The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1993
1 Hasan Abdullayev, 75, Soviet and Azerbaijani physicist and academic. Thomas Brodie, 89, British Army officer. Odell M. Conoley, 79, American Marine Corps brigadier general. Fritz Cremer, 86, German sculptor. Hüseyin Gürsoy, 58–59, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1968). Hew Lorimer, 86, Scottish sculptor. Bernie Lowe, 75, American musician. Neon Park, 52, American painter, comics artist and illustrator, ALS. Michael Sobell, 100, British businessman, philanthropist, and thoroughbred racehorses owner. Aleksey Vakhonin, 58, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion (1964), injuries sustained during brawl.
2 Eric Berry, 80, British actor, cancer. Reg Cantelon, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1963–1968). Dragotin Cvetko, 81, Slovenian composer and musicologist. Carl Anthony Fisher, 47, American Roman Catholic prelate, colorectal cancer. Fernando Lapuente, 65, Argentine Olympic sprinter (1948). Ingvar Moe, 56, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer. Russel B. Nye, 80, American professor of English and Pulitzer Prize winner.
3 Eric Batten, 79, English rugby player. David Brown, 89, English industrialist. Keith Chamberlain, 80, Australian rules footballer. Josep Maria de Porcioles i Colomer, 89, Spanish politician and mayor of Barcelona, heart attack. Don Corbitt, 69, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins). Lionel Fournier, 76, Canadian Olympic athlete (1948). Wakasegawa Taiji, 73, Japanese sumo wrestler.
4 Tommy Cheadle, 74, English football player. Haydn Davies, 81, Welsh cricketer. Baltasar Lobo, 83, Spanish artist, anarchist and sculptor. Semyon Marushkin, 74, Soviet Russian Olympic wrestler (1952). Johnny Rae, 59, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist. Hervé Villechaize, 50, French-American actor (Fantasy Island, The Man with the Golden Gun, Airplane II: The Sequel) and painter, suicide. Aaron Wildavsky, 63, American political scientist, lung cancer.
5 Baek Du-jin, 84, South Korean politician and Prime Minister of South Korea. Samim Kocagöz, 77, Turkish novelist. Sam Lieberman, 71, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals). Edwin Malindine, 83, British politician. Virgilio Mortari, 90, Italian composer and teacher. Fernand Payette, 72, Canadian Olympic wrestler (1948). Claude Renoir, 79, French cinematographer. John Truscott, 57, Australian actor and production- and costume designer, complications during heart surgery.
6 Pete Bennett, 65, Canadian football player. Howard Easterling, 81, American baseball player. Kevin Fox, 75, Australian rules footballer. Bjarne Liller, 57, Danish jazz musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. A. L. F. Rivet, 77, British archaeologist and cartographer. Paul Arthur Schilpp, 96, German-American philosopher and educator.
7 Eugen Barbu, 69, Romanian writer and journalist. Hall Bartlett, 70, American film producer, director, and screenwriter. Jean-Pierre Büchler, 85, Luxembourgish politician. Lefty Dizz, 56, American chicago blues guitarist and singer, esophageal cancer. Bruno Giorgi, 88, Brazilian sculptor. Christian Metz, 61, French film theorist, suicide. Guy Overton, 74, New Zealand cricketer. John Weld Peck II, 80, American judge. Ted Whitfield, 77, Australian rules footballer. Gábor Zsiborás, 35, Hungarian footballer.
8 Vincent Dethier, 78, American physiologist and entomologist. Santiago Goicoechea, 88, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1928). Peter Higgins, 64, British athlete and Olympic medalist (1956). Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, 88, Egyptian intellectual and philosopher. Earl Mattingly, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins). Tor Skjønsberg, 90, Norwegian resistance leader during World War II.
9 Jimmy Deuchar, 63, Scottish jazz trumpeter and big band arranger. Art Mooney, 80, American singer and bandleader. Helen O'Connell, 73, American big band singer and actress, liver cancer. David Tendlar, 84, American animator.
10 Garnet Ault, 87, Canadian swimmer and Olympic medalist (1928). Nicholas Bayard Dill, 87, Bermudian politician and military officer, heart attack. Julien Freund, 72, French sociologist and philosopher. Hajime Hana, 63, Japanese actor. Charles Harris, 79, American tennis player. Cal Howard, 82, American cartoon story artist and animator. Rita Karin, 73, Polish-American actress (Sophie's Choice). Meinrad Miltenberger, 68, German sprint canoer and Olympian (1952, 1956). Josef Odložil, 54, Czech middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist (1964, 1968), complications after fight. Krister Wickman, 69, Swedish politician.
11 Erling Andersen, 88, Norwegian-born American Olympic cross-country skier (1932). Dino, 91, Brazilian footballer. Luis Antonio Escobar, 68, Colombian composer and musicologist. Antoine Izméry, Haitian businessman and pro-democracy activist, shot. Charles Lamont, 98, American filmmaker, pneumonia. Erich Leinsdorf, 81, Austrian-born American conductor. Mary Jane Reoch, 48, American cycling champion, road accident. Les Scollard, 85, Australian rules footballer.
12 Charlie Bray, 95, English cricketer and journalist. Raymond Burr, 76, Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Rear Window, Ironside), Emmy winner (1959, 1961), kidney cancer. Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai, 78, Indian politician. Baligh Hamdi, 61, Egyptian composer, liver disease. Granny Hamner, 66, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics). Harold Innocent, 60, English actor (Henry V, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Buster). Edith Kiel, 89, German film producer, screenwriter, and director. Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, 93, Belgian jurist, politician, and Olympic bobsledder (1928).
