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.^[1]
• Claire Du Brey, 100, American actress.^[2]
• Elmira Gafarova, 59, Azerbaijani politician and diplomat, heart attack.
• Ewing Kauffman, 76, American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and baseball executive, bone cancer.^[3]
• Alfred Manessier, 81, French painter, stained glass artist, and tapestry designer, traffic collision.^[4]
• Luciano Montero, 85, Spanish road bicycle racer.
• Gerry Sundquist, 37, English actor, suicide.^[5]

2

• Guido del Mestri, 82, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• Janusz Sidło, 60, Polish javelin thrower and Olympic medalist.^[8]

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.^[9]
• Alwyn Howard Gentry, 48, American botanist and plant collector, plane crash.^[10]
• Prem Krishna Khanna, 99, Indian revolutionary and politician.
• Ernie Norman, 80, Australian rugby player.
• Theodore A. Parker III, 40, American ornithologist, plane crash.^[11]
• Chinmayananda Saraswati, 77, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and teacher.^[12]
• Mercedes Valdivieso, 69, Chilean writer.

4

• Nesmith Ankeny, 66, American mathematician.
• Bernard Barrow, 65, American actor (Ryan's Hope, Serpico, Rachel, Rachel), lung cancer.^[13]
• Kenny Drew, 64, American jazz pianist.^[14]
• Jack Dwan, 72, American basketball player.^[15]
• Bob Maier, 77, American baseball player.^[16]
• John Pickard, 80, American actor (Boots and Saddles, True Grit, Gunslinger), animal attack.
• George M. Wallhauser, 93, American politician.^[17]

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.^[18]
• Joseph Paul Jernigan, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[19]
• Karin Nellemose, 88, Danish actress.^[20]
• Bill Peterson, 73, American football player and coach.
• Francisco Rúa, 82, Argentine football player.
• Eugen Suchoň, 84, Slovak composer.^[21]

6

• Tex Hughson, 77, American Major League Baseball player.^[22]
• Bob Kiesel, 81, American sprinter and Olympic champion.^[23]
• Ben Klassen, 75, American politician and white supremacist religious leader, suicide.
• Esad Mekuli, 76, Albanian poet, critic and translator.
• Henri Philippe Pharaoun, 92, Lebanese businessman and politician, homicide.
• Milton Orville Thompson, 67, American naval officer and NASA test pilot.^[24]
• Bill Thomson, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.^[25]

7

• Geert Bakker, 72, Dutch sailor and Olympian.^[26]
• Roy Budd, 46, British jazz pianist and composer, stroke.^[27]
• John R. Burke, 68, American ambassador to Guyana during the Jonestown Massacre.
• David Fleay, 86, Australian scientist and naturalist.^[28]
• Charles Maxwell, 79, American actor and producer.
• Louis Sheaffer, 80, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, heart failure.^[29]

8

• Harry Bellaver, 88, American actor, pneumonia.^[30]
• Nico Habermann, 61, Dutch computer scientist, heart attack.^[31]
• Roy London, 50, American actor and acting coach, AIDS-related complications.^[32]
• Andor László, 78, Hungarian economist.

9

• Elena Fabrizi, 78, Italian actress and television personality.
• Milorad Mitrović, 85, Serbian football player.^[33]
• Chad Oliver, 65, American anthropologist and science fiction writer.^[34]
• Ion Vatamanu, 56, Moldovan writer and politician.

10

• Audrey Chapman, 94, American silent film era actress.
• Ken Englund, 79, American screenwriter.^[35]
• Euronymous, 25, Norwegian musician of the black metal band Mayhem, stabbed.^[36]
• Diana Holman-Hunt, 79, English memoir writer and art critic.^[37]
• Eva Olmerová, 59, Czech pop and jazz singer, cirrhosis.
• David Rogers, 57, American country music artist.^[38]
• Quincy Trouppe, 80, American baseball player and an amateur boxing champion.^[39]

11

• Alyn Beals, 72, American gridiron football player.^[40]
• Agamemnon Gratsios, 71, Greek Army general.
• Eysteinn Jónsson, 86, Icelandic politician and minister.
• Bill Wilson, 50, American baseball player, cancer.^[41]

12

• John H. Dessauer, 88, German-American chemical engineer and businessman.^[42]
• 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.^[43]

13

• Veli Autio, 83, Finnish rower and Olympian.^[44]
• Jackson Edward Betts, 89, American politician.^[45]
• Barbara Gibbs Golffing, 80, American poet and translator.^[46]
• 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.^[47]
• Francis Mankiewicz, 49, Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer.^[48]
• André Méric, 80, French politician, traffic collision.^[49]
• Günther van Well, 70, German diplomat and West German ambassador.

15

• 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.^[50]
• Kalevi Lilja, 67, Finnish football player.
• Hans Nordahl, 75, Norwegian football player.^[51]
• 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.^[52]
• René Dreyfus, 88, French racecar driver.
• Ernest Fernyhough, 84, British politician.^[53]
• Tom Fuccello, 56, American actor (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Dallas, Mac and Me), AIDS-related complications.^[54]
• Stewart Granger, 80, British film actor, cancer.^[55]
• Joan Hughes, 75, English test pilot and stunt performer.^[56]
• Kitty Joyner, 77, American electrical engineer with the NACA and NASA.
• Irene Sharaff, 83, American costume designer (West Side Story, Cleopatra, An American in Paris), five-time Oscar winner, heart failure.^[57]
• Ethelwynn Trewavas, 92, British ichthyologist.^[58]

