The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1993

1

• Joseph Christopher, 37, American serial killer, male breast cancer.
• Terry Frost, 86, American actor (Law of the Range, Cheyenne, The Maverick), heart attack.^[1]
• Rudolph Glossop, 91, British mining and civil engineer.
• Luis Kutner, 84, American lawyer.^[2]
• Ronald McCuaig, 84, Australian poet, journalist, and children's author.
• Nicola Monti, 72, Italian opera singer.^[3]
• Oleg Zaytsev, 53, Soviet ice hockey defenceman.^[4]

2

• André Bareau, 71, French Buddhologist.^[5]
• Julius Ebert, 94, Danish runner and Olympian.^[6]
• Hans Hilfiker, 91, Swiss engineer (Swiss railway clock).
• Hjalmar Thomsen, 79, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1948).^[7]
• Paul D. Zimmerman, 54, American screenwriter (The King of Comedy), colon cancer.^[8]

3

• Mel Bradford, 58, American politician and academic.
• Robert Carricart, 76, French-American film, television and theatre actor.^[9]
• Bill Draut, 71, American comic book artist (Phantom Stranger, The Flash, House of Mystery).
• Jesús Bal y Gay, 87, Spanish composer, music critic, and musicologist.^[10]
• Harper Goff, 81, American musician, art director, and actor.
• Yoshio Kojima, 61, Japanese hammer thrower and Olympian, suicide.^[11]
• Carlos Marcello, 83, Italian-American mobster (New Orleans crime family), stroke.^[12]
• Carlos Montoya, 89, Spanish flamenco guitarist, heart failure.^[13]
• James Allen Red Dog, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Albert Sabin, 86, Polish-American virologist, heart failure.^[14]
• Xie Xuegong, 76, Chinese politician.

4

• Jerome Ambro, 64, American politician.
• Georgette Anys, 83, French actress, cancer.^[15]
• Anšlavs Eglītis, 86, Latvian writer, journalist and painter, cancer.
• Art Hodes, 88, American jazz pianist.^[16]
• Tomislav Ivčić, 40, Croatian pop singer, songwriter and politician, traffic collision.
• Varujan Kojian, 57, Armenian-American conductor.^[17]
• Izaak Kolthoff, 99, Dutch-American chemist and academic.^[18]
• Kaisu Leppänen, 88, Finnish actress.
• Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, 64, English politician, MP (1959–1992), lung cancer.
• Richard Sale, 81, American screenwriter and director.^[19]

5

• Colin Allan, 71, New Zealand colonial administrator and author.
• Alfred Ashley-Brown, 85, Australian politician, MP (1972–1974).
• Hans Christian Blech, 78, German actor.^[20]
• Cyril Collard, 35, French filmmaker (Savage Nights), AIDS.^[21]
• Herschel Daugherty, 82, American television and film director and actor.^[22]
• Jean Földeák, 89, German wrestler.
• Wallace Givens, 82, American mathematician and computer scientist.
• Egil Borgen Johansen, 58, Norwegian Olympic archer (1972).^[23]
• Robert McCance, 94, British paediatrician, biochemist and nutritionist.^[24]
• Jeyhun Mirzayev, 46, Azerbaijani actor, heart attack.
• Robert Sawyer, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Mac Speedie, 73, American gridiron football player.

6

• Takahide Aioi, 81, Japanese flying ace during World War II.
• Valentina Borisenko, 73, Soviet chess player.
• Andrew Gilchrist, 82, Scottish diplomat.^[25]
• Dan Johnson, 48, Canadian ice hockey player.^[26]
• Douglas Marland, 58, American screenwriter (Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World), complications from abdominal surgery.^[27]
• Walther Siegmund-Schultze, 76, German musicologist.^[28]

7

• Mariya Barabanova, 81, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress.
• Duane Carter, 79, American racing driver.^[29]
• Arnold Franchetti, 81–82, Italian-American composer.^[30]
• Tony Harris, 76, South African cricket player.
• Whitey Kachan, 67, American basketball player.^[31]
• J. Merrill Knapp, 78, American musicologist and academic.^[32]
• Martti Larni, 83, Finnish writer.^[33]
• Patricia Lawrence, 67, English actress.
• Carlo Mazzarella, 73, Italian actor and journalist, lung cancer.
• Angelo Piccaluga, 86, Italian football player.^[34]
• Jim Spavital, 66, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.^[35]
• Jeremy Tree, 67, British thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
• Earl Wrightson, 77, American singer, heart failure.^[36]

8

• Ria Bancroft, 86, British-New Zealand artist.
• Don Barksdale, 69, American basketball player, throat cancer.^[37]
• Wilhelm Georg Berger, 63, Romanian composer, violist and conductor.^[38]
• Solomon J. Buchsbaum, 63, Polish-American physicist, multiple myeloma.^[39]
• Billy Eckstine, 78, American jazz musician, stroke.^[40]
• Berent Schwineköper, 80, German archivist and historian.^[41]
• Johannes Türn, 93, Estonian chess player.
• Rens Vis, 88, Dutch football player.
• Carl A. Youngdale, 80, American Marine Corps major general.

