Deaths in June 1993
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1993
1
- Walker O. Cain, 78, American architect.
- Mauro Mina, 59, Peruvian boxing champion, heart attack.
- Austin Robinson, 95, English economist.
- John Terpak, 80, American weightlifter and Olympian.
2
- Tahar Djaout, 39, Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer, murdered.
- Johnny Mize, 80, American baseball player, coach and scout.
- Juan José Rodríguez, 56, Argentine football player.
- Norton Simon, 86, American industrialist and philanthropist.
- Frans-Jozef van Thiel, 86, Dutch politician and lawyer.
3
- Werner Bochmann, 93, German composer.
- Frantz Casseus, 77, Haitian-American guitarist and composer.
- Joe Fortenberry, 82, American basketball player, cancer.
- Alhaji Bai Modi Joof, 59, Gambian lawyer.
- Carl Morris, 82, American abstract painter.
- Richard Anthony Parker, 87, American egyptologist.
- Yeoh Ghim Seng, 74, Singaporean politician, lung cancer.
4
- Molly Drake, 77, English poet and musician.
- Bernard Evslin, 71, American author, heart attack.
- Georgy Millyar, 89, Soviet and Russian actor.
- Erna Tauro, 76, Finnish-Swedish pianist and composer.
- Eric Trist, 83, English social scientist.
5
- Ida Adamoff, 82, French tennis player.
- Mike Bloom, 78, American basketball player.
- Dupree Bolton, 64, American jazz trumpeter.
- Nello Carrara, 93, Italian physicist.
- Peter Kalifornsky, 81, American writer and ethnographer.
- Gabriel Preil, 81, Estonian -American poet.
- George Strauss, 91, British politician.
- Conway Twitty, 59, American country music singer and songwriter, aneurysm.
- Wolf Graf von Baudissin, 86, German general peace researcher.
6
- James Bridges, 57, American film director and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy, The China Syndrome, White Hunter Black Heart), cancer.
- W. McNeil Lowry, 80, American businessman.
- Mort Mills, 74, American actor (Man Without a Gun, Perry Mason, Touch of Evil).
- Richard Norman, 61, British chemist.
- Ioan Reinhardt, 73, Romanian football player and manager.
- Peter Tazelaar, 73, Dutch resistance member and SOE operative during World War II.
7
- Fabrizio Clerici, 80, Italian painter.
- Don Kent, 59, American professional wrestler, leukemia.
- Dražen Petrović, 28, Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player, traffic collision.
- Louie Ramirez, 55, American boogaloo, salsa and latin jazz musician, heart attack.
- Nils Johan Rud, 84, Norwegian novelist, children's writer, and magazine editor.
- Kurt Weitzmann, 89, American art historian.
8
- John Atyeo, 61, English football player.
- René Bousquet, 84, French political appointee and police chief, murdered.
- Roy Henshaw, 81, American baseball player.
- Sergei Javorski, 90, Estonian football player.
- José Nora, 52, Spanish basketball player and Olympian.
- Severo Sarduy, 56, Cuban poet, author, and playwright, AIDS related disease.
- Root Boy Slim, 48, American musician.
- Prince Raphael Rainer of Thurn and Taxis, 87, German prince.
9
- Arthur Alexander, 53, American southern soul songwriter and singer, heart attack.
- Satyen Bose, 77, Indian film director.
- Juan Downey, 53, Chilean artist, cancer.
- Samuel Finer, 77, British political scientist and historian.
- Alexis Smith, 72, Canadian-American actress and singer, brain cancer.
- Charles E. Tuttle, 78, American publisher and book dealer.
10
- Arleen Auger, 53, American soprano, brain cancer.
- Les Dawson, 62, English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, heart attack.
- Francis Ebejer, 67, Maltese dramatist and novelist.
- Archie Macaulay, 77, Scottish football player and manager.
- Alice Reinheart, 83, American actress.
- Richard Webb, 77, American actor, suicide.
11
- M. C. Bradbrook, 84, British literary scholar.
- Bernard Bresslaw, 59, English comic actor, heart attack.
- Mikhail Chumakov, 83, Soviet and Russian microbiologist and virologist.
- Karel Effa, 71, Czechoslovak actor.
- Mstyslav, 95, Ukrainian Orthodox Church hierarch.
- Ray Sharkey, 40, American actor, AIDS-related complications.
- Milward L. Simpson, 95, American politician.
- Friedrich Thielen, 77, German politician.
12
- Gérard Côté, 79, Canadian marathon runner and Olympian.
- Remo Galli, 80, Italian football player and coach.
- Wilhelm Gliese, 77, German astronomer.
- Alexander Koroviakov, 80, Soviet and Russian painter and art teacher.
- Ekrem Koçak, 62, Turkish middle distance runner and Olympian.
- Monte Melkonian, 35, Armenian-American revolutionary, killed in action.
- Ivan Potrč, 80, Slovene writer and playwright.
- Manuel Summers Rivero, 58, Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor, colorectal cancer.
- Binay Ranjan Sen, 95, Indian diplomat and civil servant.
- Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann, 74, German folklorist, anthropologist and ethnologist.
13
- John Campbell, 41, American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, heart attack.
- Ewald Dytko, 78, Polish football player.
- Ena Gregory, 87, Australian-American actress.
- Gajo Petrović, 66, Yugoslav-Croatian Marxist philosopher.
- Deke Slayton, 69, American Air Force pilot and aeronautical engineer, brain cancer.
14
- Étienne Borne, 86, French philosopher.
- Ruggero Chiesa, 59, Italian classical guitarist, teacher and editor.
- V. T. Hamlin, 93, American comic strip cartoonist.
- Louis Jacquinot, 94, French lawyer and politician.
