Deaths in July 1993

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 rower and Olympian.
• Eric Irvin, 84, Australian writer and historian of Australian theatre.

2

• 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.
• Mariette Protin, 87, French freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
• 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, 67, Turkish folk singer and poet
  • Hasret Gültekin, 22, Turkish musician and poet

3

• Joe DeRita, 83, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), pneumonia.
• Don Drysdale, 56, American baseball player and television sports commentator, heart attack.
• 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.
• Novica Čanović, 31, Yugoslav and Serbian high jumper and Olympian, killed in action.

4

• Bona Arsenault, 89, Canadian politician.
• 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.

5

• Kali Banerjee, 71, Indian actor.
• Charlie Bishop, 69, American baseball player.
• 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 sailor and Olympian.
• 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.
• William McElwee Miller, 100, American missionary and author.
• Mia Zapata, 27, American singer (The Gits), murdered.

8

• Charles Adkins, 61, American boxer and Olympic champion.
• Isabela Corona, 80, Mexican actress, heart attack.
• Wayne Howell, 72, American voice-over announcer, heart attack.
• 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.
• Bill Falkinder, 71, Australian air force officer and politician.
• 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 theater and film 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.
• James Peck, 78, American activist and pacifist.
• Antun Šoljan, 60, Croatian writer.

13

• Davey Allison, 32, American NASCAR racing driver, helicopter crash.
• 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.
• Gary Mull, 55, American yacht designer.

15

• Hugo Ballivián, 92, President of Bolivia.
• David Brian, 78, American actor, cancer.
• Young Corbett III, 88, Italian-American boxing champion.
• Yevgeny Fyodorov, 81, Soviet Air Force major general and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Bert Greeves, 87, British motorcycle pioneer.

16

• Gretel Adorno, 91, German chemist and intellectual.
• Jack Brewer, 79, British athlete and Olympian.
• 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.
• 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.
• Eschel Rhoodie, 60, South African politician and spin doctor.
• Hamo Sahyan, 79, Armenian poet and translator.
• Adolf Yushkevich, 87, Soviet historian of mathematics.

18

• Toru Abe, 76, Japanese film actor.
• Héctor Freschi, 82, Argentinian football goalkeeper.
• Jean Negulesco, 93, Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.
• Davis Roberts, 76, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• 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 speed skater and Olympian.
• Girilal Jain, 69, Indian journalist.
• Elmar Klos, 83, Czech film director.
• Fred Liewehr, 84, Austrian stage and film actor.
• Red Prysock, 67, American rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist.
• Luzius Rüedi, 93, Swiss ice hockey player.

20

• 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.
• Tsunemi Tsuda, 32, Japanese baseball player, brain cancer.

21

• 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, 30, 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.

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.
• Abe Shires, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, 64, American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.
• Megan Taylor, 72, British figure skater and Olympian.
• Lera Millard Thomas, 92, American politician.

24

• Erik Jansson, 86, Swedish road racing cyclist.
• Joe Osmanski, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Víktor Pankrashkin, 35, Soviet basketball player.
• 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.
• Yuri Levitin, 80, Soviet and Russian composer of classical music.
• Matthew Ridgway, 98, American Army officer, cardiovascular disease.

27

• Lauren Ackerman, 88, American physician and pathologist.
• John Brooks, 73, American writer, stroke.
• Kashiko Kawakita, 85, Japanese film producer and film curator.
• Reggie Lewis, 27, American basketball player, heart attack.
• T. Dan Smith, 78, British politician.

28

• Jack Browne, Baron Craigton, 88, Scottish politician.
• Jacques Laudy, 86, Belgian comics artist.
• Cemal Madanoğlu, 86, Turkish general and politician.
• Stanley Woods, 90, Irish motorcycle racer.

29

• Fidencio Castillo, 85, Mexican artist and educator.
• Nicolai Costenco, 79, Moldovan writer.
• Joyce Haber, 62, American gossip columnist, kidney and liver failure.
• Jack Kitching, 72, English rugby player and coach.
• Caroline K. Simon, 92, American lawyer, judge and politician.

30

• Frank L. Howley, 90, American Army brigadier general.
• Edward E. Jones, 65, American psychologist and scholar.
• Condor Laucke, 78, Australian politician, pulmonary emphysema.
• Don Myrick, 53, American saxophonist, shot.
• Edward Bernard Raczyński, 101, Polish diplomat, writer, and politician.
• Jay Scott, 43, Canadian film critic, AIDS-related complications.

31

• Lenore Aubert, 75, Slovenian-American model and actress.
• Baudouin I of Belgium, 62, King of the Belgians, heart attack.
• Paul B. Henry, 51, American politician and professor of political science, brain cancer.
• Gabdrakhman Kadyrov, 52, Soviet speedway rider.
• George Keyt, 92, Sri Lankan painter.
• Richard M. Leonard, 84, American rock climber, environmentalist and attorney.
• Fang Zhichun, 87, Chinese politician.