Deaths in February 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Michael Blundell, 85, Kenyan farmer and politician.
 * José Bravo, 76, Spanish football player.
 * Mehrab Shahrokhi, 48, Iranian football player.
 * Gregg G. Tallas, 84, Film director and film editor.
 * Sven Thofelt, 88, Swedish Olympic pentathlete (1928, 1936, 1948) and fencer.
 * Harold Edward Winch, 85, Canadian politician.

2

 * Gino Bechi, 79, Italian operatic baritone.
 * Bernard Braden, 76, Canadian-British actor and comedian, stroke.
 * Emilio Bulgarelli, 75, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948).
 * Clemente Fracassi, 75, Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.
 * Michael Klein, 33, Romanian football player, heart attack.
 * Lenny Levy, 79, American baseball player, coach and scout.
 * Reid Miles, 65, American graphic designer and photographer.
 * Harry Nilsson, 77, Swedish football defender.
 * Bernard Peters, 82-83, Polish-German nuclear physicist.
 * François Reichenbach, 71, French film director, producer and screenwriter.
 * Alexander Schneider, 84, Lithuanian-American violinist, heart failure.

3

 * Viktor Ajbek, 72, Croatian footballer.
 * Françoys Bernier, 65, Canadian musician.
 * Rosetta Calavetta, 78, Italian actress and voice dubber.
 * Omar Cañas, 23, Colombian footballer, shot.
 * Gianni Colombo, 56, Italian artist.
 * Paul Emery, 76, English racing driver.
 * Edith Elizabeth Farkas, 71, Hungarian-New Zealand antarctic researcher and meteorologist, bone cancer.
 * Karel Goeyvaerts, 69, Belgian composer.
 * Éliane de Meuse, 93, Belgian painter.
 * Tan Shaowen, 63, Chinese politician, lung cancer.

4

 * Eldon Jenne, 93, American track and field athlete.
 * Daulat Singh Kothari, 86, Indian scientist and educationist.
 * Joaquín Oliva, 66, Spanish football player.
 * Connie Saylor, 52, American NASCAR racecar driver, cancer.

5

 * T. W. Alley, 50, American football player and coach, heart attack.
 * Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, 94, British businessman and media executive.
 * William Pène du Bois, 76, American writer and book illustrator, stroke.
 * Seán Flanagan, 71, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Baharul Islam, 74, Indian politician, MP (1962–1972, 1983–1989).
 * Hans Jonas, 89, German-American philosopher.
 * Adnan Kahveci, 43, Turkish politician, traffic collision.
 * Roxanne Kernohan, 32, Canadian actress, traffic collision.
 * Marcel Léger, 62, Canadian politician, MNA (1970–1985).
 * Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, American film director and screenwriter (All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives), heart attack.
 * Tip Tipping, 34, English stuntman (Batman, Willow) and actor (Aliens), parachuting accident.
 * Jack Young, 80, English cricketer.
 * Huang Zhizhen, 72, Chinese politician.

6

 * Arthur Ashe, 49, American tennis player, AIDS.
 * George Bellew, 93, British officer of arms.
 * Ruggero Biancani, 78, Italian athlete and Olympian.
 * Mohammad Natsir, 84, Indonesian islamic scholar and prime minister.
 * Ion Negoițescu, 71, Romanian writer and historian.

7

 * Shovkat Alakbarova, 70, Azerbaijani singer.
 * Frank Balistrieri, 74, American mobster belonging to the Milwaukee crime family.
 * Duilio Brignetti, 66, Italian Olympic pentathlete (1948, 1952).
 * William Hayman, 89, English Anglican prelate, Archdeacon of Lewisham (1960–1972).
 * Erling Dekke Næss, 91, Norwegian shipowner and businessman.
 * Buddy Pepper, 70, American pianist and songwriter.
 * Mohsen Sarhan, 79, Egyptian actor.

8

 * Teddy Glover, 90, English-American football player.
 * Oto Grigalka, 67, Latvian track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * William Ewing Hester, 80, American tennis player and official.
 * Douglas Heyes, 73, American screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Eliot Janeway, 80, American economist.
 * Anthony Kramreither, 66, Australian-Canadian film producer.
 * Charles R. Lord, 61, American intelligence official, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (1986–1988).
 * Roland Mousnier, 85, French historian.
 * Franz Schnyder, 82, Swiss film director.
 * Nagalingam Shanmugathasan, 72, Sri Lankan trade unionist.
 * Bram van der Stok, 77, Dutch fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.

