The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.
November 1993
1 Maeve Brennan, 76, Irish short story writer and journalist. Freda Corbet, 92, British politician. Georges Dancigers, 85, Russian-French film producer. Naina Devi, 76, Indian vocalist of Hindustani classical music. Clément Dupont, 94, French Olympic rugby player (1924). Pinkie George, 88, American professional wrestling promoter and boxer. Mervyn Jayathunga, 53, Sri Lankan actor. Loelia Lindsay, 91, British peeress and magazine editor. Severo Ochoa, 88, Spanish physician, biochemist, and Nobel Prize laureate. George A. Sheehan, 74, American physician and sports writer, prostate cancer. A. N. Sherwin-White, 82, British ancient historian and academic. Frank Sundström, 81, Swedish actor. Sir Arthur Ward, 87, New Zealand dairy researcher and university administrator. Salgado Zenha, 70, Portuguese lawyer and politician.
2 Raymond Distave, 79, Belgian Olympic field hockey player (1936). Oswald Junkes, 72, German Olympic weightlifter (1952). Đuro Kurepa, 86, Yugoslav mathematician. Butch Nieman, 75, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Braves). Miguel Vasconcelos, 83, Mexican Olympic middle-distance runner (1932). Fred Williams, 80, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Jean-Claude Wuillemin, 50, French Olympic cyclist (1964).
3 Richard Bayha, 64, German politician member of the Bundestag. H. G. Callan, 76, English zoologist and cytologist. Aidan Crawley, 85, British journalist, television executive, and politician. Bernard Martin Decker, 89, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois). Duncan Gibbins, 41, British film and music video director, and screenwriter, burns. Doug Gibson, 63, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1948). Arnold Hamer, 76, English cricket player. William Lanteau, 70, American actor (Newhart, On Golden Pond, From Noon till Three). John Lupton, 65, American actor (Broken Arrow, Days of Our Lives, Julius Caesar). Redmond Phillips, 81, New Zealand actor (Tom Jones, A Night to Remember, Spyforce). Leon Theremin, 97, Russian and Soviet inventor. Henri Thomas, 80, French writer and poet. Vuko Vukadinović, 56, Yugoslav and Montenegrin communist.
4 Daniel Barrow, 84, American rower and Olympian (1936). Jackie Callura, 76, Canadian featherweight boxer and Olympian (1932). Cem Ersever, 43, Turkish Army officer, murdered. Joe Hogan, 83, Australian rules footballer. Allan Hoover, 86, British-American mining engineer, rancher, and financier. Ely Landau, 73, American film producer and executive, stroke. Nerina Montagnani, 96, Italian actress, pneumonia. Seongcheol, 81, Korean Buddhist monk. Thomas Glynn Walker, 93, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of New Jersey). Cliff Young, 29, American baseball player (California Angels, Cleveland Indians), traffic accident.
5 Basuki Abdullah, 78, Indonesian painter, beaten to death. Michael Bilton, 73, English actor. Kevin Clarke, 61, Australian rules footballer. Mario Cecchi Gori, 73, Italian film producer and businessman. Bertil Lundman, 94, Swedish anthropologist. Tadeusz Pankiewicz, 84, Polish pharmacist and resistance member during World War II. Arthur Rowe, 87, English football player and manager.
6 Zena Abbott, 71, New Zealand weaver. Torsten Fenslau, 29, German disc jockey and music producer, traffic collision. Jack Hennemier, 80, American gridiron football coach and scout. Alexandru Piru, 76, Romanian literary critic and historian. Georges Reeb, 72, French mathematician. Ed Sadowski, 62, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels, Atlanta Braves), ALS. Joseph Serchuk, 74, Polish partisan during World War II. Ralph Randles Stewart, 103, American botanist. Michael Vernon, 61, Australian consumer rights activist, multiple myeloma.
7 Charles Aidman, 68, American actor, cancer. Clemente Gaddi, 91, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. Adelaide Hall, 92, American jazz singer and entertainer, pneumonia. Jon Hernandez, 24, Filipino actor, traffic collision. Mamadzhan Ismailov, 57, Soviet Olympic equestrian (1972). Nikolay Kostylev, 55, Russian weightlifter. Terris Moore, 85, American explorer and mountaineer, president of the University of Alaska, heart attack. Yuri Osmanov, 52, Soviet and Crimean Tatar civil rights activist, murdered. Walt Rankin, 74, American National Football League player (Chicago Cardinals, Card-Pitt). Tex Shirley, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns). Jack Martin Smith, 82, American art director (Cleopatra, Fantastic Voyage, Planet of the Apes), Oscar winner (1964, 1967, 1970). Andrey Tikhonov, 87, Soviet mathematician and geophysicist.
8 Erik Beijar, 72, Finnish Olympic football player (1952). Dick Cathcart, 69, American dixieland trumpet player, cancer. Marcello Landi, 77, Italian painter and poet. Hank Leiber, 82, American baseball player. James Moffat, 71, Canadian-born British novelist. Francisco Zuluaga, 64, Colombian football player.
9 Saqr III bin Sultan al-Qasimi, 68, Emirate of Sharjah ruler. Ross Andru, 66, American comic book artist (Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, The Punisher). Anatols Dinbergs, 82, Latvian diplomat. Leonard Farbstein, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1957-1971). Godfrey Lienhardt, 72, British anthropologist, pneumonia. Angus Maude, 81, British politician. Stanley Myers, 63, English film composer (The Deer Hunter, The Witches, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead), cancer. Vishnudevananda Saraswati, 65, Indian yoga guru. Anne Smith, 52, British middle-distance runner and Olympian (1964), stroke. Gerald Thomas, 72, English film director (Carry On), heart attack.
