Deaths Date 1993 December | History by KabAstro

Pablo Escobar (1949-1993)

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

Dec 3 Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80
Dec 3 Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40
Dec 4 Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68

Frank Zappa (1940-1993)

Dec 4 American rock guitarist, composer, (Mothers of Invention - "Peaches en Regalia"; "Baby Snakes"), activist, and filmmaker (200 Motels), dies from prostate cancer at 52

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 5 Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms), commits suicide using a pistol at 32
Dec 6 Desmond Barel Hirshfield, Lord Hirshfield, British chartered accountant, dies at 80
Dec 6 Dominic "Don" Ameche, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places), dies of prostate cancer at 85
Dec 6 Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
Dec 6 Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of a heart attack at 65
Dec 6 Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered

Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905-1993)

Dec 7 1st President of Ivory Coast (Democratic Party: 1960-93) known as the "Sage of Africa", dies of prostate cancer at 88

Dec 8 Andre Cerf, French actor and filmmaker (Nana), dies at 93
Dec 8 Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86
Dec 9 Danny Blanchflower, Irish soccer midfielder (56 caps Northern Ireland; Tottenham Hotspur 337 games, Aston Villa) and manager (Northern Ireland, Chelsea), dies of pneumonia at 67
Dec 9 Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran, dies
Dec 10 Alice Tully, American singer and patroness (Carnegie Hall), dies at 91
Dec 10 Maroun Bagdadi, Lebanese film director (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies in an accident at 43
Dec 11 Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45
Dec 11 Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian-French actress (Le roi), dies at 99
Dec 12 Gerard Nabrink, Dutch anti-militarist (Never Again War Federation), campaigner for sexual reform (NVSH - Nederlandse Vereniging Seksuele Hervorming), writer, and bookseller, dies at 90
Dec 12 Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58
Dec 12 Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61
Dec 12 Mary Jarred, British mezzo-soprano and contralto singer (The Rake's Progress), dies at 94
Dec 13 Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87
Dec 14 Josephine Riley Matthews "Mama Jo", African-American midwife (delivered over 1300 babies), dies at 96

Myrna Loy (1905-1993)

Dec 14 American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88

Dec 15 Lawrence "Tricky" Lofton, American jazz trombonist, dies at 63
Dec 16 Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46
Dec 16 Charizma [Charles Hicks], American rapper, killed in a mugging at 20
Dec 16 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking, dies at 75
Dec 16 Moses Gunn, American actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft) who co-founded the Negro Ensemble Company (The Blacks, The Poison Tree), dies of asthma at 64
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 17 Janet Margolin, American actress (Annie Hall, Take the Money and Run; David and Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50
Dec 18 Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor (Private Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74
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 19 Michael Clarke, American rock drummer (The Byrds, 1964-67 - "Turn! Turn! Turn!"; Flying Burrito Brothers, 1969-71; Firefall, 1974-80), dies of liver failure at 47
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 22 Don DeFore, American actor (George-Hazel, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
Dec 23 Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92
Dec 24 Alexander Mackendrick, American-born Scottish director (Lady Killers), dies at 81
Dec 24 Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman, broadcaster (The Art Of Living), and author (The Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95
Dec 24 Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies
Dec 25 Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
Dec 26 Jeff Morrow [Leslie Irving Morrow], American actor (Robe, Union Pacific, Temperatures Rising), dies at 86
Dec 27 Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar and poet, murdered at 50
Dec 28 Alfonso Balcazar, Spanish film director, dies at 67
Dec 28 Howard Caine [Cohen], American actor (Hogan's Heroes), dies at 67
Dec 28 Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61
Dec 28 William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89
Dec 29 Frunzik [Mher Mkrtchyan], Armenian actor (Mimino, Kidnapping, Caucasian Style), dies of cancer at 63
Dec 29 Yvonne Desportes, French composer (Seven Abstract Poems), dies at 86 [1]
Dec 30 Arthur "Schneeze" Rollini, American big band jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 81
Dec 30 Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (Contribution to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay), dies at 86
Dec 30 Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent, dies of kidney failure at 86
Dec 30 Mack David, American songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
Dec 31 Arthur Dreifuss, director and producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85
Dec 31 Brandon Teena, American trans man and hate crime victim, murdered at 21
Dec 31 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80