Deaths in November 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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

 * Maeve Brennan, 76, Irish short story writer and journalist.
 * Freda Corbet, 92, British politician.
 * Georges Dancigers, 85, Russian-French film producer.
 * Naina Devi, 76, Indian vocalist of Hindustani classical music.
 * Clément Dupont, 94, French rugby player.
 * Pinkie George, 88, American professional wrestling promoter and boxer.
 * Mervyn Jayathunga, 53, Sri Lankan actor.
 * Loelia Lindsay, 91, British peeress and magazine editor.
 * Severo Ochoa, 88, Spanish physician, biochemist, and Nobel Prize laureate.
 * George A. Sheehan, 74, American physician and sports writer, prostate cancer.
 * A. N. Sherwin-White, 82, British ancient historian and academic.
 * Frank Sundström, 81, Swedish actor.
 * Sir Arthur Ward, 87, New Zealand dairy researcher and university administrator.
 * Salgado Zenha, 70, Portuguese lawyer and politician.

2

 * Đuro Kurepa, 86, Yugoslav mathematician.
 * Butch Nieman, 75, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Fred Williams, 80, American baseball player.
 * Jean-Claude Wuillemin, 50, French cyclist.

3

 * Richard Bayha, 64, German politician member of the Bundestag.
 * H. G. Callan, 76, English zoologist and cytologist.
 * Aidan Crawley, 85, British journalist, television executive, and politician.
 * Duncan Gibbins, 41, British film and music video director, and screenwriter, burns.
 * Arnold Hamer, 76, English cricket player.
 * William Lanteau, 70, American actor (Newhart, On Golden Pond, From Noon till Three).
 * John Lupton, 65, American actor (Broken Arrow, Days of Our Lives, Julius Caesar).
 * Redmond Phillips, 81, New Zealand actor (Tom Jones, A Night to Remember, Spyforce).
 * Leon Theremin, 97, Russian and Soviet inventor.
 * Henri Thomas, 80, French writer and poet.
 * Vuko Vukadinović, 56, Yugoslav and Montenegrin communist.

4

 * Daniel Barrow, 84, American rower and Olympian.
 * Jackie Callura, 76, Canadian featherweight boxer.
 * Cem Ersever, 43, Turkish Army officer, murdered.
 * Allan Hoover, 86, British-American mining engineer, rancher, and financier.
 * Ely Landau, 73, American film producer and executive, stroke.
 * Nerina Montagnani, 96, Italian actress, pneumonia.
 * Seongcheol, 81, Korean Buddhist monk.
 * Cliff Young, 29, American baseball player, traffic accident.

5

 * Basuki Abdullah, 78, Indonesian painter, beaten to death.
 * Michael Bilton, 73, English actor.
 * Mario Cecchi Gori, 73, Italian film producer and businessman.
 * Bertil Lundman, 94, Swedish anthropologist.
 * Tadeusz Pankiewicz, 84, Polish pharmacist and resistance member during World War II.
 * Arthur Rowe, 87, English football player and manager.

6

 * Zena Abbott, 71, New Zealand weaver.
 * Torsten Fenslau, 29, German disc jockey and music producer, traffic collision.
 * Jack Hennemier, 80, American gridiron football coach and scout.
 * Alexandru Piru, 76, Romanian literary critic and historian.
 * Georges Reeb, 72, French mathematician.
 * Ed Sadowski, 62, American Major League Baseball player, ALS.
 * Joseph Serchuk, 74, Polish partisan during World War II.
 * Ralph Randles Stewart, 103, American botanist.
 * Michael Vernon, 61, Australian consumer rights activist, multiple myeloma.

