The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1993

1

• Ross Bass, 74, American florist and politician.^[1]
• June Clayworth, 87, American actress.^[2]
• Shalom Cohen, 66, Israeli politician.^[3]
• Phyllis Hill, 72, American dancer and actress, lung cancer.^[4]
• Raymond Jack Last, 89, Australian surgeon and anatomist.^[5]
• Laurence Marks, 77, American television writer (Hogan's Heroes, M*A*S*H, The New Phil Silvers Show).^[6]
• George R. Mather, 81, United States Army general.
• Jean Mayer, 72, French-American scientist.^[7]
• Cathie Marsh, 41, British sociologist and statistician, breast cancer.^[8]
• Totò Mignone, 86, Italian dancer and actor.

2

• Sean Devereux, 28, British Salesian missionary and aid worker, murdered.^[9]
• Vladimir Makogonov, 88, Soviet-Azerbaijan chess player.
• Rudi Supek, 79, Croatian sociologist and philosopher.^[10]
• Valerie Wellington, 33, American opera and blues singer, intracranial aneurysm.
• Gerald T. Whelan, 67, American politician.

3

• Leah Feldman, 93, Odessa-born anarchist garment worker.
• Johnny Most, 69, American sportscaster, heart attack.
• Simone Vaudry, 86, French film actress.^[11]
• Will Walls, 80, American football player and coach.^[12]

4

• Danie Craven, 82, South African rugby player and coach.^[13]
• Leonard Kibrick, 68, American child actor, cancer.
• Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, 79, American geographer.^[14]
• Navalpakkam Parthasarthy, 92, Indian geneticist and United Nations official.
• Harold Page Smith, 88, American naval admiral.
• Ernest Leo Unterkoefler, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Charleston (1964–1990).

5

• Juan Benet, 65, Spanish novelist, brain cancer.^[15]
• Yuri Bezmenov, 53, Soviet-Canadian defected KGB agent and journalist, heart attack.
• Helmut Bischoff, 84, German Nazi official and SS officer.
• George Roseborough Collins, 75, American art historian, Alzheimer's disease.
• Westley Allan Dodd, 31, American convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.
• Nicholas Mayall, 86, American astronomer, diabetes.^[16]
• Eliseo Morales, 94, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).^[17]
• Sisworo Gautama Putra, 54, Indonesian film director.
• Maynard Street, 94, American football and basketball coach.

6

• Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, 70, Austrian royal.
• Ștefan Baciu, 74, Romanian-Brazilian poet, novelist, publicist and academic.
• Tad Danielewski, 71, Polish-American film director, cancer.^[18]
• Dizzy Gillespie, 75, American jazz trumpeter, pancreatic cancer.^[19]
• Richard Mortensen, 82, Danish painter.^[20]
• Rudolf Nureyev, 54, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, AIDS.^[21]

7

• John Cowley, 87, English army officer.
• Toshihiko Izutsu, 78, Japanese religious scholar.
• Susi Jeans, 81, Austrian-born organist, teacher and musicologist.^[22]
• Fred Kohler, Jr., 81, American actor.^[23]

8

• Hans Bertram, 86, German aviator, screenwriter and film director.^[24]
• Theo Bruins, 63, Dutch pianist.^[25]
• Asif Nawaz, 56, Pakistani general, heart attack.^[26]
• George Rudé, 82, British marxist historian.^[27]
• Leonard A. Scheele, 85, American physician, surgeon general (1948–1956).^[28]
• Herbert Trantow, 89, German film score composer.^[29]
• Hakija Turajlić, 56-57, Bosnian politician and deputy prime minister (since 1992), killed in action.^[30]

9

• Bruce Campbell, 80, English ornithologist.
• Anton Crihan, 99, Moldovan politician, author, economist, and journalist, cancer.^[31]
• Paul Hasluck, 87, Australian politician, governor-general (1969–1974), MP (1949–1969), prostate cancer.^[32]
• Keith Mwila, 43, Zambian boxer and Olympic medalist.^[33]
• Viveca Serlachius, 69, Finnish-Swedish actress.
• Judit Tóth, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist.^[34]
• Janet Vaughan, 93, English physiologist.^[35]

