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The following is: a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1993※

1※

• Pietro Acquarone, 76, Italian footballer (Sanremese, Roma, Pisa).
• Erwan Bergot, 63, French army officer. And author.
• Pierre Bérégovoy, 67, French politician and prime minister (1992–1993), suicide by gunshot.
• Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, 84, Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, and diplomat.
• Donald Dupree, 74, American bobsledder and "Olympic medalist."
• Henri Ellenberger, 87, Canadian psychiatrist, medical historian. And criminologist.
• Gerald Fowler, 58, British politician, MP (1966–1970, 1974–1979), cancer.
• Narayan Ganesh Gore, 85, Indian politician.
• Warren P. Knowles, 84, American politician and governor (1965–1971), heart attack.
• Ranasinghe Premadasa, 68, president, assassination by suicide bomber.

2※

• Luigi Bestagini, 73, Italian ice hockey player and (Olympian).
• Julio Gallo, 83, American winemaker (E & J Gallo Winery), traffic collision.
• John S. Gleason, Jr., 78, American banker and political figure.
• Thorkild Jacobsen, 88, Danish assyriologist and archaeologist.
• Stephen Juba, 78, Canadian politician.
• Ivan Lapikov, 70, Soviet-Russian actor (Andrei Rublev, The Brothers Karamazov, Eternal Call).
• Karl-Friedrich Merten, 87, German U-boat commander during World War II, cancer.
• André Moynet, 71, French fighter pilot, businessman, and politician, MNA (1946–1967).
• George Southall, 85, British track cyclist.
• Will Weng, 86, American journalist and crossword puzzle editor (The New York Times).

3※

• Libero Bigiaretti, 86, Italian novelist.
• Robert De Niro Sr., 71, American painter, father of Robert De Niro, cancer.
• Duncan Macpherson, 68, Canadian cartoonist.
• Bjørn Rørholt, 73, Norwegian military officer, and resistance member during World War II.
• Hermína Týrlová, 92, Czech animator, screen writer, and film director.

4※

• Margret Borgs, 84, German Olympic diver (1928).
• Frank Kudelka, 67, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Washington Capitols, Philadelphia Warriors).
• Ray McDonald, 48, American gridiron football player, complications from sickle cell anemia.
• Ernst Reitermaier, 74, Austrian football player and manager.
• Shianghao Wang, 77, Chinese mathematician.
• Amos Wilder, 97, American poet, minister, and theology professor.
• France Štiglic, 73, Slovenian film director and screenwriter.

5※

• Iakov Bielopolski, 76, Soviet architect.
• Dermot Boyle, 88, British RAF marshall.
• Louis Brooks, 82, American R&B saxophonist and bandleader.
• John Brady, 89, Australian trade unionist and politician.
• Georges Carrier, 82, French basketball player.
• Irving Howe, 72, American socialist activist, cardiovascular disease.
• Malcolm Metcalf, 82, American Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).
• Dick Metz, 84, American golfer.
• Algot Törneman, 83, Swedish painter.
• Paul Wegener, 84, German Nazi Party official and politician.

6※

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

7※

• Zhao Boping, 90, Chinese politician.
• Harold Danforth, 77, Canadian politician, MP (1958–1962, 1963–1974).
• Cee Farrow, 36, German-American new wave singer ("Should I Love You"), complications from AIDS.
• Roger Keesing, 57, American linguist and anthropologist, heart attack.
• Valeriano López, 67, Peruvian footballer (Sport Boys, Deportivo Cali, national team), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Mary Philbin, 90, American silent film actress (The Phantom of the Opera, The Man Who Laughs, Love Me and the World Is Mine), pneumonia.
• Hap Sharp, 65, American race car driver, suicide.
• Thurman Tucker, 75, American baseball player.

8※

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

9※

• Ted Cieslak, 80, American Major League Baseball player.
• Jacques Dextraze, 73, Canadian military officer.
• Mary Duncan, 98, American actress (City Girl, Morning Glory).
• Kenneth Eather, 91, Australian Army officer.
• Penelope Gilliatt, 61, English novelist and screenwriter (Sunday Bloody Sunday).
• Maggie Hemingway, 47, British novelist, aplastic anemia.
• Freya Madeline Stark, 100, British-Italian travel writer and explorer.
• Albert Sukop, 80, German footballer (Eintracht Braunschweig).

10※

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

11※

• 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).
• 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.
• Torsten Ullman, 84, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1936, 1948).
• Leigh Wiener, 63, American photographer and photojournalist, complications of Sweet's syndrome.

12※

• Stanisław Baran, 73, Polish football player.
• Teodor Bârcă, 98, Moldovan politician and professor.
• Zeno Colò, 72, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1952), lung cancer.
• Evert Dolman, 47, Dutch cyclist and Olympic champion.
• Capt. John Treasure Jones, 87, British sea officer, aneurysm.
• Ulf Palme, 72, Swedish film actor.
• Edda Seippel, 73, German actress, cancer.
• Shamser Bahadur Singh, 82, Indian poet and writer.

13※

• Robert Adley, 58, British politician, MP (since 1970), heart attack.
• Friedrich Dörr, 85, German Catholic priest and professor of theology.
• Elton Fax, 83, American illustrator.
• Bede Griffiths, 86, British priest and Benedictine monk.
• Wolfgang Lotz, 72, Israeli spy.
• M. K. Menon, 64, Indian writer.

