The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1993

1

• Maeve Brennan, 76, Irish short story writer and journalist.
• Freda Corbet, 92, British politician.^[1]
• Georges Dancigers, 85, Russian-French film producer.^[2]
• Naina Devi, 76, Indian vocalist of Hindustani classical music.
• Clément Dupont, 94, French rugby player.^[3]
• Pinkie George, 88, American professional wrestling promoter and boxer.
• Mervyn Jayathunga, 53, Sri Lankan actor.
• Loelia Lindsay, 91, British peeress and magazine editor.^[4]
• Severo Ochoa, 88, Spanish physician, biochemist, and Nobel Prize laureate.^[5]
• George A. Sheehan, 74, American physician and sports writer, prostate cancer.^[6]
• A. N. Sherwin-White, 82, British ancient historian and academic.^[7]
• Frank Sundström, 81, Swedish actor.^[8]
• Sir Arthur Ward, 87, New Zealand dairy researcher and university administrator.^[9]
• Salgado Zenha, 70, Portuguese lawyer and politician.

2

• Đuro Kurepa, 86, Yugoslav mathematician.
• Butch Nieman, 75, American Major League Baseball player.^[10]
• Fred Williams, 80, American baseball player.^[11]
• Jean-Claude Wuillemin, 50, French cyclist.^[12]

3

• Richard Bayha, 64, German politician member of the Bundestag.
• H. G. Callan, 76, English zoologist and cytologist.^[13]
• Aidan Crawley, 85, British journalist, television executive, and politician.^[14]
• Duncan Gibbins, 41, British film and music video director, and screenwriter, burns.^[15]
• Arnold Hamer, 76, English cricket player.
• William Lanteau, 70, American actor (Newhart, On Golden Pond, From Noon till Three).^[16]
• John Lupton, 65, American actor (Broken Arrow, Days of Our Lives, Julius Caesar).^[17]
• Redmond Phillips, 81, New Zealand actor (Tom Jones, A Night to Remember, Spyforce).
• Leon Theremin, 97, Russian and Soviet inventor.^[18]
• Henri Thomas, 80, French writer and poet.^[19]
• Vuko Vukadinović, 56, Yugoslav and Montenegrin communist.

4

• Daniel Barrow, 84, American rower and Olympian.^[20]
• Jackie Callura, 76, Canadian featherweight boxer.^[21]
• Cem Ersever, 43, Turkish Army officer, murdered.
• Allan Hoover, 86, British-American mining engineer, rancher, and financier.^[22]
• Ely Landau, 73, American film producer and executive, stroke.^[23]
• Nerina Montagnani, 96, Italian actress, pneumonia.
• Seongcheol, 81, Korean Buddhist monk.
• Cliff Young, 29, American baseball player, traffic accident.^[24]

5

• Basuki Abdullah, 78, Indonesian painter, beaten to death.
• Michael Bilton, 73, English actor.
• Mario Cecchi Gori, 73, Italian film producer and businessman.^[25]
• Bertil Lundman, 94, Swedish anthropologist.
• Tadeusz Pankiewicz, 84, Polish pharmacist and resistance member during World War II.^[26]
• Arthur Rowe, 87, English football player and manager.^[27]

6

• Zena Abbott, 71, New Zealand weaver.^{[28][unreliable source?]}
• Torsten Fenslau, 29, German disc jockey and music producer, traffic collision.
• Jack Hennemier, 80, American gridiron football coach and scout.
• Alexandru Piru, 76, Romanian literary critic and historian.
• Georges Reeb, 72, French mathematician.
• Ed Sadowski, 62, American Major League Baseball player, ALS.^[29]
• Joseph Serchuk, 74, Polish partisan during World War II.
• Ralph Randles Stewart, 103, American botanist.^[30]
• Michael Vernon, 61, Australian consumer rights activist, multiple myeloma.

7

• Charles Aidman, 68, American actor, cancer.^[31]
• Clemente Gaddi, 91, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Adelaide Hall, 92, American jazz singer and entertainer, pneumonia.^[32]
• Jon Hernandez, 24, Filipino actor, traffic collision.^[33]
• Nikolay Kostylev, 62, Russian weightlifter.
• Terris Moore, 85, American explorer and mountaineer, president of the University of Alaska, heart attack.^[34]
• Yuri Osmanov, 52, Soviet and Crimean Tatar civil rights activist, murdered.
• Walt Rankin, 74, American National Football League player.^[35]
• Tex Shirley, 75, American baseball player.^[36]
• Jack Martin Smith, 82, American art director (Cleopatra, Fantastic Voyage, Planet of the Apes), Oscar winner (1964, 1967, 1970).
• Andrey Tikhonov, 87, Soviet mathematician and geophysicist.

