The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1993

1

• Walker O. Cain, 78, American architect.^[1]
• Mauro Mina, 59, Peruvian boxing champion, heart attack.
• Austin Robinson, 95, English economist.^[2]
• John Terpak, 80, American weightlifter and Olympian.^[3]

2

• Tahar Djaout, 39, Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer, murdered.^[4]
• Johnny Mize, 80, American baseball player, coach and scout.^[5]
• Juan José Rodríguez, 56, Argentine football player.
• Norton Simon, 86, American industrialist and philanthropist.^[6]
• Frans-Jozef van Thiel, 86, Dutch politician and lawyer.^[7]

3

• Werner Bochmann, 93, German composer.
• Frantz Casseus, 77, Haitian-American guitarist and composer.^[8]
• Joe Fortenberry, 82, American basketball player, cancer.^[9]
• Alhaji Bai Modi Joof, 59, Gambian lawyer.
• Carl Morris, 82, American abstract painter.^[10]
• Richard Anthony Parker, 87, American egyptologist.^[11]
• Yeoh Ghim Seng, 74, Singaporean politician, lung cancer.

4

• Molly Drake, 77, English poet and musician.
• Bernard Evslin, 71, American author, heart attack.^[12]
• Georgy Millyar, 89, Soviet and Russian actor.
• Erna Tauro, 76, Finnish-Swedish pianist and composer.
• Eric Trist, 83, English social scientist.^[13]

5

• Ida Adamoff, 82, French tennis player.
• Mike Bloom, 78, American basketball player.^[14]
• Dupree Bolton, 64, American jazz trumpeter.^[15]
• Nello Carrara, 93, Italian physicist.
• Peter Kalifornsky, 81, American writer and ethnographer.^[16]
• Gabriel Preil, 81, Estonian -American poet.^[17]
• George Strauss, 91, British politician.^[18]
• Conway Twitty, 59, American country music singer and songwriter, aneurysm.^[19]
• Wolf Graf von Baudissin, 86, German general peace researcher.

6

• James Bridges, 57, American film director and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy, The China Syndrome, White Hunter Black Heart), cancer.^[20]
• W. McNeil Lowry, 80, American businessman.
• Mort Mills, 74, American actor (Man Without a Gun, Perry Mason, Touch of Evil).
• Richard Norman, 61, British chemist.^[21]
• Ioan Reinhardt, 73, Romanian football player and manager.
• Peter Tazelaar, 73, Dutch resistance member and SOE operative during World War II.^[22]

7

• Fabrizio Clerici, 80, Italian painter.^[23]
• Don Kent, 59, American professional wrestler, leukemia.
• Dražen Petrović, 28, Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player, traffic collision.^[24]
• Louie Ramirez, 55, American boogaloo, salsa and latin jazz musician, heart attack.^[25]
• Nils Johan Rud, 84, Norwegian novelist, children's writer, and magazine editor.
• Kurt Weitzmann, 89, American art historian.^[26]

8

• John Atyeo, 61, English football player.^[27]
• René Bousquet, 84, French political appointee and police chief, murdered.^[28]
• Roy Henshaw, 81, American baseball player.^[29]
• Sergei Javorski, 90, Estonian football player.^[30]
• José Nora, 52, Spanish basketball player and Olympian.^[31]
• Severo Sarduy, 56, Cuban poet, author, and playwright, AIDS related disease.^[32]
• Root Boy Slim, 48, American musician.^[33]
• Prince Raphael Rainer of Thurn and Taxis, 87, German prince.

9

• Arthur Alexander, 53, American southern soul songwriter and singer, heart attack.^[34]
• Satyen Bose, 77, Indian film director.
• Juan Downey, 53, Chilean artist, cancer.^[35]
• Samuel Finer, 77, British political scientist and historian.^[36]
• Alexis Smith, 72, Canadian-American actress and singer, brain cancer.^[37]
• Charles E. Tuttle, 78, American publisher and book dealer.^[38]

10

• Arleen Auger, 53, American soprano, brain cancer.^[39]
• Les Dawson, 62, English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, heart attack.^[40]
• Francis Ebejer, 67, Maltese dramatist and novelist.^[41]
• Archie Macaulay, 77, Scottish football player and manager.
• Alice Reinheart, 83, American actress.^[42]
• Richard Webb, 77, American actor, suicide.^[43]

