Deaths in October 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Fran Bošnjaković, 91, Croatian engineer and thermodynamicist.
 * Janine Darcey, 76, French film actress.
 * Raymond Bryan Dillard, 49, American theologian and biblical scholar, heart attack.
 * Božo Janković, 42, Yugoslav football player.
 * Sigurð Joensen, 82, Faroese lawyer, author, and politician.
 * M. Vera Peters, 82, Canadian oncologist, breast cancer.
 * Hermann Otto Sleumer, 87, Dutch botanist.
 * Segundo Castillo Varela, 80, Peruvian football player.
 * Giuseppe Vari, 69, Italian film director, editor and screenwriter.

2

 * Ahmed Abdul-Malik, 66, American jazz double bassist and oud player.
 * William Berger, 65, Austrian-American actor, cancer.
 * Henry Ringling North, 83, American businessman and circus owner.
 * Amin Tarif, 95, Israeli Druze religious leader.

3

 * Katerina Gogou, 53, Greek poet, author and actress, suicide.
 * Gary Gordon, 33, American Army master sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor, killed in action.
 * Mihály Korom, 65, Hungarian politician and jurist.
 * Patricia Lake, 74, American actress, radio comedian, and socialite.
 * Rory Peck, 36, Northern-Irish freelance war cameraman, shot.
 * Randy Shughart, 35, American Army Delta Force soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor, killed in action.

4

 * John Cawas, 83, Indian actor and stuntman.
 * Varetta Dillard, 60, American rhythm and blues singer.
 * Jim Holton, 42, Scottish football player, heart attack.
 * William Henry Scott, 72, American teacher and historian.
 * Lorie Tarshis, 82, Canadian economist.

5

 * Francesco Carpino, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop.
 * Willard A. Hanna, 82, American writer.
 * Karl Gordon Henize, 66, American astronomer and astronaut, heart attack
 * Radhu Karmakar, 74, Indian cinematographer and film director.
 * Jane Nigh, 68, American actress, stroke.
 * Dumitru Stăniloae, 89, Romanian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian.

6

 * Sergei Babkov, 72, Soviet and Russian painter.
 * Albert Bigelow, 87, American writer and pacifist.
 * Ray Broussard, 56, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
 * Stillman Drake, 82, Canadian historian and academic.
 * Nejat Eczacıbaşı, 80, Turkish industrialist and philanthropist
 * Victor Razafimahatratra, 72, Malagasy Roman Catholic cardinal.

7

 * Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, 87, British journalist and scientific writer.
 * Cyril Cusack, 82, Irish actor (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Harold and Maude, My Left Foot), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Agnes de Mille, 88, American dancer and choreographer, stroke.
 * Kenneth Nelson, 63, American actor (The Boys in the Band, Hellraiser, Seventeen).

8

 * Gu Cheng, 37, Chinese poet, essayist and novelist, suicide.
 * Pete Cooper, 78, American golfer.
 * Santiago Navarro, 56, Spanish basketball player.
 * Manke Nelis, 73, Dutch levenslied  singer.
 * Alfred Toepfer, 99, German entrepreneur.

9

 * Bernard J. Ganter, 65, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Harry Jagielski, 61, American gridiron football player.
 * Sachiko Murase, 88, Japanese actress.
 * Göta Pettersson, 66, Swedish gymnast and Olympian.
 * C. R. Rangachari, 77, Indian cricket player.

10

 * John Bindon, 50, English actor and bodyguard, cancer.
 * Catherine Collard, 46, French classical pianist, cancer.
 * Jim Howden, 59, Australian rower and Olympian, cancer.
 * Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, 90, British academic.

11

 * Joe Barzda, 78, American racing driver.
 * Nani Bhattacharya, 75, Indian trade union activist and politician.
 * Alexandra Hay, 46, American actress.
 * Yvar Mikhashoff, 52, American pianist and composer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Andy Stewart, 59, Scottish musician, heart attack.
 * Jess Thomas, 66, American operatic tenor.
 * Lee Walls, 60, American baseball player.

12

 * Leon Ames, 91, American actor (Meet Me in St. Louis, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Mister Ed), stroke.
 * Mircea David, 78, Romanian football player.
 * Lawrence R. Hafstad, 89, American electrical engineer and physicist.
 * Ruth Gilbert, 81, American actress, brain cancer.
 * Patrick Holt, 81, English actor.
 * Myrtle Lind, 95, American film actress.
 * V. Subbiah, 82, Indian communist politician.
 * Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah, 72, Indian politician.

13

 * Tekin Arıburun, 88, Turkish soldier and statesman.
 * Espectro I, 54, Mexican luchador known as "El Espectro I" ("The Ghost").
 * Wade Flemons, 53, American soul singer, cancer.
 * Otmar Gutmann, 56, German filmmaker, cancer.
 * John G. Jackson, 86, American lecturer, teacher and writer.
 * Gwen Welles, 42, American actress, cancer.

14

 * Joseph S. Ammerman, 69, American politician.
 * Nikolay Baskakov, 75, Soviet and Russian painter.
 * Bertie Clarke, 75, Barbadian cricket player.
 * Harald Hennum, 65, Norwegian football player.
 * Hirohide Ishida, 78, Japanese politician.
 * Walter Newman, 77, American radio writer and screenwriter.
 * Venmani S. Selvanather, 80, Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Obert C. Tanner, 89, American businessman and philanthropist.

15

 * Clarence Lung, 78, American actor.
 * Aydın Sayılı, 80, Turkish historian of science.
 * Dan Turèll, 47, Danish writer, esophageal cancer.
 * Satosi Watanabe, 83, Japanese theoretical physicist.

16

 * Jimmie DeShong, 83, American baseball player.
 * Flora Nwapa, 62, Nigerian author, pneumonia.
 * Arnie Oliver, 86, American soccer player.
 * Bonnie Poe, 81, American actress and voice artist.
 * René Sylviano, 89, French composer.

17

 * Syed Mohammad Ali, 64, Bangladeshi journalist and editor.
 * Vijay Bhatt, 86, Indian film director and screenwriter.
 * Helmut Gollwitzer, 84, German Lutheran theologian and author.
 * Gordon Grieve, 81, New Zealand politician.
 * Criss Oliva, 30, American musician, traffic collision.
 * Bill Reigel, 61, American basketball player and coach.

18

 * Bernd Baselt, 59, German musicologist.
 * Maria Rosa Candido, 26, Italian short track speed skater and Olympian, traffic collision.
 * Lois Kibbee, 71, American actress (The Edge of Night, Caddyshack, One Life to Live), brain cancer.
 * Salvador P. Lopez, 82, Filipino writer, journalist, diplomat and statesman.

19

 * Gidske Anderson, 71, Norwegian journalist and author.
 * Pola Illéry, 83, Romanian-American actress and singer.
 * John Kerr, 94, American baseball player.
 * Carsta Löck, 90, German film actress.

20

 * Aage Dons, 90, Danish author.
 * Gaylord DuBois, 94, American comic book writer.
 * Milan Konjović, 95, Serbian painter.
 * Bob Olderman, 31, American gridiron football player.
 * Yasushi Sugiyama, 84, Japanese painter.

21

 * Wayne Belardi, 63, American baseball player.
 * James Leo Herlihy, 66, American author (Midnight Cowboy) and playwright, suicide.
 * Bob Hunter, 80, American sportswriter.
 * Melchior Ndadaye, 40, Burundian intellectual and politician, murdered.
 * Annie Thayyil, 74, Indian novelist, journalist, and biographer.
 * Irv Torgoff, 76, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * Sam Zolotow, 94, American theater critic, stomach cancer.

22

 * Jiří Hájek, 80, Czech politician and diplomat.
 * Innes Ireland, 63, British military officer and racing driver, cancer.
 * Said Mohamed Jaffar, 75, President of Comoros (1975–1976).
 * Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera, 80, Venezuelan musician, composer and writer.
 * Hans Walter Wolff, 81, German protestant theologian.

