Don Ameche, a dashing leading man in '30s and '40s films who won an Oscar and revived his career in 1985 in "Cocoon", died Dec. 6 at age 85 of prostate cancer.
Marian Anderson, a spectacular contralto whose controversial concert in 1939 at the Lincoln Memorial was a landmark moment in the civil rights movement, died April 8 at age 96 of a stroke.
Arthur Ashe, a pioneering black tennis player who crusaded off the court for human rights and AIDS research, died Feb. 7 at age 49 of AIDS he contracted through a blood transfusion.
Bill Bixby, star of television's "My Favorite Martian," "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and "The Incredible Hulk", died Nov. 21 at age 59 of prostate cancer.
Raymond Burr, the burly actor who made Perry Mason the quintessential image of a lawyer, died Sept 12 at age 76 of liver cancer.
Roy Campanella, power-hitting Hall of Fame catcher for baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers whose career was cut short by an auto accident, died June 26 at age 71 of a heart attack.
Cesar Chavez, the hero of migrant farm workers who helped them organize a union after a nationwide grape boycott in the 1960s, died April 23 at age 66 of a heart attack.
John Connally, a three-time Texas governor and former cabinet member who was wounded in the gunfire that killed President John F. Kennedy, died June 15 at age 76 of pulmonary fibrosis.
Don Drysdale, baseball Hall of Fame pitcher who helped lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to three World Series championships, died July 3 at age 56 of a heart attack.
Billy Eckstine, legendary jazz singer whose rich baritone graced such hits as "Blue Moon" and "Fools Rush In", died March 8 at age 78 of a stroke.
Federico Fellini, the Italian movie maker who transformed his vision of the grotesque, bizarre, pathetic and mystical onto film, died Oct. 31 at age 73 of a stroke.
Dizzy Gillespie, whose bent horn and puffed out cheeks were recognizable to jazz fans the world over, died Jan. 6 at age 75 of pancreatic cancer.
Lillian Gish, legendary screen actress whose career spanned the century, starred in such pictures as "The Birth of a Nation" and "The Scarlet Letter". She died Feb. 27 at age 99.
Helen Hayes, the diminutive "First Lady of the American Theater", brought dynamism and grace to roles ranging from Queen Victoria to a cantankerous passenger in "Airport." She died March 17 at age 92 of congestive heart failure.
Audrey Hepburn, an actress who epitimized elegance in her role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and was later a champion of the starving children of the world as a United Nations envoy, died Jan. 20 at age 63 of colon cancer.
John Hersey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote such books as "Hiroshima" and "A Bell for Adano", died March 24 at age 78 of cancer.
Myrna Loy, actress in 100 films who played Nora Charles opposite William Powell in the "Thin Man" movies, died Dec. 14 at age 88.
Thurgood Marshall, the first black man to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, was a towering figure in the civil rights movement. He died Jan. 24 at age 84 of heart failure.
Garry Moore, charming TV host of the long-running "I've Got a Secret" and "The Garry Moore Show", died Nov. 28 at age 78 of emphysema.
Pat Nixon, the stoic former first lady and wife of Richard Nixon, died June 22 at age 81 of lung cancer.
Rudolph Nureyev, the charismatic Soviet ballet dancer who defected to the United States, was considered one of the greatest dancers of the century. He died Jan. 6 at age 54 of AIDS.
River Phoenix, a rising young actor who played the scruffy, cigarette-smoking youth in "Stand By Me" and won an Oscar nomination for "Running on Empty", died Oct. 31 at age 23 of a drug overdose.
Vincent Price, whose gaunt face and creepy voice put chills in such thrillers as "The Raven" and "House of Wax", died Oct. 25 at age 82 of lung cancer.
Conway Twitty, a country music legend who took his name from Conway, Arkansas, and Twitty, Texas, died June 5 at age 59 of a ruptured blood vessel.
Jim Valvano, who coached North Carolina State to a miracle basketball championship and left it after a scandal, died April 28 at age 47 of cancer.
Frank Zappa, musical iconoclast who fused rock, jazz and classical music behind lyrics of satire and social commentary, died Dec. 4 at age 52 of prostate cancer.
Other notable deaths in 1993 included:
Davey Allison, race car driver
King Baudouin I of Belgium
Winston Burdett, CBS broadcaster
Anthony Burgess, author
Sammy Cahn, song writer
Cantinflas, Mexican comic actor
Leslie Charteris, mystery writer
Albert Collins, blues guitarist
Eddie Constantine, actor
Bob Crosby, band leader
Don DeFore, actor
W. Edwards Deming, quality control expert
Curley Joe DeRita, last of the "Three Stooges"
Agnes de Mille, choreographer
James H. Doolittle, World War II aviator
Doris Duke, tobacco heiress
Julio Gallo, wine maker
Blas Galindo, Mexican composer
Gerhard Geselle, Watergate judge
William Golding, author
Stewart Granger, actor
Fred Gwynne, actor
Chris Hani, S. African political leader
William Randolph Hearst, Jr., journalist
Irving Howe, leftist intellectual writer
James Jordan, Michael Jordan's father
Ruby Keeler, dancer
Alan Kulwicki, race car driver
Ferruccio Lamborghini, car builder
Brandon Lee, actor
Pinky Lee, entertainer
Reggie Lewis, businessman
Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
Carlos Marcello, reputed New Orleans godfather
George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
George Mickelson, South Dakota governor
Johnny Mize, baseball great
Taikichiro Mori, real estate baron, world's richest man
