List of Famous people who died at 93

Harry W. Gerstad

First Name Harry
Last Name Gerstad
Born on June 11, 1909
Died on July 17, 2002 (aged 93)

Harry W. Gerstad was an American film editor who sometimes directed films. The Academy Award-winning editor also worked on television. He edited as well as directed for the 1950s program Adventures of Superman. In the 1960s he worked for Bing Crosby Productions and Batjac Productions. Gerstad retired to Palm Springs, California in 1973 and lived there until his death in 2002.

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Ilona Novák

First Name Ilona
Born on May 16, 1925
Died on March 14, 2019 (aged 93)
Born in Hungary

Ilona Novák was a Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where she finished 4th in 100 m backstroke and 5th in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. At the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki she received a gold medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay as captain of the Hungarian team. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1973, together with her sister, Éva Novák-Gerard.

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Alexander Feklisov

First Name Alexander
Last Name Feklisov
Born on March 9, 1914
Died on October 26, 2007 (aged 93)
Born in Russia
Spy

Aleksandr Semyonovich Feklisov was a Soviet spy, the NKVD Case Officer who handled Julius Rosenberg and Klaus Fuchs, among others.

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Gunter Ullrich

First Name Gunter
Last Name Ullrich
Born on April 7, 1925
Died on November 10, 2018 (aged 93)
Born in Germany, Bavaria
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Rodrigo Silva Ramos

First Name Rodrigo
Last Name Ramos
Born on November 14, 1944
Died on January 8, 2018 (aged 73)
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Pran

Born on February 12, 1920
Died on July 12, 2013 (aged 93)
Born in India, Delhi

Pran Krishan Sikand, better known by his mononym, Pran, was an Indian actor, known as the greatest villain ever in the history of Indian cinema and character actor in Hindi cinema from the 1940s to the 1990s. He played hero roles from 1940–47, a villain from 1942–1991, and played supporting and character roles from 1948–2007. He is the original badman of Indian cinema. Such was the intensity of his negative performances on the screen that people stopped naming their children "Pran", when Pran was at the peak of his villainy. He has been one among the most highly successful actors in the history of Indian cinema.

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Ettore Paratore

First Name Ettore
Last Name Paratore
Born on August 23, 1907
Died on October 15, 2000 (aged 93)
Born in Italy, Abruzzo

Ettore Paratore was an Italian Latinist and academic.

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Sergius Ruegenberg

First Name Sergius
Born on January 17, 1903
Died on March 23, 1996 (aged 93)
Born in Russia
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Nicolaas Jouwe

First Name Nicolaas
Born on November 24, 1923
Died on September 16, 2017 (aged 93)
Born in Indonesia

Nicolaas Jouwe was a Papuan leader who was elected vice president of the New Guinea Council that governed the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea. As the president of the New Guinea Council was the Dutch civil servant Frits Sollewijn Gelpke, Jouwe was the highest ranking Papuan politician in the colony. After the colony was ceded to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority in October 1962 and subsequently to Indonesia six months later, he left New Guinea for the Netherlands, where he settled in the town of Delft. He vowed never to return to his native land if it were still occupied by Indonesia, but returned in 2010 to die there.

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Thomas Huckle Weller

First Name Thomas
Last Name Weller
Born on June 15, 1915
Died on August 23, 2008 (aged 93)

Thomas Huckle Weller was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue.

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