The following is a list of notabledeaths in May 1993.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Pietro Acquarone, 76, Italian footballer (Sanremese,Roma,Pisa).
• Erwan Bergot, 63, French army officer and author.^[1]
• Pierre Bérégovoy, 67, French politician andprime minister (1992–1993), suicide by gunshot.^[2]
• Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, 84, Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, and diplomat.^[3]
• Donald Dupree, 74, American bobsledder and Olympic medalist (1948).^[4]
• Henri Ellenberger, 87, Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian, and criminologist.^[5]
• Gerald Fowler, 58, British politician,MP (1966–1970, 1974–1979), cancer.
• Narayan Ganesh Gore, 85, Indian politician.
• Warren P. Knowles, 84, American politician andgovernor (1965–1971), heart attack.^[6]
• Ranasinghe Premadasa, 68,President of Sri Lanka (1989-1993), assassination by suicide bomber.
• Amos Wilder, 97, American poet, minister, and theology professor.^[7]

• Luigi Bestagini, 73, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1948).^[8]
• Jim Cleary, 78, Australian rules footballer.^[9]
• Julio Gallo, 83, American winemaker (E & J Gallo Winery), traffic collision.^[10]
• John S. Gleason, Jr., 78, American banker and political figure.
• Thorkild Jacobsen, 88, Danishassyriologist andarchaeologist.^[11]
• Stephen Juba, 78, Canadian politician.
• Ivan Lapikov, 70, Soviet-Russian actor (Andrei Rublev,The Brothers Karamazov,Eternal Call).^[12]
• Karl-Friedrich Merten, 87, GermanU-boat commander during World War II, cancer.
• André Moynet, 71, French fighter pilot, businessman, and politician,MNA (1946–1967).^[13]
• George Southall, 85, British Olympic track cyclist (1928).^[14]
• Will Weng, 86, American journalist andcrossword puzzle editor (The New York Times).^[15]

• Libero Bigiaretti, 86, Italian novelist.^[16]
• Robert De Niro Sr., 71, American painter, father ofRobert De Niro, cancer.^[17]
• Joe Lukeman, 91, Australian rules footballer.^[18]
• Duncan Macpherson, 68, Canadian cartoonist.^[19]
• Bjørn Rørholt, 73, Norwegian military officer, and resistance member during World War II.
• Hermína Týrlová, 92, Czech animator, screen writer, and film director.^[20]

• Margret Borgs, 84, German Olympic diver (1928).^[21]
• Frank Kudelka, 67, American basketball player (Chicago Stags,Washington Capitols,Philadelphia Warriors).^[22]
• Ray McDonald, 48, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins), complications fromsickle cell anemia.
• Ernst Reitermaier, 74, Austrian football player and manager.
• Shianghao Wang, 77, Chinese mathematician.
• France Štiglic, 73, Slovenian film director and screenwriter.

• Iakov Bielopolski, 76, Soviet architect.
• Dermot Boyle, 88, BritishRAF marshall.^[23]
• Louis Brooks, 82, AmericanR&Bsaxophonist and bandleader.
• John Brady, 89, Australian trade unionist and politician.
• Georges Carrier, 82, French Olympic basketball player (1936).^[24]
• Irving Howe, 72, American socialist activist, cardiovascular disease.^[25]
• Taimi Mattsson, 79, Finnish Olympic fencer (1952).^[26]
• Malcolm Metcalf, 82, American Olympic javelin thrower (1932,1936).^[27]
• Dick Metz, 84, American golfer.^[28]
• Algot Törneman, 83, Swedish painter.
• Paul Wegener, 84, GermanNazi Party official and politician.

• Ivy Benson, 79, English musician and bandleader.
• Vane Bor, 84, Serbian artist.
• Henri Conchy, 84, French footballer.^[29]
• Rommel Fernández, 27, Panamanian football player, traffic collision.
• Dorothy B. Hughes, 88, American crime writer, literary critic, and historian.^[30]
• Ian Mikardo, 84, British politician, stroke.^[31]
• Ann Todd, 86, English actress (The Seventh Veil,The Paradine Case,Perfect Strangers), stroke.^[32]

• Zhao Boping, 90, Chinese politician.
• Eddie Cranage, 75, Australian rules footballer.^[33]
• Harold Danforth, 77, Canadian politician,MP (1958–1962, 1963–1974).^[34]
• Cee Farrow, 36, German-American new wave singer ("Should I Love You"), complications fromAIDS.
• Roger Keesing, 57, Americanlinguist andanthropologist, heart attack.^[35]
• Valeriano López, 67, Peruvian footballer (Sport Boys,Deportivo Cali,national team), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Jameel Mahmood, 54, Indian army lieutenant general, general commanding officer of theEastern Command (since 1992), helicopter crash.^[36]
• Eric Olsen, 77, American Olympic sailor (1956).^[37]
• Mary Philbin, 90, American silent film actress (The Phantom of the Opera,The Man Who Laughs,Love Me and the World Is Mine),pneumonia.^[38]
• Hap Sharp, 65, American race car driver, suicide.
• Thurman Tucker, 75, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox,Cleveland Indians).^[39]