7

 * Charles Aidman, 68, American actor, cancer.
 * Clemente Gaddi, 91, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Adelaide Hall, 92, American jazz singer and entertainer, pneumonia.
 * Jon Hernandez, 24, Filipino actor, traffic collision.
 * Nikolay Kostylev, 62, Russian weightlifter.
 * Terris Moore, 85, American explorer and mountaineer, president of the University of Alaska, heart attack.
 * Yuri Osmanov, 52, Soviet and Crimean Tatar civil rights activist, murdered.
 * Walt Rankin, 74, American National Football League player.
 * Tex Shirley, 75, American baseball player.
 * Jack Martin Smith, 82, American art director (Cleopatra, Fantastic Voyage, Planet of the Apes), Oscar winner (1964, 1967, 1970).
 * Andrey Tikhonov, 87, Soviet mathematician and geophysicist.

8

 * Erik Beijar, 72, Finnish football player.
 * Dick Cathcart, 69, American dixieland trumpet player, cancer.
 * Marcello Landi, 77, Italian painter and poet.
 * Hank Leiber, 82, American baseball player.
 * James Moffat, 71, Canadian-born British novelist.
 * Francisco Zuluaga, 64, Colombian football player.

9

 * Saqr III bin Sultan al-Qasimi, 68, Emirate of Sharjah ruler.
 * Ross Andru, 66, American comic book artist (Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, The Punisher).
 * Anatols Dinbergs, 82, Latvian diplomat.
 * Godfrey Lienhardt, 72, British anthropologist, pneumonia.
 * Angus Maude, 81, British politician.
 * Stanley Myers, 63, English film composer (The Deer Hunter, The Witches, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead), cancer.
 * Vishnudevananda Saraswati, 65, Indian yoga guru.
 * Anne Smith, 52, British middle-distance runner and Olympian, stroke.
 * Gerald Thomas, 72, English film director (Carry On), heart attack.

10

 * Artashes Arakelian, 84, Soviet and Armenian economist and academic.
 * Alberto Breccia, 74, Uruguay-Argentine artist and cartoonist.
 * Justin O'Byrne, 81, Australian politician.
 * Paul Oßwald, 88, German football player and manager.
 * Wensley Pithey, 79, South African actor (Oliver!, Coronation Street, Charlesworth).

11

 * Dragomir Bojanić, 60, Serbian actor and humorist, liver cancer.
 * Franco Evangelisti, 70, Italian politician.
 * Mildred Fizzell, 78, Canadian athlete and Olympian.
 * Andrew Gregory Grutka, 84, American bishop of the Catholic Church.
 * Erskine Hawkins, 79, American trumpeter and big band leader.
 * Robert E. Hogaboom, 90, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
 * Osman Sabri, 88, Kurdish poet, writer and journalist.
 * Franco Sassi, 81, Italian painter, printmaker and engraver.
 * John Stanley, 79, American cartoonist and comic book writer (Little Lulu)

12

 * Bill Dickey, 86, American baseball player and manager.
 * Keith Flowers, 63, American gridiron football player.
 * H. R. Haldeman, 67, American political aide and White House Chief of Staff, stomach cancer.
 * Dria Paola, 83, Italian actress.
 * William Haggin Perry, 82, American owner and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.
 * Ted Ringwood, 63, Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist.
 * Anna Sten, 84, Ukrainian-American actress.
 * George Taylor, 89, Scottish botanist, heart attack.
 * Jill Tweedie, 57, British feminist, writer and broadcaster, ALS.

13

 * Jack Fulton, 90, American composer, trombonist, and vocalist.
 * Rufus R. Jones, 60, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * George Taylor, 89, Scottish botanist, heart attack.
 * G. K. Venkatesh, 66, Indian film score composer.

14

 * András Béres, 69, Hungarian football player and manager.
 * Manibhai Desai, 73, Indian economist and social activist.
 * Vũ Hồng Khanh, 95, Vietnamese revolutionary.
 * Sanzō Nosaka, 101, Japanese communist politician.
 * Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira, 91, Israeli jurist and Socialist Zionist politician.
 * Kim Won-yong, 71, South Korean archaeologist and art historian.

