Deaths in August 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

1

 * Bob Carter, 71, American jazz bassist and arranger.
 * Claire Du Brey, 100, American actress.
 * Elmira Gafarova, 59, Azerbaijani politician and diplomat, heart attack.
 * Ewing Kauffman, 76, American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and baseball executive, bone cancer.
 * Alfred Manessier, 81, French painter, stained glass artist, and tapestry designer, traffic collision.
 * Luciano Montero, 85, Spanish road bicycle racer.
 * Gerry Sundquist, 37, English actor, suicide.

2

 * Guido del Mestri, 82, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
 * Hosai Fujisawa, 74, Japanese professional Go player.
 * Nigel Henderson, 84, British admiral in the Royal Navy.
 * Kamal Mitra, 80, Indian actor.
 * John Roxburgh, 61, Australian racing driver, and motor sports administrator.
 * Janusz Sidło, 60, Polish javelin thrower and Olympic medalist.

3

 * Petr Beckmann, 68, Czechoslovak-American writer and physicist.
 * Vittorio Badini Confalonieri, 79, Italian politician and lawyer.
 * James Donald, 76, Scottish actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape, The Vikings), stomach cancer.
 * Alwyn Howard Gentry, 48, American botanist and plant collector, plane crash.
 * Prem Krishna Khanna, 99, Indian revolutionary and politician.
 * Ernie Norman, 80, Australian rugby player.
 * Theodore A. Parker III, 40, American ornithologist, plane crash.
 * Chinmayananda Saraswati, 77, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and teacher.
 * Mercedes Valdivieso, 69, Chilean writer.

4

 * Nesmith Ankeny, 66, American mathematician.
 * Bernard Barrow, 65, American actor (Ryan's Hope, Serpico, Rachel, Rachel), lung cancer.
 * Kenny Drew, 64, American jazz pianist.
 * Jack Dwan, 72, American basketball player.
 * Bob Maier, 77, American baseball player.
 * John Pickard, 80, American actor (Boots and Saddles, True Grit, Gunslinger), animal attack.
 * George M. Wallhauser, 93, American politician.

5

 * Bob Cooper, 67, American jazz musician, heart attack.
 * Randy Jo Hobbs, 45, American musician, heart failure.
 * Homer A. Jack, 77, American unitarian clergyman, pacifist and social activist.
 * Joseph Paul Jernigan, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Karin Nellemose, 88, Danish actress.
 * Bill Peterson, 73, American football player and coach.
 * Francisco Rúa, 82, Argentine football player.
 * Eugen Suchoň, 84, Slovak composer.

6

 * Tex Hughson, 77, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Bob Kiesel, 81, American sprinter and Olympic champion.
 * Ben Klassen, 75, American politician and white supremacist religious leader, suicide.
 * Esad Mekuli, 76, Albanian poet, critic and translator.
 * Henri Philippe Pharaoun, 92, Lebanese businessman and politician, homicide.
 * Milton Orville Thompson, 67, American naval officer and NASA test pilot.
 * Bill Thomson, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.

7

 * Geert Bakker, 72, Dutch sailor and Olympian.
 * Roy Budd, 46, British jazz pianist and composer, stroke.
 * John R. Burke, 68, American ambassador to Guyana during the Jonestown Massacre.
 * David Fleay, 86, Australian scientist and naturalist.
 * Charles Maxwell, 79, American actor and producer.
 * Louis Sheaffer, 80, American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, heart failure.

8

 * Harry Bellaver, 88, American actor, pneumonia.
 * Nico Habermann, 61, Dutch computer scientist, heart attack.
 * Roy London, 50, American actor and acting coach, AIDS-related complications.
 * Andor László, 78, Hungarian economist.

9

 * Elena Fabrizi, 78, Italian actress and television personality.
 * Milorad Mitrović, 85, Serbian football player.
 * Chad Oliver, 65, American anthropologist and science fiction writer.
 * Ion Vatamanu, 56, Moldovan writer and politician.

