Famous People Who Died in May 1991

May 4 Bernie Winters [Weinstein], British comedian, actor, and TV presenter (The Big Top Variety Show), dies of stomach cancer at 60
May 5 William De Acutis, American actor (9½ Weeks, Other People's Money), dies from a brain lymphoma at 33
May 6 Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
May 6 Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
May 6 Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62
May 6 Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place), dies at 87
May 8 Jean Langlais, French organist, and composer (Missa Salve Regina), dies at 84
May 8 Lloyd Ford, American stuntman, dies at 79
May 8 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse, Ritz), dies at 72
May 9 James L. Reinsch, American broadcasting executive & presidential media adviser (Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy) who also advised Winston Churchill on his 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech, dies at 82
May 9 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian-American concert pianist (noted for Beethoven interpretations), and pedagogue (Curtis Institute; Marlboro School of Music), dies of cancer at 88
May 10 Armand HF Boni [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
May 11 Ho Dam, North Korean foreign minister (1970-83), dies at 62
May 14 Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies
May 14 Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies

May 14 Jiang Qing [Madame Mao], Chinese communist and wife of Mao Zedong, commits suicide at 77

May 14 John Edward Craven, dies
May 14 Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies
May 14 Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (7 Olympic gold 1932, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60), dies at 81
May 15 Lawrence "Bud" Freeman, American jazz tenor saxophonist, bandleader, and composer ("The Eel"; "Zen Is When"), dies of cancer at 84
May 15 Reno Browne, American Western actress, dies at 70
May 15 Ronald Lacey, actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55
May 15 Andreas Floer, German mathematician (Floer homology), dies at 34
May 16 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
May 18 Edwina Booth, American actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86
May 19 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies
May 19 Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at 74
May 20 Julian Orbon De Soto, Cuban composer, dies at 65
May 21 Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium (1952-54), dies

May 21 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister (1984-89), assassinated at 46 by a suicide bomber from the LTTE

May 22 Catalino "Lino" Brocka, Filipino film director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51
May 23 Jean Van Houtte, Belgian politician (Prime Minister of Belgium, 1952-56; Finance Minister, 1950-52 and 1958-61), dies at 84
May 23 Peter Trevenen Thwaites, British Brigadier General and playwright (Love or money), dies at 74
May 23 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
May 23 Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (Unter dem Zimbelstern), dies at 95
May 24 (Harold Eugene) Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"), dies from natural causes brought on by bleeding ulcer at 46
May 24 Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
May 26 Tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41
May 26 Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50
May 27 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
May 27 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (International Bruckner Society; Mozart's Requiem), and educator (Vienna University, 1932-73), dies at 86
May 28 Brigitte B Fischer, writer, dies
May 28 Ethel Lois Payne, American civil rights journalist and "1st Lady of the Black Press", dies at 79
May 29 Coral Browne, Australian actress (Ruling Class, Time Express), dies of cancer at 77
May 30 Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74
May 31 Angus Wilson [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
May 31 H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke