Deaths in December 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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

 * Lynette Davies, 45, Welsh actress, suicide.
 * Edwin Flavell, 95, British Army officer.
 * Ray Gillen, 34, American rock singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.
 * Sir Ivor Hele, 81, Australian artist.
 * Scott Kolk, 88, American actor.
 * Mary Lobel, 93, British historian.
 * Giulio Marchetti, 82, Italian and actor and television presenter, internal hemorrhage.

2

 * Ali Benfadah, 58, Algerian football player and manager.
 * Paal Brekke, 70, Norwegian lyricist, novelist, and literary critic.
 * Evelyn Dearman, 85, English tennis player.
 * Harry Julius Emeléus, 90, English inorganic chemist.
 * Pablo Escobar, 44, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist, shot.
 * John Kershaw, 62, British screenwriter and script editor.
 * Tom Monroe, 74, American actor.
 * Leo Paquin, 83, American football player.

3

 * Frank Anthony, 85, Indian politician and Anglo-Indian community leader.
 * George P. Hammond, 97, American professor of Latin American studies.
 * Witold Majchrzycki, 84, Polish Olympic boxer.
 * Lea Mek, 18, Cambodian-American gang member, murdered in gang shooting.
 * Steve Paproski, 65, Canadian politician and football player.
 * Lewis Thomas, 80, American science writer.

4

 * Victor Gunnarsson, 40, Swedish right-wing activist, homicide.
 * Marcel Jean, 92, French painter, writer, and sculptor.
 * Margaret Landon, 90, American writer and missionary.
 * Hugh Moore, 64, British City of London Police commander, heart failure.
 * Jusuf Prazina, 31, Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War, homicide.
 * Frank Sturgis, 68, American CIA operative and one of the Watergate burglars, lung cancer.
 * Roy Vernon, 56, Welsh football player.
 * Frank Zappa, 52, American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, prostate cancer.

5

 * Mike Dowdle, 55, American gridiron football player.
 * Yevgeny Gabrilovich, 94, Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter.
 * Doug Hopkins, 32, American musician and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.
 * Rita Macedo, 68, Mexican actress and dressmaker, suicide by gunshot.
 * Vince Mazza, 68, Canadian football player.
 * Robert Ochsenfeld, 92, German physicist.
 * Alexandre Trauner, 87, Hungarian film production designer.

6

 * Don Ameche, 85, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places, Heaven Can Wait), Oscar winner (1986), prostate cancer.
 * Bryson Graham, 41, English rock drummer.
 * Anna Hřebřinová, 85, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympian.
 * Sergi Jikia, 95, Georgian historian and orientalist.
 * Hendrik Ooms, 77, Dutch cyclist.
 * Paul-Louis Weiller, 100, French industrialist and philanthropist.

7

 * Nicky Crane, 35, English neo-Nazi activist, AIDS-related bronchopneumonia.
 * Abidin Dino, 80, Turkish artist and painter, cancer.
 * Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 88, President of Ivory Coast, cancer.
 * Blaže Koneski, 71, Macedonian poet, writer, and linguistic scholar.
 * Wolfgang Paul, 80, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
 * Robert Taft, Jr., 76, American politician.

8

 * Carl Damm, 66, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Yevgeny Minayev, 60, Russian weightlifter, starvation and hypothermia.
 * Carlotta Monti, 86, American film actress.
 * Cole Palen, 67, American aviator.
 * Philippe Pradayrol, 27, French judoka, traffic collision.
 * Mieczysław Wilczewski, 61, Polish cyclist.

9

 * Salvatore Allegra, 95, Italian composer.
 * Danny Blanchflower, 67, Northern Irish football player, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, 94, Iranian Grand Ayatollah and Shia islam scholar.
 * Herbert Grevenius, 92, Swedish screenwriter.
 * Matt Guokas, 78, American basketball player and broadcaster.
 * Carter Jefferson, 48, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * Alexander Koblencs, 77, Latvian chess master and writer.
 * John Wisdom, 89, British philosopher.

10

 * Maroun Bagdadi, 43, Lebanese film director, fall.
 * Jerzy Juskowiak, 54, Polish sprinter and Olympian.
 * Fernand Mithouard, 84, French cyclist.
 * Alice Tully, 91, American opera singer, music promoter, and philanthropist, influenza.
 * Miljan Zeković, 68, Montenegrin and Yugoslav football player and manager.
 * Alan E. Zimmer, 64, American neuroradiologist, stroke.

11

 * Ku Cheng-kang, 91, Chinese politician and scholar.
 * Francisco Flores del Campo, 86, Chilean composer, instrumentalist and actor, cardiovascular disease.
 * Raymond D. Gary, 85, American businessman and politician.
 * Bohdan Likszo, 53, Polish basketball player.
 * Paul Mebus, 73, German football player.
 * Bill Mumm, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and politician.
 * Steve Nelson, 90, Croatian-American political activist.
 * Karl-Theodor Molinari, 78, German Army and Bundeswehr officer and politician.
 * Pierre Sarr N'Jie, 84, Gambian lawyer and politician.
 * Phil Perlo, 58, American gridiron football player.
 * Elvira Popescu, 99, Romanian-French actress and theatre director.
 * Sam Stayman, 84, American bridge player and writer.

