List of Famous people who died at 93
Zao Wou-Ki
Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.
Jacques Puisais
Jacques Puisais was a French oenologist and taste philosopher born in Poitiers.
Mercedes Pinto
Mercedes Pinto Armas was a Spanish writer. Her 1926 novel He is the basis of the Luis Buñuel film Él.
Fuku Akino
Fuku Akino was a Japanese painter. She was born in Futamata, Iwata-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture. She became known by her paintings of Indian themes, landscapes and peoples.
José Desmarets
José Desmarets was a Belgian politician in the Christian Social Party who served as a minister in the government of Wilfried Martens (1979–1981). In 1982 Yad Vashem recognised Desmarets and his father as Righteous Among the Nations for having risked their lives to help a Jewish fugitive during the Second World War, when he was still a student.
Vicente Martínez Alama
Vicenç Martínez Alama was a Spanish footballer who played as a left back.
John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant
John Nicholas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant was a British neuroscientist, academic, and life peer who sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Alexander Bustamante
Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante was a Jamaican politician and labour leader, who, in 1962, became the first prime minister of Jamaica.
Francis Hong Yong-ho
Francis Hong Yong-ho was a Roman Catholic prelate in North Korea who was imprisoned by the communist regime of Kim Il-sung in 1949 and later disappeared. After his disappearance, he was for many years listed as the Bishop of Pyongyang.
Maurice Rheims
Maurice Rheims was a French art auctioneer, art historian and novelist, born in Versailles. He administered the estate of the painter Pablo Picasso. He is the father of the photographer Bettina Rheims.