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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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
- Ross Bass, 74, American florist and politician.[1]
- June Clayworth, 87, American actress.[2]
- Shalom Cohen, 66, Israeli politician.[3]
- Phyllis Hill, 72, American dancer and actress, lung cancer.[4]
- Raymond Jack Last, 89, Australian surgeon and anatomist.[5]
- Laurence Marks, 77, American television writer (Hogan's Heroes, M*A*S*H, The New Phil Silvers Show).[6]
- George R. Mather, 81, United States Army general.
- Jean Mayer, 72, French-American scientist.[7]
- Cathie Marsh, 41, British sociologist and statistician, breast cancer.[8]
- Totò Mignone, 86, Italian dancer and actor.
2
- Alfred T. Airth, 86, American politician.
- Sean Devereux, 28, British Salesian missionary and aid worker, murdered.[9]
- Vladimir Makogonov, 88, Soviet-Azerbaijan chess player.
- Rudi Supek, 79, Croatian sociologist and philosopher.[10]
- Valerie Wellington, 33, American opera and blues singer, intracranial aneurysm.
- Gerald T. Whelan, 67, American politician.
3
- Leah Feldman, 93, Odessa-born anarchist garment worker.
- Johnny Most, 69, American sportscaster, heart attack.
- Simone Vaudry, 86, French film actress.[11]
- Will Walls, 80, American football player and coach.[12]
4
- Danie Craven, 82, South African rugby player and coach.[13]
- J. J. Griffin Jr., 79, American politician.[14]
- Leonard Kibrick, 68, American child actor, cancer.
- Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, 79, American geographer.[15]
- Navalpakkam Parthasarthy, 92, Indian geneticist and United Nations official.
- Harold Page Smith, 88, American naval admiral.
- Ernest Leo Unterkoefler, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Charleston (1964–1990).
5
- Juan Benet, 65, Spanish novelist, brain cancer.[16]
- Yuri Bezmenov, 53, Soviet-Canadian defected KGB agent and journalist, heart attack.
- Helmut Bischoff, 84, German Nazi official and SS officer.
- George Roseborough Collins, 75, American art historian, Alzheimer's disease.
- Westley Allan Dodd, 31, American convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.
- Nicholas Mayall, 86, American astronomer, diabetes.[17]
- Eliseo Morales, 94, Spanish Olympic rower (1924).[18]
- Sisworo Gautama Putra, 54, Indonesian film director.
- Maynard Street, 94, American football and basketball coach.
6
- Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, 70, Austrian royal.
- Ștefan Baciu, 74, Romanian-Brazilian poet, novelist, publicist and academic.
- Tad Danielewski, 71, Polish-American film director, cancer.[19]
- Dizzy Gillespie, 75, American jazz trumpeter, pancreatic cancer.[20]
- Richard Mortensen, 82, Danish painter.[21]
- Rudolf Nureyev, 54, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, AIDS.[22]
7
- John Cowley, 87, English army officer.
- Toshihiko Izutsu, 78, Japanese religious scholar.
- Susi Jeans, 81, Austrian-born organist, teacher and musicologist.[23]
- Fred Kohler, Jr., 81, American actor.[24]
8
- Hans Bertram, 86, German aviator, screenwriter and film director.[25]
- Theo Bruins, 63, Dutch pianist.[26]
- Asif Nawaz, 56, Pakistani general, heart attack.[27]
- George Rudé, 82, British marxist historian.[28]
- Leonard A. Scheele, 85, American physician, surgeon general (1948–1956).[29]
- Herbert Trantow, 89, German film score composer.[30]
- Hakija Turajlić, 56-57, Bosnian politician and deputy prime minister (since 1992), killed in action.[31]
9
- Bruce Campbell, 80, English ornithologist.
- Anton Crihan, 99, Moldovan politician, author, economist, and journalist, cancer.[32]
- Paul Hasluck, 87, Australian politician, governor-general (1969–1974), MP (1949–1969), prostate cancer.[33]
- Keith Mwila, 43, Zambian boxer and Olympic medalist.[34]
- Viveca Serlachius, 69, Finnish-Swedish actress.
- Judit Tóth, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist.[35]
- Janet Vaughan, 93, English physiologist.[36]
10
- Diana Adams, 66, American ballet dancer.[37]
- Adam Aston, 90, Polish-English singer.
- Maurice Brooks, 92, American naturalist.[38]
- Thomas B. Curtis, 81, American politician.[39]
- Luther Gulick, 100, American social scientist.[40]
- Georges Mounin, 82, French linguist.[41]
- Raja Perempuan Zainab II, 75, Malaysian royal.
11
- Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano, 89, Italian lawyer and politician.
- Lacey Fosburgh, 50, American writer (Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder), breast cancer.[42]
- Frank Quinn, 65, American baseball player.[43]
- Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talib-ul-Mola, 73, Pakistani politician, scholar and poet.
- Tommy Walker, 77, Scottish football player.[44]
12
- Earl Browne, 81, American baseball player and manager.[45]
- Józef Czapski, 96, Polish artist, author, and critic.[46]
- Fred Koenig, 61, American baseball, coach and director.[47]
- Pierre Nihant, 67, Belgian cyclist.[48]
- Joe Orrell, 75, American baseball player.[49]
- Yehezkel Streichman, 87, Israeli painter.[50]
- Margit Tøsdal, 74, Norwegian politician.
- Tito Warnholtz, 86, German Olympic field hockey player (1936).[51]
13
- Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, 30, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.[52]
- Camargo Guarnieri, 85, Brazilian composer.[53]
- Helene J. Kantor, 73, American archaeologist and art historian.[54]
- Ndrek Luca, 65, Albanian stage, film and theater actor.
- René Pleven, 91, French politician and prime minister (1950–1951, 1951–1952), heart failure.[55]
- Alexander Soper, 88, American art historian.
- Charles Tillon, 95, French politician.[56]
14
- Victor Abens, 80, Luxembourgian politician.
- Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield, 93, British politician.[57]
- Sathasivam Krishnakumar, 33, Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and Tamil Tigers leader, suicide.[58]
- Manfred Lachs, 78, Polish diplomat and jurist.[59]
- Pepita Ferrer Lucas, 54, Catalan chess player.
- Robert A. Mattey, 82, American special effects artist (Jaws, Mary Poppins, The Absent-Minded Professor).
- José Comas Quesada, 64, Spanish watercolor painter.
15
- Billy Brown, 82, English football player.[60]
- Sammy Cahn, 79, American lyricist ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head?", "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", "It's Been a Long, Long Time"), heart failure.[61]
- Arthur Wallis Exell, 91, English botanist.[62]
- J. Allen Frear, Jr., 89, American businessman and politician.[63]
- Lucien Grosso, 60, French Olympic bobsledder (1956).[64]
- William G. Hardwick, 82, American politician.
- Henry Iba, 88, American basketball coach.[65]
- Annemarie von Gabain, 91, German scholar.[66]
16
- Phil Chambers, 76, American actor.[67]
- Freddie 'Red' Cochrane, 77, American boxer.
- Glenn Corbett, 59, American actor (The Doctors, Midway, Dallas), lung cancer.[68]
- Florence Desmond, 87, English actress.[69]
- Rafik Khachatryan, 55, Armenian sculptor.
- Stan Sheriff, 60, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.[70]
- Jón Páll Sigmarsson, 32, Icelandic bodybuilder and strongman, aortic rupture.
- Đoko Slijepčević, 85, Serbian historian.
- Svetozar Vujović, 52, Bosnian and Yugoslav football player and manager.[71]
- Atsushi Yamatoya, 55, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor, esophageal cancer.[72]
17
- Barbara Buczek, 53, Polish composer.
