Deaths in March 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Joseph Christopher, 37, American serial killer, male breast cancer.
 * Terry Frost, 86, American actor (Law of the Range, Cheyenne, The Maverick), heart attack.
 * Rudolph Glossop, 91, British mining and civil engineer.
 * Luis Kutner, 84, American lawyer.
 * Ronald McCuaig, 84, Australian poet, journalist, and children's author.
 * Nicola Monti, 72, Italian opera singer.
 * Oleg Zaytsev, 53, Soviet ice hockey defenceman.

2

 * André Bareau, 71, French Buddhologist.
 * Julius Ebert, 94, Danish runner and Olympian.
 * Hans Hilfiker, 91, Swiss engineer (Swiss railway clock).
 * Hjalmar Thomsen, 79, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1948).
 * Paul D. Zimmerman, 54, American screenwriter (The King of Comedy), colon cancer.

3

 * Mel Bradford, 58, American politician and academic.
 * Robert Carricart, 76, French-American film, television and theatre actor.
 * Bill Draut, 71, American comic book artist (Phantom Stranger, The Flash, House of Mystery).
 * Jesús Bal y Gay, 87, Spanish composer, music critic, and musicologist.
 * Harper Goff, 81, American musician, art director, and actor.
 * Yoshio Kojima, 61, Japanese hammer thrower and Olympian, suicide.
 * Carlos Marcello, 83, Italian-American mobster (New Orleans crime family), stroke.
 * Carlos Montoya, 89, Spanish flamenco guitarist, heart failure.
 * James Allen Red Dog, 39, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Albert Sabin, 86, Polish-American virologist, heart failure.
 * Xie Xuegong, 76, Chinese politician.

4

 * Jerome Ambro, 64, American politician.
 * Georgette Anys, 83, French actress, cancer.
 * Anšlavs Eglītis, 86, Latvian writer, journalist and painter, cancer.
 * Art Hodes, 88, American jazz pianist.
 * Tomislav Ivčić, 40, Croatian pop singer, songwriter and politician, traffic collision.
 * Varujan Kojian, 57, Armenian-American conductor.
 * Izaak Kolthoff, 99, Dutch-American chemist and academic.
 * Kaisu Leppänen, 88, Finnish actress.
 * Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, 64, English politician, MP (1959–1992), lung cancer.
 * Richard Sale, 81, American screenwriter and director.

5

 * Colin Allan, 71, New Zealand colonial administrator and author.
 * Alfred Ashley-Brown, 85, Australian politician, MP (1972–1974).
 * Hans Christian Blech, 78, German actor.
 * Cyril Collard, 35, French filmmaker (Savage Nights), AIDS.
 * Herschel Daugherty, 82, American television and film director and actor.
 * Jean Földeák, 89, German wrestler.
 * Wallace Givens, 82, American mathematician and computer scientist.
 * Egil Borgen Johansen, 58, Norwegian Olympic archer (1972).
 * Robert McCance, 94, British paediatrician, biochemist and nutritionist.
 * Jeyhun Mirzayev, 46, Azerbaijani actor, heart attack.
 * Robert Sawyer, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Mac Speedie, 73, American gridiron football player.

6

 * Takahide Aioi, 81, Japanese flying ace during World War II.
 * Valentina Borisenko, 73, Soviet chess player.
 * Andrew Gilchrist, 82, Scottish diplomat.
 * Dan Johnson, 48, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Douglas Marland, 58, American screenwriter (Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World), complications from abdominal surgery.
 * Walther Siegmund-Schultze, 76, German musicologist.

7

 * Mariya Barabanova, 81, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress.
 * Duane Carter, 79, American racing driver.
 * Arnold Franchetti, 81–82, Italian-American composer.
 * Tony Harris, 76, South African cricket player.
 * Whitey Kachan, 67, American basketball player.
 * J. Merrill Knapp, 78, American musicologist and academic.
 * Martti Larni, 83, Finnish writer.
 * Patricia Lawrence, 67, English actress.
 * Carlo Mazzarella, 73, Italian actor and journalist, lung cancer.
 * Angelo Piccaluga, 86, Italian football player.
 * Jim Spavital, 66, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
 * Jeremy Tree, 67, British thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
 * Earl Wrightson, 77, American singer, heart failure.