10 Artashes Arakelian, 84, Soviet and Armenian economist and academic. Alberto Breccia, 74, Uruguay-Argentine artist and cartoonist. Justin O'Byrne, 81, Australian politician. Paul Oßwald, 88, German football player and manager. Wensley Pithey, 79, South African actor (Oliver!, Coronation Street, Charlesworth). Harry L. Wolf, 85, American cinematographer (Columbo, Baretta, Little House on the Prairie).
11 Dragomir Bojanić, 60, Serbian actor and humorist, liver cancer. Jean Chasson, 86, French Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936). Franco Evangelisti, 70, Italian politician. Mildred Fizzell, 78, Canadian athlete and Olympian (1932). Andrew Gregory Grutka, 84, American bishop of the Catholic Church. Erskine Hawkins, 79, American trumpeter and big band leader. Robert E. Hogaboom, 90, United States Marine Corps four-star general. Warren Leroy Jones, 98, American circuit judge. Osman Sabri, 88, Kurdish poet, writer and journalist. Franco Sassi, 81, Italian painter, printmaker and engraver. John Shirk, 76, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). John Stanley, 79, American cartoonist and comic book writer (Little Lulu)
12 Arthur Clements, 72, Australian rules footballer. Bill Dickey, 86, American Hall of Fame baseball player (New York Yankees) and manager. Keith Flowers, 63, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions). H. R. Haldeman, 67, American political aide and White House Chief of Staff, stomach cancer. Dria Paola, 83, Italian actress. William Haggin Perry, 82, American owner and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. Ted Ringwood, 63, Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist. LeGrant Scott, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Anna Sten, 84, Ukrainian-American actress. Jill Tweedie, 57, British feminist, writer and broadcaster, ALS.
13 Nick Brushfield, 87, Australian rules footballer. Bud Cook, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Eagles). Jack Fulton, 90, American composer, trombonist, and vocalist. Gerhard Füssmann, 64, German Olympic rower (1952). Rufus R. Jones, 60, American professional wrestler, heart attack. George Taylor, 89, Scottish botanist, heart attack. G. K. Venkatesh, 66, Indian film score composer.
14 András Béres, 69, Hungarian football player and manager. Manibhai Desai, 73, Indian economist and social activist. Vũ Hồng Khanh, 95, Vietnamese revolutionary. Sanzō Nosaka, 101, Japanese communist politician. Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira, 91, Israeli jurist and Socialist Zionist politician. Kim Won-yong, 71, South Korean archaeologist and art historian.
15 Henry Dyck, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Jack Finch, 84, English football player. Yelena Gogoleva, 93, Soviet and Russian actress. Fred Hansen, 90, Australian rules footballer. Peter Kracke, 50, German footballer. Luciano Leggio, 68, Italian criminal and Sicilian Mafia leader, heart attack. Jimmy McAlinden, 75, Irish football player. Roy McDougall, 86, Australian rules footballer. Cvijetin Mijatović, 80, Yugoslav communist politician. Hal Mitchell, 63, American gridiron football player (New York Giants), cancer. Viola Myers, 66, Canadian sprinter and Olympian (1948). Virgil Vătășianu, 91, Romanian academic and art historian. Evelyn Venable, 80, American actress, cancer. Gladys Walton, 90, American silent film actress, cancer.
16 Yves Brainville, 79, French actor. Tomàs Garcés, 92, Spanish lawyer and poet. Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, 86, Cuban trova singer, guitarist, and composer. João Martins, 66, Portuguese footballer. Frank Mockler, 84, American attorney and politician. Lucia Popp, 54, Slovak operatic soprano, brain cancer. Ken Renard, 87, American actor (True Grit, Something of Value, Lydia Bailey). Achille Zavatta, 78, French clown, artist and circus operator, suicide.
17 Amy Jagger, 85, British Olympic artistic gymnast (1928). Gérard D. Levesque, 67, Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. Giorgos Mitsakis, 72, Greek folk composer and lyricist. Kiyoshi Nishimura, 61, Japanese filmmaker, suicide. Walter C. Ploeser, 86, American ambassador and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1941-1949). Teddy Powell, 88, American jazz musician and band leader. Gordon Richards, 60, Welsh football player.
18 Fritz Feld, 93, German-American film actor. Arvid Fladmoe, 78, Norwegian composer and conductor. Rudolph Matt, 84, Austrian alpine skier and world champion. Branko Radović, 59, Yugoslav basketball player and coach.
19 Kenneth Burke, 96, American literary theorist and author, heart attack. Carlo Da Prà, 62, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1956). Leonid Gaidai, 70, Soviet and Russian comedy film director, pulmonary embolism. Dorothy Revier, 89, American actress. Léon Roller, 65, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1948). Sir John Stallworthy, 87, New Zealand-born British obstetrician and professor. Norman Tindale, 93, Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
20 Emile Ardolino, 50, American film director, choreographer, and producer, AIDS-related complications. Frederick Barton, 93, British Olympic pentathlete (1924). Heather Farr, 28, American professional golfer, cancer. Christopher Frank, 50, British-French writer, screenwriter, and film director, heart attack. Eve van Grafhorst, 11, first Australian child to be infected with HIV via a blood transfusion. Paul Guiragossian, 66, Armenian Lebanese painter. Willi Rutz, 86, German football player and manager.
21 Bill Bixby, 59, American actor (The Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father), prostate cancer. Margaret Boyd, 80, English lacrosse player and schoolteacher. Masaru Furukawa, 57, Japanese swimmer and Olympic champion (1956). Fernand Picard, 87, French automotive engineer. Stéphane Proulx, 27, Canadian racing driver, AIDS-related complications. Bruno Rossi, 88, Italian experimental physicist. Richard Wordsworth, 78, English actor.
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