The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1993
1 Bob Carter, 71, American jazz bassist and arranger. Claire Du Brey, 100, American actress. Elmira Gafarova, 59, Azerbaijani politician and diplomat, heart attack. Ron Halcombe, 87, Australian cricketer. Ewing Kauffman, 76, American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and baseball executive, bone cancer. Alfred Manessier, 81, French painter, stained glass artist, and tapestry designer, traffic collision. Luciano Montero, 85, Spanish road bicycle racer. Theron Newell, 77, American writer. George H. Revercomb, 64, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Columbia). Gerry Sundquist, 37, English actor, suicide.
2 Guido del Mestri, 82, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. Archie Fraser, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Hosai Fujisawa, 74, Japanese professional Go player. Nigel Henderson, 84, British admiral in the Royal Navy. Kamal Mitra, 80, Indian actor. John Roxburgh, 61, Australian racing driver, and motor sports administrator."Death of first Great Race winner" in Normoyle, Steve (Ed.) The Great Race 1993/1994 (Chevron Publishing, 1993) p. 74. Janusz Sidło, 60, Polish javelin thrower and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968).
3 Petr Beckmann, 68, Czechoslovak-American writer and physicist. Vittorio Badini Confalonieri, 79, Italian politician and lawyer. James Donald, 76, Scottish actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape, The Vikings), stomach cancer. Alwyn Howard Gentry, 48, American botanist and plant collector, plane crash. Siem Heiden, 88, Dutch Olympic speed skater (1928). Prem Krishna Khanna, 99, Indian revolutionary and politician. Ernie Norman, 80, Australian rugby player. Theodore A. Parker III, 40, American ornithologist, plane crash. Chinmayananda Saraswati, 77, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and teacher. Mercedes Valdivieso, 69, Chilean writer.
4 Nesmith Ankeny, 66, American mathematician. Bernard Barrow, 65, American actor (Ryan's Hope, Serpico, Rachel, Rachel), lung cancer. Kenny Drew, 64, American jazz pianist. Jack Dwan, 72, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers). John Elmer, 88, Australian rules footballer. Bob Maier, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). John Pickard, 80, American actor (Boots and Saddles, True Grit, Gunslinger), animal attack. George M. Wallhauser, 93, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959-1965).
5 Bob Cooper, 67, American jazz musician, heart attack. Randy Jo Hobbs, 45, American musician, heart failure. Homer A. Jack, 77, American unitarian clergyman, pacifist and social activist. Joseph Paul Jernigan, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Karin Nellemose, 88, Danish actress. Bill Peterson, 73, American football player and coach. Holly Piirainen, 10, American murder victim. Francisco Rúa, 82, Argentine football player. Willi Sturm, 65, German Olympic water polo player (1952, 1956). Eugen Suchoň, 84, Slovak composer.
6 Frog Fagan, 52, Canadian racing driver. Tex Hughson, 77, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox). Vice Jurišić, 84, Yugoslavian Olympic rower (1936). Bob Kiesel, 81, American sprinter and Olympic champion (1932). Ben Klassen, 75, American politician and white supremacist religious leader, suicide. Esad Mekuli, 76, Albanian poet, critic and translator. Bob Miller, 54, American baseball player. Henri Philippe Pharaoun, 92, Lebanese businessman and politician, homicide. Milton Orville Thompson, 67, American naval officer and NASA test pilot. Bill Thomson, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), and Olympian (1936).
7 Geert Bakker, 72, Dutch sailor and Olympian (1976, 1980). Roy Budd, 46, British jazz pianist and composer, stroke. John R. Burke, 68, American ambassador to Guyana during the Jonestown Massacre. David Fleay, 86, Australian scientist and naturalist. Charles Maxwell, 79, American actor and producer. Gerhard Neuser, 54, German footballer. Louis Sheaffer, 80, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, heart failure.
8 Harry Bellaver, 88, American actor, pneumonia. Nico Habermann, 61, Dutch computer scientist, heart attack. Roy London, 50, American actor and acting coach, AIDS-related complications. Andor László, 78, Hungarian economist.
9 Elena Fabrizi, 78, Italian actress and television personality. Milorad Mitrović, 85, Yugoslavian Olympic football player (1928). Chad Oliver, 65, American anthropologist and science fiction writer. Ion Vatamanu, 56, Moldovan writer and politician.
10 Audrey Chapman, 94, American silent film era actress. Ken Englund, 79, American screenwriter. Euronymous, 25, Norwegian musician of the black metal band Mayhem, stabbed. Bill Ferrazzi, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Diana Holman-Hunt, 79, English memoir writer and art critic. Bert Johnson, 81, American football player. Eva Olmerová, 59, Czech pop and jazz singer, cirrhosis. David Rogers, 57, American country music artist. Quincy Trouppe, 80, American baseball player and an amateur boxing champion.
11 Alyn Beals, 72, American gridiron football player (San Francisco 49ers). Agamemnon Gratsios, 71, Greek Army general. Eysteinn Jónsson, 86, Icelandic politician and minister. Bill Wilson, 50, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), cancer.
12 Ken Deal, 65, American baseball player and manager. John H. Dessauer, 88, German-American chemical engineer and businessman. Regina Olson Hughes, 98, American scientific illustrator in botanical art. Jack Lott, 73, American big game hunter and writer. George Mason, 79, English football player. Jerome Thor, 78, American actor.