15

 * Jack Finch, 84, English football player.
 * Yelena Gogoleva, 93, Soviet and Russian actress.
 * Luciano Leggio, 68, Italian criminal and Sicilian Mafia leader, heart attack.
 * Jimmy McAlinden, 75, Irish football player.
 * Cvijetin Mijatović, 80, Yugoslav communist politician.
 * Hal Mitchell, 63, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Viola Myers, 66, Canadian sprinter and Olympian.
 * Virgil Vătășianu, 91, Romanian academic and art historian.
 * Gladys Walton, 90, American silent film actress, cancer.

16

 * Yves Brainville, 79, French actor.
 * Tomàs Garcés, 92, Spanish lawyer and poet.
 * Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, 86, Cuban trova singer, guitarist, and composer.
 * Frank Mockler, 84, American attorney and politician.
 * Lucia Popp, 54, Slovak operatic soprano, brain cancer.
 * Ken Renard, 87, American actor (True Grit, Something of Value, Lydia Bailey).
 * Evelyn Venable, 80, American actress, cancer.
 * Achille Zavatta, 78, French clown, artist and circus operator, suicide.

17

 * Amy Jagger, 85, British Olympic artistic gymnast.
 * Gérard D. Levesque, 67, Canadian politician and Cabinet minister.
 * Giorgos Mitsakis, 72, Greek folk composer and lyricist.
 * Kiyoshi Nishimura, 61, Japanese filmmaker, suicide.
 * Teddy Powell, 88, American jazz musician and band leader.
 * Gordon Richards, 60, Welsh football player.

18

 * Fritz Feld, 93, German-American film actor.
 * Arvid Fladmoe, 78, Norwegian composer and conductor.
 * João Baptista Martins, 66, Portuguese football player, heart attack.
 * Rudolph Matt, 84, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
 * Branko Radović, 59, Yugoslav basketball player and coach.

19

 * Kenneth Burke, 96, American literary theorist and author, heart attack.
 * Carlo Da Prà, 62, Italian Olympic bobsledder.
 * Leonid Gaidai, 70, Soviet and Russian comedy film director, pulmonary embolism.
 * Dorothy Revier, 89, American actress.
 * Sir John Stallworthy, 87, New Zealand-born British obstetrician and professor.
 * Norman Tindale, 93, Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

20

 * Emile Ardolino, 50, American film director, choreographer, and producer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Heather Farr, 28, American professional golfer, cancer.
 * Christopher Frank, 50, British-French writer, screenwriter, and film director, heart attack.
 * Eve van Grafhorst, 11, first Australian child to be infected with HIV via a blood transfusion.
 * Paul Guiragossian, 66, Armenian Lebanese painter.
 * Willi Rutz, 86, German football player and manager.

21

 * Bill Bixby, 59, American actor (The Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father), prostate cancer.
 * Margaret Boyd, 80, English lacrosse player and schoolteacher.
 * Masaru Furukawa, 57, Japanese swimmer and Olympic champion.
 * Fernand Picard, 87, French automotive engineer.
 * Stéphane Proulx, 27, Canadian racing driver, AIDS-related complications.
 * Bruno Rossi, 88, Italian experimental physicist.
 * Richard Wordsworth, 78, English actor.

22

 * P. A. Backer, 53, Indian Malayalam film director.
 * William Brinkley, 76, American writer and journalist, suicide.
 * Anthony Burgess, 76, English writer (A Clockwork Orange) and composer, lung cancer.
 * Alois De Hertog, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Alexander Langmuir, 83, American epidemiologist.
 * Lee Loy Seng, 72, Malaysian businessman.
 * Bill Laughlin, 77, American basketball player.
 * Tatiana Nikolayeva, 69, Soviet and Russian pianist and composer, stroke.
 * James Stern, 88, Anglo-Irish writer of short stories and non-fiction.
 * Elizabeth Threatt, 67, American model and actress.
 * Ernst von Klipstein, 85, German actor.
 * Joseph Yodoyman, 43, Chadian politician and civil servant.

