Deaths in September 1993

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Hasan Abdullayev, 75, Soviet and Azerbaijani physicist and academic.
 * Thomas Brodie, 89, British Army officer.
 * Odell M. Conoley, 79, American Marine Corps brigadier general.
 * Fritz Cremer, 86, German sculptor.
 * Hew Lorimer, 86, Scottish sculptor.
 * Bernie Lowe, 75, American musician.
 * Neon Park, 52, American painter, comics artist and illustrator, ALS.
 * Michael Sobell, 100, British businessman, philanthropist, and thoroughbred racehorses owner.
 * Aleksey Vakhonin, 58, Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion, injuries sustained during brawl.

2

 * Eric Berry, 80, British actor, cancer.
 * Dragotin Cvetko, 81, Slovenian composer and musicologist.
 * Carl Anthony Fisher, 47, American Roman Catholic prelate, colorectal cancer.
 * Ingvar Moe, 56, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer.
 * Russel B. Nye, 80, American professor of English and Pulitzer Prize winner.

3

 * Eric Batten, 79, English rugby player.
 * David Brown, 89, English industrialist.
 * Josep Maria de Porcioles i Colomer, 89, Spanish politician and mayor of Barcelona, heart attack.
 * Don Corbitt, 69, American gridiron football player.

4

 * Tommy Cheadle, 74, English football player.
 * Baltasar Lobo, 83, Spanish artist, anarchist and sculptor.
 * Johnny Rae, 59, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist.
 * Hervé Villechaize, 50, French-American actor (Fantasy Island, The Man with the Golden Gun, Airplane II: The Sequel) and painter, suicide.
 * Aaron Wildavsky, 63, American political scientist, lung cancer.

5

 * Baek Du-jin, 84, South Korean politician and Prime Minister of South Korea.
 * Samim Kocagöz, 77, Turkish novelist.
 * Edwin Malindine, 83, British politician.
 * Virgilio Mortari, 90, Italian composer and teacher.
 * Claude Renoir, 79, French cinematographer.
 * John Truscott, 57, Australian actor and production- and costume designer, complications during heart surgery.

6

 * Pete Bennett, 65, Canadian football player.
 * Bjarne Liller, 57, Danish jazz musician, singer-songwriter, and actor.
 * A. L. F. Rivet, 77, British archaeologist and cartographer.
 * Paul Arthur Schilpp, 96, German-American philosopher and educator.

7

 * Eugen Barbu, 69, Romanian writer and journalist.
 * Hall Bartlett, 70, American film producer, director, and screenwriter.
 * Jean-Pierre Büchler, 85, Luxembourgian politician.
 * Lefty Dizz, 56, American chicago blues guitarist and singer, esophageal cancer.
 * Bruno Giorgi, 88, Brazilian sculptor.
 * Christian Metz, 61, French film theorist, suicide.

8

 * Vincent Dethier, 78, American physiologist and entomologist.
 * Peter Higgins, 64, British athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, 88, Egyptian intellectual and philosopher.
 * Tor Skjønsberg, 90, Norwegian resistance leader during World War II.

9

 * Jimmy Deuchar, 63, Scottish jazz trumpeter and big band arranger.
 * Art Mooney, 80, American singer and bandleader.
 * Helen O'Connell, 73, American big band singer and actress, liver cancer.
 * David Tendlar, 84, American animator.

10

 * Garnet Ault, 87, Canadian swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Nicholas Bayard Dill, 87, Bermudian politician and military officer, heart attack.
 * Julien Freund, 72, French sociologist and philosopher.
 * Hajime Hana, 63, Japanese actor.
 * Charles Harris, 79, American tennis player.
 * Cal Howard, 82, American cartoon story artist and animator.
 * Rita Karin, 73, Polish-American actress (Sophie's Choice).
 * Meinrad Miltenberger, 68, German sprint canoer and Olympian.
 * Josef Odložil, 54, Czech middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist, complications after fight.
 * Krister Wickman, 69, Swedish politician.

11

 * Luis Antonio Escobar, 68, Colombian composer and musicologist.
 * Antoine Izméry, Haitian businessman and pro-democracy activist, shot.
 * Charles Lamont, 98, American filmmaker, pneumonia.
 * Erich Leinsdorf, 81, Austrian-American conductor.
 * Mary Jane Reoch, 48, American cycling champion, road accident.

12

 * Raymond Burr, 76, Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Rear Window, Ironside), Emmy winner (1959, 1961), kidney cancer.
 * Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai, 78, Indian politician.
 * Baligh Hamdi, 61, Egyptian composer, liver disease.
 * Granny Hamner, 66, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Harold Innocent, 60, English actor (Henry V, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Buster).
 * Edith Kiel, 89, German film producer, screenwriter, and director.
 * Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, 93, Belgian jurist and politician.

13

 * Austregésilo de Athayde, 94, Brazilian writer and journalist.
 * Steve Jordan, 74, American jazz guitarist.
 * Pavel Kouba, 55, Czech football player.
 * Yasushi Sasaki, 85, Japanese film director.
 * Carl Voss, 86, American ice hockey player.

14

 * Adrianne Allen, 86, English stage actress, cancer.
 * Geo Bogza, 85, Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist.
 * Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug, 78, Norwegian rifle shooter and Olympic champion.
 * Sheelagh Murnaghan, 69, Northern Irish politician.
 * Glenn E. Smiley, 83, American clergyman and civil rights leader.
 * Peter Tranchell, 71, British composer.
 * Solange Térac, 86, French screenwriter and film director.