8

• Erik Beijar, 72, Finnish football player.^[37]
• Dick Cathcart, 69, American dixieland trumpet player, cancer.^[38]
• Marcello Landi, 77, Italian painter and poet.
• Hank Leiber, 82, American baseball player.^[39]
• James Moffat, 71, Canadian-born British novelist.^[40]
• Francisco Zuluaga, 64, Colombian football player.^[41]

9

• Saqr III bin Sultan al-Qasimi, 68, Emirate of Sharjah ruler.
• Ross Andru, 66, American comic book artist (Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, The Punisher).^[42]
• Anatols Dinbergs, 82, Latvian diplomat.
• Godfrey Lienhardt, 72, British anthropologist, pneumonia.
• Angus Maude, 81, British politician.^[43]
• Stanley Myers, 63, English film composer (The Deer Hunter, The Witches, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead), cancer.^[44]
• Vishnudevananda Saraswati, 65, Indian yoga guru.^[45]
• Anne Smith, 52, British middle-distance runner and Olympian, stroke.^[46]
• Gerald Thomas, 72, English film director (Carry On), heart attack.^[47]

10

• Artashes Arakelian, 84, Soviet and Armenian economist and academic.^[48]
• Alberto Breccia, 74, Uruguay-Argentine artist and cartoonist.^[49]
• Justin O'Byrne, 81, Australian politician.^[50]
• Paul Oßwald, 88, German football player and manager.
• Wensley Pithey, 79, South African actor (Oliver!, Coronation Street, Charlesworth).

11

• Dragomir Bojanić, 60, Serbian actor and humorist, liver cancer.
• Franco Evangelisti, 70, Italian politician.
• Mildred Fizzell, 78, Canadian athlete and Olympian.^[51]
• Andrew Gregory Grutka, 84, American bishop of the Catholic Church.
• Erskine Hawkins, 79, American trumpeter and big band leader.^[52]
• Robert E. Hogaboom, 90, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
• Osman Sabri, 88, Kurdish poet, writer and journalist.^[53]
• Franco Sassi, 81, Italian painter, printmaker and engraver.^{[54][better source needed]}
• John Stanley, 79, American cartoonist and comic book writer (Little Lulu)

12

• Bill Dickey, 86, American baseball player and manager.^[55][56]
• Keith Flowers, 63, American gridiron football player.^[57]
• H. R. Haldeman, 67, American political aide and White House Chief of Staff, stomach cancer.^[58][59]
• Dria Paola, 83, Italian actress.
• William Haggin Perry, 82, American owner and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.^[55]
• Ted Ringwood, 63, Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist.^[60]
• Anna Sten, 84, Ukrainian-American actress.^[61]
• George Taylor, 89, Scottish botanist, heart attack.^[62]
• Jill Tweedie, 57, British feminist, writer and broadcaster, ALS.

13

• Jack Fulton, 90, American composer, trombonist, and vocalist.
• Rufus R. Jones, 60, American professional wrestler, heart attack.^[63]
• George Taylor, 89, Scottish botanist, heart attack.^[64]
• G. K. Venkatesh, 66, Indian film score composer.

14

• András Béres, 69, Hungarian football player and manager.^[65]
• Manibhai Desai, 73, Indian economist and social activist.
• Vũ Hồng Khanh, 95, Vietnamese revolutionary.
• Sanzō Nosaka, 101, Japanese communist politician.^[66]
• Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira, 91, Israeli jurist and Socialist Zionist politician.
• Kim Won-yong, 71, South Korean archaeologist and art historian.^[67]

15

• Jack Finch, 84, English football player.
• Yelena Gogoleva, 93, Soviet and Russian actress.
• Luciano Leggio, 68, Italian criminal and Sicilian Mafia leader, heart attack.^[68]
• Jimmy McAlinden, 75, Irish football player.^[69]
• Cvijetin Mijatović, 80, Yugoslav communist politician.
• Hal Mitchell, 63, American gridiron football player, cancer.^[70]
• Viola Myers, 66, Canadian sprinter and Olympian.^[71]
• Virgil Vătășianu, 91, Romanian academic and art historian.
• Gladys Walton, 90, American silent film actress, cancer.^[72]

