People who died on March 03, 1993 (the exact day you were born) * Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster * Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist * Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher 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 March 03 (various years) * 2007 - Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer * 2006 - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist * 2006 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet * 2005 - Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach * 2005 - Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist * 2004 - Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director * 2003 - Peter Smithson, English architect * 2003 - Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer * 2003 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist * 2003 - Horst Buchholz, German actor * 2002 - Harlan Howard, American musician * 2001 - Louis Edmonds, American actor * 2000 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler * 2000 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist * 1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate * 1998 - Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive * 1996 - John Cardinal Krol, American Catholic clergyman * 1996 - Marguerite Duras, French writer * 1995 - Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * 1991 - Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor * 1990 - Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur * 1988 - Sewall Wright, American biologist * 1987 - Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian * 1983 - Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer * 1983 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator * 1982 - Georges Perec, French writer * 1966 - Alice Pearce, American actress * 1966 - William Frawley, American actor * 1961 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist * 1959 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian * 1953 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer * 1943 - George Thompson, English cricketer * 1932 - Eugen d'Albert, German composer * 1927 - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver * 1927 - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer * 1894 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player * 1850 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader * 1792 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect * 1768 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer * 1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist * 1744 - Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist * 1717 - Pierre Allix, French Protestant pastor * 1707 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India * 1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer * 1703 - Robert Hooke, English scientist * 1554 - John Frederick, Elector of Saxony * 1459 - Ausiàs March, Catalan poet * 1239 - Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev * 1111 - Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch