List of Famous people who died at 93

Marie Castello

First Name Marie
Last Name Castello
Born on May 25, 1915
Died on June 27, 2008 (aged 93)

Marie Castello, who was known as Madam Marie, was an American fortune teller and psychic reader who worked on the Asbury Park, New Jersey, boardwalk from 1932 until 2008. Madam Marie was the longest running tenant on the Asbury Park boardwalk.

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Molly Kool

Myrtle Kool
First Name Molly
Last Name Kool
Born on February 23, 1916
Died on February 25, 2009 (aged 93)

Myrtle 'Molly' Kool was a Canadian sea captain. She is recognized as being one of the first North American registered female sea captains or ship master. She was the first female Master Mariner in Canada.

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Yves Bonnefoy

First Name Yves
Born on June 24, 1923
Died on July 1, 2016 (aged 93)

Yves Jean Bonnefoy was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″

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Antonio Fraguas Fraguas

First Name Antonio
Last Name Fraguas
Born on December 28, 1905
Died on November 5, 1999 (aged 93)

Antonio Fraguas Fraguas was born in Insuela, Loureiro parish (Cerdedo-Cotobade), on December 28, 1905, and died in Santiago de Compostela on November 5, 1999. He was an important Galicianist historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, and geographer. In 1923 he and some of his fellows founded the Sociedade da Lingua, whose main goals were the defense of the Galician language and the creation of a dictionary. He was a member of Irmandades da Fala and Seminario de Estudos Galegos and was high school professor after the Spanish Civil War broke out. He was part of the Father Sarmiento Institute for Galician Studies and the Royal Galician Academy, and was director and president of the Museum of the Galician People, member of the Council of Galician Culture, and a chronicler of Galicia. He spent his life studying Galician culture and its territory from different perspectives, with a special focus and mastery on anthropology.

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Geoffrey Howard

First Name Geoffrey
Last Name Howard
Born on February 14, 1909
Died on November 8, 2002 (aged 93)

Cecil Geoffrey Howard was an English cricketer and cricket administrator.

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Paula Wessely

First Name Paula
Last Name Wessely
Born on January 20, 1907
Died on May 11, 2000 (aged 93)
Born in Austria

Paula Anna Maria Wessely was an Austrian theatre and film actress. Die Wessely, as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress.

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Bernard Lavalette

Bernard Maurice de Fleury
First Name Bernard
Last Name Lavalette
Born on January 20, 1926
Died on December 14, 2019 (aged 93)

Bernard Lavalette was a French film and television actor.

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Igor Shafarevich

First Name Igor
Born on June 3, 1923
Died on February 19, 2017 (aged 93)

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was a Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. He wrote books and articles that criticised socialism, and he was an important dissident during the Soviet regime.

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W. Edwards Deming

First Name W.
Last Name Deming
Born on October 14, 1900
Died on December 20, 1993 (aged 93)

Dr. William Edwards Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Karl-Heinz Kipp

First Name Karl-Heinz
Born on February 12, 1924
Died on October 11, 2017 (aged 93)

Karl-Heinz Kipp was a German billionaire, and founder of the Massa department store chain. He sold the business but kept the property, and had a large property portfolio. In 2017, Forbes estimated his net wealth at $4.9 billion.

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