Approximately 148,855 people died worldwide on January 26, 1993.

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People who died on January 26, 1993 (the exact day you were born)

  • Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader
  • Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada

Unusual Deaths in 1993

  • Brandon lee, son of bruce lee, was shot and killed by a prop .44 magnum gun while filming the movie the crow. a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene brandon was in; this caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck. the malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. however, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into lee's body. although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the nearly point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to severely wound lee. it was not instantly recognized by the crew or other actors; they believed he was still acting. interestingly, the incident was almost an exact replica of a scene in his father bruce lee's last film "game of death", during the filming of which bruce lee also died. even more bizarrely yet; the plot of game of death revolved around bruce lee's character, a kung-fu actor, faking his own death - by pretending to have been hit by an accidentally fired real bullet while filming a scene where hundreds of blanks were fired at him.
  • Garry hoy, a toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the toronto-dominion centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."

Natural disasters in 1993

  • Great Flood of 1993
  • Storm of the Century (1993)
  • Virginia Tornado Outbreak

People who died on January 26 (various years)

  • 2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer
  • 2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino
  • 2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist
  • 2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer
  • 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer
  • 2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician
  • 2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian
  • 2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete
  • 2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach
  • 2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author
  • 2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author
  • 2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player
  • 1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher
  • 1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer
  • 1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler
  • 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author
  • 1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor
  • 1990 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver
  • 1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian
  • 1984 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach
  • 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States
  • 1976 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter
  • 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor
  • 1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet
  • 1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher
  • 1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster
  • 1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer
  • 1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman
  • 1952 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia
  • 1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten,
  • 1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano
  • 1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer
  • 1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist
  • 1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist
  • 1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician
  • 1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite
  • 1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist
  • 1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
  • 1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon
  • 1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball
  • 1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor
  • 1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician
  • 1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general
  • 1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor
  • 1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat
  • 1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • 1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer
  • 1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter
  • 1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician
  • 1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general
  • 1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer
  • 1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist
  • 1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal
  • 1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician
  • 1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat
  • 1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician
  • 1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
  • 946 - Eadgyth, German Queen

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