12

 * József Antall, 61, Hungarian teacher, librarian, historian, and statesman, cancer.
 * Ned Barry, 88, New Zealand rugby union player and police officer.
 * Marian Constance Blackton, 92, American screenwriter and actress.
 * Fritz Bock, 82, Austrian politician.
 * Joan Cross, 93, English soprano.
 * Alexandru Drăghici, 80, Romanian communist activist and politician.
 * Don Earle, 64, American ice hockey announcer.
 * Bob Taylor, 89, American ice hockey player.

13

 * Ken Anderson, 84, American art director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Sword in the Stone) and screenwriter (Cinderella), stroke.
 * Larry Cameron, 41, American gridiron football player and professional wrestler, heart attack in ring during match.
 * Vanessa Duriès, 21, French novelist, traffic collision.
 * Joy Laurey (pen name of Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris), 50, French novelist, traffic collision.
 * Tommy Sexton, 36, Canadian comedian, AIDS-related complications.
 * Billy Shantz, 66, American baseball player and manager.
 * Gaziza Zhubanova, 66, Kazakh composer.

14

 * Jeff Alm, 25, American gridiron football player, suicide.
 * Shirley J. Dreiss, 44, American hydrologist and hydrogeologist, traffic collision.
 * Frank Fuller, 64, American gridiron football player.
 * Jennifer Howard, 68, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Francis Jones, 85, Welsh historian and officer of arms.
 * Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão, 79, Brazilian neurophysiologist and researcher, respiratory failure.
 * Myrna Loy, 88, American actress (The Thin Man, The Best Years of Our Lives, Cheaper by the Dozen), lung cancer.
 * Silvina Ocampo, 90, Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist.

15

 * Tom Bedecki, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Raúl Esnal, 37, Uruguayan football player, homicide.
 * Penaia Ganilau, 75, First President of Fiji, leukemia.
 * William Dale Phillips, 68, American physical chemist and academic.
 * Marcel Vandernotte, 84, French rower and Olympian.

16

 * Charizma, 20, American MC, shot.
 * Fedele Gentile, 85, Italian film actor.
 * Moses Gunn, 64, American actor (Shaft, Little House on the Prairie, Heartbreak Ridge), asthma.
 * Riley Hill, 79, American actor.
 * Jed Johnson, Jr., 53, American politician.
 * Charles Moore, 68, American architect and writer.
 * Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Japanese politician, pneumonia.

17

 * Patrick Crowley, 87, Irish politician and trade union official.
 * Bobby Davidson, 65, Scottish football referee.
 * Hilding Hagberg, 94, Swedish communist politician.
 * Mirza Ibrahimov, 82, Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, playwright, and public figure.
 * Len Julians, 60, English football player.
 * Janet Margolin, 50, American actress, ovarian cancer.

18

 * Bernard Ayandho, 63, Central African politician and diplomat.
 * Joseph H. Ball, 88, American journalist and politician.
 * Georges Bégué, 82, French engineer and SOE agent during World War II.
 * Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs, 93, British-American powerboat racer.
 * Gheorghe Cozorici, 60, Romanian actor.
 * Helm Glöckler, 84, German amateur racing driver.
 * Steve James, 41, American actor and stunt performer, cancer.
 * Tony Kappen, 74, American basketball player.
 * Buster Larsen, 73, Danish actor.
 * Natalya Sats, 90, Russian stage director.
 * Bernhard Sälzer, 53, German politician and member of the European Parliament, traffic collision.
 * Sam Wanamaker, 74, American actor and director, prostate cancer.

19

 * Wallace F. Bennett, 95, American businessman and politician.
 * Michael Clarke, 47, American drummer (The Byrds), liver failure.
 * Iichirō Hatoyama, 75, Japanese politician.
 * Inez James, 74, American film score composer.
 * Owain Owain, 64, Welsh novelist, short-story writer and poet.
 * Hans Rohrbach, 90, German mathematician and cryptanalyst during World War II.

20

 * Gussie Nell Davis, 87, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes.
 * Hubert Deltour, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * W. Edwards Deming, 93, American engineer, statistician, author, and lecturer.
 * Nazife Güran, 72, Turkish composer.
 * Charles Herman Helmsing, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Hulusi Kentmen, 81, Turkish actor, kidney failure.
 * Felix Mackiewicz, 76, American baseball player.

21

 * Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, 100, British Army officer.
 * Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist.
 * Frederick J. Harlfinger II, 80, American Navy officer.
 * Ivan Kozlovskyi, 93, Soviet and Russian lyric tenor.
 * Zack Mosley, 87, American comic strip artist.
 * Pekka Niemi, 84, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympian.
 * Margarita Nikolaeva, 58, Soviet gymnast and Olympian.