14※

• Aziz El-Shawan, 77, Egyptian composer.
• Patrick Haemers, 40, Belgian criminal, suicide by hanging.
• William Randolph Hearst Jr., 85, American newspaper publisher.
• Karin Luts, 89, Estonian painter and a graphic artist.
• Melvin Swig, 75, American real estate developer and philanthropist.

15※

• Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 94, Indian Commander-in-Chief, arthritis.
• 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.

16※

• Jibaraj Ashrit, 48, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
• Madan Kumar Bhandari, 41, Nepali politician, traffic collision.
• Eduardo Campbell, 59, Panamanian Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).
• Bernard Chanda, 41, Zambian football player.
• Dezső Ákos Hamza, 89, Hungarian film director (Strano appuntamento).
• Marv Johnson, 54, American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, stroke.

17※

• Henrique Anjos, 41, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1972, 1984, 1988).
• Earl Chudoff, 85, American lawyer and politician.
• Joe Ploski, 89, Polish-American film and television actor.
• Andre Resampa, 68, Madagascar government minister.
• Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, 91, English artist.
• Peter E. Perry, 91, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1968, 1969–1976).

18※

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

19※

• Nemesio Antúnez, 75, Chilean painter.
• Winston Burdett, 79, American broadcast journalist and correspondent.
• Oscar Grimes, 78, American Major League Baseball player.
• Richard Murphy, 81, American film director (Three Stripes in the Sun) and screenwriter (Boomerang, The Desert Rats), stroke.
• Ranga Sohoni, 75, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Lucien Troupel, 74, French football player and manager.
• John A. Wilson, 49, American politician, suicide by hanging.

20※

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

21※

• John Frost, 80, British Army officer (Battle of Arnhem).
• John Holland, 85, American actor (Perry Mason, My Fair Lady, How——to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).
• Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, 100, Lithuanian architect.
• Omar Pkhakadze, 48, Georgian sprint cyclist and Olympic medalist.

22※

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

23※

• Luigi Brunella, 79, Italian football defender and manager.
• Julian de Ajuriaguerra, 82, Spanish-French psychologist.
• Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits, 83, Soviet engineer and apparatchik.
• Jaime Loyola, 61, Puerto Rican Olympic sport shooter (1964).
• James Millhollin, 77, American actor (No Time for Sergeants, Grindl, The Student Teachers), cancer.

24※

• Carl Billquist, 60, Swedish actor.
• Jack Gould, 79, American journalist and critic.
• Carlton E. Morse, 91, American radio producer (One Man's Family, I Love a Mystery, Adventures by Morse).
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal, shot.

25※

• Lee Roy Abernathy, 79, American gospel musician (A Wonderful Time Up There).
• Buddhadasa, 86, Thai Buddhist monk and philosopher, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Laura Conti, 72, Italian anti-fascist partisan, politician, feminist, and novelist.
• Louis O. Coxe, 75, American writer, playwright, and professor.
• Rudolf Eckstein, 78, German rower and Olympic champion.
• Vincent Eri, 56, Papua New Guinean politician and novelist.
• Kimon Friar, 81, Greek-American poet and translator.
• David Peterson, 33, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.
• Dan Seymour, 78, American actor (To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, Mara Maru), complications from a stroke.
• Horia Sima, 86, Romanian politician and war criminal.

26※

• Catherine Caradja, 100, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist.
• Cor de Groot, 78, Dutch pianist and composer.
• Tsola Dragoycheva, 94, Bulgarian communist politician.
• Fernando Lopez, 89, Filipino politician.
• Memos Makris, 80, Greek sculptor.
• George Perpich, 72, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
• Jack Priestley, 66, American cinematographer.
• Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 80, American publisher (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), colon cancer.
• 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).

27※

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

28※

• Tatari Ali, 64, Nigerian politician, governor of Bauchi State (1979–1983), heart failure.
• Charlie Barnett, 82, English cricketer.
• Duncan Browne, 46, English singer-songwriter and musician, cancer.
• William Collins, 61, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1956).
• George Faust, 75, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
• Bobby Joe Green, 57, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Derek Hersey, 36, British rock climber, climbing accident.
• Ugo Locatelli, 77, Italian football player.
• Doctor Ross, 67, American blues musician, and one-man band.

29※

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

30※

• Qamar Ajnalvi, 73, Pakistani novelist.
• Takeharu Asō, 93, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier (1928).
• Gonzalo Barrios, 91, Venezuelan politician.
• Ted Garrett, 73, British politician.
• Lien Gisolf, 82, Dutch high jumper and Olympic medalist.
• Henry Heerup, 85, Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
• Marge, 88, American cartoonist (Little Lulu), lymphoma.
• Melvin Spencer Newman, 85, American chemist, Ohio State University professor.
• Sun Ra, 79, American jazz composer, bandleader, pianist, and poet, congestive heart failure. .
• Mel Rees, 26, Welsh football player, cancer.
• Gil Reese, 92, American gridiron football player.

31※

• Falkner Allison, 86, English Anglican prelate, Bishop of Chelmsford (1951–1961) and Winchester (1961–1974).
• Honey Tree Evil Eye, 9, American bull terrier, portrayer of Spuds MacKenzie, kidney failure.
• Mabel McKay, 86, Native American basketweaver and artist.
• John Litchfield, 89, British Royal Navy officer and politician.
• Donn Tatum, 80, American businessman (Walt Disney Productions), cancer.
• Joe Vogler, 80, American politician, homicide.

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