10

• Diana Adams, 66, American ballet dancer.^[36]
• Adam Aston, 90, Polish-English singer.
• Maurice Brooks, 92, American naturalist.^[37]
• Thomas B. Curtis, 81, American politician.^[38]
• Luther Gulick, 100, American social scientist.^[39]
• Georges Mounin, 82, French linguist.^[40]
• Raja Perempuan Zainab II, 75, Malaysian royal.

11

• Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano, 89, Italian lawyer and politician.
• Lacey Fosburgh, 50, American writer (Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder), breast cancer.^[41]
• Frank Quinn, 65, American baseball player.^[42]
• Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talib-ul-Mola, 73, Pakistani politician, scholar and poet.
• Tommy Walker, 77, Scottish football player.^[43]

12

• Earl Browne, 81, American baseball player and manager.^[44]
• Józef Czapski, 96, Polish artist, author, and critic.^[45]
• Fred Koenig, 61, American baseball, coach and director.^[46]
• Pierre Nihant, 67, Belgian cyclist.^[47]
• Joe Orrell, 75, American baseball player.^[48]
• Yehezkel Streichman, 87, Israeli painter.^[49]
• Margit Tøsdal, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Tito Warnholtz, 86, German Olympic field hockey player (1936).^[50]

13

• Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, 30, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.^[51]
• Camargo Guarnieri, 85, Brazilian composer.^[52]
• Helene J. Kantor, 73, American archaeologist and art historian.^[53]
• Ndrek Luca, 65, Albanian stage, film and theater actor.
• René Pleven, 91, French politician and prime minister (1950–1951, 1951–1952), heart failure.^[54]
• Alexander Soper, 88, American art historian.
• Charles Tillon, 95, French politician.^[55]

14

• Victor Abens, 80, Luxembourgian politician.
• Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield, 93, British politician.
• Sathasivam Krishnakumar, 33, Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and Tamil Tigers leader, suicide.^[56]
• Manfred Lachs, 78, Polish diplomat and jurist.^[57]
• Pepita Ferrer Lucas, 54, Catalan chess player.
• Robert A. Mattey, 82, American special effects artist (Jaws, Mary Poppins, The Absent-Minded Professor).
• José Comas Quesada, 64, Spanish watercolor painter.

15

• Billy Brown, 82, English football player.^[58]
• Sammy Cahn, 79, American lyricist ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head?", "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", "It's Been a Long, Long Time"), heart failure.^[59]
• Arthur Wallis Exell, 91, English botanist.^[60]
• J. Allen Frear, Jr., 89, American businessman and politician.^[61]
• Lucien Grosso, 60, French Olympic bobsledder (1956).^[62]
• William G. Hardwick, 82, American politician.
• Henry Iba, 88, American basketball coach.^[63]
• Annemarie von Gabain, 91, German scholar.^[64]

16

• Phil Chambers, 76, American actor.^[65]
• Freddie 'Red' Cochrane, 77, American boxer.
• Glenn Corbett, 59, American actor (The Doctors, Midway, Dallas), lung cancer.^[66]
• Florence Desmond, 87, English actress.^[67]
• Rafik Khachatryan, 55, Armenian sculptor.
• Stan Sheriff, 60, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.^[68]
• Jón Páll Sigmarsson, 32, Icelandic bodybuilder and strongman, aortic rupture.
• Đoko Slijepčević, 85, Serbian historian.
• Svetozar Vujović, 52, Bosnian and Yugoslav football player and manager.^[69]
• Atsushi Yamatoya, 55, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor, esophageal cancer.^[70]

17

• Barbara Buczek, 53, Polish composer.
• Julio Coll, 73, Spanish screenwriter and film director.^[71]
• Albert Hourani, 77, English historian.^[72]
• Nick Polly, 75, American baseball player.^[73]
• Vilmos Zombori, 87, Romanian footballer.