15

 * Ethan Allen, 89, American baseball player.
 * Maurice Allingham, 97, Australian rules football player.
 * Pino Puglisi, 56, Italian Roman Catholic priest, killed by the mafia.
 * Yulian Semyonov, 61, Soviet and Russian writer, scriptwriter and poet.
 * Shinsaku Tsukawaki, 62, Japanese gymnast and Olympian.
 * Maurice Yaméogo, 71, President of Republic of Upper Volta (1959-1966).

16

 * František Jílek, 80, Czech conductor, composer and pianist.
 * Sid Kuller, 82, American comedy writer, producer and composer.
 * Henri LaBorde, 84, American discus thrower and Olympian.
 * J. R. Monterose, 66, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 72, Aboriginal Australian political activist and artist.
 * Vera Orlova, 75, Soviet and Russian actress.
 * Rok Petrovič, 27, Yugoslav and Slovenian alpine skier and Olympian, drowned.

17

 * Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, 93, Canadian classical scholar and Latin prosopographer.
 * James Griffith, 77, American actor, musician and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Jon Jelacic, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Willie Mosconi, 80, American pool player, heart attack.
 * Christian Nyby, 80, American film director (The Thing from Another World).
 * Tarzie Vittachi, 71, Sri Lankan journalist, liver cancer.

18

 * Aris Konstantinidis, 80, Greek modernist architect.
 * Henrietta Leaver, 77, American beauty pageant contestant, cancer.
 * Hans Schwarzenbach, 80, Swiss equestrian and Olympic medalist.
 * Asit Sen, 76, Indian Hindi film director and comedian.

19

 * Helen Adam, 83, Scottish poet, collagist and photographer.
 * Art Burris, 69, American basketball player.
 * John E. Dimon, 77, American politician.
 * Marcel Mariën, 73, Belgian artist and filmmaker, cancer.
 * András Mihály, 75, Hungarian cellist, composer and academic teacher.
 * Mufti Muhammad Waqaruddin, 78, Pakistani Islamic scholar.

20

 * Edwin Blunt, 75, English football player.
 * Erich Hartmann, 71, German fighter pilot and most successful fighter ace during World War II, brain cancer.
 * Zlatko Mašek, 64, Yugoslav sports shooter and Olympian.
 * Leonard Parkin, 64, British television journalist and newscaster, cancer.
 * Hans Suess, 83, Austrian physicist.
 * Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II, 80, American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer.

21

 * Joe Daher, 80, American college basketball and football coach.
 * Fernand Ledoux, 96, Belgian-French film and theatre actor.
 * Antonio Quintana Simonetti, 74, Cuban modernist architect.
 * Francis Weldon, 80, British equestrian and Olympic champion.

22

 * Maurice Abravanel, 90, American classical music conductor.
 * Emilio Botín, 90, Spanish banker.
 * Niklaus Meienberg, 53, Swiss writer and investigative journalist, suicide.
 * Mihai Tänzer, 88, Romanian football player.

23

 * Tommy Bogan, 73, Scottish football player.
 * William Cort, 57, American actor, cancer.
 * Myer Galpern, 90, Scottish politician.
 * Koichi Hirakida, 55, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Charles Loughlin, 79, British politician.

24

 * Ian Stuart Donaldson, 36, English neo-Nazi musician and frontman of punk rock band Skrewdriver, car crash.
 * Zita Johann, 89, Austrian-American actress.
 * Bruno Pontecorvo, 80, Italian and Soviet nuclear physicist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Tamara Talbot Rice, 89, Russian-English art historian.

25

 * Willy Fitz, 75, Austrian football player and coach.
 * Francis Raymond Fosberg, 85, American botanist.
 * John Moores, 97, English businessman, politician and philanthropist.
 * Manlio Scopigno, 67, Italian football player and coach, heart attack.

26

 * Nina Berberova, 92, Russian writer, fall.
 * Frank Dunlap, 69, Canadian football player.
 * Semyon Pavlovich Ivanov, 86, Soviet general and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Edith Meiser, 95, American author and actress.
 * John Pennel, 53, American pole vaulter, Olympian, and world record holder, cancer.

27

 * Paolo Caldarella, 29, Italian water polo player, motorcycle accident.
 * Jimmy Doolittle, 96, American military general, aviation pioneer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Fraser MacPherson, 65, Canadian jazz musician.
 * Milan Muškatirović, 59, Yugoslav water polo goalkeeper.
 * Notable people killed during the Sukhumi massacre
 * Mamia Alasania, 50, Georgian Armed Forces colonel
 * Alexander Berulava, 47, Georgian journalist, writer, and human rights activist
 * Raul Eshba, 49, Georgian politician
 * Guram Gabiskiria, 46, Georgian politician and mayor of Sukhumi
 * Zhiuli Shartava, 49, Georgian politician and Prime Minister of Abkhazia
 * Andrey Soloviev, 40, Soviet and Russian war photographer

28

 * Peter De Vries, 83, American editor and novelist.
 * Chandrashekhar Dubey, 69, Indian actor and radio personality.
 * Paul Giguet, 78, French racing cyclist.
 * Crawford Greenewalt, 91, American chemical engineer, stroke.
 * Galina Makarova, 73, Soviet and Belarusian theater and film actress.
 * Dumitru Pavlovici, 81, Romanian football player.

29

 * Matej Bor, 80, Slovenian writer.
 * Ian Burn, 53, Australian conceptual artist, drowned.
 * Gordon Douglas, 85, American film director and actor, cancer.
 * Tatjana Gsovsky, 92, German ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Moses Simwala, 44, Zambian football player and coach.
 * Ghulam Haider Wyne, 43, Pakistani politician, murdered.

30

 * Ronnie Aldrich, 77, British easy listening and jazz musician, prostate cancer.
 * Jean Brun, 67, Swiss cyclist.
 * Dick Harris, 81, Australian rules football player and coach.
 * Alex Lyon, 61, British politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Carlo Vinci, 87, American animator.