Deaths in January 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Ross Bass, 74, American florist and politician.
 * June Clayworth, 87, American actress.
 * Shalom Cohen, 66, Israeli politician.
 * Phyllis Hill, 72, American dancer and actress, lung cancer.
 * Raymond Jack Last, 89, Australian surgeon and anatomist.
 * Laurence Marks, 77, American television writer (Hogan's Heroes, M*A*S*H, The New Phil Silvers Show).
 * George R. Mather, 81, United States Army general.
 * Jean Mayer, 72, French-American scientist.
 * Cathie Marsh, 41, British sociologist and statistician, breast cancer.
 * Totò Mignone, 86, Italian dancer and actor.

2

 * Alfred T. Airth, 86, American politician.
 * Sean Devereux, 28, British Salesian missionary and aid worker, murdered.
 * Vladimir Makogonov, 88, Soviet-Azerbaijan chess player.
 * Rudi Supek, 79, Croatian sociologist and philosopher.
 * Valerie Wellington, 33, American opera and blues singer, intracranial aneurysm.
 * Gerald T. Whelan, 67, American politician.

3

 * Leah Feldman, 93, Odessa-born anarchist garment worker.
 * Johnny Most, 69, American sportscaster, heart attack.
 * Simone Vaudry, 86, French film actress.
 * Will Walls, 80, American football player and coach.

4

 * Danie Craven, 82, South African rugby player and coach.
 * Leonard Kibrick, 68, American child actor, cancer.
 * Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, 79, American geographer.
 * Navalpakkam Parthasarthy, 92, Indian geneticist and United Nations official.
 * Harold Page Smith, 88, American naval admiral.
 * Ernest Leo Unterkoefler, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Charleston (1964–1990).

5

 * Juan Benet, 65, Spanish novelist, brain cancer.
 * Yuri Bezmenov, 53, Soviet-Canadian defected KGB agent and journalist, heart attack.
 * Helmut Bischoff, 84, German Nazi official and SS officer.
 * George Roseborough Collins, 75, American art historian, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Westley Allan Dodd, 31, American convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.
 * Nicholas Mayall, 86, American astronomer, diabetes.
 * Eliseo Morales, 94, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).
 * Sisworo Gautama Putra, 54, Indonesian film director.
 * Maynard Street, 94, American football and basketball coach.

6

 * Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, 70, Austrian royal.
 * Ștefan Baciu, 74, Romanian-Brazilian poet, novelist, publicist and academic.
 * Tad Danielewski, 71, Polish-American film director, cancer.
 * Dizzy Gillespie, 75, American jazz trumpeter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Richard Mortensen, 82, Danish painter.
 * Rudolf Nureyev, 54, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, AIDS.

7

 * John Cowley, 87, English army officer.
 * Toshihiko Izutsu, 78, Japanese religious scholar.
 * Susi Jeans, 81, Austrian-born organist, teacher and musicologist.
 * Fred Kohler, Jr., 81, American actor.

8

 * Hans Bertram, 86, German aviator, screenwriter and film director.
 * Theo Bruins, 63, Dutch pianist.
 * Asif Nawaz, 56, Pakistani general, heart attack.
 * George Rudé, 82, British marxist historian.
 * Leonard A. Scheele, 85, American physician, surgeon general (1948–1956).
 * Herbert Trantow, 89, German film score composer.
 * Hakija Turajlić, 56-57, Bosnian politician and deputy prime minister (since 1992), killed in action.

9

 * Bruce Campbell, 80, English ornithologist.
 * Anton Crihan, 99, Moldovan politician, author, economist, and journalist, cancer.
 * Paul Hasluck, 87, Australian politician, governor-general (1969–1974), MP (1949–1969), prostate cancer.
 * Keith Mwila, 43, Zambian boxer and Olympic medalist.
 * Viveca Serlachius, 69, Finnish-Swedish actress.
 * Judit Tóth, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
 * Janet Vaughan, 93, English physiologist.

10

 * Diana Adams, 66, American ballet dancer.
 * Adam Aston, 90, Polish-English singer.
 * Maurice Brooks, 92, American naturalist.
 * Thomas B. Curtis, 81, American politician.
 * Luther Gulick, 100, American social scientist.
 * Georges Mounin, 82, French linguist.
 * Raja Perempuan Zainab II, 75, Malaysian royal.

11

 * Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano, 89, Italian lawyer and politician.
 * Lacey Fosburgh, 50, American writer (Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder), breast cancer.
 * Frank Quinn, 65, American baseball player.
 * Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talib-ul-Mola, 73, Pakistani politician, scholar and poet.
 * Tommy Walker, 77, Scottish football player.

12

 * Earl Browne, 81, American baseball player and manager.
 * Józef Czapski, 96, Polish artist, author, and critic.
 * Fred Koenig, 61, American baseball, coach and director.
 * Pierre Nihant, 67, Belgian cyclist.
 * Joe Orrell, 75, American baseball player.
 * Yehezkel Streichman, 87, Israeli painter.
 * Margit Tøsdal, 74, Norwegian politician.
 * Tito Warnholtz, 86, German Olympic field hockey player (1936).

