List of Famous people who died in 1993

Francisco Salgado Zenha, GCL was a Portuguese left-wing politician and lawyer.

Horia Sima was a Romanian fascist politician, best known as the second and last leader of the fascist paramilitary movement known as the Iron Guard. Sima was also the vice president of the council of ministers and de-facto co-leader in Ion Antonescu's National Legionary State, and a short-lived minister in the government of Ion Gigurtu. In January 1941, Sima initiated and led the Legionnaires' Rebellion against Conducător Ion Antonescu and the Romanian Army, for which he was sentenced to death, as well as the Bucharest pogrom, the largest and most violent pogrom against Jews in the history of Muntenia. Following the rebellion, Sima escaped to Germany, and later to Spain, where he lived until his death.

General Sir Alexander Frank Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, was a British Army officer who served with distinction during the world wars. After service as a junior officer on the Western Front in the First World War, he later distinguished himself during the Second World War, where he commanded XV Indian Corps, part of Sir William Slim's Fourteenth Army, during the Burma campaign. He then went on to have a successful postwar career, and eventually, in late 1993, lived to the age of 100.

Chen Chi-chuan, also known as Tan Khe-chhoan was a member of the "Chen family from Kaohsiung". He was a Taiwanese politician and businessman who served as the mayor of Kaohsiung between 1960 and 1968, and the co-founder and chair of Kaohsiung Medical College. Chen is a son of Chen Chung-he (陳中和), a sugar industrialist in the Japanese-ruled Taiwan.

Yevgeny Iosifovich Gabrilovich was a Soviet screenwriter. He wrote for 29 films between 1936 and 1988.

John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, was a Scottish peer, benefactor and patron of the arts. He was largely known either as Lord Bute or simply John Bute.

Charles Francis Sweeny was an American businessman and socialite who played a major role in the formation of the Eagle Squadrons, composed mostly of volunteer American pilots eager to fight in the Royal Air Force prior to the United States entering into World War II.

Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo was a Mexican bishop of the Catholic Church who served as the eighth archbishop of the see of Guadalajara and as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova was one of the first female pilots in the Soviet Union awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the only female Hero of the Soviet Union to also be awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labour.

Léo Hamon, was a French politician. He was a member of the Popular Republican Movement and the Union for the Defence of the Republic. He was also a member of the fourth district of Essonne, Senator of the Seine, a government spokesman and State Secretary of Participation and the Incentive.