9

• Bob Crosby, 79, American singer, actor, and television host (The Bob Crosby Show), cancer.
• Jan Larsen, 47, Danish football (soccer) player.
• C. Northcote Parkinson, 83, British naval historian.^[42]
• Pavel Pavlenko, 90, Soviet stage and film actor.
• Wells Root, 92, American screenwriter (The Prisoner of Zenda).
• Vanya Voynova, 58, Bulgarian basketball player.
• Edwin Vásquez, 70, Peruvian sport shooter and Olympic champion.^[43]
• Harry Wright, 73, American football player and coach.
• Max August Zorn, 86, German-American mathematician.^[44]

10

• Dino Bravo, 44, American professional wrestler, shot.^[45]
• David Gunn, 47, American abortion care provider, murdered.^[46]
• Camille Howard, 78, American pianist and singer.^[47]
• Vladimir Suteev, 89, Russian author, artist and animator.
• Guido Wieland, 86, Austrian stage, film and television actor.

11

• Tibor Donner, 85, Hungarian-Australian architect.
• Manuel da Fonseca, 81, Portuguese writer.^[48]
• Myrtle Maclagan, 81, English cricket player.
• Pragyananda Mahasthavir, 92, Nepalese buddhist monk.
• Irene Ware, 82, American actress.^[49]

12

• Iuliu Bodola, 81, Romanian-Hungarian football player.^[50]
• Lonnie Frisbee, 43, American evangelist and mystic, AIDS-related complications.
• Syed Shahid Hamid, 82, Pakistan Army general.
• Habib Jalib, 64, Pakistani revolutionary poet, and activist.
• Michael Kanin, 83, American screenwriter (Woman of the Year, Teacher's Pet), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure.^[51]
• Annamalai Ramanathan, 46, Indian mathematician, complications from a heart attack.
• Alex Taylor, 46, American singer.^[52]
• June Valli, 64, American singer and television personality, cancer.^[53]
• Wang Zhen, 84, Chinese general and politician, vice president (since 1988).

13

• Claire Huchet Bishop, 94, Swiss-American children's writer and librarian.^[54]
• Rocky Dzidzornu, 58, Ghanaian percussionist.
• Gene Hartley, 67, American racecar driver.^[55]
• Gaetano Kanizsa, 79, Italian psychologist and artist.
• Albert Maori Kiki, 61, Papua New Guinea politician.^[56]
• Pat Marcy, 79, Italian-American political boss.
• Petar Mazev, 66, Macedonian academic painter.^[57]
• Henry Morris, 73, Scottish football player.^[58]
• Jean Tamini, 73, Swiss football player.^[59]
• Ann Way, 77, English film and television actress.

14

• Dick Arrington, 51, American football player, heart attack.
• Marcus Bartley, 75, Anglo-Indian cinematographer.
• Larz Bourne, 77, American cartoon writer.^[60]
• Ahmad Ebadi, 87, Iranian musician and setar player.
• Thore Enochsson, 84, Swedish Olympic runner (1936).^[61]
• Sergio Manente, 68, Italian football player and coach.^[62]
• Harold Soref, 76, English politician, MP (1970–1974).
• Albert Watson II, 84, American Army lieutenant general.

15

• Georgette Chen, 86, Singaporean painter.
• Paul Easterling, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[63]
• Ricardo Arias Espinosa, 80, Panamanian politician, president (1955–1956).
• Gustav A. Hedlund, 88, American mathematician.
• Lennart Hyland, 73, Swedish TV-show host and journalist.
• Edo Kovačević, 86, Croatian artist.
• Karl Mai, 64, German football player and manager, leukemia.^[64]

16

• Natália Correia, 69, Portuguese intellectual, poet and social activist, heart attack.^[65]
• Johnny Cymbal, 48, Scottish-American songwriter, singer and record producer.^[66]
• Gordon Donaldson, 79, Scottish historian.^[67]
• Ralph Fults, 82, American outlaw (Barrow Gang).
• Srirangam Gopalaratnam, 53–54, Indian singer.
• Muhammad Khan Junejo, 60, Pakistani politician, prime minister (1985–1988), leukemia.
• Donald Randolph, 87, American actor, pneumonia.^[68]
• Chishū Ryū, 88, Japanese actor.^[69]
• Giovanni Testori, 69, Italian dramatist.^[70]
• Erich Valentin, 86, German musicologist.
• Odiel Van Den Meersschaut, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.

