List of Famous people who died at 93

Katherine MacGregor

Dorlee Deane MacGregor
First Name Katherine
Born on January 12, 1925
Died on November 13, 2018 (aged 93)

Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor was an American actress, best known for her role as Harriet Oleson in Little House on the Prairie.

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Jean Piat

Jean Denis Gaston Piat
First Name Jean
Last Name Piat
Born on September 23, 1924
Died on September 18, 2018 (aged 93)

Jean Piat was a French actor and writer.

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William Schallert

First Name William
Last Name Schallert
Born on July 6, 1922
Died on May 8, 2016 (aged 93)

William Joseph Schallert was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career that spanned more than 60 years.

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Johnny Bower

John Kiszkan
First Name Johnny
Born on November 8, 1924
Died on December 26, 2017 (aged 93)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan
Height 175 cm | 5'9

John William Bower, nicknamed "The China Wall", was a Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender who won four Stanley Cups during his career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 2017 he was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.

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María Dolores Pradera

María Dolores Fernández Pradera
First Name María
Last Name Pradera
Born on August 29, 1924
Died on May 28, 2018 (aged 93)

María Dolores Fernández Pradera OAXS was a Spanish melodic singer and actress, and one of the most famous voices in Spain and Latin America.

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Heinrich Harrer

First Name Heinrich
Last Name Harrer
Born on July 6, 1912
Died on January 7, 2006 (aged 93)
Born in Austria, Carinthia

Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps. He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959).

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Petrona Carrizo de Gandulfo

First Name Petrona
Born on June 29, 1896
Died on February 6, 1992 (aged 95)

Petrona Carrizo de Gandulfo, better known as Doña Petrona, was an Argentine best-selling cookbook author, home economist, television chef and businesswoman who was famous for "her elaborate dishes, provincial accent, matronly figure, didactic tone, and bossy treatment of her assistant [Juana Bordoy], as well as her responsiveness to fans". Although recognized as "the most famous Argentine cook", she was quoted as saying in 1985: "I never wanted to be anything other than a [home economist]. No one, except my friends, can say that they had Doña Petrona in their kitchen at any time."

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Alfredo Stroessner

First Name Alfredo
Born on November 3, 1912
Died on August 16, 2006 (aged 93)
Born in Paraguay, Itapúa

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda was a Paraguayan Army officer who was the dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. He ascended to the position after leading an army coup in 1954. His 35-year-long rule, marked by an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, is the longest in modern South American history.

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Shiing-Shen Chern

陳省身
First Name Shiing-Shen
Born on October 26, 1911
Died on December 3, 2004 (aged 93)

Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize. In memory of Shiing-Shen Chern, the International Mathematical Union established the Chern Medal in 2010 to recognize "an individual whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics".

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Stormé DeLarverie

First Name Stormé
Last Name DeLarverie
Born on December 24, 1920
Died on May 24, 2014 (aged 93)

Stormé DeLarverie was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to Stormé and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall riots, spurring the crowd to action. She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father. She is remembered as a gay civil rights icon and entertainer, who performed and hosted at the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall. She worked for much of her life as an MC, singer, bouncer, bodyguard and volunteer street patrol worker, the "guardian of lesbians in the Village." She is known as "the Rosa Parks of the gay community."

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