9

 * Marian Filc, 44, Slovakian Olympic figure skater (1968), heart attack.
 * Bill Grundy, 69, English journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
 * Saburo Okita, 78, Japanese politician and economist.
 * Elwood Richard Quesada, 88, American lieutenant general and businessman.
 * Mingun Sayadaw, 81, Burmese theravada Buddhist monk.
 * Kate Wilkinson, 76, American actress, bone cancer.

10

 * Elmer Barbour, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * James C. H. Bonbright, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, 78, French politician, prime minister (1957).
 * William E. Cleator, Sr., 65, American politician, cancer.
 * Bengt Edlén, 86, Swedish astronomer and academic.
 * Fred Hollows, 63, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist, renal cancer.
 * Gaya Prasad Katiyar, 92, Indian revolutionary.
 * Mickey Murtagh, 88, American football player.
 * Rip Repulski, 64, American baseball player.

11

 * Kamal Amrohi, 75, Indian film director and screenwriter.
 * Charles Eric Dawson, 70, Canadian ichthyologist.
 * Joy Garrett, 47, American actress, liver failure.
 * Robert W. Holley, 71, American biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient (1968), lung cancer.
 * Brian Inglis, 76, Irish journalist, historian and television presenter.
 * Oksana Kostina, 20, Russian rhythmic gymnast, traffic collision.
 * Desanka Maksimović, 94, Serbian poet and writer.
 * Félix Ruiz, 52, Spanish footballer.
 * Newton Steers, 76, American politician.

12

 * Joe Booher, 51, American racing driver, racing accident.
 * James Bulger, 2, English murder victim.
 * Mark W. Ellingson, 88, American academic, president of the Rochester Institute of Technology (1936–1969).
 * Thelma G. Thurstone, 95, American psychologist and psychological testing pioneer.

13

 * Araxie Babayan, 86, Soviet and Armenian organic chemist.
 * G. H. Diggle, 90, English chess player.
 * Henry Duey, 84, American weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
 * Willoughby Gray, 76, English actor of stage and screen, cancer.

14

 * Elek Bacsik, 66, Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist.
 * Eleazar Lipsky, 81, American lawyer, writer and playwright, leukemia.
 * Eric Lionel Mascall, 87, English Anglican priest and theologian.
 * Pedro Cortina y Mauri, 84, Spanish politician and diplomat.
 * Veljko Milanković, 38, Bosnian Serb military commander, killed in battle.
 * Terry Reardon, 73, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Lester Wilson, 50, American dancer, choreographer, and actor, heart attack.

15

 * Kay Eakin, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Cary Gilbert, 50, American lyricist ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), diabetes.
 * Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen, 64, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * George Wallington, 68, American jazz pianist.

16

 * Leland D. Crawford, 63, United States Marine officer.
 * Amos Guttman, 38, Israeli film director (Amazing Grace, Drifting), AIDS-related complications.
 * Peter Molloy, 83, English football player, manager and referee.
 * Richard S. Salant, 78, American news executive.
 * Great Grandfather, 78

17

 * Hans Baur, 95, German flying ace.
 * Eşref Bitlis, 59-60, Turkish general, plane crash.
 * Jack Froggatt, 70, English football player.
 * Rani Gaidinlu, 78, Indian revolutionary.
 * Kostas Karagiannis, 60-61, Greek film director.
 * Sammy Lowe, 74, American trumpeter.
 * Leslie Townsend, 89, English cricketer.

18

 * Marshall Carter, 83, American Army Lieutenant general.
 * Ted Haworth, 75, American production designer (Sayonara, Some Like It Hot, The Longest Day), Oscar winner (1958), cardiovascular disease.
 * Jacqueline Hill, 63, English actress (Doctor Who), breast cancer.
 * Rita La Roy, 91, American actress and dancer, pneumonia.
 * Allen Montgomery Lewis, 83, Saint Lucian barrister and public servant.
 * Leslie Norman, 81, English film director.
 * Kerry Von Erich, 33, American professional wrestler (WCCW), suicide by gunshot.

