List of Famous people who died in 1993
Raymond Burr
William Raymond Stacy Burr was a Canadian-American actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
Dražen Petrović
Dražen Petrović was a Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s, before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989.
Nick Wasicsko
Nicholas C. Wasicsko was an American politician from New York and the youngest-ever mayor of Yonkers, New York. As mayor he fought for the desegregation of public housing.
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under President François Mitterrand from 2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993. He was a member of the Socialist Party.
Yuri Bezmenov
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada.
Digby Tatham-Warter
Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter DSO, also known as Digby Tatham-Warter or just Digby, was a British Army officer who fought in the Second World War and was famed for carrying an umbrella into battle.
Roy Raymond
Roy Larson Raymond was an American businessman who founded the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store in California in 1977.
Brandon Teena
Brandon Teena was an American trans man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska. His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry. They also illustrated that legal and medical discrimination contributed to Teena's violent death.
Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy
Ruth Sylvia Roche, Baroness Fermoy, was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the maternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was one of the Queen Mother's ladies-in-waiting.
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Elizabeth Holloway Marston was an American attorney and psychologist. She is credited, with her husband William Moulton Marston, with the development of the systolic blood pressure measurement used to detect deception; the predecessor to the polygraph.