Famous People Who Died in 1993

• Anderson, Marian

  The Black contralto who sang at the Lincoln Memorial

• Ashe, Arthur

  The first black man to win the U.S. Open in tennis

• Bixby, Bill

  Dr. David Banner on TV's The Incredible Hulk

• Chavez, Cesar

  Leader of the 1960s grape boycott

• Doolittle, James Harold

  Leader of the bomber attack on Tokyo in 1942

• Escobar, Pablo

  Colombian drug kingpin of the 1980s

• Fellini, Federico

  The Italian director of La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2

• Gillespie, Dizzy

  The bebop trumpeter with the upturned horn

• Gish, Lillian

  Big-eyed silent screen star of Intolerance and La Bohéme

• Golding, William

  The Nobel-winning author of Lord of the Flies

• Hayes, Helen

  "The First Lady of the American Theater"

• Hepburn, Audrey

  The elfin star of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's

• Koresh, David

  Founder of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas

• Marshall, Thurgood

  The first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

• Moore, Garry

  Host of TV's Garry Moore Show

• Nixon, Pat

  President Richard Nixon's wife

• Phoenix, River

  The narcoleptic hustler in My Own Private Idaho

• Price, Vincent

  The gentleman horror star who did House of Wax and The Fly

• Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"

  The 'Original Seven' astronaut who later flew Apollo-Soyuz

• Stafford, William

  The poet who wrote "Traveling Through the Dark"

• Theremin, Leon

  Inventor of the electronic musical instrument

• Zappa, Frank

  Iconoclastic rocker who did "Dynamo Hum"

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