13

 * Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, 30, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
 * Camargo Guarnieri, 85, Brazilian composer.
 * Helene J. Kantor, 73, American archaeologist and art historian.
 * Ndrek Luca, 65, Albanian stage, film and theater actor.
 * René Pleven, 91, French politician and prime minister (1950–1951, 1951–1952), heart failure.
 * Alexander Soper, 88, American art historian.
 * Charles Tillon, 95, French politician.

14

 * Victor Abens, 80, Luxembourgian politician.
 * Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield, 93, British politician.
 * Sathasivam Krishnakumar, 33, Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and Tamil Tigers leader, suicide.
 * Manfred Lachs, 78, Polish diplomat and jurist.
 * Pepita Ferrer Lucas, 54, Catalan chess player.
 * Robert A. Mattey, 82, American special effects artist (Jaws, Mary Poppins, The Absent-Minded Professor).
 * José Comas Quesada, 64, Spanish watercolor painter.

15

 * Billy Brown, 82, English football player.
 * Sammy Cahn, 79, American lyricist ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head?", "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", "It's Been a Long, Long Time"), heart failure.
 * Arthur Wallis Exell, 91, English botanist.
 * J. Allen Frear, Jr., 89, American businessman and politician.
 * Lucien Grosso, 60, French Olympic bobsledder (1956).
 * William G. Hardwick, 82, American politician.
 * Henry Iba, 88, American basketball coach.
 * Annemarie von Gabain, 91, German scholar.

16

 * Phil Chambers, 76, American actor.
 * Freddie 'Red' Cochrane, 77, American boxer.
 * Glenn Corbett, 59, American actor (The Doctors, Midway, Dallas), lung cancer.
 * Florence Desmond, 87, English actress.
 * Rafik Khachatryan, 55, Armenian sculptor.
 * Stan Sheriff, 60, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
 * Jón Páll Sigmarsson, 32, Icelandic bodybuilder and strongman, aortic rupture.
 * Đoko Slijepčević, 85, Serbian historian.
 * Svetozar Vujović, 52, Bosnian and Yugoslav football player and manager.
 * Atsushi Yamatoya, 55, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor, esophageal cancer.

17

 * Barbara Buczek, 53, Polish composer.
 * Julio Coll, 73, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
 * Albert Hourani, 77, English historian.
 * Nick Polly, 75, American baseball player.
 * Vilmos Zombori, 87, Romanian footballer.

18

 * Karl Bosl, 84, German historian.
 * Alfredo Bovet, 83, Swiss-Italian cyclist.
 * Eleanor Alice Burford, 86, English novelist.
 * Arthur Donaldson, 91, Scottish journalist and politician.
 * Gordon Higginson, 74, British spiritualist medium.
 * C. A. Trypanis, 83, Greek classicist, literary critic, and poet.
 * Richard Waring, 82, English-American actor.
 * Wasif Ali Wasif, 64, Pakistani writer, poet and sufi.
 * Dionysios Zakythinos, 87-88, Greek historian.

19

 * Holden Furber, 89, American academic.
 * Reginald Hewetson, 84, British Army officer, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
 * William LeMassena, 76, American actor (All That Jazz, As the World Turns, See You in the Morning), lung cancer.
 * Reginald Lewis, 50, American businessman and philanthropist, brain cancer.
 * Margaret Marquis, 73, Canadian-American film actress.
 * Nagindas Parekh, 89, Indian writer and literary critic.
 * Antonello Trombadori, 75, Italian politician, art critic and journalist.

20

 * Joe Albertson, 86, American businessman.
 * Joseph Anthony, 80, American playwright and actor.
 * Françoise Dior, 60, French socialite and neo-Nazifinancier, lung cancer.
 * Bindeshwari Dubey, 72, Indian freedom fighter, trade unionist and politician.
 * Audrey Hepburn, 63, British actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady), Oscar winner (1954), appendix cancer.
 * Christos Kapralos, 83, Greek artist.

21

 * Felice Borel, 78, Italian football player.
 * Charlie Gehringer, 89, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Lotte Laserstein, 94, German-Swedish painter.
 * Leo Löwenthal, 92, German sociologist.
 * Dimitris Nikolaidis, 71, Greek actor.

22

 * Kōbō Abe, 68, Japanese writer (The Woman in the Dunes), heart attack.
 * Alexander Bodon, 86, Dutch architect.
 * Patricia Brooks, 55, Lyric soprano, actress, and opera singer, multiple sclerosis.
 * Jim Pollard, 70, American basketball player and coach.
 * Erik W. Tawaststjerna, 76, Finnish musicologist, pianist and music teacher.
 * Brett Weston, 81, American photographer, stroke.