10

 * Audrey Chapman, 94, American silent film era actress.
 * Ken Englund, 79, American screenwriter.
 * Euronymous, 25, Norwegian musician of the black metal band Mayhem, stabbed.
 * Diana Holman-Hunt, 79, English memoir writer and art critic.
 * Eva Olmerová, 59, Czech pop and jazz singer, cirrhosis.
 * David Rogers, 57, American country music artist.
 * Quincy Trouppe, 80, American baseball player and an amateur boxing champion.

11

 * Alyn Beals, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Agamemnon Gratsios, 71, Greek Army general.
 * Eysteinn Jónsson, 86, Icelandic politician and minister.
 * Bill Wilson, 50, American baseball player, cancer.

12

 * John H. Dessauer, 88, German-American chemical engineer and businessman.
 * Regina Olson Hughes, 98, American scientific illustrator in botanical art.
 * Jack Lott, 73, American big game hunter and writer.
 * George Mason, 79, English football player.

13

 * Veli Autio, 83, Finnish rower and Olympian.
 * Jackson Edward Betts, 89, American politician.
 * Barbara Gibbs Golffing, 80, American poet and translator.
 * Helene Jacobs, 87, German resistance member during World War II.
 * Margarita Padín, 83, Argentine actress.
 * Rodolfo Tommasi, 85, Italian football player.

14

 * Jiří Adamíra, 67, Czech actor and university educator.
 * Francis Mankiewicz, 49, Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer.
 * André Méric, 80, French politician, traffic collision.
 * Günther van Well, 70, German diplomat and West German ambassador.

15

 * Johnny Bratton, 65, American boxing champion.
 * Arthur Grenfell Clarke, 86, Hong Kong politician.
 * Patricia St. John, 74, English writer.
 * Robert Kempner, 93, German-American lawyer.
 * Kalevi Lilja, 67, Finnish football player.
 * Hans Nordahl, 75, Norwegian football player.
 * Nathán Pinzón, 76, Argentine actor, heart attack.

16

 * Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, 81, Iranian-Iraqi Shia Grand Ayatollah.
 * Jacob D. Beam, 85, American diplomat.
 * René Dreyfus, 88, French racecar driver.
 * Ernest Fernyhough, 84, British politician.
 * Tom Fuccello, 56, American actor (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Dallas, Mac and Me), AIDS-related complications.
 * Stewart Granger, 80, British film actor, cancer.
 * Joan Hughes, 75, English test pilot and stunt performer.
 * Kitty Joyner, 77, American electrical engineer with the NACA and NASA.
 * Irene Sharaff, 83, American costume designer (West Side Story, Cleopatra, An American in Paris), five-time Oscar winner, heart failure.
 * Ethelwynn Trewavas, 92, British ichthyologist.

17

 * Feng Kang, 72, Chinese mathematician.
 * Robert C. Maynard, 56, American journalist and newspaper publisher, prostate cancer.
 * Phil Seymour, 41, American musician, lymphoma.
 * Al Sima, 71, American baseball player.

18

 * Tony Barwick, 59, British television scriptwriter, cancer.
 * Daisy Lumini, 57, Italian composer, singer and stage actress, suicide.
 * Tino Schirinzi, 59, Italian actor and stage director, suicide.
 * Paweł Stok, 80, Polish basketball player.

19

 * Lucinda Ballard, 87, American costume designer (The Gay Life, Another Part of the Forest, A Streetcar Named Desire), Tony winner (1947, 1962), cancer.
 * Iris Faircloth Blitch, 81, American politician.
 * Utpal Dutt, 64, Indian actor, director, and playwright.
 * Gérard Hérold, 53, French actor, heart attack.
 * Salah Jadid, 67, Syrian general and politician, heart attack.
 * Donald William Kerst, 81, American physicist.

20

 * Tony Barton, 56, English football player and football manager, heart attack.
 * Koos de Jong, 81, Dutch sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * William J. Murphy, 81, American politician.
 * Reiner Schürmann, 52, German Dominican priest and philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
 * Viktor Torshin, 45, Russian sport shooter and Olympic medalist.

