Deaths in April 1991

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

April 1991

1

• Angus Cameron, 61, Scottish rugby player.
• Jon Eardley, 62, American trumpeter.
• Martha Graham, 96, American dancer and choreographer, pneumonia.
• Frankie Gustine, 71, American baseball player.
• Jaime Guzmán, 44, Chilean politician, shot.
• George Lee, 71, English footballer.
• Eddie Miller, 79, American jazz musician, pneumonia.
• Paulo Muwanga, 66, Ugandan politician, president.
• Bjarne Nerem, 67, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, 58, German politician, shot.
• Rina Zelyonaya, 89, Soviet actress, singer and comedian, cancer.

2

• Noel George Butlin, 69, Australian economic historian.
• Gisa Geert, 90, Austrian actress and choreographer.
• Ken Gunning, 76, American basketball player.
• Erzsébet Ruda, 86, Hungarian Olympic discus thrower.
• Cheng Shewo, 92, Chinese journalist, publisher, and educator.
• Robert Veyron-Lacroix, 68, French harpsichordist and pianist.

3

• P. K. Balakrishnan, 66, Indian novelist.
• Fred Capossela, 88, American horse racing announcer, stroke.
• Charles Goren, 90, American bridge player.
• Graham Greene, 86, English writer, leukemia.
• Whitey Miller, 75, American baseball player.
• John Mullen, 66, American Major League Baseball executive.
• Coral Lansbury, 61, Australian writer, bowel cancer.
• Alan Stewart Orr, 80, British barrister.
• Jo Teunissen-Waalboer, 71, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower.

4

• Edmund Adamkiewicz, 70, German football player.
• Max Frisch, 79, Swiss playwright and novelist, colorectal cancer.
• Louis Guglielmi, 75, French composer.
• John Heinz, 52, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, plane crash.
• Graham Ingels, 75, American comic artist.
• Johnny Moore, 89, American baseball player.
• The Thinker, 12, British thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

5

• Nona Balakian, 72, American literary critic and an editor.
• Gerald Blake, 62, British television director.
• Sonny Carter, 43, American astronaut, plane crash.
• William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, 81, English-Australian politician, Governor-General of Australia.
• Eve Garnett, 91, English writer.
• Maurice Hallé, 85, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Alf Horn, 78, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Kōzō Masuda, 73, Japanese professional shogi player.
• Jaroslav Mikoška, 57, Czech Olympic gymnast.
• Jiří Mucha, 76, Czechoslovak journalist, cancer.
• Albert Secrétant, 85, French Olympic cross-country skier.
• John Tower, 65, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate, plane crash.
• Renato Turi, 70, Italian actor and voice actor.

6

• Ed Craney, 86, American radio executive.
• Dennis Cross, 66, American actor, cancer.
• Louis Joxe, 89, French politician.
• Joaquín Nogueras Márquez, 84, Spanish Olympic equestrian.
• Earl Nolan, 80, American football player.
• Bill Ponsford, 90, Australian cricketer.

7

• Cora Du Bois, 87, American anthropologist, pneumonia.
• Henry Glover, 69, American songwriter, heart attack.
• Véra Nabokov, 89, Soviet-Swiss translator.
• Ruth Page, 92, American ballerina.

8

• Dink Carroll, 91, Canadian sports journalist.
• Pierre Grégoire, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
• Haim Hanani, 78, Polish-Israeli mathematician.
• Max Janowski, 78-79, German-American composer.
• Per "Dead" Ohlin, 22, Swedish black metal musician, suicide by gunshot.
• Kristian Osvald Viderø, 84, Faroese clergyman and translator.
• Tilo Freiherr von Berlepsch, 77, German actor.

9

• Maurice Binder, 72, American film title designer, lung cancer.
• Norris Bowden, 64, Canadian Olympic figure skater.
• Antoine Dignef, 80, Belgian cyclist.
• William Mims, 64, American actor, cardiac arrest.
• Forrest Towns, 77, American track and field athlete and Olympian, heart attack.

10

• Otto Berg, 84, Norwegian Olympic long jumper.
• Kevin Peter Hall, 35, American actor, AIDS.
• Sammy Holbrook, 80, American baseball player.
• Marian Kaiser, 58, Polish speedway rider.
• Natalie Schafer, 90, American actress, liver cancer.
• Paul Stader, 80, American actor and stuntman.
• Wu Yin, 81, Chinese actress.

