List of Famous people who died in 1993

General Matthew Bunker Ridgway was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952–1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953–1955). He fought with distinction during World War II, where he was the Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division, leading it in action in Sicily, Italy and Normandy, before taking command of the newly formed XVIII Airborne Corps in August 1944. He held the latter post until the end of the war, commanding the corps in the Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity and the Western Allied invasion of Germany.

Hou Baolin was a Chinese xiangsheng performer. He was one of his generation's most popular and influential xiangsheng performers and was mentor to many later xiangsheng performers. His apprentices include Ma Ji, Ding Guangquan, Shi Shengjie, and Wu Zhaonan. He was the father of Hou Yaohua and Hou Yaowen.

Mieczysław Horszowski was a Polish-American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.

Ilse Hornung, later Bietak was an Austrian figure skater who competed in ladies' singles. She finished eighth at the 1928 Winter Olympics and won the silver medal at the 1930 European Championships. She was the mother of Austrian figure skater Wilhelm Bietak.

Alfred Mosher Butts was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938.