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1993 is a common year
starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
(1993-2003)
Events
January
February
March
April-May
June-July
August-October
November-December
Year in topic
Births
December 31 - Chelsea Harris
Deaths
January-February
- January 6 - Dizzy
Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
- January 6 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer
- January 15 - Sammy Cahn,
songwriter
- January 20 - Audrey
Hepburn, actress
- January 21 - Charlie Gehringer, Baseball Hall of
Famer (b. 1903)
- January 22 - Abe Kobo,
writer
- January 23 - Thomas
Dorsey, gospel music singer
- January 24 - Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court justice
- January 26 - Jeanne
Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada
- January 27 - André the Giant, professional
wrestler, actor
- February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, writer, producer, director
- February 6 - Arthur
Ashe, tennis star, social activist
- February 6 - Joseph
Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer
- February 11 - Joy Garrett, actress
- February 11 - George A
Stephen, inventor
- February 12 - James
Bulger, murdered British
toddler
- February 20 - Ferrucio Lamborghini,
automobile manufacturer
- February 24 - Bobby
Moore, English footballer
- February 27 - Lillian
Gish, actress
- February 28 - Ruby
Keeler, actress, singer, dancer
March-October
- March 8 - Billy
Eckstine, jazz musician
- March 17 - Helen Hayes,
actress
- March 24 - John Hersey,
author
- April 3 - Pinky Lee, children's television host
- May 1 - Pierre
Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France
- May 8 - Avram Davidson,
science fiction writer
- June 7 - Drazen
Petrovic, basketball star, New Jersey Nets, considered by many Croatia's greatest player
ever, Basketball Hall of Famer (b. 1964)
- June 15 - John Connally,
Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
- June 24 - Archie
Williams, American athlete
- June 26 - William H.
Riker, political scientist
- June 29 - Hector Lavoe,
salsa music singer
- June 30 - George
"Spanky" McFarland, actor
- July 3 - Don Drysdale, major
league baseball pitcher
- July 13 - Davey Allison,
NASCAR driver
- July 28 - Reggie Lewis,
basketball player, Boston Celtics
- July 31 - Baudouin, king of Belgium
- September 27 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II General.
- October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director
- October 31 - River
Phoenix, actor
November-December
- Oksana Kostina, Russian
gymnast.
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