Deaths in History in 1991

Deaths 1 - 200 of 291

Carl David Anderson

Jan 11 Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 85

Jan 12 Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
Jan 14 Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
Jan 14 Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
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 Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician, dies at 72
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 John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
Jan 24 Jack Schaefer, American author (Shane), dies at 83
Jan 26 Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
Jan 28 Dale Long, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66
Jan 29 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies

John Bardeen

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

Jan 30 Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
Feb 1 Annie van Ommeren-Averink [Hanna Jacoba of Ommeren-Averink], Dutch politician (CPN), dies
Feb 3 Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
Feb 5 Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at 83
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 Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
Feb 7 Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
Feb 7 Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
Feb 7 John Steinbeck IV, American author and journalist
Feb 11 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building, Centre Pompidou), dies at 90
Feb 11 Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1922)
Feb 11 Ajla Rachmanova, Russian-Austrian author (Students), dies at 92

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 14 Arno Breker, German architect and sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
Feb 14 John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies
Feb 14 Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American scholar, dies at 77
Feb 16 Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
Feb 17 Enrique Bermudez, commandant (Contra), dies
Feb 24 Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
Feb 25 Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu politician (first President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA)), dies at 41
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

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

Mar 2 Clark Mollenhoff, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
Mar 2 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
Mar 3 Clara Eggink, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
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
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 14 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
Mar 14 Robert Maroff, dies at 57
Mar 14 Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)
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 19 Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
Mar 20 Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5
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 Fons Jansen, Dutch news reader and cabaretier, dies at 65
Mar 23 Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
Mar 23 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), dies at 97
Mar 24 Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
Mar 25 Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
Mar 26 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
Mar 29 Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
Apr 1 Martha Graham, American choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
Apr 1 Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies
Apr 1 Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (President of the Independent Democratic Union), dies at 44

Graham Greene

Apr 3 Graham Greene, British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86

Apr 4 John Heinz, American businessman and Republican politician (Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-1991), dies in a plane crash at 52
Apr 4 Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79
Apr 5 John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash at 65
Apr 5 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, American chemist and NASA astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43
Apr 11 Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
Apr 12 James Schuyler, American poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies
Apr 15 Marjorie Warfield, American actress, dies at 88
Apr 17 Jack Yellen, American poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
Apr 20 Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies
Apr 20 Sean O'Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
Apr 20 Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia (1952-74), dies
Apr 21 Richard Bolling, American politician (Rep-D-Missouri 1949-83), dies at 74
Apr 23 Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies

Apr 24 J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies
Apr 26 Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (26th Premier of New Brunswick), dies at 60
Apr 27 Marcus Heeresma, Dutch author (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies at 55
Apr 28 Floyd McKissick, American lawyer & civil rights activist, dies at 69
Apr 28 Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive, dies at 85
Apr 29 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
Apr 30 George Sperti, American inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
May 1 Richard Thorpe, American director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies at 95
May 2 Hal Bell, dies at 65
May 2 Leib Lensky, dies at 82
May 2 Ronald McKie, Australian author (The Mango Tree), dies at 81
May 3 Gerrit Mik, Dutch psychiatrist and politician (D66), dies
May 3 Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There), dies at 57
May 4 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
May 4 George Delacorte, American philanthropist and publisher (Dell Books), dies at 96
May 6 Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
May 6 Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62
May 8 Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79
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 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

Jiang Qing

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 15 Andreas Floer, German mathematician (Floer homology), dies at 34
May 19 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies
May 21 Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium (1952-54), dies

Rajiv Gandhi

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

May 23 Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies
May 23 Peter Trevenen Thwaites, British Brigadier General and playwright (Love or money), dies at 74
May 25 Dorothy Davis Bostwick, entertainer, dies
May 26 Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50
May 27 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
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 31 Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
May 31 H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke
Jun 3 Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
Jun 3 Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
Jun 6 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
Jun 7 Antoine Blondin, French writer (L'Europe buissonnière), dies at 69
Jun 9 Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies
Jun 10 Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
Jun 14 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
Jun 23 Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
Jun 24 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, dies at 91
Jun 24 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (b. 1917)
Jun 27 Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered
Jun 27 Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies
Jun 28 Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
Jul 1 Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies
Jul 4 Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
Jul 5 Howard Nemerow, American poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies
Jul 5 Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87
Jul 6 Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (Rex Morgan, M.D.), dies at 79
Jul 11 Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
Jul 13 Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies
Jul 14 Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies

Jul 16 Cornelis Z Forster, [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
Jul 16 Frank Rizzo, (Mayor-D-Philadelphia, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70
Jul 16 Robert Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
Jul 18 André Cools, Belgian Minister of Budget, murdered at 63
Jul 21 Theodore Wilson, dies at 47
Jul 24 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American yiddish writer (Yentl, Nobel Prize for Literature 1978), dies at 87
Jul 24 Karl Ellis, dies at 41
Jul 25 Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin, dies at 97
Jul 30 Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
Aug 4 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
Aug 5 Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84
Aug 6 Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
Aug 6 Roland Michener, 20th Governor General of Canada (1967-74), dies at 91
Aug 7 Shapur Bahktiar, Prime Minister of Iran (1979), assassinated
Aug 8 James B Irwin, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61
Aug 8 John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies
Aug 8 Magdalena G Schenk, historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time), dies
Aug 10 Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies
Aug 11 Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89
Aug 13 Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
Aug 15 Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
Aug 16 Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16
Aug 16 Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
Aug 17 Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies
Aug 17 Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76
Aug 18 Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies
Aug 20 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
Aug 21 Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 101
Aug 21 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German-Swiss architect and writer (Mozart biog), dies at 74
Aug 22 Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide

Aug 23 Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
Aug 24 Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86
Aug 24 Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87
Aug 25 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
Aug 29 Daniel Ocko, dies of respiratory condition at 78
Aug 29 Dixie Dunbar, [Charlotte King], dies of heart attack at 72
Aug 29 Kathryn Cravens, news correspondent, dies at 92
Aug 29 Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies
Aug 30 Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies at 61
Aug 30 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies at 66
Aug 31 Leigh Watson, US aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93
Sep 1 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
Sep 2 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
Sep 3 Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies
Sep 6 Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, American serial killer (claimed to have murdered over 100 people), executed in the electric chair at 58
Sep 7 John Crosby, American columnist/detective writer dies at 79
Sep 7 John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric, dies
Sep 8 Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
Sep 9 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), dies at 83

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