Historical Figures Who Died in 1993 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 398 of 398

Jul 18 Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
Jul 19 Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
Jul 20 Vince Foster, American lawyer and Deputy White House Counsel commits suicide aged 48
Jul 21 Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88
Jul 24 Ben Polak, Dutch physician, communist and resistance fighter, dies at 79
Jul 24 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
Jul 24 Lonnie D'Orsa, film and TV director, dies at 96
Jul 25 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist (cloud seeding), dies at 87
Jul 26 Matthew Ridgway, American general (World War II, Korean War, NATO Supreme Commander) and Chief of Staff of the US Army (1953-55), dies of cardiac arrest at 98
Jul 29 AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78
Jul 30 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
Jul 30 John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
Jul 31 Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83
Jul 31 Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51
Jul 31 George Keyt, Sri Lankan painter, dies at 92
Jul 31 Baudouin I, King of Belgium (1951-93), dies from heart issues at 62
Aug 1 Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
Aug 1 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
Aug 1 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
Aug 1 Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
Aug 6 Milt Thompson, American astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), NASA test pilot and chief-engineer, dies at 67
Aug 7 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st NYer to die of rabies in 40 years, dies at 14
Aug 8 Lou van Raised, impresario, dies at 77
Aug 8 Lou van Rees, Dutch impresario, dies at 77
Aug 15 Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
Aug 16 Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
Aug 16 Joseph Towers, US pilot, dies
Aug 17 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator, dies at 72
Aug 17 Robert C Maynard, American journalist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56
Aug 17 Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
Aug 18 Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47
Aug 19 Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer, wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
Aug 20 Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80
Aug 22 Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
Aug 23 Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
Aug 25 Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
Aug 28 William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
Aug 29 Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant, dies at 56
Sep 1 Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter and communist, dies at 80
Sep 1 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
Sep 1 Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
Sep 2 John [Eoin] Higgins, Northern Ireland supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
Sep 4 Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered
Sep 5 Mohamed Tabet, Moroccan police commissar of Casablanca, convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women, executed at 54
Sep 5 John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
Sep 6 Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79
Sep 8 Hall Bartlett, American director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
Sep 8 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
Sep 10 Stuart Rose, British designer (British Post Office), dies at 81
Sep 11 Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to pres Aristide, murdered
Sep 15 Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
Sep 16 Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian Aboriginal political activist and writer (We Are Going), dies at 72
Sep 16 Johanna Zandstra-Giezen, Dutch supercentenarian (oldest person in Netherland), dies at 111 years and 9 days
Sep 17 Christian Nyby, American director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80
Sep 20 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircraft), dies at 71
Sep 22 Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89
Sep 24 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist, dies at 80
Sep 26 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
Sep 27 Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38

Jimmy Doolittle

Sep 27 James Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96

Sep 28 Gustavo Brillembourg, Venez/US advocate, dies in an accident at 35
Sep 28 Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83
Sep 28 Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
Sep 29 Ghuslam Wyne, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Punjab, murdered at 60
Sep 29 Gordon Douglas, American director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85
Sep 30 Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61
Sep 30 Paul Nowee, Dutch writer of children's and youth books. (Arendsoog.. premiejager), dies at 57
Oct 2 Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83
Oct 3 Johan Scheps, Dutch politician (Social Democratic), dies at 93
Oct 3 Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 35
Oct 3 Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 33
Oct 4 Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80
Oct 5 Karl Gordon Henize, American astronomer and NASA astronaut (STS-51-F), dies of high altitude pulmonary edema during an expedition on Mount Everest at 66
Oct 6 Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot, committed suicide at 44
Oct 10 Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
Oct 10 Owen Saunders, English mathematician and mechanical engineer, dies at 89
Oct 14 Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50
Oct 14 Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered
Oct 16 John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
Oct 17 Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77
Oct 17 Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84
Oct 17 Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies
Oct 18 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63
Oct 18 Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31
Oct 19 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
Oct 19 Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91
Oct 20 Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese Nihonga style painter, and designer, dies on his 84th birthday
Oct 21 Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
Oct 21 Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
Oct 21 Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
Oct 21 Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
Oct 21 James Leo Herlihy, American novelist (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
Oct 22 Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
Oct 22 Fred C Shapiro, American journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
Oct 22 Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat, dies at 80
Oct 24 Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39
Oct 24 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49
Oct 25 Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered
Oct 25 Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58
Oct 25 Philip P. Cohen, American medical researcher, dies at 85
Oct 25 Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
Oct 26 Absolutely Nobody [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
Oct 26 H Hardenberg, writer, dies
Oct 28 Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
Oct 28 Doris Duke, American heiress (American Tobacco Company), philanthropist (Independent Aid; Doris Duke Foundation), and socialite,, dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 80
Oct 29 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65
Oct 30 Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered
Oct 30 Paul Grégoire, French Canadian Archbishop of Montreal, dies at 82
Oct 31 Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52
Oct 31 Edwin A Walker, US Maj-Gen, dies of lung cancer at 84
Nov 1 Anatoli Voronov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup), dies at 63
Nov 1 A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
Nov 1 Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American physician and biochemist (Nobel 1959), dies at 88
Nov 2 P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees & Hope), dies at about 86
Nov 3 Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41
Nov 3 Aidan Crawley, British journalist and politician (Labour MP 1945-51), dies at 85
Nov 4 Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78
Nov 4 Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62
Nov 4 Ely Landau, American television and film producer (Play of the Week; Long Day's Journey into Night; King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis), dies of stroke at 73
Nov 4 Jose L. Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56
Nov 5 Maurice Cranston, English philosopher and political scientist (John Locke biographies), dies at 73
Nov 8 Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
Nov 9 Gerald Thomas, English director (Carry on), dies at 72