18

• Karl Bosl, 84, German historian.^[74]
• Alfredo Bovet, 83, Swiss-Italian cyclist.^[75]
• Eleanor Alice Burford, 86, English novelist.
• Arthur Donaldson, 91, Scottish journalist and politician.
• Gordon Higginson, 74, British spiritualist medium.
• C. A. Trypanis, 83, Greek classicist, literary critic, and poet.^[76]
• Richard Waring, 82, English-American actor.^[77]
• Wasif Ali Wasif, 64, Pakistani writer, poet and sufi.
• Dionysios Zakythinos, 87-88, Greek historian.

19

• Holden Furber, 89, American academic.^[78]
• Reginald Hewetson, 84, British Army officer, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
• William LeMassena, 76, American actor (All That Jazz, As the World Turns, See You in the Morning), lung cancer.^[79]
• Reginald Lewis, 50, American businessman and philanthropist, brain cancer.
• Margaret Marquis, 73, Canadian-American film actress.
• Nagindas Parekh, 89, Indian writer and literary critic.
• Antonello Trombadori, 75, Italian politician, art critic and journalist.

20

• Joe Albertson, 86, American businessman.^[80]
• Joseph Anthony, 80, American playwright and actor.^[81]
• Françoise Dior, 60, French socialite and neo-Nazifinancier, lung cancer.
• Bindeshwari Dubey, 72, Indian freedom fighter, trade unionist and politician.
• Audrey Hepburn, 63, British actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady), Oscar winner (1954), appendix cancer.^[82]
• Christos Kapralos, 83, Greek artist.

21

• Felice Borel, 78, Italian football player.^[83]
• Charlie Gehringer, 89, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[84]
• Lotte Laserstein, 94, German-Swedish painter.
• Leo Löwenthal, 92, German sociologist.^[85]
• Dimitris Nikolaidis, 71, Greek actor.

22

• Kōbō Abe, 68, Japanese writer (The Woman in the Dunes), heart attack.^[86]
• Alexander Bodon, 86, Dutch architect.^[87]
• Patricia Brooks, 55, Lyric soprano, actress, and opera singer, multiple sclerosis.^[88]
• Jim Pollard, 70, American basketball player and coach.^[89]
• Erik W. Tawaststjerna, 76, Finnish musicologist, pianist and music teacher.^[90]
• Brett Weston, 81, American photographer, stroke.^[91]

23

• Thomas A. Dorsey, 93, American gospel musician, Alzheimer's disease.^[92]
• Kong Fei, 82, Chinese politician.
• Charles Greenlee, 65, American jazz trombonist.^[93]
• Robert Sutton Harrington, 50, American astronomer, esophageal cancer.^[94]
• Keith Laumer, 67, American science fiction author.^[95]
• Gábor Péter, 86, Hungarian communist politician.^[96]
• Wayne Raney, 71, American country singer and harmonica player, cancer.^[97]
• Li Ziming, 90, Chinese martial artist.

24

• Archduchess Assunta of Austria, 90, Austrian-American royal.
• Don Bassman, 64, American sound engineer (Patton, Die Hard, The Abyss), Oscar winner (1971).
• Héctor De Bourgoing, 58, French football player.
• Gustav Ernesaks, 84, Estonian composer.^[98]
• Detlef Gerstenberg, 35, East Germany hammer thrower and Olympian, liver cirrhosis.^[99]
• John A. Lafore, Jr., 87, American politician.^[100]
• Thurgood Marshall, 84, American judge, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1967–1991), heart failure.^[101]
• Éliane Montel, 94, French physicist and chemist.
• Uğur Mumcu, 50, Turkish investigative journalist, murdered.^[102]
• Eino Pentti, 86, American Olympic runner (1932, 1936).^[103]
• Leland Shaffer, 80, American football player (New York Giants).^[104]
• Henry Abel Smith, 92, British Army officer.
• Sergey Zakharov, 92, Soviet-Russian painter.

