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 (1948). 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 Olympic ice hockey player (1948). Jim Cleary, 78, Australian rules footballer. 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 Olympic track cyclist (1928). Will Weng, 86, American journalist and crossword puzzle editor (The New York Times).
3 Libero Bigiaretti, 86, Italian novelist. Robert De Niro Sr., 71, American painter, father of Robert De Niro, cancer. Joe Lukeman, 91, Australian rules footballer. 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 (Washington Redskins), 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 Olympic basketball player (1936). Irving Howe, 72, American socialist activist, cardiovascular disease. Taimi Mattsson, 79, Finnish Olympic fencer (1952). 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. Henri Conchy, 84, French footballer. 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.
7 Zhao Boping, 90, Chinese politician. Eddie Cranage, 75, Australian rules footballer. 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. Jameel Mahmood, 54, Indian army lieutenant general, general commanding officer of the Eastern Command (since 1992), helicopter crash. Eric Olsen, 77, American Olympic sailor (1956). 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 (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).
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. Al Tate, 74, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor, 87, English-Irish hereditary peer.
9 Mario Baeza, 77, Chilean footballer. Reginald Bryan, 77, English cricketer and British Army officer. Joe Churchman, 68, Australian rules footballer. Ted Cieslak, 80, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). 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). Pete Sunkett, 75, American baseball player.
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 Olympic basketball player (1948). 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 (Los Angeles Rams, Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers). Nils Sjöblom, 83, Finnish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952). Torsten Ullman, 84, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). 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 (1948, 1952), lung cancer. Evert Dolman, 47, Dutch cyclist and Olympian (1964). Capt. John Treasure Jones, 87, British sea officer, aneurysm. Franjo Palković, 86, Yugoslavian Olympic wrestler (1928). Ulf Palme, 72, Swedish film actor. Marek Roszczynialski, 75, Polish Olympic equestrian (1960). 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.לרגל 30 שנה למותו: בחזרה לסיפורו האגדי של ניצול השואה שמואל גוגול (in Hebrew) Bede Griffiths, 86, British priest and Benedictine monk. Milt Jordan, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Wolfgang Lotz, 72, Israeli spy. Don Manson, 74, Australian rugby league footballer. M. K. Menon, 64, Indian writer.
14 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. Ross Ousley, 56, Australian rules footballer. Melvin Swig, 75, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
15 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.
16 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. John Lookabaugh, 70, American football player (Washington Redskins). James Taylor, 75, Scottish sportsman.
17 Henrique Anjos, 41, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1972, 1984, 1988). Earl Chudoff, 85, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1949-1958). 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). Bill Wallace, 80, American college football player (Rice Owls).
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 (Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics). 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 Paul Anthony, 69, American basketball player. John Frost, 80, British Army officer (Battle of Arnhem). Pete Hecomovich, 74, American basketball player. 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 (1964, 1968, 1972).
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. Rags Carter, 64, American race car driver. Julian de Ajuriaguerra, 82, Spanish-French psychologist.