Famous People Who Died in 1991

Deaths 1 - 200 of 661

Jan 7 Joe Hicks, American baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
Jan 8 Steve Clark, English rock guitarist (Def Leppard), dies at 30
Jan 9 Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Tomorrow It Will Be Better, Klatergoud, Surprise Raid), dies at 86
Jan 10 Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62

Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)

Jan 11 American physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), dies at 85

Jan 12 Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (Across the Pacific, Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86
Jan 12 Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
Jan 14 Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
Jan 14 Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
Jan 16 Cladys "Jabbo" Smith, American jazz trumpet pioneer, dies at 82
Jan 17 Olav V, King of Norway (1957-91), dies at 87
Jan 18 Hamilton Fish III, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 102
Jan 19 Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
Jan 19 Glenn Langan, American actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Margie, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies of lymphoma at 73
Jan 19 John Russell, American actor (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
Jan 19 Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician, dies at 72
Jan 20 Bill Riordon, American tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies
Jan 20 Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87
Jan 21 Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
Jan 22 Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat, dies at 85
Jan 23 Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
Jan 24 Harold "Shot" Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), dies after his second stroke at 70
Jan 24 Jack Schaefer, American author (Shane), dies at 83
Jan 24 John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
Jan 24 Lawrence Lott, American actor (Real Men, Philadelphia Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
Jan 25 Hoot Evers, American MLB player, dies at 69
Jan 25 Lillian Bond, English-American actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
Jan 25 Stanley Brock, American actor (UHF, Hard to Kill, Ivan-He's the Mayor), dies of a heart attack at 59
Jan 26 Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
Jan 26 Karen Young, American disco singer ("Hot Shot"), dies at 39
Jan 27 Dale Long, American MLB infielder, 1955-63, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games (Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and 4 other teams), dies of cancer at 64

Red Grange (1903-1991)

Jan 28 American "Galloping Ghost" of football (University of Illinois, Chicago Bears), dies of Parkinson's disease at 87

Jan 29 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese writer (The Bullfight), dies at 83
Jan 30 Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)

John Bardeen (1908-1991)

Jan 30 American physicist, electrical engineer and co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel 1956, 1972), dies of heart disease at 82

Jan 30 John McIntire, American actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian), dies of emphysema at 83
Feb 1 Annie van Ommeren-Averink [Hanna Jacoba of Ommeren-Averink], Dutch politician (CPN), dies at 77
Feb 1 Carol Dempster, American film actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
Feb 1 Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
Feb 1 Phil Watson, Canadian NHL right wing (Stanley Cup 1940 [NYR], 1944 [Montreal Canadiens]) & coach (NY Rangers), dies at 76
Feb 3 Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
Feb 3 Nancy Kulp, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, Shane), dies of cancer at 69
Feb 4 Bob Leslie, American actor (Cinderella; Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64
Feb 5 Dean Jagger, American actor (White Christmas, Vanishing Point), dies at about 87
Feb 5 Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Jesuit priest (1st responder after the bombing of Hiroshima), dies at 83
Feb 6 Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79
Feb 6 Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies
Feb 6 Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at 78
Feb 7 Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
Feb 7 Dick Winslow, American actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
Feb 7 Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
Feb 7 Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
Feb 7 John Steinbeck IV, American author and journalist
Feb 8 Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 2 wickets; Punjab), dies at 47
Feb 9 James Cleveland, American gospel singer, dies at 59
Feb 10 Walter Klien, Austrian pianist, dies of cancer at 62
Feb 11 Ajla Rachmanova, Russian-Austrian author (Students), dies at 92
Feb 11 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building, Centre Pompidou), dies at 90
Feb 11 Robert W. Holley, American biochemist who worked with RNA (Nobel Prize 1968), dies at 71
Feb 12 Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88
Feb 12 Robert F. Wagner Jr., Mayor of New York City (Democrat: 1954-65), dies at 80
Feb 12 Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (b. 1968)
Feb 13 Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of a heart attack at 67
Feb 13 Eddie Bartell, actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
Feb 13 Ronald "Ron" Pickering, British athletics coach and BBC sports commentator, dies after a heart bypass operation at 60
Feb 14 Arno Breker, German architect and sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
Feb 14 Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American scholar, dies at 77
Feb 14 John A. McCone, American politician (Head of CIA 1961-65), dies at 89
Feb 14 Roy Lanham, American western swing and jazz guitarist (The Whippoorwills; Sons of the Pioneers, 1961-86), dies at 68
Feb 15 Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
Feb 15 Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78
Feb 16 Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
Feb 17 Enrique Bermudez, Nicaraguan commandant, founder of the Nicaraguan Contras, assassinated at 58
Feb 19 Peggy Mondo, American actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
Feb 21 Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina considered the 1st lady of British Ballet (Giselle), dies at 71
Feb 21 Nutan Bahl, Indian actress (Seema, Bandini), dies of breast cancer at 54
Feb 21 Roger Swaybill, American actor and writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
Feb 24 George Gobel, American humorist, comedian and TV host (The George Gobel Show), dies at 71
Feb 24 Héctor Rial, Spanish soccer striker (Real Madrid, 5 straight Euro Cup C'ships 1956-60), dies at 62
Feb 24 Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
Feb 24 John Charles Daly, American, newscaster and TV game show host (What's My Line), dies at 77
Feb 24 Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
Feb 24 Webb Pierce, American honky-tonk country singer-songwriter, and guitarist ("In The Jailhouse Now"; "Wondering"; "There Stands The Glass"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 64
Feb 25 Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu politician (first President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA)), dies at 41
Feb 26 (Bulee) "Slim" Galliard, American jazz singer, musician, songwriter ("Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)"), and actor, dies of cancer at 75
Feb 27 Hein van Royen, Dutch director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1974-91), dies at 52
Feb 27 Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered
Feb 28 Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies
Feb 28 Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)

Edwin Land (1909-1991)

Mar 1 American inventor of instant photography & co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, dies at 81

Mar 1 Frank Esler-Smith, English-Australian rock keyboardist (Air Supply), dies at 42
Mar 1 Katharine Blake, South African-born British actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
Mar 1 Louis Saguer, German born French composer (Lili Merveille), dies at 83
Mar 1 Scott Huston, American composer, dies at 74
Mar 2 Clark Mollenhoff, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
Mar 2 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
Mar 2 Serge Gainsbourg, Russian-French singer (Ford Mustang), dies at 62
Mar 3 Arthur Murray [Moses Teichman], American ballroom dancer and businessman (Arthur Murray Dance Party), dies at 95 of pneumonia
Mar 3 Clara Eggink, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
Mar 3 Johnny Revolta, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1935; 18 PGA Tour titles), dies at 79
Mar 3 William Penney, British physicist (developed Britain's 1st atomic bomb), dies at 81
Mar 4 Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72
Mar 5 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
Mar 5 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
Mar 7 Greta Schoon, German poet, dies at 81

Cool Papa Bell (1903-1991)

Mar 7 American Baseball HOF center fielder (NgL WorLd Series 1943, 44 Homestead Grays; 8 x NgL All Star; career BA .337), dies at 87

Mar 8 John Bellairs, American sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom), dies of cardiovascular disease at 53
Mar 9 Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
Mar 9 Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Japanese composer and educator, dies at 84
Mar 12 Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
Mar 12 Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, (Nobel 1967 - discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye), dies at 90
Mar 13 Cor Witschge, Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 65
Mar 13 James "Jimmy" McPartland, American cornetist and musician (Magic Horn), dies of cancer at 83 [1]
Mar 14 Doc Pomus [Jerome Solon Felder], American blues singer and songwriter (Save the Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
Mar 14 Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (Little Shop of Horrors; The Little Mermaid), dies of AIDS-related complications at 40
Mar 14 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
Mar 14 Margery Sharp, English children's author (The Rescuers), dies at 86
Mar 14 Robert Maroff, American actor (Taxi Driver), dies at 57
Mar 15 Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
Mar 16 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
Mar 16 Jan H. van Roijen, Dutch ambassador to the U.S. and Netherlands Foreign Minister, dies at 85
Mar 18 Jack McCoy, American radio and TV personality (Live Like a Millionaire), dies at 72
Mar 18 Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
Mar 19 John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
Mar 19 Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
Mar 19 Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
Mar 20 Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls to his death out of 53rd floor window at 5
Mar 21 Leo Fender, American inventor, and electric guitar designer (Telecaster; Stratocaster; Precision Bass), dies from Parkinson's disease complications at 81
Mar 22 Dave Guard, American singer, songwriter and arranger (Kingston Trio - "Tom Dooley"), dies of cancer at 56
Mar 22 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
Mar 22 Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
Mar 22 Paul Engle, American poet and writer (Worm Earth, American Song), dies at 82
Mar 23 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
Mar 23 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), dies at 97
Mar 23 Fons Jansen, Dutch news reader and cabaretier, dies at 65
Mar 23 Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
Mar 23 Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
Mar 24 Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
Mar 25 Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
Mar 25 Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
Mar 25 Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
Mar 26 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