16

• Yves Brainville, 79, French actor.^[73]
• Tomàs Garcés, 92, Spanish lawyer and poet.^[74]
• Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, 86, Cuban trova singer, guitarist, and composer.
• Frank Mockler, 84, American attorney and politician.^[75]
• Lucia Popp, 54, Slovak operatic soprano, brain cancer.^[76]
• Ken Renard, 87, American actor (True Grit, Something of Value, Lydia Bailey).
• Evelyn Venable, 80, American actress, cancer.^[77][78]
• Achille Zavatta, 78, French clown, artist and circus operator, suicide.^[79]

17

• Amy Jagger, 85, British Olympic artistic gymnast.^[80]
• Gérard D. Levesque, 67, Canadian politician and Cabinet minister.^[81]
• Giorgos Mitsakis, 72, Greek folk composer and lyricist.^[82]
• Kiyoshi Nishimura, 61, Japanese filmmaker, suicide.
• Teddy Powell, 88, American jazz musician and band leader.^[83]
• Gordon Richards, 60, Welsh football player.

18

• Fritz Feld, 93, German-American film actor.^[84]
• Arvid Fladmoe, 78, Norwegian composer and conductor.^[85]
• João Baptista Martins, 66, Portuguese football player, heart attack.
• Rudolph Matt, 84, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
• Branko Radović, 59, Yugoslav basketball player and coach.

19

• Kenneth Burke, 96, American literary theorist and author, heart attack.^[86]
• Carlo Da Prà, 62, Italian Olympic bobsledder.^[87]
• Leonid Gaidai, 70, Soviet and Russian comedy film director, pulmonary embolism.^[88]
• Dorothy Revier, 89, American actress.^[89]
• Sir John Stallworthy, 87, New Zealand-born British obstetrician and professor.^[90]
• Norman Tindale, 93, Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.^[91]

20

• Emile Ardolino, 50, American film director, choreographer, and producer, AIDS-related complications.^[92]
• Heather Farr, 28, American professional golfer, cancer.^[55]
• Christopher Frank, 50, British-French writer, screenwriter, and film director, heart attack.^[93]
• Eve van Grafhorst, 11, first Australian child to be infected with HIV via a blood transfusion.^[94]
• Paul Guiragossian, 66, Armenian Lebanese painter.^[95]
• Willi Rutz, 86, German football player and manager.^[96]

21

• Bill Bixby, 59, American actor (The Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father), prostate cancer.^[97]
• Margaret Boyd, 80, English lacrosse player and schoolteacher.^[98]
• Masaru Furukawa, 57, Japanese swimmer and Olympic champion.^[99]
• Fernand Picard, 87, French automotive engineer.
• Stéphane Proulx, 27, Canadian racing driver, AIDS-related complications.
• Bruno Rossi, 88, Italian experimental physicist.^[100]
• Richard Wordsworth, 78, English actor.^[101]

22

• P. A. Backer, 53, Indian Malayalam film director.
• William Brinkley, 76, American writer and journalist, suicide.^[102]
• Anthony Burgess, 76, English writer (A Clockwork Orange) and composer, lung cancer.^[103]
• Alois De Hertog, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.^[104]
• Alexander Langmuir, 83, American epidemiologist.^[105]
• Lee Loy Seng, 72, Malaysian businessman.^{[106][better source needed]}
• Bill Laughlin, 77, American basketball player.^[107]
• Tatiana Nikolayeva, 69, Soviet and Russian pianist and composer, stroke.^[108]
• James Stern, 88, Anglo-Irish writer of short stories and non-fiction.^[109]
• Elizabeth Threatt, 67, American model and actress.^[110]
• Ernst von Klipstein, 85, German actor.^[111]
• Joseph Yodoyman, 43, Chadian politician and civil servant.^[58]

23

• William Holmes Borders, 88, American pastor and civil rights activist.^[112]
• Grey Clarke, 81, American Major League Baseball player.^[113]
• Pierre Ferri, 89, French stockbroker and politician.^[114]
• Margit Kalocsai, 83, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.^[115]

24

• John Blythe, 72, English actor.^[116]
• Albert Collins, 61, American electric blues guitarist and singer, lung cancer.^[117]
• László Fenyvesi, 85, Hungarian football player and manager.
• Grès, 89, French couturier and costume designer.^[118]
• Tom Scott, 85, American college basketball coach.^[55]
• Zhou Peiyuan, 91, Chinese theoretical physicist and politician.