23

 * Thomas A. Dorsey, 93, American gospel musician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Kong Fei, 82, Chinese politician.
 * Charles Greenlee, 65, American jazz trombonist.
 * Robert Sutton Harrington, 50, American astronomer, esophageal cancer.
 * Keith Laumer, 67, American science fiction author.
 * Gábor Péter, 86, Hungarian communist politician.
 * Wayne Raney, 71, American country singer and harmonica player, cancer.
 * Li Ziming, 90, Chinese martial artist.

24

 * Archduchess Assunta of Austria, 90, Austrian-American royal.
 * Don Bassman, 64, American sound engineer (Patton, Die Hard, The Abyss), Oscar winner (1971).
 * Héctor De Bourgoing, 58, French football player.
 * Gustav Ernesaks, 84, Estonian composer.
 * Detlef Gerstenberg, 35, East Germany hammer thrower and Olympian, liver cirrhosis.
 * John A. Lafore, Jr., 87, American politician.
 * Thurgood Marshall, 84, American judge, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1967–1991), heart failure.
 * Éliane Montel, 94, French physicist and chemist.
 * Uğur Mumcu, 50, Turkish investigative journalist, murdered.
 * Eino Pentti, 86, American Olympic runner (1932, 1936).
 * Leland Shaffer, 80, American football player (New York Giants).
 * Henry Abel Smith, 92, British Army officer.
 * Sergey Zakharov, 92, Soviet-Russian painter.

25

 * Frank Freidel, 77, American historian and biographer.
 * Nils Kristen Jacobsen, 84, Norwegian politician.
 * Leah Neuberger, 77, American table tennis player.
 * Hedi Amara Nouira, 81, Tunisian politician, prime minister (1970–1980).

26

 * Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, 73, German soldier, resistance member, and diplomat.
 * Lucia M. Cormier, 83, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1947–1950, 1953–1960).
 * Kenneth Gaburo, 66, American composer.
 * Jan Gies, 87, Dutch resistance member, hid Anne Frank, kidney failure.
 * Robert Jacobsen, 80, Danish artist.
 * Jeanne Sauvé, 70, Canadian politician, governor general (1984–1990), MP (1972–1984), Hodgkin's lymphoma.

27

 * Srđan Aleksić, 26, Bosnian Serb amateur actor and soldier, beaten to death.
 * Nils Aall Barricelli, 81, Norwegian-Italian mathematician.
 * Harold Beverage, 99, American inventor and researcher.
 * J. T. King, 80, American football player and coach.
 * Leon Mandrake, 81, Canadian magician.
 * Edward P. Morgan, 82, American journalist and writer.
 * Erik Mørk, 67, Danish film actor, traffic collision.
 * Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri, 51-52, Pakistani Grand Mufti, heart attack.

28

 * Donald Douglas, 81, Scottish surgeon.
 * André the Giant, 46, French professional wrestler (WWF) and actor (The Princess Bride), congestive heart failure.
 * Erik Herseth, 100, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1920).
 * Helen Sawyer Hogg, 87, American-Canadian astronomer.
 * Aben Kandel, 95, American screenwriter (I Was a Teenage Werewolf).
 * Vern Kennedy, 85, American baseball player.
 * Anatoly Parfyonov, 67, Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.
 * Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole, 81, British politician, soldier and businessman.
 * John Steadman, 83, American actor (The Hills Have Eyes, The Longest Yard, Gator).
 * Kay Swift, 95, American composer.
 * Tim Ward, 75, English football player and manager.
 * Hannah Wilke, 52, American artist, lymphoma.

29

 * Adetokunbo Ademola, 86, Nigerian jurist.
 * Ángel Garma, 88, Spanish-Argentine psychoanalyst.
 * Gustav Hasford, 45, American novelist (The Short-Timers) and screenwriter (Full Metal Jacket), heart failure.
 * Harris Hull, 83, American brigadier general.
 * Ron Kostelnik, 53, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Lars Larsson, 81, Swedish steeplechase runner and Olympian.
 * Eva Remaeus, 42, Swedish actress, brain tumor.
 * Nancy Teed, 43, Canadian politician, traffic collision.

30

 * Ryōichi Hattori, 85, Japanese pop and jazz composer.
 * James LuValle, 80, American athlete and scientist.
 * Taikichiro Mori, 88, Japanese businessman and economist.
 * Svetoslav Roerich, 88, Russian painter.
 * John Oulton Wisdom, 84, Irish philosopher.
 * Alexandra of Yugoslavia, 71, Greek-Yugoslavian royal and queen consort (1944–1945), cancer.

31

 * Paul R. Anderson, 85, American academic.
 * Ernő Lendvaï, 67, Hungarian music theorist.
 * John Poulson, 82, British designer and businessman.
 * Frithjof Ulleberg, 81, Norwegian football player.
 * Douglas Williams, 75, American sound engineer (Patton, Silver Streak, The Rose), Oscar winner (1971).