The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1993

1

• Michael Blundell, 85, Kenyan farmer and politician.
• José Bravo, 76, Spanish football player.
• Mehrab Shahrokhi, 48, Iranian football player.
• Gregg G. Tallas, 84, Film director and film editor.^[1]
• Sven Thofelt, 88, Swedish Olympic pentathlete (1928, 1936, 1948) and fencer.^[2]
• Harold Edward Winch, 85, Canadian politician.

2

• Gino Bechi, 79, Italian operatic baritone.^[3]
• Bernard Braden, 76, Canadian-British actor and comedian, stroke.^[4]
• Emilio Bulgarelli, 75, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948).^[5]
• Clemente Fracassi, 75, Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.
• Michael Klein, 33, Romanian football player, heart attack.
• Lenny Levy, 79, American baseball player, coach and scout.
• Reid Miles, 65, American graphic designer and photographer.
• Harry Nilsson, 77, Swedish football defender.^[6]
• Bernard Peters, 82-83, Polish-German nuclear physicist.
• François Reichenbach, 71, French film director, producer and screenwriter.^[7]
• Alexander Schneider, 84, Lithuanian-American violinist, heart failure.^[8]

3

• Viktor Ajbek, 72, Croatian footballer.^[9]
• Françoys Bernier, 65, Canadian musician.
• Rosetta Calavetta, 78, Italian actress and voice dubber.
• Omar Cañas, 23, Colombian footballer, shot.^[10]
• Gianni Colombo, 56, Italian artist.
• Paul Emery, 76, English racing driver.
• Edith Elizabeth Farkas, 71, Hungarian-New Zealand antarctic researcher and meteorologist, bone cancer.
• Karel Goeyvaerts, 69, Belgian composer.^[11]
• Éliane de Meuse, 93, Belgian painter.
• Tan Shaowen, 63, Chinese politician, lung cancer.

4

• Eldon Jenne, 93, American track and field athlete.^[12]
• Daulat Singh Kothari, 86, Indian scientist and educationist.
• Joaquín Oliva, 66, Spanish football player.
• Connie Saylor, 52, American NASCAR racecar driver, cancer.^[13]

5

• T. W. Alley, 50, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, 94, British businessman and media executive.^[14]
• William Pène du Bois, 76, American writer and book illustrator, stroke.^[15]
• Seán Flanagan, 71, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Baharul Islam, 74, Indian politician, MP (1962–1972, 1983–1989).
• Hans Jonas, 89, German-American philosopher.^[16]
• Adnan Kahveci, 43, Turkish politician, traffic collision.
• Roxanne Kernohan, 32, Canadian actress, traffic collision.
• Marcel Léger, 62, Canadian politician, MNA (1970–1985).
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, American film director and screenwriter (All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives), heart attack.^[17]
• Tip Tipping, 34, English stuntman (Batman, Willow) and actor (Aliens), parachuting accident.
• Jack Young, 80, English cricketer.
• Huang Zhizhen, 72, Chinese politician.

6

• Arthur Ashe, 49, American tennis player, AIDS.^[18]
• George Bellew, 93, British officer of arms.
• Ruggero Biancani, 78, Italian athlete and Olympian.^[19]
• Mohammad Natsir, 84, Indonesian islamic scholar and prime minister.
• Ion Negoițescu, 71, Romanian writer and historian.

7

• Shovkat Alakbarova, 70, Azerbaijani singer.
• Frank Balistrieri, 74, American mobster belonging to the Milwaukee crime family.
• Duilio Brignetti, 66, Italian Olympic pentathlete (1948, 1952).^[20]
• William Hayman, 89, English Anglican prelate, Archdeacon of Lewisham (1960–1972).
• Erling Dekke Næss, 91, Norwegian shipowner and businessman.
• Buddy Pepper, 70, American pianist and songwriter.
• Mohsen Sarhan, 79, Egyptian actor.^[21]

8

• Teddy Glover, 90, English-American football player.
• Oto Grigalka, 67, Latvian track and field athlete and Olympian.^[22]
• William Ewing Hester, 80, American tennis player and official.
• Douglas Heyes, 73, American screenwriter, heart attack.^[23]
• Eliot Janeway, 80, American economist.^[24]
• Anthony Kramreither, 66, Australian-Canadian film producer.
• Charles R. Lord, 61, American intelligence official, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (1986–1988).
• Roland Mousnier, 85, French historian.^[25]
• Franz Schnyder, 82, Swiss film director.^[26]
• Nagalingam Shanmugathasan, 72, Sri Lankan trade unionist.
• Bram van der Stok, 77, Dutch fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.

9

• Marian Filc, 44, Slovakian Olympic figure skater (1968), heart attack.^[27]
• Bill Grundy, 69, English journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.^[28]
• Saburo Okita, 78, Japanese politician and economist.^[29]
• Elwood Richard Quesada, 88, American lieutenant general and businessman.^[30]
• Mingun Sayadaw, 81, Burmese theravada Buddhist monk.
• Kate Wilkinson, 76, American actress, bone cancer.^[31]

10

• Elmer Barbour, 74, American gridiron football player.^[32]
• James C. H. Bonbright, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, 78, French politician, prime minister (1957).
• William E. Cleator, Sr., 65, American politician, cancer.
• Bengt Edlén, 86, Swedish astronomer and academic.
• Fred Hollows, 63, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist, renal cancer.^[33]
• Gaya Prasad Katiyar, 92, Indian revolutionary.
• Mickey Murtagh, 88, American football player.^[34]
• Rip Repulski, 64, American baseball player.^[35]

11

• Kamal Amrohi, 75, Indian film director and screenwriter.^[36]
• Charles Eric Dawson, 70, Canadian ichthyologist.
• Joy Garrett, 47, American actress, liver failure.^[37]
• Robert W. Holley, 71, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1968), lung cancer.^[38]
• Brian Inglis, 76, Irish journalist, historian and television presenter.^[39]
• Oksana Kostina, 20, Russian rhythmic gymnast, traffic collision.
• Desanka Maksimović, 94, Serbian poet and writer.^[40]
• Félix Ruiz, 52, Spanish footballer.
• Newton Steers, 76, American politician.

12

• Joe Booher, 51, American racing driver, racing accident.^[41]
• James Bulger, 2, English murder victim.^[42]
• Mark W. Ellingson, 88, American academic, president of the Rochester Institute of Technology (1936–1969).
• Thelma G. Thurstone, 95, American psychologist and psychological testing pioneer.

13

• Araxie Babayan, 86, Soviet and Armenian organic chemist.
• G. H. Diggle, 90, English chess player.^[43]
• Henry Duey, 84, American weightlifter and Olympic medalist.^[44]
• Willoughby Gray, 76, English actor of stage and screen, cancer.

14

• Elek Bacsik, 66, Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist.^[45]
• Eleazar Lipsky, 81, American lawyer, writer and playwright, leukemia.^[46]
• Eric Lionel Mascall, 87, English Anglican priest and theologian.^[47]
• Pedro Cortina y Mauri, 84, Spanish politician and diplomat.^[48]
• Veljko Milanković, 38, Bosnian Serb military commander, killed in battle.
• Terry Reardon, 73, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.^[49]
• Lester Wilson, 50, American dancer, choreographer, and actor, heart attack.^[50]

15

• Kay Eakin, 75, American gridiron football player.^[51]
• Cary Gilbert, 50, American lyricist ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), diabetes.
• Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen, 64, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.^[52]
• George Wallington, 68, American jazz pianist.^[53]

16

• Leland D. Crawford, 63, United States Marine officer.
• Amos Guttman, 38, Israeli film director (Amazing Grace, Drifting), AIDS-related complications.^[54]
• Peter Molloy, 83, English football player, manager and referee.
• Richard S. Salant, 78, American news executive.^[55]

17

• Hans Baur, 95, German flying ace.
• Eşref Bitlis, 59-60, Turkish general, plane crash.
• Jack Froggatt, 70, English football player.^[56]
• Rani Gaidinlu, 78, Indian revolutionary.
• Kostas Karagiannis, 60-61, Greek film director.^[57]
• Sammy Lowe, 74, American trumpeter.
• Leslie Townsend, 89, English cricketer.

18

• Marshall Carter, 83, American Army Lieutenant general.^[58]
• Ted Haworth, 75, American production designer (Sayonara, Some Like It Hot, The Longest Day), Oscar winner (1958), cardiovascular disease.^[59]
• Jacqueline Hill, 63, English actress (Doctor Who), breast cancer.
• Rita La Roy, 91, American actress and dancer, pneumonia.
• Allen Montgomery Lewis, 83, Saint Lucian barrister and public servant.
• Leslie Norman, 81, English film director.^[60]
• Kerry Von Erich, 33, American professional wrestler (WCCW), suicide by gunshot.

19

• Judith Chaplin, 53, British politician, pulmonary embolism.^[61]
• Alexander Davydov, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist.
• Bernard T. Feld, 73, American nuclear physicist and academic.^[62]
• Gerhard Gesell, 82, American judge.^[63]
• Mohamed Hamzah, 74, Malaysian vexillographer, architect and field marshal.
• Česlovas Kudaba, 58, Lithuanian politician and geographer.^[64]
• Yusif Mirzayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Yaman Okay, 42, Turkish actor, pancreatic cancer.^[65]

20

• Mario Abreu, 73, Venezuelan artist.
• Howard Mayer Brown, 62, American musicologist.^[66]
• Marian Bublewicz, 42, Polish racing driver, racing collision.
• Ferruccio Lamborghini, 76, Italian automobile manufacturer (Lamborghini), heart attack.^[67]

21

• Irma Christenson, 78, Swedish actress.^[68]
• Alison Fairlie, 75, English scholar.^[69]
• Harvey Kurtzman, 68, American cartoonist (Mad, Playboy), liver cancer.^[70]
• Inge Lehmann, 104, Danish seismologist and geophysicist.^[71]
• Eddy Tiel, 66, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[72]
• Dick White, 86, British intelligence officer.^[73]

22

• Pierre Dalem, 80, Belgian football player.
• Jean Lecanuet, 72, French politician, cancer.
• Bill Lickiss, 68, Australian politician.^[74]
• Hugo Schrader, 90, German television and film actor.
• B. D. Sharma, 75, Indian politician.
• Sirio Vernati, 85, Swiss football player.
• Feng Zhi, 87, Chinese writer and translator.^[75]

23

• Helmut Braselmann, 81, German field handball player and Olympic champion.^[76]
• Walter Fyrst, 91, Norwegian filmmaker.
• Mario Pani, 81, Mexican architect and urbanist.
• Carl Sautter, 44, American film and television writer (Moonlighting, Lucky Luke, Jetsons: The Movie).^[77]
• Phillip Terry, 83, American actor, stroke.^[78]
• Robert Triffin, 81, Belgian economist.^[79]

24

• Cyril Done, 72, English football player.^[80]
• Danny Gallivan, 75, Canadian sportscaster, heart failure.
• Bobby Moore, 51, English football player and world champion (1966), colorectal cancer.^[81]
• Chaim L. Pekeris, 84, Israeli-American physicist and mathematician.^[82]
• Roger Rochard, 79, French long-distance runner and Olympian.^[83]
• Denis Vaucher, 95, Swiss cross country skier and Olympian.^[84]

25

• Hashem Amoli, 93, Iranian scholar and ayatollah.
• Toy Caldwell, 45, American guitarist (The Marshall Tucker Band), heart attack.^[85]
• Eddie Constantine, 75, American-French actor and singer, heart attack.^[86]
• Dave Cook, 51, British communist activist, complications following traffic accident.
• Sonja Mjøen, 94, Norwegian actress, journalist and author.
• Mary Walter, 80, Filipino actress.
• Eren Özker, 44, Turkish-American puppeteer, cancer.^[87]

26

• John Besford, 82, English swimmer and Olympian.^[88]
• Constance Ford, 69, American actress (Another World, A Summer Place), cancer.^[89]
• Fletcher Knebel, 81, American author, suicide by drug overdose.^[90]
• Beaumont Newhall, 84, American art historian.^[91]
• Giulio Oggioni, 76, Italian Catholic prelate.
• Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 87, Austrian film director, writer, and author.^[92]
• Carl Solomon, 64, American writer.^[93]

27

• Pina Carmirelli, 79, Italian violinist.^[94]
• José Álvarez de Bohórquez, 97, Spanish equestrian and Olympic champion.^[95]
• Lillian Gish, 99, American actress (The Birth of a Nation, Duel in the Sun, The Whales of August), heart failure.^[96]
• Ambrose A. Holowach, 78, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Steve Levantis, 76, Canadian football player.
• Walker Smith, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.^[97]
• Marģeris Zariņš, 82, Latvian composer.^[98]
• Zhao Zengyi, 72-73, Chinese politician.

28

• Franco Brusati, 72, Italian film director (To Forget Venice).^[99]
• Joyce Carey, 94, English actress.^[100]
• Ishirō Honda, 81, Japanese film director (Godzilla), respiratory failure.^[101]
• Toshiaki Inoue, 42, Japanese triple jumper, accident.^[102]
• Ruby Keeler, 83, American actress and dancer, kidney cancer.^[103]
• Ilkka Koski, 64, Finnish heavyweight boxer.^[104]