23

 * Thomas Begley, 22, Northern Irish IRA Volunteer, bomb explosion.
 * Ulf Björlin, 60, Swedish composer and conductor.
 * Friedrich Dickel, 79, German politician.
 * Wilhelm Feldberg, 92, German-British physiologist and biologist.
 * Shota Lomidze, 57, Georgian wrestler and Olympian.

24

 * Jo Grimond, 80, British politician.
 * Přemysl Hajný, 67, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
 * Hajibaba Huseynov, 74, Soviet and Azerbaijani poet and pedagogue.
 * Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff, 85, Austrian art director.
 * Heinz Kubsch, 63, German football goalkeeper.
 * Tonino Nardi, 54, Italian film cinematographer.
 * Elena Nicolai, 88, Bulgarian operatic mezzo-soprano.

25

 * Danny Chan, 35, Hong Kong singer, songwriter, records producer and actor.
 * Mariya Kapnist, 80, Soviet and Ukrainian actress, complications following car accident.
 * Roy Hampton Park, 83, American media executive and entrepreneur.
 * Vincent Price, 82, American actor (House of Wax, The Fly, Edward Scissorhands), lung cancer.

26

 * Maurice Henry Dorman, 81, British diplomat and colonial administrator.
 * František Filipovský, 86, Czechoslovak actor.
 * Albert Hyzler, 76, Maltese politician and President of Malta.
 * Oro, 21, Mexican professional wrestler, wrestling accident.
 * Harold Rome, 85, American composer, lyricist, and musical writer.
 * Mušan Topalović, 36, Bosnian gangster and warlord, killed.
 * Albert Zugsmith, 83, American film producer, film director and screenwriter.

27

 * Earl Banks, 69, American gridiron football player and coach, car accident.
 * Cloyce Box, 70, American gridiron football player.
 * David Lawrence McKay, 92, American Mormon leader.
 * Peter Quennell, 88, English writer, biographer, and literary historian.
 * Peter Tizard, 77, British paediatrician and university professor.

28

 * Emilio Berio, 88, Italian entomologist and lawyer.
 * Doris Duke, 80, American heiress, philanthropist, art collector, and socialite, edema.
 * Cal Koonce, 52, American baseball player, lymphoma.
 * Juri Lotman, 71, Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian.
 * Bob Seeds, 86, American baseball player.

29

 * Lipman Bers, 79, Latvian-American mathematician.
 * Robert P. Dilworth, 78, American mathematician.
 * Herbert Lütkebohmert, 45, German football player.
 * Masahiro Makino, 85, Japanese film director.
 * Stanisław Marusarz, 80, Polish Nordic skiing competitor and Olympian.
 * Edie Parker, 71, American author and first wife of writer Jack Kerouac.
 * Zdeněk Podskalský, 70, Czech film director and screenwriter.
 * George Pope, 82, English cricket player.
 * Elliot Scott, 78, English production designer (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Labyrinth, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
 * František Tokár, 68, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
 * Roger Turner, 92, American figure skater and Olympian.

30

 * Donald Prentice Booth, 90, American Army general.
 * Paul Grégoire, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, stomach cancer.
 * Louis B. Heller, 88, American lawyer and politician.
 * Peter Kemp, 78, English soldier and writer.
 * Maria Matray, 86, German screenwriter and film actress.
 * Margaret Vyner, 78, Australian-British model and actress.
 * Ted Williams, 77, American gridiron football player.

31

 * Bob Atcher, 79, American country musician.
 * Federico Fellini, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter (8½, La Dolce Vita, La Strada), four-time Oscar winner, heart attack.
 * Al Mello, 87, American Olympic and boxer.
 * Lajos Papp, 49, Hungarian sport shooter and Olympian.
 * River Phoenix, 23, American actor (Running on Empty, Stand by Me, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and musician, drug overdose.
 * Gilman Rankin, 82, American actor (Midnight Cowboy, Tombstone Territory, Assault on Precinct 13).
 * Edwin Walker, 83, American Army officer, anti-communist, and white supremacist, lung cancer.