19

 * Judith Chaplin, 53, British politician, pulmonary embolism.
 * Alexander Davydov, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist.
 * Bernard T. Feld, 73, American nuclear physicist and academic.
 * Gerhard Gesell, 82, American judge.
 * Mohamed Hamzah, 74, Malaysian vexillographer, architect and field marshal.
 * Česlovas Kudaba, 58, Lithuanian politician and geographer.
 * Yusif Mirzayev, 34, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Yaman Okay, 42, Turkish actor, pancreatic cancer.

20

 * Mario Abreu, 73, Venezuelan artist.
 * Howard Mayer Brown, 62, American musicologist.
 * Marian Bublewicz, 42, Polish racing driver, racing collision.
 * Ferruccio Lamborghini, 76, Italian automobile manufacturer (Lamborghini), heart attack.

21

 * Irma Christenson, 78, Swedish actress.
 * Alison Fairlie, 75, English scholar.
 * Harvey Kurtzman, 68, American cartoonist (Mad, Playboy), liver cancer.
 * Inge Lehmann, 104, Danish seismologist and geophysicist.
 * Eddy Tiel, 66, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Dick White, 86, British intelligence officer.

22

 * Pierre Dalem, 80, Belgian football player.
 * Jean Lecanuet, 72, French politician, cancer.
 * Bill Lickiss, 68, Australian politician.
 * Hugo Schrader, 90, German television and film actor.
 * B. D. Sharma, 75, Indian politician.
 * Sirio Vernati, 85, Swiss football player.
 * Feng Zhi, 87, Chinese writer and translator.

23

 * Helmut Braselmann, 81, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
 * Walter Fyrst, 91, Norwegian filmmaker.
 * Mario Pani, 81, Mexican architect and urbanist.
 * Carl Sautter, 44, American film and television writer (Moonlighting, Lucky Luke, Jetsons: The Movie).
 * Phillip Terry, 83, American actor, stroke.
 * Robert Triffin, 81, Belgian economist.

24

 * Cyril Done, 72, English football player.
 * Danny Gallivan, 75, Canadian sportscaster, heart failure.
 * Bobby Moore, 51, English football player and world champion (1966), colorectal cancer.
 * Chaim L. Pekeris, 84, Israeli-American physicist and mathematician.
 * Roger Rochard, 79, French long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Denis Vaucher, 95, Swiss cross country skier and Olympian.

25

 * Hashem Amoli, 93, Iranian scholar and ayatollah.
 * Toy Caldwell, 45, American guitarist (The Marshall Tucker Band), heart attack.
 * Eddie Constantine, 75, American-French actor and singer, heart attack.
 * Dave Cook, 51, British communist activist, complications following traffic accident.
 * Sonja Mjøen, 94, Norwegian actress, journalist and author.
 * Mary Walter, 80, Filipino actress.
 * Eren Özker, 44, Turkish-American puppeteer, cancer.

26

 * John Besford, 82, English swimmer and Olympian.
 * Constance Ford, 69, American actress (Another World, A Summer Place), cancer.
 * Fletcher Knebel, 81, American author, suicide by drug overdose.
 * Beaumont Newhall, 84, American art historian.
 * Giulio Oggioni, 76, Italian Catholic prelate.
 * Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 87, Austrian film director, writer, and author.
 * Carl Solomon, 64, American writer.

27

 * Pina Carmirelli, 79, Italian violinist.
 * José Álvarez de Bohórquez, 97, Spanish equestrian and Olympic champion.
 * Lillian Gish, 99, American actress (The Birth of a Nation, Duel in the Sun, The Whales of August), heart failure.
 * Ambrose A. Holowach, 78, Canadian businessman and politician.
 * Steve Levantis, 76, Canadian football player.
 * Walker Smith, 96, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Marģeris Zariņš, 82, Latvian composer.
 * Zhao Zengyi, 72-73, Chinese politician.

28

 * Franco Brusati, 72, Italian film director (To Forget Venice).
 * Joyce Carey, 94, English actress.
 * Ishirō Honda, 81, Japanese film director (Godzilla), respiratory failure.
 * Toshiaki Inoue, 42, Japanese triple jumper, accident.
 * Ruby Keeler, 83, American actress and dancer, kidney cancer.
 * Ilkka Koski, 64, Finnish heavyweight boxer.