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1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year that started on a Friday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1993rd year in the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium; the 93rd year of the 20th century; and the 4th of the 1990s.
Events of 1993
January
- January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (b. 1917)
- January 6 – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910)
- January 6 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
- January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913)
- January 16 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
- January 18 – Eleanor Burford (Jean Plaidy, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr), English writer (b. 1906)
- January 20 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese author (b. 1924)
- January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian born British-Dutch actress (b. 1929)
- January 21 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- January 24 – Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor (b. 1908)
- January 24 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, First African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
- January 26 – Robert Jacobsen Danish artist (b. 1912)
- January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian Governor General (b. 1922)
- January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler (b. 1946)
February
- February 5 – Hans Jonas, German philosopher (b. 1903)
- February 5 – Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
- February 5 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
- February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and civil activist (b. 1943)
- February 8 – Roland Mousnier, French historian (b. 1907)
- February 9 – Kate Wilkinson, American stage and television actress (b. 1916)
- February 11 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
- February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
- February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
- February 21 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888)
- February 21 – Dick White, British intelligence officer (b. 1906)
- February 23 – Phillip Terry, American actor (b. 1909)
- February 23 – Robert Triffin, Belgian economist (b. 1911)
- February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
- February 25 – Eddie Constantine, American-born French singer and actor (b. 1917)
- February 26 – Beaumont Newhall, American curator (b. 1908)
- February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- February 28 – Ruby Keeler, American actress (b. 1909)
- February 28 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)