List of Famous people who died at 93
Barbara Nannette Skipwith
Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. When the British Broadcasting Corporation appointed him director of music in 1930, he established the BBC Symphony Orchestra and became its chief conductor. The orchestra set standards of excellence that were rivalled in Britain only by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), founded two years later.
Fernand Auberjonois
Fernand Auberjonois was a Swiss-American journalist who worked as the foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade. Throughout most of the Cold War, Auberjonois was one of the most admired American reporters based in London. From 1956 until his formal retirement in 1983 and after, he covered many of the world's biggest news stories. During World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. and served on secret assignments, including setting up radio transmissions for the Allies to divert the German's attention from the real invasion site on D-Day. From World War II through the Cold War, he worked for many print organizations, and also for NBC and Voice of America.
Margaret Louisa Hardy
Ralph Richard Abel Smith
Marguerite Kuczynski
Marguerite Kuczynski was a European economist and literary scholar. She was born and died in Germany. Some of her most productive and best documented years were spent in England, where she also achieved some notability as a feminist campaigner.
Joan Mary Frances Hoare
Maja Sacher
Maja Sacher was a Swiss art collector and philanthropist.