8

 * Ria Bancroft, 86, British-New Zealand artist.
 * Don Barksdale, 69, American basketball player, throat cancer.
 * Wilhelm Georg Berger, 63, Romanian composer, violist and conductor.
 * Solomon J. Buchsbaum, 63, Polish-American physicist, multiple myeloma.
 * Billy Eckstine, 78, American jazz musician, stroke.
 * Berent Schwineköper, 80, German archivist and historian.
 * Johannes Türn, 93, Estonian chess player.
 * Rens Vis, 88, Dutch football player.
 * Carl A. Youngdale, 80, American Marine Corps major general.

9

 * Bob Crosby, 79, American singer, actor, and television host (The Bob Crosby Show), cancer.
 * Jan Larsen, 47, Danish football (soccer) player.
 * C. Northcote Parkinson, 83, British naval historian.
 * Pavel Pavlenko, 90, Soviet stage and film actor.
 * Wells Root, 92, American screenwriter (The Prisoner of Zenda).
 * Vanya Voynova, 58, Bulgarian basketball player.
 * Edwin Vásquez, 70, Peruvian sport shooter and Olympic champion.
 * Harry Wright, 73, American football player and coach.
 * Max August Zorn, 86, German-American mathematician.

10

 * Dino Bravo, 44, American professional wrestler, shot.
 * David Gunn, 47, American abortion care provider, murdered.
 * Camille Howard, 78, American pianist and singer.
 * Vladimir Suteev, 89, Russian author, artist and animator.
 * Guido Wieland, 86, Austrian stage, film and television actor.

11

 * Tibor Donner, 85, Hungarian-Australian architect.
 * Manuel da Fonseca, 81, Portuguese writer.
 * Myrtle Maclagan, 81, English cricket player.
 * Pragyananda Mahasthavir, 92, Nepalese buddhist monk.
 * Irene Ware, 82, American actress.

12

 * Iuliu Bodola, 81, Romanian-Hungarian football player.
 * Lonnie Frisbee, 43, American evangelist and mystic, AIDS-related complications.
 * Syed Shahid Hamid, 82, Pakistan Army general.
 * Habib Jalib, 64, Pakistani revolutionary poet, and activist.
 * Michael Kanin, 83, American screenwriter (Woman of the Year, Teacher's Pet), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure.
 * Annamalai Ramanathan, 46, Indian mathematician, complications from a heart attack.
 * Alex Taylor, 46, American singer.
 * June Valli, 64, American singer and television personality, cancer.
 * Wang Zhen, 84, Chinese general and politician, vice president (since 1988).

13

 * Claire Huchet Bishop, 94, Swiss-American children's writer and librarian.
 * Rocky Dzidzornu, 58, Ghanaian percussionist.
 * Gene Hartley, 67, American racecar driver.
 * Gaetano Kanizsa, 79, Italian psychologist and artist.
 * Albert Maori Kiki, 61, Papua New Guinea politician.
 * Pat Marcy, 79, Italian-American political boss.
 * Petar Mazev, 66, Macedonian academic painter.
 * Henry Morris, 73, Scottish football player.
 * Jean Tamini, 73, Swiss football player.
 * Ann Way, 77, English film and television actress.

14

 * Dick Arrington, 51, American football player, heart attack.
 * Marcus Bartley, 75, Anglo-Indian cinematographer.
 * Larz Bourne, 77, American cartoon writer.
 * Ahmad Ebadi, 87, Iranian musician and setar player.
 * Thore Enochsson, 84, Swedish Olympic runner (1936).
 * Sergio Manente, 68, Italian football player and coach.
 * Harold Soref, 76, English politician, MP (1970–1974).
 * Albert Watson II, 84, American Army lieutenant general.

15

 * Georgette Chen, 86, Singaporean painter.
 * Paul Easterling, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Ricardo Arias Espinosa, 80, Panamanian politician, president (1955–1956).
 * Gustav A. Hedlund, 88, American mathematician.
 * Lennart Hyland, 73, Swedish TV-show host and journalist.
 * Edo Kovačević, 86, Croatian artist.
 * Karl Mai, 64, German football player and manager, leukemia.