22

 * Mario Amendola, 83, Italian screenwriter, film director and dramatist, diabetes.
 * Sylvia Bataille, 85, French actress, heart attack.
 * Oto Bihalji-Merin, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian writer, painter and art critic.
 * Marion Burns, 86, American film actress.
 * Don DeFore, 80, American actor, heart attack.
 * Alexander Mackendrick, 81, American-Scottish film director, pneumonia.
 * Salah Zulfikar, 67, Egyptian actor and film producer.

23

 * Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, 69, Icelandic religious leader and neopaganist, heart attack.
 * Gertrude Blom, 92, Swiss journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer.
 * Lauchlin Currie, 91, American economist.
 * James Ellison, 83, American film actor, fall.
 * Luigi Giuliano, 63, Italian football player.
 * Jean Maréchal, 83, French racing cyclist.
 * Chucho Navarro, 80, Mexican singer.
 * Marcello Neri, 91, Italian Olympic cyclist.

24

 * Pierre Victor Auger, 94, French physicist.
 * Yen Chia-kan, 88, President of the Republic of China.
 * Anita Dorris, 90, German actress of the silent era.
 * Ralph Downes, 89, English organist, organ designer, and music director.
 * Ivano Fontana, 67, Italian boxer.
 * Andrzej Nadolski, 72, Polish historian, archaeologist, and professor.
 * Dorothea Parker, 65, New Zealand sprinter, cancer.
 * Norman Vincent Peale, 95, American writer and minister, stroke.
 * J. Wayne Reitz, 84, American agricultural economist and university president.
 * Vladimir Šimunić, 74, Croatian football player and manager.

25

 * Blandine Ebinger, 94, German cabaret singer and actress.
 * Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 98, German princess, socialite, and author.
 * Ama Naidoo, 85, South African anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.
 * Jeff Phillips, 30, American professional skateboarder, suicide by gunshot.
 * Ann Ronell, 86, American composer and lyricist.
 * Azat Sherents, 80, Soviet and Armenian actor.
 * Marian Suski, 88, Polish fencer and Olympian.
 * Nikolai Timkov, 81, Soviet and Russian painter.

26

 * Dave Beck, 99, American labor leader.
 * Lilian Edirisinghe, 71, Sri Lankan actress.
 * Jeff Morrow, 86, American actor.
 * Carlos Muñoz, 29, Ecuadorian football player, traffic collision.
 * Patrick W. Ryan, 1992, Irish politician.

27

 * Michael Callen, 38, American musician, author, and AIDS activist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Feliks Kibbermann, 91, Estonian chess master and philologist.
 * Nina Lugovskaya, 75, Soviet painter and theatre designer.
 * Evald Mikson, 82, Estonian football player.
 * André Pilette, 75, Belgian racecar driver.
 * Paavo Susitaival, 97, Finnish politician and military officer.

28

 * William Austin, 90, Canadian-American film editor.
 * Alfonso Balcázar, 67, Spanish screenwriter, film director and producer.
 * Howard Caine, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, 1776, Judgment at Nuremberg), heart attack.
 * Augie Galan, 81, American baseball player, manager and coach.
 * John Kemp, 53, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.
 * Gilles Lamontagne, 69, Canadian baritone
 * Jennifer Lash, 55, English novelist and painter, breast cancer.
 * William L. Shirer, 89, American journalist and war correspondent.

29

 * Axel Corti, 60, Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host.
 * Yvonne Desportes, 86, French composer, writer, and music educator.
 * Karl Endres, 82, German basketball player.
 * Lohengrin Filipello, 75, Swiss television presenter.
 * Marie Kean, 75, Irish actress.
 * Marshall Meyer, 63, American conservative rabbi, cancer.
 * Frunzik Mkrtchyan, 63, Armenian stage and film actor, cancer.

30

 * Mack David, 81, American lyricist and songwriter.
 * Dick Donald, 82, Scottish football player and administrator.
 * Rita Klímová, 62, Czech economist and politician, leukemia.
 * Irving Paul Lazar, 86, American talent agent and businessman.
 * Giuseppe Occhialini, 86, Italian physicist.
 * George Stone, 47, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, 85, Turkish politician.

31

 * Henry A. Byroade, 80, American diplomat.
 * Bill Cowley, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Arthur Dreifuss, 85, German-American film director.
 * Mikhail Dudin, 77, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.
 * Zviad Gamsakhurdia, 54, Soviet and Georgian politician, dissident, and writer, shot.
 * Alexander Girard, 86, American architect and designer.
 * Bob Johnson, 73, American actor.
 * Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont, 38, Jamaican guitarist and singer, prostate cancer.
 * Guy Lefrant, 70, French equestrian and Olympian.
 * Betty McDowall, 69, Australian actress.
 * Lauriston Sharp, 86, American anthropologist and academic.
 * Samuel Steward, 84, American writer, professor, tattoo artist and pornographer.
 * Brandon Teena, 21, American trans man and murder victim, shot.
 * Thomas Watson, 79, American businessman, politician, and philanthropist, stroke.