• Dele Charley, 45, Sierra Leonean playwright.^[40]
• Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, 74, IndianMarxist philosopher.^[41]
• Avram Davidson, 70, American fiction writer (The Phoenix and the Mirror,Masters of the Maze,The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy).^[42]
• Enrique Larrinaga, 82, Spanish footballer (Racing de Santander,Asturias,national team).
• Alwin Nikolais, 82, American choreographer, cancer.^[43]
• Gabriel Pita da Veiga y Sanz, 84, Spanish naval admiral,minister of the Navy (1973–1977).^[44]
• Marti Stevens, 54, American educator and theater director,asthma.
• Al Tate, 74, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).^[45]
• Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor, 87, English-Irish hereditary peer.

• Mario Baeza, 77, Chilean footballer.^[46]
• Reginald Bryan, 77, English cricketer andBritish Army officer.^[47]
• Joe Churchman, 68, Australian rules footballer.^[48]
• Ted Cieslak, 80, AmericanMajor League Baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[49]
• Jacques Dextraze, 73, Canadian military officer.
• Mary Duncan, 98, American actress (City Girl,Morning Glory).^[50]
• Kenneth Eather, 91,Australian Army officer.
• Penelope Gilliatt, 61, English novelist and screenwriter (Sunday Bloody Sunday).^[51]
• Maggie Hemingway, 47, British novelist,aplastic anemia.
• Freya Madeline Stark, 100, British-Italian travel writer and explorer.^[52]
• Albert Sukop, 80, German footballer (Eintracht Braunschweig).^[53]
• Pete Sunkett, 75, American baseball player.^[54]

• Lester del Rey, 77, American science fiction author (Badge of Infamy,Marooned on Mars,Moon of Mutiny).^[55]
• Peng Mingzhi, 88, Chinese general and diplomat.
• Jack Peel, 72, British trade union leader.
• Stanisław Piłat, 84, Polish Olympic boxer (1936).^[56]
• Dermot Sheriff, 72, Irish Olympic basketball player (1948).^[57]
• Egon Vogel, 84, German actor.^[58]
• Pedro Vuskovic, 69, Croatian-Chilean economist and politician.

• 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).^[59]
• 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 (Los Angeles Rams,Cleveland Browns,San Diego Chargers).^[60]
• Nils Sjöblom, 83, Finnish Olympic fencer (1948,1952).^[61]
• Torsten Ullman, 84, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1936,1948,1952,1956,1960).^[62]
• Leigh Wiener, 63, American photographer and photojournalist, complications ofSweet's syndrome.

• Stanisław Baran, 73, Polish football player.
• Teodor Bârcă, 98, Moldovan politician and professor.
• Zeno Colò, 72, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1948,1952), lung cancer.^[63]
• Evert Dolman, 47, Dutch cyclist and Olympian (1964).^[64]
• Capt. John Treasure Jones, 87, British sea officer,aneurysm.^[65]
• Franjo Palković, 86, Yugoslavian Olympic wrestler (1928).^[66]
• Ulf Palme, 72, Swedish film actor.^[67]
• Marek Roszczynialski, 75, Polish Olympic equestrian (1960).^[68]
• Edda Seippel, 73, German actress, cancer.^[69]
• Shamser Bahadur Singh, 82, Indian poet and writer.^[70]

• Robert Adley, 58, British politician,MP (since 1970), heart attack.^[71]
• Friedrich Dörr, 85, GermanCatholic priest and professor of theology.
• Elton Fax, 83, American illustrator.^[72]
• Shmuel Gogol, 69, Polish-born Israeli harmonica player.^[73]
• Bede Griffiths, 86, British priest andBenedictine monk.^[74]
• Milt Jordan, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[75]
• Wolfgang Lotz, 72, Israeli spy.^[76]
• Don Manson, 74, Australian rugby league footballer.^[77]
• M. K. Menon, 64, Indian writer.

• Aziz El-Shawan, 77, Egyptian composer.^[78]
• Patrick Haemers, 40, Belgian criminal, suicide by hanging.
• William Randolph Hearst Jr., 85, American newspaper publisher.^[79]
• Karin Luts, 89, Estonian painter and a graphic artist.
• Ross Ousley, 56, Australian rules footballer.^[80]
• Melvin Swig, 75, American real estate developer andphilanthropist.

• Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 94, IndianCommander-in-Chief,arthritis.^[81]
• 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.^[82]

• Jibaraj Ashrit, 48, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
• Madan Kumar Bhandari, 41, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
• Eduardo Campbell, 59, Panamanian Olympic wrestler (1960,1964).^[83]
• Bernard Chanda, 41, Zambian football player.
• Dezső Ákos Hamza, 89, Hungarian film director (Strano appuntamento).
• Marv Johnson, 54, AmericanR&B singer,songwriter and pianist, stroke.^[84]
• John Lookabaugh, 70, American football player (Washington Redskins).^[85]
• James Taylor, 75, Scottish sportsman.^[86]

• Henrique Anjos, 41, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1972,1984,1988).^[87]
• Earl Chudoff, 85, American lawyer and politician, member of theUnited States House of Representatives (1949-1958).^[88]
• Joe Ploski, 89, Polish-American film and television actor.^[89]
• Andre Resampa, 68, Malagasy government minister.
• Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, 91, English artist.^[90]
• Peter E. Perry, 91, American politician, member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1968, 1969–1976).
• Bill Wallace, 80, American college football player (Rice Owls).^[91]

• Heinrich Albertz, 78, German politician,Governing Mayor of Berlin (1966–1967).^[92]
• Stephen Cheong, 51, Hong Kong industrialist and politician, heart attack.
• Ronald Haver, 54, American film historian and author,AIDS-related illness.
• Heinz Knoke, 72, Germanflying ace during World War II and politician.
• Domingo Romo, 76, Chilean football player.^[93]

• Nemesio Antúnez, 75, Chilean painter.
• Winston Burdett, 79, American broadcast journalist and correspondent.^[94]
• Oscar Grimes, 78, AmericanMajor League Baseball player (Cleveland Indians,New York Yankees,Philadelphia Athletics).^[95]
• Richard Murphy, 81, American film director (Three Stripes in the Sun) and screenwriter (Boomerang,The Desert Rats), stroke.^[96]
• Ranga Sohoni, 75, Indian cricketer, heart attack.^[97]
• Lucien Troupel, 74, French football player and manager.
• John A. Wilson, 49, American politician,suicide by hanging.

• Al Aber, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers,Cleveland Indians,Kansas City Athletics).^[98]
• Stevan Bodnarov, 87, Serbian sculptor, painter and political commissar.
• Virginia Cutler, 87, American academic,Alzheimer's disease.
• Dragoljub Janošević, 69, Yugoslavchess grandmaster.
• Carmelo Pace, 86, Maltese composer and music professor.^[99]

• Paul Anthony, 69, American basketball player.^[100]
• John Frost, 80,British Army officer (Battle of Arnhem).
• Pete Hecomovich, 74, American basketball player.^[101]
• John Holland, 85, American actor (Perry Mason,My Fair Lady,How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).^[102]
• Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, 100, Lithuanian architect.
• Omar Pkhakadze, 48, Georgian sprint cyclist and Olympic medalist (1964,1968,1972).^[103]

• Herbert Callen, 73, American physicist,Alzheimer's disease.^[104]
• Mieczysław Horszowski, 100, Polish-American pianist.^[105]
• David Rees, 57, English author, lecturer and reviewer,AIDS.
• Irma Vila, 76, Mexicanranchera singer and actress (Canta y no llores...).
• Carl Johan Wachtmeister, 90, Swedish army officer and Olympic fencer (1936).^[106]
• Juice Wilson, 89, American jazz violinist.^[107]

• Luigi Brunella, 79, Italian football defender and manager.^[108]
• Rags Carter, 64, American race car driver.^[109]
• Julian de Ajuriaguerra, 82, Spanish-French psychologist.
• Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits, 83, Soviet engineer andapparatchik.
• Jaime Loyola, 61, Puerto Rican Olympic sport shooter (1964).^[110]
• James Millhollin, 77, American actor (No Time for Sergeants,Grindl,The Student Teachers), cancer.^[111]

• Carl Billquist, 60, Swedish actor.
• Stanley Butler, 83, British Olympic cyclist (1932).^[112]
• Jack Gould, 79, American journalist and critic.^[113]
• Hendrik de Kok, 91, South African Olympic rower (1928).^[114]
• Carlton E. Morse, 91, American radio producer (One Man's Family,I Love a Mystery,Adventures by Morse).^[115]
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal, shot.^[116]