16

 * Natália Correia, 69, Portuguese intellectual, poet and social activist, heart attack.
 * Johnny Cymbal, 48, Scottish-American songwriter, singer and record producer.
 * Gordon Donaldson, 79, Scottish historian.
 * Ralph Fults, 82, American outlaw (Barrow Gang).
 * Srirangam Gopalaratnam, 53–54, Indian singer.
 * Muhammad Khan Junejo, 60, Pakistani politician, prime minister (1985–1988), leukemia.
 * Donald Randolph, 87, American actor, pneumonia.
 * Chishū Ryū, 88, Japanese actor.
 * Giovanni Testori, 69, Italian dramatist.
 * Erich Valentin, 86, German musicologist.
 * Odiel Van Den Meersschaut, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.

17

 * Joe Abreu, 79, American baseball player.
 * Constantin Anton, 98, Romanian general.
 * Helen Hayes, 92, American actress (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, Airport, Happy Birthday), Oscar winner (1932, 1971), congestive heart failure.
 * Charlotte Hughes, 115, English supercentenarian, nation's oldest person (since 1988).
 * Alby Pannam, 78, Australian footballer.
 * John Joyce Russell, 95, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Thorstein Treholt, 81, Norwegian politician, county governor of Oppland (1976–1981).
 * John Witte, 60, American gridiron football player, leukemia.
 * Skip Young, 63, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).

18

 * William K. Boardman, 78, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1961–1971).
 * Kenneth E. Boulding, 83, English-American economist.
 * Elemér Gyetvai, 65, Hungarian table tennis player.
 * Edward Warburton Jones, 80, Northern Irish judge and politician.
 * Buck Jordan, 86, American baseball player.
 * Henrik Lubbers, 66, American field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Aksel Nikolajsen, 92, Danish Olympic pole vaulter (1928).
 * Carlos A. Petit, 80, Argentine screenwriter.
 * Syvasky Poyner, 36, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
 * Robert A. Rushworth, 68, American general, pilot, and astronaut, heart attack.
 * Joe Taylor, 67, American baseball player.

19

 * Bernie Crimmins, 73, American football player and coach.
 * Karen Dalton, 55, American folk blues musician, laryngeal cancer.
 * Georges Garvarentz, 60, Armenian-French composer.
 * Dulcie Howes, 84, South African ballet dancer, and choreographer.
 * Mark Hughes, 60, English politician, MP (1970–1987).
 * Al McWilliams, 77, American comics artist.
 * Gerhard Mertins, 73, German paratrooper during World War II, nazi and arms trafficker.
 * Roger Michelot, 80, French boxer.
 * Henrik Sandberg, 77, Danish film producer.
 * Jeff Ward, 30, American drummer (Nine Inch Nails), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

20

 * Arsène Auguste, 42, Haitian footballer, heart attack.
 * Naseer Bunda, 60, Field hockey player from Pakistan.
 * Robert Burnham, Jr., 61, American astronomer.
 * Børge Jessen, 85, Danish mathematician.
 * Polykarp Kusch, 82, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1955).
 * Rachel Messerer, 91, Russian silent film actress.
 * Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya, 89, Indian writer of Bengali literature.
 * Gerard Sekoto, 79, South African artist and musician.
 * Toni Spiss, 62, Austrian alpine skier.

21

 * Sebastiano Baggio, 79, Italian Catholic cardinal.
 * Eric Guerin, 68, American jockey.
 * Michael Hutchison, 79, Scottish politician.
 * Akio Kaminaga, 56, Japanese judoka, colorectal cancer.
 * Cyril Kellett, 55, English rugby player.
 * Albert Ramon, 72, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Buddy Swan, 63, American child actor.
 * Digby Tatham-Warter, 75, British Army officer.
 * Walther Wüst, 91, German Indologist.

22

 * Samiha Ayverdi, 87, Turkish writer and Sufi mystic.
 * John J. Beck, 93, American politician.
 * Phia Berghout, 83, Dutch harpist.
 * Enzo Fiermonte, 84, Italian actor and boxer.
 * Leopold Labedz, 73, Anglo-Polish anti-Soviet Unioncommentator.
 * Sun Meiying, 61, Chinese table tennis player.
 * Steve Olin, 27, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), boating accident.
 * Vazir Orujov, 36, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in action.
 * Gret Palucca, 91, German ballet dancer and dance teacher.
 * Cec Pepper, 76, Australian cricket player, heart disease.
 * Jack Riley, 83, American football player (Boston Redskins).
 * Franklin Delano Williams, 45, American gospel singer (The Williams Brothers), heart attack.

