The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1993
1 Tom Berry, 81, English rugby player and administrator. Gert Hofmann, 62, German writer and professor, cerebrovascular disease. Sevi Holmsten, 71, Finnish Olympic rower (1952). Eric Irvin, 84, Australian writer and historian of Australian theatre.
2 Ingvar Berg, 87, Swedish Air Force officer and Olympic pentathlete (1928). Weary Dunlop, 85, Australian surgeon and POW during World War II. Fred Gwynne, 66, American actor (The Munsters, Car 54, Where Are You?, Pet Sematary), pancreatic cancer. Irving J. Moore, 74, American television director, heart attack. Joe Muich, 89, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Mariette Protin, 87, French Olympic freestyle swimmer (1924). Clarence Zener, 87, American physicist. Notable people killed during the Sivas massacre Muhlis Akarsu, 45, Turkish folk singer and musician Behçet Aysan, 44, Turkish poet Asım Bezirci, 66, Turkish critic, writer and poet Nesimi Çimen, 62, Turkish folk singer and poet Hasret Gültekin, 22, Turkish musician and poet
3 Giichi Arima, 81, Japanese baseball player. Novica Čanović, 31, Yugoslav and Serbian high jumper and Olympian (1984), killed in action. Joe DeRita, 83, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), pneumonia. Don Drysdale, 56, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers), and television sports commentator, heart attack. Américo Fernandes, 93, Brazilian Olympic rower (1932). Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 60, Guatemalan politician and newspaper publisher, murdered. Dave Rubinstein, 28, American singer and co-founder of hardcore punk band Reagan Youth, suicide.
4 Yvette Amice, 57, French mathematician Bona Arsenault, 89, Canadian politician. Lew Evans, 65, Australian rules footballer. Lola Gaos, 71, Spanish actress, colorectal cancer. Alston Scott Householder, 89, American mathematician. Roman Abelevich Kachanov, 72, Soviet and Russian animator. Hellmut Lantschner, 83, Austrian-German alpine skier and world champion. Anne Shirley, 75, American actress, lung cancer. Walter Stephenson, 82, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies). John Treadaway, 79, British boxer and Olympian (1936).
5 Kali Banerjee, 71, Indian actor. George Barker, 77, Australian rules footballer. Charlie Bishop, 69, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics). Maria Teresa de Noronha, 74, Portuguese aristocrat and fado singer. Tom Maguire, 101, Irish republican and politician. Harrison Salisbury, 84, American journalist.
6 Olive Ann Beech, 88, American businesswoman and co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation John Gatenby Bolton, 71, British-Australian astronomer. Jean-Baptiste Delille, 80, French racing cyclist. Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, 84, British Lady-in-waiting and confidante of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Szabolcs Izsák, 49, Hungarian Olympic sailor (1968, 1972). Michael Rothenstein, 85, English printmaker, painter and art teacher.
7 Elemér Berkessy, 88, Hungarian football player and coach. Aleks Buda, 82, Albanian historian. Ben Chapman, 84, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack. Ove Arbo Høeg, 94, Norwegian botanist. Rıfat Ilgaz, 82, Turkish teacher, writer and poet. Bob Lundell, 86, American football player. William McElwee Miller, 100, American missionary and author. Larry Napp, 77, American baseball umpire. Ray Powell, 69, Australian rules footballer. Mia Zapata, 27, American singer (The Gits), murdered.
8 Charles Adkins, 61, American boxer and Olympic champion (1952). John Brackenborough, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). Isabela Corona, 80, Mexican actress, heart attack. Eddie Dixon, 77, American baseball player. Wayne Howell, 72, American voice-over announcer, heart attack. Phil Nagle, 71, Australian rules footballer. John Riseley-Prichard, 69, British racing driver, AIDS related disease. Paul Sharits, 50, American filmmaker and visual artist. Fred Weick, 93, American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer.