17

• Joe Abreu, 79, American baseball player.^[71]
• Constantin Anton, 98, Romanian general.^[72]
• Helen Hayes, 92, American actress (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, Airport, Happy Birthday), Oscar winner (1932, 1971), congestive heart failure.^[73]
• Charlotte Hughes, 115, English supercentenarian, nation's oldest person (since 1988).
• Alby Pannam, 78, Australian footballer.
• John Joyce Russell, 95, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Thorstein Treholt, 81, Norwegian politician, county governor of Oppland (1976–1981).
• John Witte, 60, American gridiron football player, leukemia.
• Skip Young, 63, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).

18

• William K. Boardman, 78, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1961–1971).
• Kenneth E. Boulding, 83, English-American economist.^[74]
• Elemér Gyetvai, 65, Hungarian table tennis player.
• Edward Warburton Jones, 80, Northern Irish judge and politician.
• Buck Jordan, 86, American baseball player.^[75]
• Henrik Lubbers, 66, American field hockey player and Olympian.^[76]
• Aksel Nikolajsen, 92, Danish Olympic pole vaulter (1928).^[77]
• Carlos A. Petit, 80, Argentine screenwriter.
• Syvasky Poyner, 36, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
• Robert A. Rushworth, 68, American general, pilot, and astronaut, heart attack.
• Joe Taylor, 67, American baseball player.^[78]

19

• Bernie Crimmins, 73, American football player and coach.^[79]
• Karen Dalton, 55, American folk blues musician, laryngeal cancer.
• Georges Garvarentz, 60, Armenian-French composer.^[80]
• Dulcie Howes, 84, South African ballet dancer, and choreographer.
• Mark Hughes, 60, English politician, MP (1970–1987).
• Al McWilliams, 77, American comics artist.
• Gerhard Mertins, 73, German paratrooper during World War II, nazi and arms trafficker.
• Roger Michelot, 80, French boxer.^[81]
• Henrik Sandberg, 77, Danish film producer.
• Jeff Ward, 30, American drummer (Nine Inch Nails), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

20

• Arsène Auguste, 42, Haitian footballer, heart attack.
• Naseer Bunda, 60, Field hockey player from Pakistan.^[82]
• Robert Burnham, Jr., 61, American astronomer.
• Børge Jessen, 85, Danish mathematician.
• Polykarp Kusch, 82, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1955).^[83]
• Rachel Messerer, 91, Russian silent film actress.
• Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya, 89, Indian writer of Bengali literature.
• Gerard Sekoto, 79, South African artist and musician.^[84]
• Toni Spiss, 62, Austrian alpine skier.^[85]

21

• Sebastiano Baggio, 79, Italian Catholic cardinal.
• Eric Guerin, 68, American jockey.
• Michael Hutchison, 79, Scottish politician.
• Akio Kaminaga, 56, Japanese judoka, colorectal cancer.^[86]
• Cyril Kellett, 55, English rugby player.
• Albert Ramon, 72, Belgian racing cyclist.^[87]
• Buddy Swan, 63, American child actor.
• Digby Tatham-Warter, 75, British Army officer.
• Walther Wüst, 91, German Indologist.

22

• Samiha Ayverdi, 87, Turkish writer and Sufi mystic.^[88]
• John J. Beck, 93, American politician.^[89]
• Phia Berghout, 83, Dutch harpist.
• Enzo Fiermonte, 84, Italian actor and boxer.
• Leopold Labedz, 73, Anglo-Polish anti-Soviet Unioncommentator.^[90]
• Sun Meiying, 61, Chinese table tennis player.
• Steve Olin, 27, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), boating accident.^[91]
• Vazir Orujov, 36, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in action.
• Gret Palucca, 91, German ballet dancer and dance teacher.^[92]
• Cec Pepper, 76, Australian cricket player, heart disease.
• Jack Riley, 83, American football player (Boston Redskins).^[93]
• Franklin Delano Williams, 45, American gospel singer (The Williams Brothers), heart attack.