25

• Frank Freidel, 77, American historian and biographer.^[105]
• Nils Kristen Jacobsen, 84, Norwegian politician.
• Leah Neuberger, 77, American table tennis player.
• Hedi Amara Nouira, 81, Tunisian politician, prime minister (1970–1980).^[106]

26

• Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, 73, German soldier, resistance member, and diplomat.
• Lucia M. Cormier, 83, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1947–1950, 1953–1960).
• Kenneth Gaburo, 66, American composer.^[107]
• Jan Gies, 87, Dutch resistance member, hid Anne Frank, kidney failure.
• Robert Jacobsen, 80, Danish artist.^[108]
• Jeanne Sauvé, 70, Canadian politician, governor general (1984–1990), MP (1972–1984), Hodgkin's lymphoma.^[109]

27

• Srđan Aleksić, 26, Bosnian Serb amateur actor and soldier, beaten to death.
• Nils Aall Barricelli, 81, Norwegian-Italian mathematician.
• Harold Beverage, 99, American inventor and researcher.^[110]
• J. T. King, 80, American football player and coach.
• Leon Mandrake, 81, Canadian magician.
• Edward P. Morgan, 82, American journalist and writer.^[111]
• Erik Mørk, 67, Danish film actor, traffic collision.^[112]
• Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri, 51-52, Pakistani Grand Mufti, heart attack.

28

• Donald Douglas, 81, Scottish surgeon.^[113]
• André the Giant, 46, French professional wrestler (WWF) and actor (The Princess Bride), congestive heart failure.^[114]
• Erik Herseth, 100, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1920).^[115]
• Helen Sawyer Hogg, 87, American-Canadian astronomer.^[116]
• Aben Kandel, 95, American screenwriter (I Was a Teenage Werewolf).^[117]
• Vern Kennedy, 85, American baseball player.^[118]
• Anatoly Parfyonov, 67, Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.^[119]
• Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole, 81, British politician, soldier and businessman.
• John Steadman, 83, American actor (The Hills Have Eyes, The Longest Yard, Gator).
• Kay Swift, 95, American composer.^[120]
• Tim Ward, 75, English football player and manager.
• Hannah Wilke, 52, American artist, lymphoma.^[121]

29

• Adetokunbo Ademola, 86, Nigerian jurist.^[122]
• Ángel Garma, 88, Spanish-Argentine psychoanalyst.^[123]
• Gustav Hasford, 45, American novelist (The Short-Timers) and screenwriter (Full Metal Jacket), heart failure.^[124]
• Harris Hull, 83, American brigadier general.^[125]
• Ron Kostelnik, 53, American gridiron football player, heart attack.^[126]
• Lars Larsson, 81, Swedish steeplechase runner and Olympian.^[127]
• Eva Remaeus, 42, Swedish actress, brain tumor.
• Nancy Teed, 43, Canadian politician, traffic collision.

30

• Ryōichi Hattori, 85, Japanese pop and jazz composer.^[128]
• James LuValle, 80, American athlete and scientist.
• Taikichiro Mori, 88, Japanese businessman and economist.^[129]
• Svetoslav Roerich, 88, Russian painter.
• John Oulton Wisdom, 84, Irish philosopher.^[130]
• Alexandra of Yugoslavia, 71, Greek-Yugoslavian royal and queen consort (1944–1945), cancer.

31

• Paul R. Anderson, 85, American academic.^[131]
• Ernő Lendvaï, 67, Hungarian music theorist.^[132]
• John Poulson, 82, British designer and businessman.
• Frithjof Ulleberg, 81, Norwegian football player.^[133]
• Douglas Williams, 75, American sound engineer (Patton, Silver Streak, The Rose), Oscar winner (1971).