Famous Deaths for Year 1991

Months in Year 1991: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 611

Jan 1st - Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83
Jan 1st - Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81
Jan 2nd - Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78
Jan 4th - Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
Jan 4th - Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94
Jan 4th - Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at 57
Jan 5th - John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
Jan 5th - Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
Jan 5th - Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
Jan 6th - Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64
Jan 7th - Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
Jan 8th - Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
Jan 10th - Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62
Jan 11th - Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in NY at 49
Jan 11th - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 85
Jan 12th - Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86
Jan 12th - Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
Jan 14th - Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
Jan 14th - Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
Nobel Laureat Physicist Carl David Anderson (Jan 11th) Jan 17th - Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
Jan 18th - Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102
Jan 18th - Lillian Bond, actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
Jan 18th - Nita Krebs, actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
Jan 19th - Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
Jan 19th - Glenn Langan, actor (Big Chase, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies at 73
Jan 19th - John Russell, actor/writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
Jan 19th - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
Jan 20th - Bill Riordon, US tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies
Jan 20th - Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87
Jan 21st - Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
Jan 21st - Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
Jan 21st - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74
Jan 22nd - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
Jan 23rd - Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
Jan 24th - George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71
Jan 24th - Lawrence Lott, actor (Real Men, Phila Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
Jan 24th - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
Jan 25th - Stanley Brock, actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59
Jan 26th - Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
Jan 28th - Dale Long, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66
Jan 29th - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies
Jan 30th - John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83
Jan 30th - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
Jan 30th - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
Feb 1st - Carol Dempster, actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
Feb 1st - H J van Ommeren-Averink, Dutch MP (CPN), dies
Feb 1st - James G MacDonald, cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
Feb 1st - Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
Feb 3rd - Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
Feb 3rd - Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
Feb 4th - Bob Leslie, actor (Cinderella, Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64
Feb 5th - Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar), dies at about 87
Feb 5th - Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at 83
Feb 6th - Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79
Feb 6th - Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies
Feb 6th - Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
Feb 7th - Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
Feb 7th - Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
Feb 7th - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
Feb 7th - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
Feb 8th - Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47
Feb 9th - James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
Feb 11th - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90
Feb 11th - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1922)
Feb 12th - Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88
Feb 12th - Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies
Feb 12th - Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (b. 1968)
Feb 13th - Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67
Feb 13th - Eddie Bartell, actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
Feb 14th - Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
Feb 14th - John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies
Feb 15th - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
Feb 15th - Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78
Feb 16th - Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
Feb 17th - Enrique Bermudez, commandant (Contra), dies
Feb 19th - Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
Feb 21st - Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71
Feb 21st - Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
Feb 24th - George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
Feb 24th - Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
Feb 24th - Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
Feb 24th - Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
Feb 26th - Slim Gaillard [Bulee], American Jazz singer/songwriter, dies at 75
Feb 27th - H J of Royen, manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orch), dies at 52
Feb 27th - Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered
Feb 28th - Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies
Feb 28th - Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
Mar 1st - Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
Mar 1st - Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
Mar 1st - Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74
Mar 2nd - Clark Mollenhoff, US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
Mar 2nd - Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
Mar 2nd - Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62
Mar 3rd - Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
Mar 3rd - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
Mar 4th - Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72
Mar 5th - August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
Mar 5th - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
Mar 7th - James "Cool Papa" Bell, American baseball league great, dies at 87
Mar 9th - Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
Mar 12th - Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
Mar 12th - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
Mar 13th - Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65
Mar 13th - Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies
Mar 14th - Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
Mar 14th - Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
Mar 14th - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
Mar 14th - Robert Maroff, dies at 57
Mar 14th - Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)
Mar 15th - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84
Mar 15th - Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
Mar 16th - 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
Mar 16th - Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
Mar 16th - Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies
Mar 18th - Jack McCoy, Radio/TV personality, dies at 72
Mar 18th - Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
Mar 19th - John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
Mar 19th - Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
Mar 19th - Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
Mar 20th - Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5
Mar 21st - Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
Mar 22nd - Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
Mar 22nd - Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
Mar 22nd - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
Mar 23rd - Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
Mar 23rd - Fons Jansen, Dutch night club performer, dies at 65
Mar 23rd - Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
Mar 23rd - Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
Mar 24th - Sir John Kerr, Australian politician (b. 1914)
Mar 25th - Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
Mar 25th - Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
Mar 25th - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
Mar 26th - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
Mar 27th - Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
Mar 27th - Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
Mar 27th - Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
Mar 27th - Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
Mar 28th - Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85
Mar 29th - Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
Mar 29th - Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52
Mar 30th - Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
Mar 31st - John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies
Apr 1st - Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
Apr 1st - Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies
Apr 1st - Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95
Apr 1st - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (b.1946)
Apr 3rd - Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
Apr 4th - John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52
Apr 4th - Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
Apr 4th - Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79