The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1993
1 Wilfredo Coto, 76, Cuban Olympic sports shooter (1948). Lynette Davies, 45, Welsh actress, suicide. Edwin Flavell, 95, British Army officer. Ray Gillen, 34, American rock singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications. Sir Ivor Hele, 81, Australian artist. Scott Kolk, 88, American actor. Mary Lobel, 93, British historian. Giulio Marchetti, 82, Italian and actor and television presenter, internal hemorrhage. Francisco Martínez, 83, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1936). Isaac Moraes, 79, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).
2 Ali Benfadah, 58, Algerian football player and manager. Paal Brekke, 70, Norwegian lyricist, novelist, and literary critic. Evelyn Dearman, 85, English tennis player. Harry Julius Emeléus, 90, English inorganic chemist. Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist, shot. Walter Frank Foy, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1968). John Kershaw, 62, British screenwriter and script editor. Augie Vander Meulen, 84, American basketball player. Tom Monroe, 74, American actor. Leo Paquin, 83, American football player.
3 Frank Anthony, 85, Indian politician and Anglo-Indian community leader. Harry Barnes, 78, American baseball player. Henricus Cockuyt, 90, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1924). George P. Hammond, 97, American professor of Latin American studies. Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer (1928). Lea Mek, 18, Cambodian-American gang member, murdered in gang shooting. Steve Paproski, 65, Canadian politician and football player. Lewis Thomas, 80, American science writer.
4 Victor Gunnarsson, 40, Swedish right-wing activist, homicide. Marcel Jean, 92, French painter, writer, and sculptor. Margaret Landon, 90, American writer and missionary. Hugh Moore, 64, British City of London Police commander, heart failure. Jusuf Prazina, 31, Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War, homicide.Selimbegović, Vildana. , Dani, No. 262, bhdani.com, 21 June 2002. George Sergienko, 75, American football player. Frank Sturgis, 68, American CIA operative and one of the Watergate burglars, lung cancer. Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh football player. Frank Zappa, 52, American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, prostate cancer.
5 Mike Dowdle, 55, American gridiron football player (Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers). Yevgeny Gabrilovich, 94, Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter. Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot. (675):15 Les Jones, 88, Australian rules footballer. Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress and dressmaker, suicide by gunshot. Vince Mazza, 68, Canadian football player. Robert Ochsenfeld, 92, German physicist. Walter Reisp, 83, Austrian Olympic handball player (1936). Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian film production designer.
6 Don Ameche, 85, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places, Heaven Can Wait), Oscar winner (1986), prostate cancer. Bryson Graham, 41, English rock drummer. Anna Hřebřinová, 85, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast (1936). Sergi Jikia, 95, Georgian historian and orientalist.Jikʻia, Sergi Hendrik Ooms, 77, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936). Ray Thomas, 83, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Paul-Louis Weiller, 100, French industrialist and philanthropist.
7 Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia., cited in Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter, cancer. Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, President of Ivory Coast, cancer. Blaže Koneski, 71, Macedonian poet, writer, and linguistic scholar. Sándor Németh, 68, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian (1948). Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. Håkon Solem, 85, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1948). Robert Taft, Jr., 76, American politician. Anthony J. Travia, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York).
8 Bob Barnes, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Carl Damm, 66, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Russian Olympic weightlifter (1956, 1960), starvation and hypothermia. Carlotta Monti, 86, American film actress. Cole Palen, 67, American aviator. Philippe Pradayrol, 27, French Olympic judoka (1992), traffic collision. Mieczysław Wilczewski, 61, Polish cyclist and Olympian (1960).
9 Salvatore Allegra, 95, Italian composer. Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Irish football player, Alzheimer's disease. Glen Brydson, 83, Canadian ice hockey player. Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, 94, Iranian Grand Ayatollah and Shia islam scholar. Herbert Grevenius, 92, Swedish screenwriter. Matt Guokas, 78, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors), and broadcaster. Carter Jefferson, 48, American jazz tenor saxophonist. Alexander Koblencs, 77, Latvian chess master and writer. John Wisdom, 89, British philosopher.
10 Maroun Bagdadi, 43, Lebanese film director, fall. Jerzy Juskowiak, 54, Polish Olympic sprinter (1960). Fernand Mithouard, 84, French cyclist. Alice Tully, 91, American opera singer, music promoter, and philanthropist, influenza. Miljan Zeković, 68, Montenegrin and Yugoslav football player and manager. Alan E. Zimmer, 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke.
11 James Chapman, 61, Australian rules footballer. Ku Cheng-kang, 91, Chinese politician and scholar. Francisco Flores del Campo, 86, Chilean composer, instrumentalist and actor, cardiovascular disease. Raymond D. Gary, 85, American businessman and politician. Bohdan Likszo, 53, Polish basketball player and Olympian (1964, 1968). Paul Mebus, 73, German football player. Bill Mumm, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician. Steve Nelson, 90, Croatian-American political activist. Karl-Theodor Molinari, 78, German Army and Bundeswehr officer and politician. Pierre Sarr N'Jie, 84, Gambian lawyer and politician. Phil Perlo, 58, American gridiron football player (Houston Oilers). Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress and theatre director. Sam Stayman, 84, American bridge player and writer.
12 József Antall, 61, Hungarian teacher, historian, and politician, prime minister (1990-1993), cancer. Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer. Marian Constance Blackton, 92, American screenwriter and actress. Fritz Bock, 82, Austrian politician. Joan Cross, 93, English soprano. Alexandru Drăghici, 80, Romanian communist activist and politician. Don Earle, 64, American ice hockey announcer. Bob Taylor, 89, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
13 Ken Anderson, 84, American art director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Sword in the Stone) and screenwriter (Cinderella), stroke. Larry Cameron, 41, American gridiron football player and professional wrestler, heart attack in ring during match. Avelino Cañizares, 74, Cuban baseball player. Vanessa Duriès, 21, French novelist, traffic collision. Joy Laurey, 50, French novelist, traffic collision. Tommy Sexton, 36, Canadian comedian, AIDS-related complications. Billy Shantz, 66, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees), and manager. Gaziza Zhubanova, 66, Kazakh composer.
14 Jeff Alm, 25, American gridiron football player (Houston Oilers), suicide. Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision. Frank Fuller, 64, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals Philadelphia Eagles). Jennifer Howard, 68, American actress, lung cancer. Francis Jones, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms. Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão, 79, Brazilian neurophysiologist and researcher, respiratory failure. Myrna Loy, 88, American actress (The Thin Man, The Best Years of Our Lives, Cheaper by the Dozen), lung cancer. Silvina Ocampo, 90, Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist. Jerry Scala, 69, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Billy Stone, 92, Australian rules footballer.
15 Tom Bedecki, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach. Rizzardo Brenioli, 63, Italian racing cyclist. Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan football player, homicide. Jack Ferguson, 71, Australian Olympic water polo player (1948). Penaia Ganilau, 75, First President of Fiji, leukemia. William Dale Phillips, 68, American physical chemist and academic. Rich Snyder, 41, American businessman, president of In-N-Out Burger (since 1976), plane crash. Marcel Vandernotte, 84, French rower and Olympian (1932, 1936).
16 Charizma, 20, American MC, shot. Fedele Gentile, 85, Italian film actor. Moses Gunn, 64, American actor (Shaft, Little House on the Prairie, Heartbreak Ridge), asthma. Riley Hill, 79, American actor. Jed Johnson, Jr., 53, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1967). Frank Little, 57, American Olympic sports shooter (1964). Charles Moore, 68, American architect and writer. Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, pneumonia.
17 Patrick Crowley, 87, Irish politician and trade union official. Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee. Hilding Hagberg, 94, Swedish communist politician. Mirza Ibrahimov, 82, Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, and public figure. Len Julians, 60, English football player. Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer.
18 Bernard Ayandho, 63, Central African politician and diplomat. Joseph H. Ball, 88, American journalist and politician, member of the United States Senate (1940-1942, 1943-1949). Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and SOE agent during World War II. Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs, 93, British-American powerboat racer. Gheorghe Cozorici, 60, Romanian actor. Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver. Steve James, 41, American actor and stunt performer, cancer. Tony Kappen, 74, American basketball player (Boston Celtics). Buster Larsen, 73, Danish actor. Carl Malling, 88, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936). Guy Sabrou, 85, French architect. Natalya Sats, 90, Russian stage director. Bernhard Sälzer, 53, German politician and member of the European Parliament, traffic collision. Ferdinando Smerghetto, 66, Italian Olympic rower (1952). Sam Wanamaker, 74, American actor and director, prostate cancer.
19 Wallace F. Bennett, 95, American businessman and politician, member of the United States Senate (1951-1974). Michael Clarke, 47, American drummer (The Byrds), liver failure. Kurt Frey, 80, German Olympic sailor (1936). Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician. Inez James, 74, American film score composer. Owain Owain, 64, Welsh novelist, short-story writer and poet. Hans Rohrbach, 90, German mathematician and cryptanalyst during World War II. Bob Syme, 69, Australian rules footballer.
20 Marlin Carter, 80, American baseball player. Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes. Hubert Deltour, 82, Belgian racing cyclist. W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, statistician, author, and lecturer. Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer. Charles Herman Helmsing, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Hulusi Kentmen, 81, Turkish actor, kidney failure. Felix Mackiewicz, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators). Jesús Picó, 58, Chilean footballer. Linar Salimullin, 61, Soviet Olympic wrestler (1956).
21 Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, 100, British Army officer. Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist. Frederick J. Harlfinger II, 80, American Navy officer. Vilhelm Johansen, 95, Danish Olympic sports shooter (1936). Ernie Kish, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Ivan Kozlovskyi, 93, Soviet and Russian lyric tenor.