11

• M. C. Bradbrook, 84, British literary scholar.^[44]
• Bernard Bresslaw, 59, English comic actor, heart attack.^[45]
• Mikhail Chumakov, 83, Soviet and Russian microbiologist and virologist.
• Karel Effa, 71, Czechoslovak actor.
• Mstyslav, 95, Ukrainian Orthodox Church hierarch.
• Ray Sharkey, 40, American actor, AIDS-related complications.^[46]
• Milward L. Simpson, 95, American politician.
• Friedrich Thielen, 77, German politician.

12

• Gérard Côté, 79, Canadian marathon runner and Olympian.^[47]
• Remo Galli, 80, Italian football player and coach.^[48]
• Wilhelm Gliese, 77, German astronomer.
• Alexander Koroviakov, 80, Soviet and Russian painter and art teacher.
• Ekrem Koçak, 62, Turkish middle distance runner and Olympian.^[49]
• Monte Melkonian, 35, Armenian-American revolutionary, killed in action.
• Ivan Potrč, 80, Slovene writer and playwright.
• Manuel Summers Rivero, 58, Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor, colorectal cancer.^[50]
• Binay Ranjan Sen, 95, Indian diplomat and civil servant.^[51]
• Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann, 74, German folklorist, anthropologist and ethnologist.^[52]

13

• John Campbell, 41, American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, heart attack.^[53]
• Ewald Dytko, 78, Polish football player.^[54]
• Ena Gregory, 87, Australian-American actress.
• Gajo Petrović, 66, Yugoslav-Croatian Marxist philosopher.^[55]
• Deke Slayton, 69, American Air Force pilot and aeronautical engineer, brain cancer.^[56]

14

• Étienne Borne, 86, French philosopher.^[57]
• Ruggero Chiesa, 59, Italian classical guitarist, teacher and editor.
• V. T. Hamlin, 93, American comic strip cartoonist.^[58]
• Louis Jacquinot, 94, French lawyer and politician.

15

• Marjorie Clark, 83, South African track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.^[59]
• Tahirou Congacou, 80, Beninese politician.
• John Connally, 76, American politician, pulmonary fibrosis.^[60]
• James Hunt, 45, British racing driver and media commentator, heart attack.^[61]
• Petey Scalzo, 75, American featherweight boxing champion.
• Béla Sárosi, 74, Hungarian football player and manager.
• Karl-Heinz Thun, 56, East German sailor and Olympic medalist.^[62]

16

• Elbrus Allahverdiyev, 34, Azerbaijani Armed Forces soldier, killed in action.
• Aldo Bini, 77, Italian road bicycle racer.^[63]
• J. Herbert Burke, 80, American politician.^[64]
• Lindsay Hassett, 79, Australian cricket player.

17

• Bud Germa, 72, Canadian politician.^[65]
• Angelo Longoni, 60, Italian football player.
• Jean Savy, 86, French citizen and a commander in the French army.^[66]
• Adolfo Winternitz, 86, Peruvian artist of Austrian origin.^[67]

18

• Eva Arndt, 73, Danish swimmer and Olympic medalist.^[68]
• Ben Auerbach, 74, American basketball player and Olympic medalist.
• Barnabás Berzsenyi, 75, Hungarian fencer.^[69]
• Brynjulf Bull, 86, Norwegian lawyer and politician.
• Jean Cau, 67, French writer and journalist.^[70]
• Alexandra Hasluck, 84, Australian author and social historian.
• Narciso Perales Herrero, 78, Spanish politician and Falangist.^[71]
• Forbes Norris, 65, American swimmer and Olympian.^[72]
• Craig Rodwell, 52, American gay rights activist, stomach cancer.^[73]
• Luther Tucker, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.^[74]

19

• Jack Duggan, 82, Australian politician.
• Josef Dědič, 68, Czechoslovak figure skater and sport official.
• Helmut Fath, 64, German sidecar racer and engineer.
• William Golding, 81, British novelist (Lord of the Flies, To the Ends of the Earth, The Inheritors), heart failure.^[75]
• Abraham Kaplan, 75, American philosopher.^[76]
• James Benton Parsons, 81, United States district judge^[77]
• Franco Scaglione, 76, Italian automobile coachwork designer.

20

• Frederick Johnson, 76, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician.
• Viktor Makhorin, 44, Soviet and Russian handball player, traffic collision.^[78]
• Keith Sinclair, 70, New Zealand poet and historian.^[79]
• György Sárosi, 80, Hungarian football player.

21

• Colin Dixon, 49, Welsh rugby player, stroke.^[80]
• Al Fairweather, 66, British jazz trumpeter.^[81]
• Alan J. Gould, 95, American newspaper writer and editor.^[82]
• Frank Moro, 49, Cuban-American actor, heart attack.
• Kalika Prasad Shukla, 71, Indian sanskrit scholar and poet.

22

• Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet, 88, British Army officer and High Sheriff of Berkshire.
• Emmett Berry, 77, American jazz trumpeter.^[83]
• Rodolfo Díaz, 75, Mexican basketball player.^[84]
• Victor Maddern, 65, English actor, brain cancer.^[85]
• Pat Nixon, 81, First Lady of the United States (1969-1974) as wife of President Richard Nixon, lung cancer.^[86]
• Bubba Phillips, 65, American baseball player.^[87]

23

• Flora Bramley, 83, British actress and comedian.^[88]
• Alexi Inauri, 85, Soviet and Georgian military officer.
• Zdeněk Kopal, 79, Czechoslovak astronomer.^[89]
• Albert Mangan, 78, American racewalker and Olympian.^[90]
• Swen Swenson, 63, Broadway dancer and singer, AIDS-related complications.^[91]

24

• Hans Beirer, 82, Austrian operatic tenor.^[92]
• Rich Matteson, 64, American jazz artist musician.
• Massimo Urbani, 36, Italian jazz alto saxophonist, heroin overdose.
• Archie Williams, 78, American Air Force officer, athlete, and Olympic champion.^[93]

25

• Mona Baptiste, 65, Trinidad and Tobago singer and actress.^[94]
• Sergey Gorshkov, 90, Soviet lieutenant general.
• Hans Hopf, 76, German operatic tenor.^[95]
• Arturo Moreno, 84, Spanish comics artist and animator.

26

• Roy Campanella, 71, American baseball player, heart attack.^[96]
• Garo Kahkejian, 31, Armenian military commander, killed in action.
• William H. Riker, 72, American political scientist, cancer.^[97]
• James Thomas, 66, American blues musician and sculptor, stroke.^[98]
• Willy van Hemert, 81, Dutch actor, songwriter and theatre and television director.^[99]
• Ruth von Mayenburg, 85, Austrian journalist and writer.^[100]

27

• Layla Al-Attar, 49, Iraqi artist, painter and activist, U.S. missile attack.
• André Auville, 81, French racing cyclist.^[101]
• Wolfgang Grams, 40, German member of the terrorist organisation RAF, suicide.
• Kurt Mahr, 59, German author, traffic collision.^[102]
• James Trifunov, 89, Canadian freestyle sport wrestler and Olympic medalist.^[103]

28

• GG Allin, 36, American punk rock musician, opioid overdose.^[104]
• Gudrun Brost, 83, Swedish actress.
• Boris Christoff, 79, Bulgarian opera singer.^[105]
• Olga Costa, 79, Mexican painter and cultural promoter.^[106]
• Dovid Lifshitz, 87, American Haredi rabbi.^[107]
• Didi Perego, 56, Italian actress, cancer.^[108]

29

• Antonio Badú, 78, Mexican film actor and producer.^[109]
• Jimmy Fratianno, 79, Italian-American mobster and FBI informant.^[110]
• Héctor Lavoe, 46, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications from AIDS.^[111]
• Patrick Lindsay, 79, Irish politician and lawyer.^[112]
• Sein Win, 74, Burmese military officer and politician.
• Bentong Kali, 32, Malaysian-Tamil criminal and gangster.

30

• Leo Camera, 78, American politician.
• Wong Ka Kui, 31, Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter, cerebral hemorrhage.^[113]
• Ian MacIntosh, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.^[114]
• Spanky McFarland, 64, American actor (Our Gang), heart attack.^[115]