- Julio Coll, 73, Spanish screenwriter and film director.[73]
- Albert Hourani, 77, English historian.[74]
- Nick Polly, 75, American baseball player.[75]
- Vilmos Zombori, 87, Romanian footballer.
18
- Karl Bosl, 84, German historian.[76]
- Alfredo Bovet, 83, Swiss-Italian cyclist.[77]
- Eleanor Alice Burford, 86, English novelist.
- Arthur Donaldson, 91, Scottish journalist and politician.
- Gordon Higginson, 74, British spiritualist medium.
- C. A. Trypanis, 83, Greek classicist, literary critic, and poet.[78]
- Richard Waring, 82, English-American actor.[79]
- Wasif Ali Wasif, 64, Pakistani writer, poet and sufi.
- Dionysios Zakythinos, 87-88, Greek historian.
19
- Holden Furber, 89, American academic.[80]
- Reginald Hewetson, 84, British Army officer, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
- William LeMassena, 76, American actor (All That Jazz, As the World Turns, See You in the Morning), lung cancer.[81]
- Reginald Lewis, 50, American businessman and philanthropist, brain cancer.[82]
- Margaret Marquis, 73, Canadian-American film actress.
- Nagindas Parekh, 89, Indian writer and literary critic.
- Chris Street, 20, American college basketball player, automobile crash.
- Antonello Trombadori, 75, Italian politician, art critic and journalist.
20
- Joe Albertson, 86, American businessman.[83]
- Joseph Anthony, 80, American playwright and actor.[84]
- Françoise Dior, 60, French socialite and neo-Nazifinancier, lung cancer.
- Bindeshwari Dubey, 72, Indian freedom fighter, trade unionist and politician.
- Audrey Hepburn, 63, British actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady), Oscar winner (1954), appendix cancer.[85]
- Christos Kapralos, 83, Greek artist.
21
- Felice Borel, 78, Italian football player.[86]
- Charlie Gehringer, 89, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[87]
- Lotte Laserstein, 94, German-Swedish painter.
- Leo Löwenthal, 92, German sociologist.[88]
- Dimitris Nikolaidis, 71, Greek actor.
22
- Kōbō Abe, 68, Japanese writer (The Woman in the Dunes), heart attack.[89]
- Alexander Bodon, 86, Dutch architect.[90]
- Patricia Brooks, 55, Lyric soprano, actress, and opera singer, multiple sclerosis.[91]
- Jim Pollard, 70, American basketball player and coach.[92]
- Erik W. Tawaststjerna, 76, Finnish musicologist, pianist and music teacher.[93]
- Brett Weston, 81, American photographer, stroke.[94]
23
- Thomas A. Dorsey, 93, American gospel musician, Alzheimer's disease.[95]
- Kong Fei, 82, Chinese politician.
- Charles Greenlee, 65, American jazz trombonist.[96]
- Robert Sutton Harrington, 50, American astronomer, esophageal cancer.[97]
- Keith Laumer, 67, American science fiction author.[98]
- Gábor Péter, 86, Hungarian communist politician.[99]
- Wayne Raney, 71, American country singer and harmonica player, cancer.[100]
- Li Ziming, 90, Chinese martial artist.
24
- Archduchess Assunta of Austria, 90, Austrian-American royal.
- Don Bassman, 64, American sound engineer (Patton, Die Hard, The Abyss), Oscar winner (1971).
- Héctor De Bourgoing, 58, French football player.
- Gustav Ernesaks, 84, Estonian composer.[101]
- Detlef Gerstenberg, 35, East Germany hammer thrower and Olympian, liver cirrhosis.[102]
- John A. Lafore, Jr., 87, American politician.[103]
- Thurgood Marshall, 84, American judge, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1967–1991), heart failure.[104]
- Éliane Montel, 94, French physicist and chemist.
- Uğur Mumcu, 50, Turkish investigative journalist, murdered.[105]
- Eino Pentti, 86, American Olympic runner (1932, 1936).[106]
- Leland Shaffer, 80, American football player (New York Giants).[107]
- Henry Abel Smith, 92, British Army officer.
