Deaths in May 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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

 * Pietro Acquarone, 76, Italian footballer (Sanremese, Roma, Pisa).
 * Erwan Bergot, 63, French army officer and author.
 * Pierre Bérégovoy, 67, French politician and prime minister (1992–1993), suicide by gunshot.
 * Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, 84, Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, and diplomat.
 * Donald Dupree, 74, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
 * Henri Ellenberger, 87, Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist.
 * Gerald Fowler, 58, British politician, MP (1966–1970, 1974–1979), cancer.
 * Narayan Ganesh Gore, 85, Indian politician.
 * Warren P. Knowles, 84, American politician and governor (1965–1971), heart attack.
 * Ranasinghe Premadasa, 68, president, assassination by suicide bomber.

2

 * Luigi Bestagini, 73, Italian ice hockey player and (Olympian).
 * Julio Gallo, 83, American winemaker (E & J Gallo Winery), traffic collision.
 * John S. Gleason, Jr., 78, American banker and political figure.
 * Thorkild Jacobsen, 88, Danish assyriologist and archaeologist.
 * Stephen Juba, 78, Canadian politician.
 * Ivan Lapikov, 70, Soviet-Russian actor (Andrei Rublev, The Brothers Karamazov, Eternal Call).
 * Karl-Friedrich Merten, 87, German U-boat commander during World War II, cancer.
 * André Moynet, 71, French fighter pilot, businessman, and politician, MNA (1946–1967).
 * George Southall, 85, British track cyclist.
 * Will Weng, 86, American journalist and crossword puzzle editor (The New York Times).

3

 * Libero Bigiaretti, 86, Italian novelist.
 * Robert De Niro Sr., 71, American painter, father of Robert De Niro, cancer.
 * Duncan Macpherson, 68, Canadian cartoonist.
 * Bjørn Rørholt, 73, Norwegian military officer, and resistance member during World War II.
 * Hermína Týrlová, 92, Czech animator, screen writer, and film director.

4

 * Margret Borgs, 84, German Olympic diver (1928).
 * Frank Kudelka, 67, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Washington Capitols, Philadelphia Warriors).
 * Ray McDonald, 48, American gridiron football player, complications from sickle cell anemia.
 * Ernst Reitermaier, 74, Austrian football player and manager.
 * Shianghao Wang, 77, Chinese mathematician.
 * Amos Wilder, 97, American poet, minister, and theology professor.
 * France Štiglic, 73, Slovenian film director and screenwriter.

5

 * Iakov Bielopolski, 76, Soviet architect.
 * Dermot Boyle, 88, British RAF marshall.
 * Louis Brooks, 82, American R&B saxophonist and bandleader.
 * John Brady, 89, Australian trade unionist and politician.
 * Georges Carrier, 82, French basketball player.
 * Irving Howe, 72, American socialist activist, cardiovascular disease.
 * Malcolm Metcalf, 82, American Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).
 * Dick Metz, 84, American golfer.
 * Algot Törneman, 83, Swedish painter.
 * Paul Wegener, 84, German Nazi Party official and politician.

6

 * Ivy Benson, 79, English musician and bandleader.
 * Vane Bor, 84, Serbian artist.
 * Rommel Fernández, 27, Panamanian football player, traffic collision.
 * Dorothy B. Hughes, 88, American crime writer, literary critic, and historian.
 * Ian Mikardo, 84, British politician, stroke.
 * Ann Todd, 86, English actress (The Seventh Veil, The Paradine Case, Perfect Strangers), stroke.

7

 * Zhao Boping, 90, Chinese politician.
 * Harold Danforth, 77, Canadian politician, MP (1958–1962, 1963–1974).
 * Cee Farrow, 36, German-American new wave singer ("Should I Love You"), complications from AIDS.
 * Roger Keesing, 57, American linguist and anthropologist, heart attack.
 * Valeriano López, 67, Peruvian footballer (Sport Boys, Deportivo Cali, national team), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Mary Philbin, 90, American silent film actress (The Phantom of the Opera, The Man Who Laughs, Love Me and the World Is Mine), pneumonia.
 * Hap Sharp, 65, American race car driver, suicide.
 * Thurman Tucker, 75, American baseball player.

8

 * Dele Charley, 45, Sierra Leonean playwright.
 * Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, 74, Indian Marxist philosopher.
 * Avram Davidson, 70, American fiction writer (The Phoenix and the Mirror, Masters of the Maze, The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy).
 * Enrique Larrinaga, 82, Spanish footballer (Racing de Santander, Asturias, national team).
 * Alwin Nikolais, 82, American choreographer, cancer.
 * Gabriel Pita da Veiga y Sanz, 84, Spanish naval admiral, minister of the Navy (1973–1977).
 * Marti Stevens, 54, American educator and theater director, asthma.
 * Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor, 87, English-Irish hereditary peer.