9 Metin Altıok, 52, Turkish poet, arson attack. Henry Hazlitt, 98, American journalist and writer. Jaap Meijer, 80, Dutch historian and poet. Steve Previn, 67, German-American television director and film producer. Will Rogers, Jr., 81, American politician, writer, and newspaper publisher, suicide.
10 Teodor Anioła, 67, Polish football player. Alfred Haemerlinck, 87, Belgian road bicycle racer. Muhammad Ali Haitham, 53, Prime Minister of South Yemen. Masuji Ibuse, 95, Japanese author. Ruth Krauss, 91, American children's author. Ivan Maček, 84, Yugoslav-Slovenian communist politician. Sam Rolfe, 69, American screenwriter and television producer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), heart attack. Armand Vaquerin, 42, French rugby player.
11 Mario Bauzá Cárdenas, 82, Cuban latin and jazz musician. Jack Downing, 73, British sculptor. Bill Falkinder, 71, Australian air force officer and politician. Bill McKalip, 86, American football player (Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit Lions). Mary Moder, 87, American voice actress for Disney, heart attack. Saint Sophrony, 96, Russian monk and Archimandrite. Denis Tomlinson, 82, Rhodesian cricket player.
12 Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, 96, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal. Lily Bouwmeester, 91, Dutch actress. Li Da, 88, Chinese communist general. Dan Eldon, 22, British-Kenyan photojournalist, artist and activist, stoned. Michał Goleniewski, 70, Polish intelligence officer and spy. Saiyid Nurul Hasan, 71, Indian historian and politician, kidney failure. Gusti Huber, 78, Austrian-American actress. John Jenkins, 62, American jazz saxophonist. Ruth Norman, 92, American religious leader. James Peck, 78, American activist and pacifist. Antun Šoljan, 60, Croatian writer.
13 Davey Allison, 32, American NASCAR racing driver, helicopter crash. Bernard Bienvenu, 72, French footballer and Olympian (1948). Jürgen Frohriep, 65, German actor. A. K. Ramanujan, 64, Indian poet and scholar. Leslie Thorne, 77, Scottish racing driver.
14 Henning A. Blomen, 82, American politician. Léo Ferré, 76, French-Monégasque poet and composer. Hannes Kästner, 63, German organist and harpsichordist. Bobby Kent, 20, American murder victim. Gary Mull, 55, American yacht designer.
15 Hugo Ballivián, 92, President of Bolivia. Maurice Beke, 85, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1936). David Brian, 78, American actor, cancer. Young Corbett III, 88, Italian-born American boxing champion. Yevgeny Fyodorov, 81, Soviet Air Force major general and Hero of the Soviet Union. Antonio García, 84, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1936). Phil Gehrig, 58, Australian rules footballer. Bert Greeves, 87, British motorcycle pioneer.
16 Gretel Adorno, 91, German chemist and intellectual. Jack Brewer, 79, British athlete and Olympian (1948). Tom Burns, 76, Australian rules footballer. Joseph Culverwell, 75, Zimbabwean politician. Michel Hollard, 95, French member of the resistance during World War II. Genowefa Kobielska, 87, Polish track and field athlete and Olympian (1928). José Pastenes, 78, Chilean football player.
17 Vladimir Barmin, 84, Russian engineer and rocket scientist. Pál Dunay, 84, Hungarian epee and foil fencer and Olympian (1936, 1948). Eschel Rhoodie, 60, South African politician and spin doctor. Hamo Sahyan, 79, Armenian poet and translator. Scott Salmon, 50, American choreographer, dancer, and musical theatre actor Adolf Yushkevich, 87, Soviet historian of mathematics.
18 Toru Abe, 76, Japanese film actor. Héctor Freschi, 82, Argentinian football goalkeeper. Jørgen Gry, 78, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936). Jean Negulesco, 93, Romanian-American film director and screenwriter. Davis Roberts, 76, American actor, pulmonary emphysema. Ted Sadowski, 57, American baseball player (Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins). Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley, 74, British politician.