11

• Chester Anderson, 58, American underground press poet and editor.
• Fredson Bowers, 85, American bibliographer.
• Walker Cooper, 76, American baseball player.
• Doris de Jong, 89, Dutch Olympic fencer.
• Bruno Hoffmann, 77, German glass harpist.
• Mikine Kuwahara, 95, Japanese politician.
• Dick Manning, 78, Russian-American songwriter.
• Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield, 95, British politician.

12

• Rod Leffanue, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Gene Lillard, 77, American baseball player.
• Tom Rosqui, 62, American actor, cancer.
• James Schuyler, 67, American poet, stroke.
• Harold Thomsett, 77, Australian cricketer.
• Orville Vogel, 83, American scientist and wheat biologist, cancer.
• Ivar Waller, 92, Swedish theoretical physicist.

13

• Bobby Boriello, 47, American mobster, shot.
• Serge David, 58, French racing cyclist.
• Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto, 82, Danish horn player.
• Kalevi Laurila, 53, Finnish Olympic skier.
• Leo Rodak, 77, American featherweight boxer.

14

• Dhalia, 66, Indonesian actress, cancer.
• Randolfo Pacciardi, 92, Italian politician.
• Lionello Levi Sandri, 80, Italian politician.
• Yosef Tekoah, 66, Polish-Israeli diplomat, heart attack.

15

• Francisco Herrera Luque, 63, Venezuelan writer, psychiatrist and diplomat.
• Dante Milano, 91, Brazilian poet.
• Teddy Petersen, 98, Danish violinist.
• George Withers, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Erich Zander, 86, German Olympic field hockey player.

16

• Qin Benli, 72, Chinese journalist, stomach cancer.
• Patrick Bergin, 78, Irish politician and trade union official.
• Homer Bigart, 83, American journalist, cancer.
• John V. Breakwell, 74, American control theorist.
• Bob Dill, 70, American ice hockey player.
• Roman Jasinski, 84, Polish ballet dancer.
• Sir David Lean, 83, English film director, Oscar winner, esophageal cancer.
• Rafton Pounder, 57, Northern Irish unionist politician.
• Al Verdel, 69, American baseball player.

17

• Henry Crouch, 77, English cricketer.
• Giovanni Malagodi, 86, Italian politician.
• Michael Long, 43, Australian actor, lung cancer.
• Les Mallon, 85, American baseball player.
• Michael Pertwee, 74, English screenwriter.
• Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, 74, Polish boxer and Holocaust survivor.
• Jack Yellen, 98, Polish-American lyricist.

18

• Ron Bottcher, 50, American opera singer, AIDS.
• Margret Buscher, 53, German Olympic sprinter.
• Gabriel Celaya, 80, Spanish poet.
• Thomas Arthur Connolly, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Martin Hannett, 42, English record producer, heart failure.
• John Morse Haydon, 71, American politician.
• Austin Bradford Hill, 93, English epidemiologist.
• Sheldon Jones, 69, American baseball player.
• Menios Koutsogiorgas, 68-69, Greek politician.
• Barry Rogers, 55, American trombonist.

19

• Dilara Aliyeva, 61, Soviet philologist and translator, traffic collision.
• Leon Foster, 77, Barbadian cricket player.
• Judy Gunn, 76, British actress.
• Stanley Hawes, 86, British-Australian filmmaker.
• Louise Dickinson Rich, 87, American writer.

20

• Hiroyuki Ebihara, 51, Japanese boxer.
• Seán Ó Faoláin, 91, Irish writer.
• Anton Kotzig, 71, Czechoslovak-Canadian mathematician.
• Steve Marriott, 44, English musician, house fire.
• Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga, 76, Ugandan Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Don Siegel, 78, American film director, cancer.
• Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, 74, Mongolian politician, bile duct cancer.
• Bucky Walters, 82, American baseball player.

21

• Richard Walker Bolling, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Willi Boskovsky, 81, Austrian violinist.
• Li Choh-ming, 79, Chinese-American economist and educator.
• Bernard Laidebeur, 48, French Olympic runner.
• Alexey Vodyagin, 66, Soviet footballer.
• Dick Weik, 63, American baseball player.