- Sergey Zakharov, 92, Soviet-Russian painter.
25
- Frank Freidel, 77, American historian and biographer.[108]
- Nils Kristen Jacobsen, 84, Norwegian politician.
- Leah Neuberger, 77, American table tennis player.
- Hedi Amara Nouira, 81, Tunisian politician, prime minister (1970–1980).[109]
26
- Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, 73, German soldier, resistance member, and diplomat.
- Lucia M. Cormier, 83, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1947–1950, 1953–1960).
- Kenneth Gaburo, 66, American composer.[110]
- Jan Gies, 87, Dutch resistance member, hid Anne Frank, kidney failure.
- Robert Jacobsen, 80, Danish artist.[111]
- Jeanne Sauvé, 70, Canadian politician, governor general (1984–1990), MP (1972–1984), Hodgkin's lymphoma.[112]
27
- Srđan Aleksić, 26, Bosnian Serb amateur actor and soldier, beaten to death.
- Nils Aall Barricelli, 81, Norwegian-Italian mathematician.
- Harold Beverage, 99, American inventor and researcher.[113]
- J. T. King, 80, American football player and coach.
- Leon Mandrake, 81, Canadian magician.
- Edward P. Morgan, 82, American journalist and writer.[114]
- Erik Mørk, 67, Danish film actor, traffic collision.[115]
- Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri, 51-52, Pakistani Grand Mufti, heart attack.
28
- Donald Douglas, 81, Scottish surgeon.[116]
- André the Giant, 46, French professional wrestler (WWF) and actor (The Princess Bride), congestive heart failure.[117]
- Erik Herseth, 100, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1920).[118]
- Helen Sawyer Hogg, 87, American-Canadian astronomer.[119]
- Aben Kandel, 95, American screenwriter (I Was a Teenage Werewolf).[120]
- Vern Kennedy, 85, American baseball player.[121]
- Anatoly Parfyonov, 67, Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.[122]
- Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole, 81, British politician, soldier and businessman.
- John Steadman, 83, American actor (The Hills Have Eyes, The Longest Yard, Gator).
- Kay Swift, 95, American composer.[123]
- Tim Ward, 75, English football player and manager.
- Hannah Wilke, 52, American artist, lymphoma.[124]
29
- Adetokunbo Ademola, 86, Nigerian jurist.[125]
- Ángel Garma, 88, Spanish-Argentine psychoanalyst.[126]
- Gustav Hasford, 45, American novelist (The Short-Timers) and screenwriter (Full Metal Jacket), heart failure.[127]
- Harris Hull, 83, American brigadier general.[128]
- Ron Kostelnik, 53, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[129]
- Lars Larsson, 81, Swedish steeplechase runner and Olympian.[130]
- Eva Remaeus, 42, Swedish actress, brain tumor.
- Nancy Teed, 43, Canadian politician, traffic collision.
30
- Julia Davis Adams, 92, American author and journalist.[131]
- Ryōichi Hattori, 85, Japanese pop and jazz composer.[132]
- James LuValle, 80, American athlete and scientist.
- Dorothy Miles, 61, Welsh poet.
- Taikichiro Mori, 88, Japanese businessman and economist.[133]
- Svetoslav Roerich, 88, Russian painter.
- John Oulton Wisdom, 84, Irish philosopher.[134]
- Alexandra of Yugoslavia, 71, Greek-Yugoslavian royal and queen consort (1944–1945), cancer.
31
- Paul R. Anderson, 85, American academic.[135]
- Ernő Lendvaï, 67, Hungarian music theorist.[136]
- John Poulson, 82, British designer and businessman.
- Frithjof Ulleberg, 81, Norwegian football player.[137]
- Douglas Williams, 75, American sound engineer (Patton, Silver Streak, The Rose), Oscar winner (1971).
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