• Lee Roy Abernathy, 79, American gospel musician (A Wonderful Time Up There).
• Ajahn Buddhadasa, 86, Thai Buddhist monk and philosopher,cerebral hemorrhage.
• Poul Cederquist, 76, Danish Olympic hammer thrower (1948,1952).^[117]
• Laura Conti, 72, Italian anti-fascist partisan, politician, feminist, and novelist.
• Louis O. Coxe, 75, American writer, playwright, and professor.^[118]
• Rudolf Eckstein, 78, German rower and Olympic champion (1936).^[119]
• Vincent Eri, 56, Papua New Guinean politician and novelist.
• Kimon Friar, 81, Greek-American poet and translator.^[120]
• D. J. Peterson, 33, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.^[121]
• Flip Regout, 77, Dutch Olympic rower (1936).^[122]
• John Scott, 58, Australian Olympic sailor (1956).^[123]
• Dan Seymour, 78, American actor (To Have and Have Not,Key Largo,Mara Maru), complications from a stroke.^[124]
• Horia Sima, 86, Romanian politician and war criminal.

• Catherine Caradja, 100, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist.
• Cor de Groot, 78, Dutch pianist and composer.^[125]
• Tsola Dragoycheva, 94, Bulgariancommunist politician.^[126]
• Francis Lund Van Dusen, 81, American judge.^[127]
• Fernando Lopez, 89, Filipino politician.
• Memos Makris, 80, Greek sculptor.
• George Perpich, 72, American football player (Baltimore Colts).^[128]
• Jack Priestley, 66, Americancinematographer.^[129]
• Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 80, American publisher (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), colon cancer.^[130]
• 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).^[131]

• Tony Del Monaco, 57, Italian pop singer and actor.
• Joe Gormley, Baron Gormley, 75, British trade unionist.
• Serge Leroy, 56, French film director (Le mataf,The Track,The Passengers).^[132]
• Roger MacDougall, 82, Scottish screenwriter and playwright.^[133]
• Werner Stocker, 38, German actor, brain cancer.^[134]

• Tatari Ali, 64, Nigerian politician,governor of Bauchi State (1979–1983), heart failure.
• Charlie Barnett, 82, English cricketer.^[135]
• Duncan Browne, 46, English singer-songwriter and musician, cancer.
• William Collins, 61, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1956).^[136]
• Fats Dantonio, 74, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[137]
• George Faust, 75, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).^[138]
• Bobby Joe Green, 57, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers,Chicago Bears), heart attack.^[139]
• Derek Hersey, 36, British rock climber, climbing accident.^[140]
• Ugo Locatelli, 77, Italian football player and Olympian (1936).^[141]
• Doctor Ross, 67, Americanblues musician, andone-man band.^[142]

• Billy Conn, 75, Americanlight heavyweight boxing champion.
• Alex Kampouris, 80, American baseball player.^[143]
• Paul Malvern, 90, American film producer, child actor, and stuntman.^[144]
• Louise McManus, 97, American nurse and academic.^[145]
• Rahima Moosa, 70, South African politician and activist.

• Qamar Ajnalvi, 73, Pakistani novelist.
• Takeharu Asō, 93, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier (1928).^[146]
• H. Gordon Barrett, 77, Canadian politician, member of theHouse of Commons of Canada (1968-1972).^[147]
• Gonzalo Barrios, 91, Venezuelan politician.
• Ted Garrett, 73, British politician.
• Lien Gisolf, 82, Dutch high jumper and Olympic medalist (1928,1932).^[148]
• Henry Heerup, 85, Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor.^[149]
• Les Hill, 77, Australian rules footballer.^[150]
• Marge, 88, Americancartoonist (Little Lulu),lymphoma.
• Melvin Spencer Newman, 85, American chemist, Ohio State University professor.^[151]
• Sun Ra, 79, Americanjazz composer, bandleader, pianist, andpoet, congestive heart failure. .^[152]
• Mel Rees, 26, Welsh football player, cancer.
• Gil Reese, 92, American gridiron football player.
• Solly Yach, 65, South African Olympic water polo player (1952).^[153]

• Falkner Allison, 86, English Anglican prelate,Bishop of Chelmsford (1951–1961) andWinchester (1961–1974).
• Tolly Burnett, 69, English cricketer.^[154]
• Honey Tree Evil Eye, 9, American bull terrier, portrayer ofSpuds MacKenzie, kidney failure.
• Jimmy Hill, 74, American baseball player.^[155]
• Matti Karumaa, 68, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian (1952).^[156]
• Mabel McKay, 86,Native American basketweaver and artist.^[157]
• John Litchfield, 89, BritishRoyal Navy officer and politician.
• Donn Tatum, 80, American businessman (Walt Disney Productions), cancer.^[158]
• Joseph E. Vogler, 80, American politician, homicide.

• List of May 1993 deaths atIMDb

• May 1993
• 1993 deaths
• Lists of deaths in 1993

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