22

• Jack Kid Berg, 81, English boxer.
• Andrew Boyle, 71, Scottish journalist and biographer.
• Anne Howard, 66, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Karl Klasen, 81, German banker.
• Mikheil Meskhi, 54, Georgian football player.
• Sylvio Pirillo, 74, Brazilian footballer.
• Bob Shaddock, 70, American basketball player.
• Jason Richard Swallen, 87, American botanist.
• Feriha Tevfik, 80-81, Turkish actress, cerebral hemorrhage.

23

• Peter Brenchley, 54, Australian rules footballer.
• Paul Brickhill, 74, Australian author.
• Arthur Derounian, 82, Turkish-American journalist, heart attack.
• William Dozier, 83, American film and television producer, stroke.
• Lokman Hossain Fakir, 56, Bangladeshi musician.
• Harold Lang, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Joseph Simon Lord III, 78, American district judge.
• Johnny Thunders, 38, American musician, drug overdose.

24

• Mario Acchini, 75, Italian Olympic rower.
• Werner Neumann, 86, German musicologist.
• Haakon Tranberg, 74, Norwegian sprinter.
• Cafer Çağatay, 91-92, Turkish Olympic footballer.

25

• Lamberto V. Avellana, 76, Filipino film director.
• Laz Barrera, 66, Cuban-American racehorse trainer.
• Carl Brandt, 76, American composer.
• Bob DeWeese, 75, American basketball player.
• Michael Kühnen, 35, German neo-Nazi leader, AIDS.
• Theo Laseroms, 51, Dutch football player, heart attack.
• Antônio de Castro Mayer, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, respiratory failure.

26

• Nate Andrews, 77, American baseball player.
• Leo Arnaud, 86, French-American composer.
• Gordon Chalk, 77, Australian politician.
• Carmine Coppola, 80, American film composer, Oscar winner, stroke.
• Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, 88, French historian.
• A. B. Guthrie Jr., 90, American author.
• Lars Hall, 63, Swedish Olympic pentathlete.
• Richard Hatfield, 60, Canadian politician, brain cancer.
• Henry Lipson, 81, British physicist, heart attack.
• Ezio Marano, 63, Italian actor.
• Emily McLaughlin, 62, American actress, cancer.
• William Andrew Paton, 101, American accountancy scholar.
• Walter Reder, 76, Austrian war criminal.
• Thaddeus Anthony Shubsda, 66, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

27

• Georg Ehnes, 70, German politician.
• Alfred Eriksen, 72, Norwegian Olympic fencer.
• Juan Mirangels, 74, Spanish Olympic sailor.
• Pavlos Oikonomou-Gouras, 93, Greek diplomat.
• Joe Urso, 74, American basketball player.
• Robert Velter, 82, French cartoonist.
• Elinor Remick Warren, 91, American composer.

28

• Steve Broidy, 85, American film executive, heart attack.
• Ricardo Cardoso, 27, Brazilian Olympic judoka.
• Ken Curtis, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.
• Jean Goujon, 77, French racing cyclist and Olympian.
• Albrecht Joseph, 89, German playwright, screenwriter and film editor.
• Nicola Manzari, 82, Italian filmmaker.
• Floyd McKissick, 69, American lawyer and civil rights activist, lung cancer.
• Tommy Paul, 82, American boxer.
• Pushpavalli, 65, Indian actress, diabetes.
• Igal Roodenko, 74, American pacifist and civil rights activist.
• Harry Sorensen, 77, American basketball player.
• Ollie Spencer, 60, American football player, heart attack.
• Stan Turner, 64, English football player.
• Willy von Känel, 81, Swiss football player.

29

• Claude Gallimard, 77, French publisher.
• Gonzaguinha, 45, Brazilian singer, traffic collision.
• Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 44, American writer and horse breeder, cancer.
• Jackie Searl, 69, American actor.

30

• Simon Achikgyozyan, 52, Soviet Armenian soldier and war hero, killed in battle.
• André Badonnel, 92, French entomologist.
• Ghislaine Dommanget, 90, French-Monegasque royal and actress, princess consort.
• Tatul Krpeyan, 26, Soviet Armenian soldier and war hero, shot.
• Juozas Urbšys, 95, Lithuanian diplomat.