13 Bride Adams-Ray, 86, Swedish Olympic high jumper (1928). Veli Autio, 83, Finnish rower and Olympian (1948). Henri Baudrand, 90, French Olympic weightlifter (1928). Jackson Edward Betts, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1973). Barbara Gibbs Golffing, 80, American poet and translator. Fred Grafft, 81, American basketball player. Frank Gray, 87, Australian rugby league footballer. Helene Jacobs, 87, German resistance member during World War II. Margarita Padín, 83, Argentine actress. Rodolfo Tommasi, 85, Italian football player.
14 Jiří Adamíra, 67, Czech actor and university educator. June Heath, 64, Australian Olympic javelin thrower (1956). Hans Henn, 66, German bobsledder and Olympian (1956). Francis Mankiewicz, 49, Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer. André Méric, 80, French politician, traffic collision. Günther van Well, 70, German diplomat and West German ambassador.
15 Jim Bolwell, 81, Australian rules footballer. Johnny Bratton, 65, American boxing champion. Arthur Grenfell Clarke, 86, Hong Kong politician. Patricia St. John, 74, English writer. Robert Kempner, 93, German-American lawyer. Kalevi Lilja, 67, Finnish football player and Olympian (1952). Bob McCulley, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Hans Nordahl, 75, Norwegian football player. Nathán Pinzón, 76, Argentine actor, heart attack.
16 Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, 81, Iranian-Iraqi Shia Grand Ayatollah. Jacob D. Beam, 85, American diplomat. René Dreyfus, 88, French racecar driver. Ernest Fernyhough, 84, British politician. Tom Fuccello, 56, American actor (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Dallas, Mac and Me), AIDS-related complications. Stewart Granger, 80, British film actor, cancer. Joan Hughes, 75, English test pilot and stunt performer. Kitty Joyner, 77, American electrical engineer with the NACA and NASA. Bama Rowell, 77, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Philadelphia Phillies). Irene Sharaff, 83, American costume designer (West Side Story, Cleopatra, An American in Paris), five-time Oscar winner, heart failure. Ethelwynn Trewavas, 92, British ichthyologist.
17 Max Gebhardt, 89, German Olympic long-distance runner (1936). Feng Kang, 72, Chinese mathematician. Robert C. Maynard, 56, American journalist and newspaper publisher, prostate cancer. Phil Seymour, 41, American musician, lymphoma. Al Sima, 71, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Athletics).
18 Tony Barwick, 59, British television scriptwriter, cancer. Heinrich Hess, 65, German Olympic canoeist (1952). Daisy Lumini, 57, Italian composer, singer and stage actress, suicide. Tino Schirinzi, 59, Italian actor and stage director, suicide. Paweł Stok, 80, Polish basketball player and Olympian (1936).
19 Lucinda Ballard, 87, American costume designer (The Gay Life, Another Part of the Forest, A Streetcar Named Desire), Tony winner (1947, 1962), cancer. Iris Faircloth Blitch, 81, American politician. Mal Drury, 83, Australian rules footballer. Utpal Dutt, 64, Indian actor, director, and playwright. Gérard Hérold, 53, French actor, heart attack. Salah Jadid, 67, Syrian general and politician, heart attack. Donald William Kerst, 81, American physicist. Bob L. Miller, 69, Australian rules footballer.
20 Tony Barton, 56, English football player and football manager, heart attack. Koos de Jong, 81, Dutch sailor and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952). William J. Murphy, 81, American politician. Reiner Schürmann, 52, German Dominican priest and philosopher, AIDS-related complications. Viktor Torshin, 45, Russian Olympic sport shooter (1972, 1976).
21 Bert Ashby, 84, Australian rules footballer. Louis Cools-Lartigue, 88, Dominican politician. Paula Deubel, 58, American shot putter and Olympian (1956). Felix Evans, 82, American baseball player. Ichirō Fujiyama, 82, Japanese singer and composer. Graeme Jennings, 47, Australian Olympic fencer (1968). Kasdi Merbah, 55, Algerian politician, murdered. Vera Romanić, 82, Yugoslavian Olympic sprinter (1936). Tatiana Troyanos, 54, American mezzo-soprano, breast cancer.
22 Eddie Chiles, 83, American businessman and baseball executive. Dinmukhamed Konayev, 81, Soviet and Kazakhstan communist politician. Len Pigg, 73, American baseball player. R. Gundu Rao, 56, Indian politician, leukemia . Halsey Royden, 64, American mathematician, heart attack. Yoshiko Shigekane, 66, Japanese writer.
23 Gregory Gaye, 92, Russian-American actor. Piero Parini, 98, Italian journalist and politician. Edvard Ravnikar, 85, Slovenian architect. Jim Reninger, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Charles Scorsese, 80, American actor (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Color of Money).
24 George Cansdale, 83, British zoologist, writer and television personality. Ruben Cantu, 26, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Leopoldo Contarbio, 64, Argentine basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952). D. B. Deodhar, 101, Indian cricket player. Jack Gaudion, 83, Australian rules footballer. Boris Levin, 86, Soviet and Russian mathematician. David Mason, 36, American serial killer, execution by gas chamber. Albert Joseph McConnell, 89, Irish mathematician and mathematical physicist.
25 Janna Allen, 36, American songwriter, leukemia. Amy Biehl, 26, American anti-Apartheid activist, homicide. Cecil Bolton, 89, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Tom Gallery, 95, American film actor and sports promoter. Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, 94, Hong Kong industrialist, photographer and philanthropist. Boris Moishezon, 55, Soviet and Russian mathematician, heart attack. Macauley Smith, 88, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1928). Henri Steenacker, 67, Belgian rower and Olympian (1952, 1956). Arthur Stott, 83, Canadian Olympic diver (1932).
26 Karl Bewerunge, 80, German politician. Jean Carmen, 80, American film, stage, and radio actress.