1993 deaths

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

British actress (1929–1993)

British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)

American musician (1940–1993)

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed the "King of Cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest conventional criminals in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by his death, while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the US in the 1980s and early 1990s.

American actress (1893–1993)

8th President of the Republic of Turkey (1927–1993)

English writer and composer (1917–1993)

1st President of Georgia (1991–92)

Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor

Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer (1938–1993)

American actress (1900–1993)

fifth king of the Belgians (1930–1993)

German-American physicist (1911-1993)

American jazz trumpeter (1917–1993)

German physicist (1913–1993)

American actor (1911–1993)

American tennis player (1943–1993)

American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)

First President of Ivory Coast, from 1960 to 1993 (1905-1993)

First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974

Spanish physician

River Jude Phoenix was an American actor and musician. The older brother of actor Joaquin Phoenix, he was known as a teen actor before taking on leading roles in critically acclaimed films, becoming one of the preeminent acting talents of his generation. Phoenix's numerous accolades include the Volpi Cup and the Independent Spirit Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award.

Soviet film director (1923-1993)

Croatian basketball player (1964-1993)

American actor (1965–1993)

Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core (1888-1993)

British racing driver (1947–1993)

English association football player (1941–1993)

African-American contralto (1897–1993)

Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1922–1993)

American actor (1908–1993)

Japanese politician (1918–1993)

Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is well known throughout Latin America and Spain.

Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)

American actress (1905–1993)

French professional wrestler and actor (1946–1993)

Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)

Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.

South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (1917–1993)

Indian industrialist, philanthropist and aviator (1904–1993)

Infante of Spain (1913-1993)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)

Brazilian association football player (1962–1993)

British naval historian (1909–1993)

Canadian actor (1917–1993)

American astronaut (1924–1993)

American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)

President of Burundi (1953–1993)

French-born Monégasque poet and singer

American writer and minister (1898-1993)

Argentine writer (1903–1993)

American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)

90th Prime Minister of France (1925-1993)

queen consort of Yugoslavia from 1944 to 1945

American religious sect leader of Branch Davidians (1959-1993)

Burkina Faso President (1921-1993)

German philosopher (1903–1993)

Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)