19 Szymon Goldberg, 84, Polish-American classical violinist and conductor. Gordon Gray, 82, Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal. Shozo Ishihara, 82, Japanese Olympic speed skater (1932, 1936). Girilal Jain, 69, Indian journalist. Elmar Klos, 83, Czech film director. Fred Liewehr, 84, Austrian stage and film actor. Frederic Orendi, 63, Romanian Olympic gymnast (1952, 1964). Red Prysock, 67, American rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist. Luzius Rüedi, 93, Swiss ice hockey player (1928).
20 Mitchell Brookins, 32, American football player (Buffalo Bills). Vince Foster, 48, American attorney and deputy White House counsel, suicide. Afanasy Kovalyov, 89, Soviet statesman and politician. Jacqueline Lamba, 82, French painter and surrealist artist. Adolf Macek, 53, Austrian footballer. Charles Rice, 85, Australian rugby league footballer. Kath Smith, 77, Australian cricketer. Tsunemi Tsuda, 32, Japanese baseball player, brain cancer.
21 Walter Blair Jr., 32, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. Harry Freeman-Jackson, 82, Irish Olympic equestrian (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964). Fusanishiki Katsuhiko, 57, Japanese sumo wrestler. Robert Glass, 53, American sound engineer (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Flashdance), Oscar winner (1983). René-Jean Jacquet, 60, French football goalkeeper. Edwin James George Pitman, 95, Australian mathematician. Richard Tee, 49, American musician, prostate cancer. Michael Wulf, 29, German heavy metal musician, motorcycle accident.
22 John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, 60, Scottish peer and art collector, cancer. Gunnar Bror Fritiof Degelius, 90, Swedish lichenologist. Piero Heliczer, 56, Italian-American poet, publisher, actor and filmmaker, traffic collision. Roscoe Robinson, Jr., 64, American Army general. Ivar Stokke, 82, Norwegian wrestler and Olympian (1936).
23 Saad bin Abdulaziz, 77, Saudi royal. Florence Nightingale David, 83, English statistician. Raul Gardini, 60, Italian businessman, suicide. John Langford-Holt, 77, British politician. Rudolf Macúch, 73, Slovak-German linguist. Luís de Sttau Monteiro, 67, Portuguese writer, novelist and playwright. Rupert Mudge, 65, Australian rugby player. Abe Shires, 76, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, 64, American Chicago blues guitarist and singer. Megan Taylor, 72, British figure skater and Olympian (1932). Lera Millard Thomas, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1966-1967). James R. Jordan Sr., 56, father of famed basketball player Michael Jordan, gunshot wound.
24 George Armstrong, 69, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Robert Bednar, 82, Austrian Olympic bobsledder (1936). Erik Jansson, 86, Swedish Olympic road racing cyclist (1928). Anna Maurizio, 92, Swiss biologist. Joe Osmanski, 75, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears). Víktor Pankrashkin, 35, Soviet basketball player and Olympian (1988). Rene Requiestas, 36, Filipino actor and comedian, tuberculosis.
25 Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, 80, Scottish noblewoman. Francis Bouygues, 70, French businessman and film producer. Ganku, 69, Chinese politician. Nan Grey, 75, American film actress, heart attack. Steven Pankow, 85, American businessman and politician. Cecilia Parker, 79, Canadian-American film actress. Vincent Schaefer, 87, American chemist and meteorologist. Conrad L. Wirth, 93, American landscape architect and conservationist.
26 Daniel Fuchs, 84, American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist, heart failure. Marcellite Garner, 83, American artist and voice actress (Minnie Mouse). Jesús Castro González, 42, Spanish football player, drowned. Simon Greenberg, 92, Russian-American rabbi and scholar. Mikhail Kozell, 81, Soviet and Russian painter.