9

 * Ted Cieslak, 80, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Jacques Dextraze, 73, Canadian military officer.
 * Mary Duncan, 98, American actress (City Girl, Morning Glory).
 * Kenneth Eather, 91, Australian Army officer.
 * Penelope Gilliatt, 61, English novelist and screenwriter (Sunday Bloody Sunday).
 * Maggie Hemingway, 47, British novelist, aplastic anemia.
 * Freya Madeline Stark, 100, British-Italian travel writer and explorer.
 * Albert Sukop, 80, German footballer (Eintracht Braunschweig).

10

 * Lester del Rey, 77, American science fiction author (Badge of Infamy, Marooned on Mars, Moon of Mutiny).
 * Peng Mingzhi, 88, Chinese general and diplomat.
 * Jack Peel, 72, British trade union leader.
 * Stanisław Piłat, 84, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).
 * Dermot Sheriff, 72, Irish basketball player.
 * Egon Vogel, 84, German actor.
 * Pedro Vuskovic, 69, Croatian-Chilean economist and politician.

11

 * Zhao Cangbi, 77, Chinese politician and official.
 * Chen Chi-chuan, 94, Taiwanese politician.
 * Magli Elster, 80, Norwegian psychoanalyst, literary critic, and poet.
 * Minnie Gentry, 77, American actress (Def by Temptation, All My Children, School Daze).
 * Hugh Hudson, 62, Australian politician, cancer.
 * Sher Mohammad Marri, 58, Pakistani tribal chief and military figure.
 * Shahu Modak, 75, Indian actor.
 * Gene Selawski, 57, American gridiron football player.
 * Torsten Ullman, 84, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1936, 1948).
 * Leigh Wiener, 63, American photographer and photojournalist, complications of Sweet's syndrome.

12

 * Stanisław Baran, 73, Polish football player.
 * Teodor Bârcă, 98, Moldovan politician and professor.
 * Zeno Colò, 72, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1952), lung cancer.
 * Evert Dolman, 47, Dutch cyclist and Olympic champion.
 * Capt. John Treasure Jones, 87, British sea officer, aneurysm.
 * Ulf Palme, 72, Swedish film actor.
 * Edda Seippel, 73, German actress, cancer.
 * Shamser Bahadur Singh, 82, Indian poet and writer.

13

 * Robert Adley, 58, British politician, MP (since 1970), heart attack.
 * Friedrich Dörr, 85, German Catholic priest and professor of theology.
 * Elton Fax, 83, American illustrator.
 * Bede Griffiths, 86, British priest and Benedictine monk.
 * Wolfgang Lotz, 72, Israeli spy.
 * M. K. Menon, 64, Indian writer.

14

 * Aziz El-Shawan, 77, Egyptian composer.
 * Patrick Haemers, 40, Belgian criminal, suicide by hanging.
 * William Randolph Hearst Jr., 85, American newspaper publisher.
 * Karin Luts, 89, Estonian painter and a graphic artist.
 * Melvin Swig, 75, American real estate developer and philanthropist.

15

 * Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 94, Indian Commander-in-Chief, arthritis.
 * Herbert Grötzsch, 90, German mathematician.
 * Francisco Quiroz, 35, Dominican boxing champion, killed in a nightclub brawl.
 * John Row, 88, Australian politician.
 * Robert Tanneveau, 81, French cyclist.

16

 * Jibaraj Ashrit, 48, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
 * Madan Kumar Bhandari, 41, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
 * Eduardo Campbell, 59, Panamanian Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).
 * Bernard Chanda, 41, Zambian football player.
 * Dezső Ákos Hamza, 89, Hungarian film director (Strano appuntamento).
 * Marv Johnson, 54, American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, stroke.

17

 * Henrique Anjos, 41, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1972, 1984, 1988).
 * Earl Chudoff, 85, American lawyer and politician.
 * Joe Ploski, 89, Polish-American film and television actor.
 * Andre Resampa, 68, Madagascar government minister.
 * Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, 91, English artist.
 * Peter E. Perry, 91, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1968, 1969–1976).

18

 * Heinrich Albertz, 78, German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin (1966–1967).
 * Stephen Cheong, 51, Hong Kong industrialist and politician, heart attack.
 * Ronald Haver, 54, American film historian and author, AIDS-related illness.
 * Heinz Knoke, 72, German flying ace during World War II and politician.
 * Domingo Romo, 76, Chilean football player.

19

 * Nemesio Antúnez, 75, Chilean painter.
 * Winston Burdett, 79, American broadcast journalist and correspondent.
 * Oscar Grimes, 78, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Richard Murphy, 81, American film director (Three Stripes in the Sun) and screenwriter (Boomerang, The Desert Rats), stroke.
 * Ranga Sohoni, 75, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
 * Lucien Troupel, 74, French football player and manager.
 * John A. Wilson, 49, American politician, suicide by hanging.

20

 * Al Aber, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics).
 * Stevan Bodnarov, 87, Serbian sculptor, painter and political commissar.
 * Virginia Cutler, 87, American academic, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dragoljub Janošević, 69, Yugoslav chess grandmaster.
 * Carmelo Pace, 86, Maltese composer and music professor.