23

• Denis Parsons Burkitt, 82, Irish surgeon.^[94]
• Tim Crews, 31, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), boating accident.^[95]
• Robert Crichton, 68, American novelist.^[96]
• Bruce Alexander McDonald, 68, Australian Army officer.
• Yevdokiya Nikulina, 75, Soviet bomber commander and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Torsten Rapp, 87, Swedish Air Force officer.
• Hans Werner Richter, 84, German writer.^[97]

24

• Albert Arlen, 88, Australian pianist.^[98]
• Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon, 83, British politician.
• Imogen Carpenter, 81, American actress, musician, and composer.
• José dos Santos Ferreira, 73, Hong kong poet.
• Karen Gershon, 69, German-British writer and poet.^[99]
• Robert Harris, 41–42, Australian poet, heart attack.^[100]
• John Hersey, 78, American journalist and novelist (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano), cancer.^[101]
• Anton Peterlin, 84, Slovenian physicist.
• Herbert Tenzer, 87, American politician.^[102]

25

• Bogdan Istru, 78, Moldovan poet.
• Wally Karbo, 77, American professional wrestling promoter, heart attack.^[103]
• Jake Porter, 76, American jazz trumpeter and record producer.^[104]
• Dave Strong, 77, American football player and coach of football and basketball.
• Rokkō Toura, 62, Japanese actor.
• Billy Wilson, 65, Australian rugby player and coach.

26

• Tofiq Bahramov, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani football player and referee.
• James Caleb Boggs, 83, American lawyer and politician.^[105]
• Louis Falco, 50, American choreographer, AIDS.^[106]
• Reuben Fine, 78, American chess player, psychologist, and author.^[107]
• Lewis Hanke, 88, American historian of colonial Latin America.^[108]
• Edwin Norton, 67, New Zealand weightlifter.
• Roy Riegels, 84, American football player, Parkinson's disease.^[109]
• Anatoli Yatskov, 79, Soviet consul and intelligence officer during World War II.

27

• Peter Agostini, 80, American sculptor.^[110]
• Kamal Hassan Ali, 71, Egyptian politician, prime minister (1984–1985).
• Charles Anderson, 78, American equestrian and Olympic champion.^[111]
• Clifford Jordan, 61, American saxophonist, lung cancer.^[112]
• Arthur Larson, 82, American lawyer, writer, and government official.^[113]
• Paul László, 93, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer.
• Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 100, American attorney and psychologist.^[114]
• Taško Načić, 58, Serbian actor.
• Kate Reid, 62, Canadian actress (Atlantic City, Death of a Salesman, Dallas), cancer.^[115]
• Ernst Streng, 51, German cyclist.^[116]

28

• Scott Cunningham, 36, American Wicca writer, lymphoma.^[117]
• Miklós Horthy, 86, Hungarian noble and politician.
• Patrick Lawlor, 69, Canadian politician.
• Michael McNair-Wilson, 62, British politician.^[118]
• Italo Tajo, 77, Italian opera singer.^[119]

29

• Sir John Rodgers, 1st Baronet, 86, British politician.^[120]
• Juan Luis Martínez, 50, Chilean avant-garde poet, writer, and visual artist, heart attack.^[121]
• Štefan Uher, 62, Slovak film director, heart failure.^[122]
• Jack Stelling, 68, English footballer.

30

• Andrée Brunet, 91, French-American Olympic ice skater (1924, 1928, 1932).^[123]
• Richard Diebenkorn, 70, American painter, emphysema.^[124]
• Rubén Rojo, 70, Spanish-Mexican actor, cardiovascular disease.
• Paolo Todeschini, 72, Italian football player and manager.^[125]

31

• Ramon Aquino, 75, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Robert Brookson, 53, Canadian Olympic rower (1964).^[126]
• Chicháy, 75, Filipino comedian and actress.
• Ailwyn Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey, 83, English hereditary peer.
• Manuel Gonzales, 80, Spanish-American comics artist (Disney), heart failure.
• Brandon Lee, 28, American actor (The Crow, Rapid Fire, Showdown in Little Tokyo), accidental gunshot wound.^[127]
• José María Lemus, 81, Salvadorian politician, president (1956–1960), Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Chip Mead, 43, American racing driver, plane crash.
• Joe Muha, 71, American football player, coach, and official.
• Mitchell Parish, 92, American lyricist.^[128]
• George Roark, 94, American basketball, baseball, and football player and coach.
• Hüseyin Saygun, 73, Turkish football player and football manager.^[129]
• Angie Xtravaganza, 28, American transgender entertainer, complications from AIDS.