17

• Feng Kang, 72, Chinese mathematician.
• Robert C. Maynard, 56, American journalist and newspaper publisher, prostate cancer.^[59]
• Phil Seymour, 41, American musician, lymphoma.^[60]
• Al Sima, 71, American baseball player.^[61]

18

• Tony Barwick, 59, British television scriptwriter, cancer.
• Daisy Lumini, 57, Italian composer, singer and stage actress, suicide.^[62]
• Tino Schirinzi, 59, Italian actor and stage director, suicide.^[63]
• Paweł Stok, 80, Polish basketball player.^[64]

19

• Lucinda Ballard, 87, American costume designer (The Gay Life, Another Part of the Forest, A Streetcar Named Desire), Tony winner (1947, 1962), cancer.^[65]
• Iris Faircloth Blitch, 81, American politician.^[66]
• Utpal Dutt, 64, Indian actor, director, and playwright.^[67]
• Gérard Hérold, 53, French actor, heart attack.^[68]
• Salah Jadid, 67, Syrian general and politician, heart attack.
• Donald William Kerst, 81, American physicist.^[69]

20

• Tony Barton, 56, English football player and football manager, heart attack.^[70]
• Koos de Jong, 81, Dutch sailor and Olympic medalist.^[71]
• William J. Murphy, 81, American politician.
• Reiner Schürmann, 52, German Dominican priest and philosopher, AIDS-related complications.^[72]
• Viktor Torshin, 45, Russian sport shooter and Olympic medalist.^[73]

21

• Louis Cools-Lartigue, 88, Dominican politician.
• Paula Deubel, 58, American shot putter and Olympian.^[74]
• Ichirō Fujiyama, 82, Japanese singer and composer.^[75]
• Kasdi Merbah, 55, Algerian politician, murdered.
• Tatiana Troyanos, 54, American mezzo-soprano, breast cancer.^[76]

22

• Eddie Chiles, 83, American businessman and baseball executive.^[77]
• Dinmukhamed Konayev, 81, Soviet and Kazakhstan communist politician.
• R. Gundu Rao, 56, Indian politician, leukemia .
• Halsey Royden, 64, American mathematician, heart attack.^[78]
• Yoshiko Shigekane, 66, Japanese writer.

23

• Gregory Gaye, 92, Russian-American actor.^[79]
• Piero Parini, 98, Italian journalist and politician.
• Edvard Ravnikar, 85, Slovenian architect.^[80]
• Charles Scorsese, 80, American actor (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Color of Money).^[81]

24

• George Cansdale, 83, British zoologist, writer and television personality.^[82]
• Ruben Cantu, 26, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[83]
• Leopoldo Contarbio, 64, Argentine basketball player.^[84]
• D. B. Deodhar, 101, Indian cricket player.
• Boris Levin, 86, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
• David Mason, 36, American serial killer, execution by gas chamber.^[85]
• Albert Joseph McConnell, 89, Irish mathematician and mathematical physicist.^[86]

25

• Janna Allen, 36, American songwriter, leukemia.
• Amy Biehl, 26, American anti-Apartheid activist, homicide.^[87]
• Tom Gallery, 95, American film actor and sports promoter.
• Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, 94, Hong Kong industrialist, photographer and philanthropist.^[88]
• Boris Moishezon, 55, Soviet and Russian mathematician, heart attack.^[89]
• Macauley Smith, 88, American long-distance runner and Olympian.^[90]

26

• Karl Bewerunge, 80, German politician.
• Jean Carmen, 80, American film, stage, and radio actress.
• Rockin' Dopsie, 61, American zydeco singer and accordion player, heart attack.^[91]
• Roy Raymond, 46, American businessman and founder of Victoria's Secret, suicide.^[92]
• Alan Wharton, 70, English cricket player.^[93]

27

• Rafael Alcayde, 86, Mexican film actor.
• Wolfgang Helck, 78, German egyptologist and writer.^[94]
• José Marante, 78, Argentine football player.
• Gene Thomas, 50, American gridiron football player, cardiomyopathy.^[95]
• Archie Wilcox, 90, Canadian ice hockey defenceman.^[96]

28

• George Appleton, 91, British Anglican bishop and writer.^[97]
• Bernie Baum, 63, American songwriter.^[98]
• Frank Hill, 87, Scottish football player and manager.
• Rene Ray, Countess of Midleton, 81, British stage and screen actress and novelist.^[99]
• Paul Rowe, 79, American ice hockey player.^[100]
• William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist.^[101]
• E. P. Thompson, 69, English historian, writer, socialist and pacifist.^[102]

29

• Dorian Corey, 56, American drag performer and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.^[103]
• Roger McCluskey, 63, American IndyCar racing driver, cancer.
• Carlos Santiago Nino, 49, Argentine philosopher, asthma.
• Gwendoline Porter, 91, British track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.^[104]

30

• Ian Folley, 30, English cricket player, heart attack.^[105]
• Richard Jordan, 56, American actor (Logan's Run, Dune, The Hunt for Red October), brain cancer.^[106]
• Anthony Plowman, 87, British judge.^[107]
• Milos Žutić, 53, Serbian actor.

31

• Jess Hill, 86, American baseball player, athlete, and coach, Alzheimer's disease.^[108]
• Stella Kramrish, 97, American art historian and curator.^[109]
• Stuart Latham, 81, English actor, director and television producer.
• Ligorio López, 60, Mexican football player.
• Alexander Nekrich, 73, Soviet and Russian historian.^[110]
• Siegfried Schürenberg, 93, German film actor.^[111]
• Al Trace, 92, American songwriter and orchestra leader, stroke.^[112]