15
- Marjorie Clark, 83, South African track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
- Tahirou Congacou, 80, Beninese politician.
- John Connally, 76, American politician, pulmonary fibrosis.
- James Hunt, 45, British racing driver and media commentator, heart attack.
- Petey Scalzo, 75, American featherweight boxing champion.
- Béla Sárosi, 74, Hungarian football player and manager.
- Karl-Heinz Thun, 56, East German sailor and Olympic medalist.
16
- Elbrus Allahverdiyev, 34, Azerbaijani Armed Forces soldier, killed in action.
- Aldo Bini, 77, Italian road bicycle racer.
- J. Herbert Burke, 80, American politician.
- Lindsay Hassett, 79, Australian cricket player.
17
- Bud Germa, 72, Canadian politician.
- Angelo Longoni, 60, Italian football player.
- Jean Savy, 86, French citizen and a commander in the French army.
- Adolfo Winternitz, 86, Peruvian artist of Austrian origin.
18
- Eva Arndt, 73, Danish swimmer and Olympic medalist.
- Ben Auerbach, 74, American basketball player and Olympic medalist.
- Barnabás Berzsenyi, 75, Hungarian fencer.
- Brynjulf Bull, 86, Norwegian lawyer and politician.
- Jean Cau, 67, French writer and journalist.
- Alexandra Hasluck, 84, Australian author and social historian.
- Narciso Perales Herrero, 78, Spanish politician and Falangist.
- Forbes Norris, 65, American swimmer and Olympian.
- Craig Rodwell, 52, American gay rights activist, stomach cancer.
- Luther Tucker, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
19
- Jack Duggan, 82, Australian politician.
- Josef Dědič, 68, Czechoslovak figure skater and sport official.
- Helmut Fath, 64, German sidecar racer and engineer.
- William Golding, 81, British novelist (Lord of the Flies, To the Ends of the Earth, The Inheritors), heart failure.
- Abraham Kaplan, 75, American philosopher.
- James Benton Parsons, 81, United States district judge
- Franco Scaglione, 76, Italian automobile coachwork designer.
20
- Frederick Johnson, 76, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician.
- Viktor Makhorin, 44, Soviet and Russian handball player, traffic collision.
- Keith Sinclair, 70, New Zealand poet and historian.
- György Sárosi, 80, Hungarian football player.
21
- Colin Dixon, 49, Welsh rugby player, stroke.
- Al Fairweather, 66, British jazz trumpeter.
- Alan J. Gould, 95, American newspaper writer and editor.
- Frank Moro, 49, Cuban-American actor, heart attack.
- Kalika Prasad Shukla, 71, Indian sanskrit scholar and poet.
22
- Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet, 88, British Army officer and High Sheriff of Berkshire.
- Emmett Berry, 77, American jazz trumpeter.
- Rodolfo Díaz, 75, Mexican basketball player.
- Victor Maddern, 65, English actor, brain cancer.
- Pat Nixon, 81, First Lady of the United States (1969-1974) as wife of President Richard Nixon, lung cancer.
- Bubba Phillips, 65, American baseball player.
23
- Flora Bramley, 83, British actress and comedian.
- Alexi Inauri, 85, Soviet and Georgian military officer.
- Zdeněk Kopal, 79, Czechoslovak astronomer.
- Albert Mangan, 78, American racewalker and Olympian.
- Swen Swenson, 63, Broadway dancer and singer, AIDS-related complications.
24
- Hans Beirer, 82, Austrian operatic tenor.
- Rich Matteson, 64, American jazz artist musician.
- Massimo Urbani, 36, Italian jazz alto saxophonist, heroin overdose.
- Archie Williams, 78, American Air Force officer, athlete, and Olympic champion.
25
- Mona Baptiste, 65, Trinidad and Tobago singer and actress.
- Sergey Gorshkov, 90, Soviet lieutenant general.
- Hans Hopf, 76, German operatic tenor.
- Arturo Moreno, 84, Spanish comics artist and animator.
26
- Roy Campanella, 71, American baseball player, heart attack.
- Garo Kahkejian, 31, Armenian military commander, killed in action.
- William H. Riker, 72, American political scientist, cancer.
- James Thomas, 66, American blues musician and sculptor, stroke.
- Willy van Hemert, 81, Dutch actor, songwriter and theatre and television director.
- Ruth von Mayenburg, 85, Austrian journalist and writer.
27
- Layla Al-Attar, 49, Iraqi artist, painter and activist, U.S. missile attack.
- André Auville, 81, French racing cyclist.
- Wolfgang Grams, 40, German member of the terrorist organisation RAF, suicide.
- Kurt Mahr, 59, German author, traffic collision.
- James Trifunov, 89, Canadian freestyle sport wrestler and Olympic medalist.
28
- GG Allin, 36, American punk rock musician, opioid overdose.
- Gudrun Brost, 83, Swedish actress.
- Boris Christoff, 79, Bulgarian opera singer.
- Olga Costa, 79, Mexican painter and cultural promoter.
- Dovid Lifshitz, 87, American Haredi rabbi.
- Didi Perego, 56, Italian actress, cancer.
29
- Antonio Badú, 78, Mexican film actor and producer.
- Jimmy Fratianno, 79, Italian-American mobster and FBI informant.
- Héctor Lavoe, 46, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications from AIDS.
- Patrick Lindsay, 79, Irish politician and lawyer.
- Sein Win, 74, Burmese military officer and politician.
- Bentong Kali, 32, Malaysian-Tamil criminal and gangster.
30
- Leo Camera, 78, American politician.
- Wong Ka Kui, 31, Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Ian MacIntosh, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Spanky McFarland, 64, American actor (Our Gang), heart attack.