H. R. Haldeman

Nov 11 H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House Chief of Staff during Watergate, dies at 67

Nov 13 Jose Toirkens, journalist (Slogan, NRC), dies at 48
Nov 14 Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
Nov 15 Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies
Nov 15 Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
Nov 15 Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93
Nov 16 Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
Nov 17 Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician, dies at 67
Nov 20 Christopher Frank, French writer, dies at 51
Nov 20 Emile Ardolino, American director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs
Nov 21 Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50
Nov 21 Jim McLaughlin, Buffalo radio newsman (WKBW), dies at 59

Anthony Burgess

Nov 22 Anthony Burgess, British novelist and essayist (A Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76

Nov 23 Gerarda Rueter, Dutch sculptor, dies at 89
Nov 24 Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist, dies at 89
Nov 24 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Hamas leader, dies at 24
Nov 24 Jan Schrauwen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 36
Nov 24 Wu Yi Shen, mayor of Shen Yang China, dies in helicopter
Nov 26 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
Nov 26 Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist and sculptor, dies at 69
Nov 28 Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23
Nov 28 Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
Nov 29 J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (Air-India, Tata Group), dies at 89
Nov 29 Jack Longland, British director of education (Derbyshire), dies at 88
Nov 30 Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
Nov 30 Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)

Pablo Escobar

Dec 2 Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord, shot to death by Colombian Police at 44

Dec 3 Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80
Dec 4 Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
Dec 4 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist and founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology), dies at 42
Dec 4 Margaret Landon, American author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90
Dec 5 Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (Harem), dies at 87
Dec 5 Arthur Staal, Dutch architect (Shell Tower Amsterdam), dies at 86
Dec 6 Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
Dec 6 Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered
Dec 6 Desmond Barel Hirshfield, Lord Hirshfield, British chartered accountant, dies at 80
Dec 7 Félix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88
Dec 8 Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86
Dec 9 Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran, dies
Dec 11 Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45
Dec 12 Gerard Nabrink, Dutch anarchist and co-founder (NVSH), dies at 90
Dec 12 Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61
Dec 13 Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87
Dec 16 Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46
Dec 16 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking, dies at 75
Dec 16 Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75
Dec 16 Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer (Volkskrant), dies at 68
Dec 16 Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (b. 1973)
Dec 19 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47
Dec 19 Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP asst sect of Education (1973-75), dies at 77
Dec 20 W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
Dec 21 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
Dec 22 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81
Dec 24 Alexander Mackendrick, American-born Scottish director (Lady Killers), dies at 81
Dec 24 Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies
Dec 25 Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
Dec 27 Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50
Dec 28 William L Shirer, writer (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89
Dec 30 Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent, dies of kidney failure at 86
Dec 30 Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (Contribution to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay), dies at 86
Dec 31 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80
Dec 31 Thomas J. Watson Jr., American businessman and politician (President of IBM, 1952-1971, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1979-1981), dies of a stroke at 79
Dec 31 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54
Dec 31 Brandon Teena, American trans man and hate crime victim, murdered at 21

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Historical Figures Who Died in 1993 (Part 2)

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