Bob Crosby, 79, American singer, actor, and television host (The Bob Crosby Show), cancer. Norveig Karlsen, 70, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1952). Jan Larsen, 47, Danish football (soccer) player. C. Northcote Parkinson, 83, British naval historian. Pavel Pavlenko, 90, Soviet stage and film actor. Wells Root, 92, American screenwriter (The Prisoner of Zenda). Vanya Voynova, 58, Bulgarian basketball player. Edwin Vásquez, 70, Peruvian sport shooter and Olympic champion (1948). Harry Wright, 73, American football player and coach. Max August Zorn, 86, German-born American mathematician.
10 Michał Antuszewicz, 83, Polish Olympic ice hockey player (1952). Dino Bravo, 44, American professional wrestler, shot. David Gunn, 47, American abortion care provider, murdered. Camille Howard, 78, American pianist and singer. Vladimir Suteev, 89, Russian author, artist and animator. Jerry Watford, 62, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Guido Wieland, 86, Austrian stage, film and television actor.
11 Tibor Donner, 85, Hungarian-Australian architect. Manuel da Fonseca, 81, Portuguese writer. Myrtle Maclagan, 81, English cricket player. Pragyananda Mahasthavir, 92, Nepalese buddhist monk. Stefania Reindl, 71, Polish gymnast and Olympian (1952). Irene Ware, 82, American actress.
12 Iuliu Bodola, 81, Romanian-Hungarian football player. Lonnie Frisbee, 43, American evangelist and mystic, AIDS-related complications. Syed Shahid Hamid, 82, Pakistan Army general. Habib Jalib, 64, Pakistani revolutionary poet, and activist. Michael Kanin, 83, American screenwriter (Woman of the Year, Teacher's Pet), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure. Annamalai Ramanathan, 46, Indian mathematician, complications from a heart attack. Alex Taylor, 46, American singer. June Valli, 64, American singer and television personality, cancer. Wang Zhen, 84, Chinese general and politician, vice president (since 1988).
13 Claire Huchet Bishop, 94, Swiss-American children's writer and librarian. Rocky Dzidzornu, 58, Ghanaian percussionist. Gene Hartley, 67, American racecar driver. Gaetano Kanizsa, 79, Italian psychologist and artist. Albert Maori Kiki, 61, Papua New Guinea politician. Pat Marcy, 79, Italian-American political boss. Petar Mazev, 66, Macedonian academic painter. Henry Morris, 73, Scottish football player. Dan Morrison, 61, American Olympic sailor (1976). Jean Tamini, 73, Swiss football player. Ann Way, 77, English film and television actress. Joe Wiley, 74, American baseball player.
14 Dick Arrington, 51, American football player, heart attack. Marcus Bartley, 75, Anglo-Indian cinematographer. Larz Bourne, 77, American cartoon writer. Ahmad Ebadi, 87, Iranian musician and setar player. Thore Enochsson, 84, Swedish Olympic runner (1936). Sergio Manente, 68, Italian football player and coach. Harold Soref, 76, English politician, MP (1970–1974). Albert Watson II, 84, American Army lieutenant general.
15 Georgette Chen, 86, Singaporean painter. Pat Cooper, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Paul Easterling, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics). Ricardo Arias Espinosa, 80, Panamanian politician, president (1955–1956). Ron Hansen, 61, American football player (Washington Redskins). Gustav A. Hedlund, 88, American mathematician. Lennart Hyland, 73, Swedish TV-show host and journalist. Edo Kovačević, 86, Croatian artist. Karl Mai, 64, German football player and manager, leukemia.
16 Natália Correia, 69, Portuguese intellectual, poet and social activist, heart attack. Johnny Cymbal, 48, Scottish-American songwriter, singer and record producer. Gordon Donaldson, 79, Scottish historian. Ralph Fults, 82, American outlaw (Barrow Gang). Srirangam Gopalaratnam, 53–54, Indian singer. Muhammad Khan Junejo, 60, Pakistani politician, prime minister (1985–1988), leukemia. Donald Randolph, 87, American actor, pneumonia. Chishū Ryū, 88, Japanese actor. Giovanni Testori, 69, Italian dramatist. Erich Valentin, 86, German musicologist. Odiel Van Den Meersschaut, 73, Belgian racing cyclist. Allan White, 77, English cricketer.
17 Joe Abreu, 79, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Constantin Anton, 98, Romanian general.Anton, St. Constantin Helen Hayes, 92, American actress (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, Airport, Happy Birthday), Oscar winner (1932, 1971), congestive heart failure. Charlotte Hughes, 115, English supercentenarian. Alby Pannam, 78, Australian footballer. John Joyce Russell, 95, American Roman Catholic prelate. Thorstein Treholt, 81, Norwegian politician, county governor of Oppland (1976–1981). John Witte, 60, American gridiron football player, leukemia. Skip Young, 63, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).
18 William K. Boardman, 78, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1961–1971). Kenneth E. Boulding, 83, English-American economist. Elemér Gyetvai, 65, Hungarian table tennis player. Edward Warburton Jones, 80, Northern Irish judge and politician. Buck Jordan, 86, American baseball player. Henrik Lubbers, 66, American Olympic field hockey player (1948) Aksel Nikolajsen, 92, Danish Olympic pole vaulter (1928)). Carlos A. Petit, 80, Argentine screenwriter. Syvasky Poyner, 36, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair. Robert A. Rushworth, 68, American general, pilot, and astronaut, heart attack. Joe Taylor, 67, American baseball player.
19 Bernie Crimmins, 73, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and coach (Indiana Hoosiers). Karen Dalton, 55, American folk blues musician, laryngeal cancer. Georges Garvarentz, 60, Armenian-French composer. Bruce Gotz, 79, Australian rules footballer. Dulcie Howes, 84, South African ballet dancer, and choreographer. Mark Hughes, 60, English politician, MP (1970–1987). Al McWilliams, 77, American comics artist. Gerhard Mertins, 73, German paratrooper during World War II, nazi and arms trafficker. Roger Michelot, 80, French Olympic boxer (1932, 1936). Henrik Sandberg, 77, Danish film producer.