25

• Hervé Bromberger, 75, French film director and screenwriter.
• Juan Carlos Castillo, 29, Colombian racing cyclist, shot.^[119]
• Roman Durniok, 65, Polish football player and later manager.^[120]
• Carl Lorenz, 79, German cyclist.^[121]
• Claudia McNeil, 76, American actress (A Raisin in the Sun), diabetes.^[122]
• Louis Leo Snyder, 86, American scholar.^[123]
• Larry Uttal, 71, American music executive, AIDS.^[124]
• Burgess Whitehead, 83, American Major League Baseball player.^[125]

26

• Erwin Gillmeister, 86, German sprinter and Olympian.^[126]
• César Guerra-Peixe, 79, Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor.^[127]
• Jarl Hjalmarson, 89, Swedish politician.
• Dirk Albert Hooijer, 74, Dutch paleontologist.^[128]
• Guido Masetti, 86, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.
• Ali Mohsen, 53, Yemeni football player.^[129]
• Grande Otelo, 78, Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer, cardiovascular disease.^[130]
• Saly Ruth Ramler, 99, Czech-American mathematician.^{[131][better source needed]}
• Bernardo Segall, 82, Brazilian-American composer and concert pianist.^[132]

27

• James Gareth Endicott, 94, Canadian christian minister, missionary, and socialist.^[133]
• Jerry Hunt, 49, American composer, suicide.^[134]
• Einar Landvik, 95, Norwegian Nordic skier and Olympian.^[135]
• Thaddeus Mann, 84, Polish biochemist.
• Everett C. Olson, 83, American zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist.
• William J. Trent, 83, American economist, executive director of United Negro College Fund.^[136]

28

• Monroe Abbey, 89, Canadian lawyer and civic leader.^[137]
• Eilif Armand, 72, Norwegian actor.
• Pery Broad, 72, Brazilian Schutzstaffel non-commissioned officer.^{[138][better source needed]}
• Kenneth Connor, 75, English stage, film and broadcasting actor, cancer.^[139]
• Tommie Connor, 89, English lyricist and songwriter.^[140]
• Francis L. Dale, 72, American businessman and Major League Baseball executive.^[55]
• Jerry Edmonton, 47, American musician, traffic collision.
• June Gittelson, 83, American film actress.
• Robert Hawkins, 39, American basketball player, shot.^[141]
• Rudolf Keller, 76, German chess master.^{[142][unreliable source?]}
• Joe Kelly, 80, Irish racing driver.^[143]
• Jim Leonard, 83, American National Football League player and coach.^[144]
• Garry Moore, 78, American entertainer, comedian, and game show host, pulmonary emphysema.^[145]
• Huang Oudong, 88, Chinese politician.
• John Rokisky, 78, American gridiron football player.^[146]
• Marian Dale Scott, 87, Canadian painter.
• Camillo Togni, 71, Italian composer, teacher, and pianist.
• Bruce Turner, 71, English jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.^[147]

29

• Arnold Boghaert, 73, Belgian Roman Catholic bishop.^[148]
• Alan Clare, 72, British jazz pianist and composer.^[149]
• Peter Grushin, 87, Soviet rocket scientist and academic.
• Sir Jack Longland, 88, English broadcaster, educator and mountain climber.^[150]
• J. R. D. Tata, 89, Indian aviator, industrialist, and entrepreneur.^[151]
• Thomas W. Whitaker, 89, American botanist and horticulturist.^[152]

30

• David Houston, 57, American country music singer, stroke.^[153]
• Wacław Jędrzejewicz, 100, Polish Army officer, diplomat, and politician.^[154]
• Sebastian Kappen, 69, Indian Jesuit priest and theologian.
• Hirubhai M. Patel, 89, Indian civil servant and politician.
• Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, 91, British communist politician and member of the House of Lords.
• Tom Scannell, 68, Irish football player.^[155]
• Bob Woolf, 65, American sports agent.^[55]