21

 * Louis Cools-Lartigue, 88, Dominican politician.
 * Paula Deubel, 58, American shot putter and Olympian.
 * Ichirō Fujiyama, 82, Japanese singer and composer.
 * Kasdi Merbah, 55, Algerian politician, murdered.
 * Tatiana Troyanos, 54, American mezzo-soprano, breast cancer.

22

 * Eddie Chiles, 83, American businessman and baseball executive.
 * Dinmukhamed Konayev, 81, Soviet and Kazakhstan communist politician.
 * R. Gundu Rao, 56, Indian politician, leukemia.
 * Halsey Royden, 64, American mathematician, heart attack.
 * Yoshiko Shigekane, 66, Japanese writer.

23

 * Gregory Gaye, 92, Russian-American actor.
 * Piero Parini, 98, Italian journalist and politician.
 * Edvard Ravnikar, 85, Slovenian architect.
 * Charles Scorsese, 80, American actor (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Color of Money).

24

 * George Cansdale, 83, British zoologist, writer and television personality.
 * Ruben Cantu, 26, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Leopoldo Contarbio, 64, Argentine basketball player.
 * D. B. Deodhar, 101, Indian cricket player.
 * Boris Levin, 86, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
 * David Mason, 36, American serial killer, execution by gas chamber.
 * Albert Joseph McConnell, 89, Irish mathematician and mathematical physicist.

25

 * Janna Allen, 36, American songwriter, leukemia.
 * Amy Biehl, 26, American anti-Apartheid activist, homicide.
 * Tom Gallery, 95, American film actor and sports promoter.
 * Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, 94, Hong Kong industrialist, photographer and philanthropist.
 * Boris Moishezon, 55, Soviet and Russian mathematician, heart attack.
 * Macauley Smith, 88, American long-distance runner and Olympian.

26

 * Karl Bewerunge, 80, German politician.
 * Jean Carmen, 80, American film, stage, and radio actress.
 * Rockin' Dopsie, 61, American zydeco singer and accordion player, heart attack.
 * Roy Raymond, 46, American businessman and founder of Victoria's Secret, suicide.
 * Alan Wharton, 70, English cricket player.

27

 * Rafael Alcayde, 86, Mexican film actor.
 * Wolfgang Helck, 78, German egyptologist and writer.
 * José Marante, 78, Argentine football player.
 * Gene Thomas, 50, American gridiron football player, cardiomyopathy.
 * Archie Wilcox, 90, Canadian ice hockey defenceman.

28

 * George Appleton, 91, British Anglican bishop and writer.
 * Bernie Baum, 63, American songwriter.
 * Frank Hill, 87, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Rene Ray, Countess of Midleton, 81, British stage and screen actress and novelist.
 * Paul Rowe, 79, American ice hockey player.
 * William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist.
 * E. P. Thompson, 69, English historian, writer, socialist and pacifist.

29

 * Dorian Corey, 56, American drag performer and fashion designer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Roger McCluskey, 63, American IndyCar racing driver, cancer.
 * Carlos Santiago Nino, 49, Argentine philosopher, asthma.
 * Gwendoline Porter, 91, British track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

30

 * Ian Folley, 30, English cricket player, heart attack.
 * Richard Jordan, 56, American actor (Logan's Run, Dune, The Hunt for Red October), brain cancer.
 * Anthony Plowman, 87, British judge.
 * Milos Žutić, 53, Serbian actor.

31

 * Jess Hill, 86, American baseball player, athlete, and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Stella Kramrish, 97, American art historian and curator.
 * Stuart Latham, 81, English actor, director and television producer.
 * Ligorio López, 60, Mexican football player.
 * Alexander Nekrich, 73, Soviet and Russian historian.
 * Siegfried Schürenberg, 93, German film actor.
 * Al Trace, 92, American songwriter and orchestra leader, stroke.