23

 * William Holmes Borders, 88, American pastor and civil rights activist.
 * Grey Clarke, 81, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Pierre Ferri, 89, French stockbroker and politician.
 * Margit Kalocsai, 83, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.

24

 * John Blythe, 72, English actor.
 * Albert Collins, 61, American electric blues guitarist and singer, lung cancer.
 * László Fenyvesi, 85, Hungarian football player and manager.
 * Grès, 89, French couturier and costume designer.
 * Tom Scott, 85, American college basketball coach.
 * Zhou Peiyuan, 91, Chinese theoretical physicist and politician.

25

 * Hervé Bromberger, 75, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Juan Carlos Castillo, 29, Colombian racing cyclist, shot.
 * Roman Durniok, 65, Polish football player and later manager.
 * Carl Lorenz, 79, German cyclist.
 * Claudia McNeil, 76, American actress (A Raisin in the Sun), diabetes.
 * Louis Leo Snyder, 86, American scholar.
 * Larry Uttal, 71, American music executive, AIDS.
 * Burgess Whitehead, 83, American Major League Baseball player.

26

 * Erwin Gillmeister, 86, German sprinter and Olympian.
 * César Guerra-Peixe, 79, Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor.
 * Jarl Hjalmarson, 89, Swedish politician.
 * Dirk Albert Hooijer, 74, Dutch paleontologist.
 * Guido Masetti, 86, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.
 * Ali Mohsen, 53, Yemeni football player.
 * Grande Otelo, 78, Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer, cardiovascular disease.
 * Saly Ruth Ramler, 99, Czech-American mathematician.
 * Bernardo Segall, 82, Brazilian-American composer and concert pianist.

27

 * James Gareth Endicott, 94, Canadian christian minister, missionary, and socialist.
 * Jerry Hunt, 49, American composer, suicide.
 * Einar Landvik, 95, Norwegian Nordic skier and Olympian.
 * Thaddeus Mann, 84, Polish biochemist.
 * Everett C. Olson, 83, American zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist.
 * William J. Trent, 83, American economist, executive director of United Negro College Fund.

28

 * Monroe Abbey, 89, Canadian lawyer and civic leader.
 * Eilif Armand, 72, Norwegian actor.
 * Pery Broad, 72, Brazilian Schutzstaffel non-commissioned officer.
 * Kenneth Connor, 75, English stage, film and broadcasting actor, cancer.
 * Tommie Connor, 89, English lyricist and songwriter.
 * Francis L. Dale, 72, American businessman and Major League Baseball executive.
 * Jerry Edmonton, 47, American musician, traffic collision.
 * June Gittelson, 83, American film actress.
 * Robert Hawkins, 39, American basketball player, shot.
 * Rudolf Keller, 76, German chess master.
 * Joe Kelly, 80, Irish racing driver.
 * Jim Leonard, 83, American National Football League player and coach.
 * Garry Moore, 78, American entertainer, comedian, and game show host, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Huang Oudong, 88, Chinese politician.
 * John Rokisky, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Marian Dale Scott, 87, Canadian painter.
 * Camillo Togni, 71, Italian composer, teacher, and pianist.
 * Bruce Turner, 71, English jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.

29

 * Arnold Boghaert, 73, Belgian Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Alan Clare, 72, British jazz pianist and composer.
 * Peter Grushin, 87, Soviet rocket scientist and academic.
 * Sir Jack Longland, 88, English broadcaster, educator and mountain climber.
 * J. R. D. Tata, 89, Indian aviator, industrialist, and entrepreneur.
 * Thomas W. Whitaker, 89, American botanist and horticulturist.

30

 * David Houston, 57, American country music singer, stroke.
 * Wacław Jędrzejewicz, 100, Polish Army officer, diplomat, and politician.
 * Sebastian Kappen, 69, Indian Jesuit priest and theologian.
 * Hirubhai M. Patel, 89, Indian civil servant and politician.
 * Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, 91, British communist politician and member of the House of Lords.
 * Tom Scannell, 68, Irish football player.
 * Bob Woolf, 65, American sports agent.