23

 * Denis Parsons Burkitt, 82, Irish surgeon.
 * Tim Crews, 31, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), boating accident.
 * Robert Crichton, 68, American novelist.
 * Bruce Alexander McDonald, 68, Australian Army officer.
 * Yevdokiya Nikulina, 75, Soviet bomber commander and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Torsten Rapp, 87, Swedish Air Force officer.
 * Hans Werner Richter, 84, German writer.

24

 * Albert Arlen, 88, Australian pianist.
 * Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon, 83, British politician.
 * Imogen Carpenter, 81, American actress, musician, and composer.
 * José dos Santos Ferreira, 73, Macanese poet.
 * Karen Gershon, 69, German-British writer and poet.
 * Robert Harris, 41–42, Australian poet, heart attack.
 * John Hersey, 78, American journalist and novelist (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano), cancer.
 * Anton Peterlin, 84, Slovenian physicist.
 * Herbert Tenzer, 87, American politician.

25

 * Bogdan Istru, 78, Moldovan poet.
 * Wally Karbo, 77, American professional wrestling promoter, heart attack.
 * Jake Porter, 76, American jazz trumpeter and record producer.
 * Dave Strong, 77, American football player and coach of football and basketball.
 * Rokkō Toura, 62, Japanese actor.
 * Billy Wilson, 65, Australian rugby player and coach.

26

 * Tofiq Bahramov, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani football player and referee.
 * James Caleb Boggs, 83, American lawyer and politician.
 * Louis Falco, 50, American choreographer, AIDS.
 * Reuben Fine, 78, American chess player, psychologist, and author.
 * Lewis Hanke, 88, American historian of colonial Latin America.
 * Edwin Norton, 67, New Zealand weightlifter.
 * Roy Riegels, 84, American football player, Parkinson's disease.
 * Anatoli Yatskov, 79, Soviet consul and intelligence officer during World War II.

27

 * Peter Agostini, 80, American sculptor.
 * Kamal Hassan Ali, 71, Egyptian politician, prime minister (1984–1985).
 * Charles Anderson, 78, American equestrian and Olympic champion.
 * Clifford Jordan, 61, American saxophonist, lung cancer.
 * Arthur Larson, 82, American lawyer, writer, and government official.
 * Paul László, 93, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer.
 * Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 100, American attorney and psychologist.
 * Taško Načić, 58, Serbian actor.
 * Kate Reid, 62, Canadian actress (Atlantic City, Death of a Salesman, Dallas), cancer.
 * Ernst Streng, 51, German cyclist.

28

 * Scott Cunningham, 36, American Wicca writer, lymphoma.
 * Miklós Horthy, 86, Hungarian noble and politician.
 * Patrick Lawlor, 69, Canadian politician.
 * Michael McNair-Wilson, 62, British politician.
 * Italo Tajo, 77, Italian opera singer.

29

 * Sir John Rodgers, 1st Baronet, 86, British politician.
 * Juan Luis Martínez, 50, Chilean avant-garde poet, writer, and visual artist, heart attack.
 * Štefan Uher, 62, Slovak film director, heart failure.
 * Jack Stelling, 68, English footballer.

30

 * Andrée Brunet, 91, French-American Olympic ice skater (1924, 1928, 1932).
 * Richard Diebenkorn, 70, American painter, emphysema.
 * Rubén Rojo, 70, Spanish-Mexican actor, cardiovascular disease.
 * Paolo Todeschini, 72, Italian football player and manager.

31

 * Ramon Aquino, 75, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
 * Robert Brookson, 53, Canadian Olympic rower (1964).
 * Chicháy, 75, Filipino comedian and actress.
 * Ailwyn Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey, 83, English hereditary peer.
 * Manuel Gonzales, 80, Spanish-American comics artist (Disney), heart failure.
 * Brandon Lee, 28, American actor (The Crow, Rapid Fire, Showdown in Little Tokyo), accidental gunshot wound.
 * José María Lemus, 81, Salvadorian politician, president (1956–1960), Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Chip Mead, 43, American racing driver, plane crash.
 * Joe Muha, 71, American football player, coach, and official.
 * Mitchell Parish, 92, American lyricist.
 * George Roark, 94, American basketball, baseball, and football player and coach.
 * Hüseyin Saygun, 73, Turkish football player and football manager.
 * Angie Xtravaganza, 28, American transgender entertainer, complications from AIDS.