Curated playlist
1993 deaths
- Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn gave underground concerts to raise money for the Dutch resistance. She was a teenager in occupied Arnhem.
- River PhoenixRiver Phoenix was an American actor and musician, and at the 92nd Academy Awards his brother Joaquin spoke one of River's lyrics aloud. Accepting the Best Actor prize, Joaquin told the room that River wrote it at 17: "run to the rescue…
- Cesar ChavezCesar Chavez was born Cesario Estrada Chavez on the 31st of March 1927 and died on the 23rd of April 1993. Many Mexican Americans came to speak of him as a "folk saint." California farm owners saw something else entirely, a communist…
- David KoreshOn the 19th of April 1993, fire swept through the Mount Carmel Center, a compound outside Waco, Texas. Among the dead was David Koresh, a preacher who had told his followers that he was the final prophet. He led the Branch Davidians, a…
- Hans SuessHans Suess's mail kept getting mixed up with Dr. Seuss's. Both men lived in La Jolla, California.
- Deke SlaytonOne heart test grounded astronaut Deke Slayton in 1962. He then picked the crews who flew to the Moon.
- Frank ZappaAs a boy, Frank Zappa spread mercury across his bedroom floor with a hammer. His father brought it home from work.
- Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court. He later became a justice there.
- Hans JonasHans Jonas walked back into Germany as a British Army soldier. The Jewish philosopher had fled the country in 1933.
- Pablo EscobarPablo Escobar's funeral in Medellín drew more than 25,000 people. Many came from the city's poor neighborhoods, and some of them still pray to him as a saint. A priest known as Father Elkin described Escobar as a profoundly devout man who…
- Erich HartmannErich Hartmann is credited with shooting down 352 aircraft, more than any other fighter pilot in the history of air combat. He flew for the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War, and almost all of his opponents were Soviet. Over…
- Penelope GilliattPenelope Gilliatt was born Penelope Ann Douglass Conner on the 25th of March 1932, and she died on the 9th of May 1993. The English writer worked as a novelist, a short story writer, a screenwriter and a film critic. She held all four…
- Marian AndersonMarian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial weeks after being banned from Constitution Hall.
- Dražen PetrovićDražen Petrović scored 112 points in one professional basketball game in 1985. He made all 22 of his free throws.
- Leonid GaidaiLeonid Gaidai finished school two days before the Great Patriotic War began.