21

 * John Frost, 80, British Army officer (Battle of Arnhem).
 * John Holland, 85, American actor (Perry Mason, My Fair Lady, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).
 * Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, 100, Lithuanian architect.
 * Omar Pkhakadze, 48, Georgian sprint cyclist and Olympic medalist.

22

 * Herbert Callen, 73, American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Mieczysław Horszowski, 100, Polish-American pianist.
 * David Rees, 57, English author, lecturer and reviewer, AIDS.
 * Irma Vila, 76, Mexican ranchera singer and actress (Canta y no llores...).
 * Carl Johan Wachtmeister, 90, Swedish army officer and Olympic fencer (1936).
 * Juice Wilson, 89, American jazz violinist.

23

 * Luigi Brunella, 79, Italian football defender and manager.
 * Julian de Ajuriaguerra, 82, Spanish-French psychologist.
 * Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits, 83, Soviet engineer and apparatchik.
 * Jaime Loyola, 61, Puerto Rican Olympic sport shooter (1964).
 * James Millhollin, 77, American actor (No Time for Sergeants, Grindl, The Student Teachers), cancer.

24

 * Carl Billquist, 60, Swedish actor.
 * Jack Gould, 79, American journalist and critic.
 * Carlton E. Morse, 91, American radio producer (One Man's Family, I Love a Mystery, Adventures by Morse).
 * Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal, shot.

25

 * Lee Roy Abernathy, 79, American gospel musician (A Wonderful Time Up There).
 * Buddhadasa, 86, Thai Buddhist monk and philosopher, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Laura Conti, 72, Italian anti-fascist partisan, politician, feminist, and novelist.
 * Louis O. Coxe, 75, American writer, playwright, and professor.
 * Rudolf Eckstein, 78, German rower and Olympic champion.
 * Vincent Eri, 56, Papua New Guinean politician and novelist.
 * Kimon Friar, 81, Greek-American poet and translator.
 * David Peterson, 33, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.
 * Dan Seymour, 78, American actor (To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, Mara Maru), complications from a stroke.
 * Horia Sima, 86, Romanian politician and war criminal.

26

 * Catherine Caradja, 100, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist.
 * Cor de Groot, 78, Dutch pianist and composer.
 * Tsola Dragoycheva, 94, Bulgarian communist politician.
 * Fernando Lopez, 89, Filipino politician.
 * Memos Makris, 80, Greek sculptor.
 * George Perpich, 72, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
 * Jack Priestley, 66, American cinematographer.
 * Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 80, American publisher (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), colon cancer.
 * Jan Wiley, 77, American actress (She-Wolf of London, A Fig Leaf for Eve, The Brute Man), cancer.
 * Ulvi Yenal, 85, Turkish Olympic footballer (1928) and businessman (Turkish Airlines).

27

 * Tony Del Monaco, 57, Italian pop singer and actor.
 * Joe Gormley, 75, British trade unionist.
 * Serge Leroy, 56, French film director (Le mataf, The Track, The Passengers).
 * Roger MacDougall, 82, Scottish screenwriter and playwright.
 * Werner Stocker, 38, German actor, brain cancer.

28

 * Tatari Ali, 64, Nigerian politician, governor of Bauchi State (1979–1983), heart failure.
 * Charlie Barnett, 82, English cricketer.
 * Duncan Browne, 46, English singer-songwriter and musician, cancer.
 * William Collins, 61, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1956).
 * George Faust, 75, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
 * Bobby Joe Green, 57, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Derek Hersey, 36, British rock climber, climbing accident.
 * Ugo Locatelli, 77, Italian football player.
 * Doctor Ross, 67, American blues musician, and one-man band.

29

 * Billy Conn, 75, American light heavyweight boxing champion.
 * Alex Kampouris, 80, American baseball player.
 * Paul Malvern, 90, American film producer, child actor, and stuntman.
 * Louise McManus, 97, American nurse and academic.
 * Rahima Moosa, 70, South African politician and activist.

30

 * Qamar Ajnalvi, 73, Pakistani novelist.
 * Takeharu Asō, 93, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
 * Gonzalo Barrios, 91, Venezuelan politician.
 * Ted Garrett, 73, British politician.
 * Lien Gisolf, 82, Dutch high jumper and Olympic medalist.
 * Henry Heerup, 85, Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
 * Marge, 88, American cartoonist (Little Lulu), lymphoma.
 * Melvin Spencer Newman, 85, American chemist, Ohio State University professor.
 * Sun Ra, 79, American jazz composer, bandleader, pianist, and poet, congestive heart failure..
 * Mel Rees, 26, Welsh football player, cancer.
 * Gil Reese, 92, American gridiron football player.

31

 * Falkner Allison, 86, English Anglican prelate, Bishop of Chelmsford (1951–1961) and Winchester (1961–1974).
 * Honey Tree Evil Eye, 9, American bull terrier, portrayer of Spuds MacKenzie, kidney failure.
 * Mabel McKay, 86, Native American basketweaver and artist.
 * John Litchfield, 89, British Royal Navy officer and politician.
 * Donn Tatum, 80, American businessman (Walt Disney Productions), cancer.
 * Joe Vogler, 80, American politician, homicide.