13 Austregésilo de Athayde, 94, Brazilian writer and journalist. Gordon Bourne, 80, Australian cricketer. Karl Ehrenbolger, 93, Swiss Olympic footballer (1924). Steve Jordan, 74, American jazz guitarist. Pavel Kouba, 55, Czech football player. Yasushi Sasaki, 85, Japanese film director. Carl Voss, 86, American ice hockey player.
14 Adrianne Allen, 86, English stage actress, cancer. Bill Atwood, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Geo Bogza, 85, Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist. Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug, 78, Norwegian rifle shooter and Olympic champion (1952, 1956, 1960). Sheelagh Murnaghan, 69, Northern Irish politician. Bruno Schlokat, 95, German Olympic javelin thrower (1928). Glenn E. Smiley, 83, American clergyman and civil rights leader. Peter Tranchell, 71, British composer. Solange Térac, 86, French screenwriter and film director.
15 Ethan Allen, 89, American baseball player. Maurice Allingham, 97, Australian rules football player. Pino Puglisi, 56, Italian Roman Catholic priest, killed by the mafia. Yulian Semyonov, 61, Soviet and Russian writer, scriptwriter and poet. Shinsaku Tsukawaki, 62, Japanese Olympic gymnast (1956). Maurice Yaméogo, 71, President of Republic of Upper Volta (1959–1966).
16 Merv Bolger, 74, Australian rules footballer. István Grózner, 38, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1980). František Jílek, 80, Czech conductor, composer and pianist. Sid Kuller, 82, American comedy writer, producer and composer. Henri LaBorde, 84, American discus thrower and Olympian (1932). Max Marshall, 79, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Emil Møller, 88, Danish footballer. J. R. Monterose, 66, American jazz saxophonist. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 72, Aboriginal Australian political activist and artist. Vera Orlova, 75, Soviet and Russian actress. Rok Petrovič, 27, Yugoslav and Slovenian alpine skier and Olympian (1988), drowned. Jim Staton, 66, American football player (Washington Redskins).
17 Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, 93, Canadian classical scholar and Latin prosopographer. Pete Elko, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). James Griffith, 77, American actor, musician and screenwriter, cancer. Jon Jelacic, 56, American gridiron football player (New York Giants, Oakland Raiders). Willie Mosconi, 80, American pool player, heart attack. Christian Nyby, 80, American film director (The Thing from Another World). Tarzie Vittachi, 71, Sri Lankan journalist, liver cancer.
18 Aris Konstantinidis, 80, Greek modernist architect. Henrietta Leaver, 77, American beauty pageant contestant, cancer. Hans Schwarzenbach, 80, Swiss equestrian and Olympic medalist (1952, 1960). Asit Sen, 76, Indian Hindi film director and comedian.
19 Helen Adam, 83, Scottish poet, collagist and photographer. Art Burris, 69, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons, Milwaukee Hawks). John E. Dimon, 77, American politician. Marcel Mariën, 73, Belgian artist and filmmaker, cancer. András Mihály, 75, Hungarian cellist, composer and academic teacher. Moses Simwala, 44, Zambian footballer, coach and Olympian (1980). John Tavener, 72, American college football player (Indiana Hoosiers). Mufti Muhammad Waqaruddin, 78, Pakistani Islamic scholar. Frank Wurm, 69, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
20 Edwin Blunt, 75, English football player. Erich Hartmann, 71, German fighter pilot and most successful fighter ace during World War II, brain cancer. Zlatko Mašek, 64, Yugoslav Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1956). Leonard Parkin, 64, British television journalist and newscaster, cancer. Hans Suess, 83, Austrian physicist. Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II, 80, American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer. John P. Vukasin Jr., 65, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of California).
21 John H. Comstock, 89, American politician from Nebraska. Joe Daher, 80, American college basketball and football coach. John Goodell, 86, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Sverre Johannessen, 72, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952). Fernand Ledoux, 96, Belgian-French film and theatre actor. Antonio Quintana Simonetti, 74, Cuban modernist architect. Francis Weldon, 80, British equestrian and Olympic champion (1956, 1960).
22 Maurice Abravanel, 90, Greek-born American conductor. Emilio Botín, 90, Spanish banker. Niklaus Meienberg, 53, Swiss writer and investigative journalist, suicide. Mihai Tänzer, 88, Romanian football player and Olympian (1924).
23 Tommy Bogan, 73, Scottish football player. William Cort, 57, American actor, cancer. Myer Galpern, 90, Scottish politician. Koichi Hirakida, 55, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist (1960). Charles Loughlin, 79, British politician. Keith Marshall, 86, Australian rules footballer.
24 Ian Stuart Donaldson, 36, English neo-Nazi musician and frontman of punk rock band Skrewdriver, car crash. Izzy Goldstein, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Zita Johann, 89, Austrian-American actress. Mike Kabealo, 77, American football player (Cleveland Rams). Wilhelm Marais, 85, South African cricket player and umpire. Bruno Pontecorvo, 80, Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, Parkinson's disease. Tamara Talbot Rice, 89, Russian-English art historian. Alfred Wróbel, 65, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1952, 1956).
25 Willy Fitz, 75, Austrian football player and coach. Francis Raymond Fosberg, 85, American botanist. John Moores, 97, English businessman, politician and philanthropist. Scoop Posewitz, 85, American basketball player. Rudolf Rasmussen, 75, Danish Olympic cyclist (1948). Manlio Scopigno, 67, Italian football player and coach, heart attack.
26 Nina Berberova, 92, Russian writer, fall. Frank Dunlap, 69, Canadian football and ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). Bernie Finn, 86, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Semyon Pavlovich Ivanov, 86, Soviet general and Hero of the Soviet Union. Edith Meiser, 95, American author and actress.