Mar 27 Aldo Ray [Da Re], American actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret), dies of cancer at 64
Mar 27 Elinor Remick Warren, American concert pianist and composer, dies at 91
Mar 27 Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
Mar 27 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
Mar 28 Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85
Mar 29 Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of a brain tumor at 40
Mar 29 Matt Bennett, American actor (Hickey & Boggs; The Unholy Rollers), dies of a brain tumor at 57
Mar 30 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
Mar 31 John Carter, American jazz clarinetist (Roots & Folklore), dies at 61
Apr 1 Frankie Gustine, American Major baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1946, 47, 48; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 71
Apr 1 Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (President of the Independent Democratic Union), dies at 44
Apr 1 Martha Graham, American choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
Apr 1 Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies

Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Apr 3 English novelist (Brighton Rock, Our man in Havana, The Power and the Glory) and journalist, dies of leukemia at 86

Apr 4 Edmund Adamkiewicz, German soccer forward (2 caps; Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt), dies at 70
Apr 4 John Heinz, American businessman and Republican politician (Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-1991), dies in a plane crash at 52
Apr 4 Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
Apr 4 Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79
Apr 5 John Tower, American politician (US Senator (R)-Texas), dies in a plane crash at 65
Apr 5 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, American chemist and NASA astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43

Bill Ponsford (1900-1991)

Apr 6 Australian cricket batsman (29 Tests @ 48 22, 7 x 100s; 1st-class 13,819 runs @ 65.18; Victoria), dies at 90

Apr 7 Ruth Page, American ballet dancer and choreographer (Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Pygmalion), dies at 92
Apr 8 Dead [Pelle Ohlin], Swedish heavy metal singer (Mayhem), commits suicide at 22
Apr 9 Forrest Towns, American athlete (Olympic gold 110m hurdles 1936), dies at 77
Apr 9 Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
Apr 9 Maurice Binder, American photographer and film title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
Apr 10 Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
Apr 10 Natalie Schafer, American actress (Gilligan's Island, Anastasia), dies from cancer at 90
Apr 11 Tom Rosqui, American stage and screen character actor (The Godfather - "Rocco Lampone"), dies of cancer at 62
Apr 11 Walker Cooper, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1942–44, 46–50; World Series 1942, 44; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 76
Apr 12 James Schuyler, American poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies
Apr 15 Marjorie Warfield, American stage, radio, and silent film actress, dies of pneumonia at 88
Apr 15 Martin Ashe, American actor, dies at 81

David Lean (1908-1991)

Apr 16 English film director (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan's Daughter), dies of pneumonia at 83

Apr 17 Jack Yellen, American poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
Apr 18 Barry Rogers, American jazz, salsa, and session trombonist (Eddie Palmiere; Fania All-Stars; Chaka Khan; Todd Rundgren), dies at 55
Apr 18 Heino Jurisalu, Estonian composer (Kvintett puhkpillidele), dies at 60
Apr 19 Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
Apr 20 Don Siegel, American film director (Coogan's Bluff, Dirty Harry), dies at 78
Apr 20 Sean O'Faolain [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
Apr 20 Steve Marriott, British rock guitarist, singer & songwriter (Small Faces, 1965-68, 75-78); Humble Pie, 1969-75, 79-83 - Eat It), dies in a house fire at 44
Apr 20 Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician (Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (President), 1974-84; Prime Minister, 1952-74; General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party, 1940-54), dies at 74

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