Deaths in January 1991

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

January 1991

1

• Inga Gentzel, 82, Swedish Olympic runner.
• Dáithí Ó Conaill, 52, Irish politician and republican.
• Jerome Arthur Pechillo, 71, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Nicolae Petrescu, 77, Romanian football player and manager.
• Buck Ram, 83, American songwriter and music producer.
• Shinji Tatsuta, 76, Japanese Olympic ski jumper.

2

• Sydney Caine, 88, British economist and educator.
• Edmond Jabès, 78, Egyptian-French writer and poet.
• Joseph C. Fegan Jr., 70, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
• Irving Johnson, 85, American sailor, adventurer, and writer.
• Jo Ann Marlowe, 55, American child actress.
• Hiroshi Noma, 75, Japanese writer, cancer.
• Gilbert Price, 48, American actor, asphyxiation.
• Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, 78, Pakistani politician.
• John Rapacz, 66, American football player.
• Renato Rascel, 78, Italian actor and singer, heart attack.
• Joseph J. Spengler, 88, American economist, Alzheimer's disease.

3

• Fayeq Abdul-Jaleel, 42, Kuwaiti poet, playwright and lyricist, execution.
• Luke Appling, 83, American Hall of Fame baseball player.
• João Azevedo, 75, Portuguese footballer.
• Tom Baker, 77, American baseball player.
• Walter Boninsegni, 88, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Anna Gmeyner, 88, Austrian-English writer.
• Art Hyatt, 78, American basketball player.
• Andrei Kerekeș, 65, Romanian Olympic gymnast.
• Cipe Pineles, 82, Austrian-American graphic designer, heart attack.
• Reuben Tam, 74, American painter, lymphoma.
• Doris Zinkeisen, 93, Scottish theatrical designer.

4

• Eddie Barefield, 81, American jazz musician, heart attack.
• Bill Byrd, 83, American baseball player.
• Tommy Harris, 67, American baseball player.
• Joe Hoague, 72, American football player.
• Berry Kroeger, 78, American actor, kidney failure.
• Ib Storm Larsen, 65, Danish Olympic rower.
• Zvonko Lepetić, 62, Yugoslav actor, heart attack.
• Poon Lim, 72, Chinese sailor.
• Richard Maibaum, 81, American playwright and screenwriter.
• Thomas Stanley Matthews, 89, American magazine editor, lung cancer.
• Tokushige Noto, 88, Japanese Olympic sprinter.
• Eric Rodin, 60, American baseball player.
• Sanmao, 47, Chinese-born Taiwanese writer and translator, suicide by hanging.
• Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah, 84, Indian judge and Chief Justice of India.
• Leo Wright, 57, American jazz musician, heart attack.

5

• Hubert Butler, 90, Irish writer.
• Roy Day, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Tommie Dukes, 84, American baseball player.
• Johnny Eck, 79, American freak show performer and actor, heart attack.
• Tõnis Kint, 94, Estonian politician.
• Walt Lamb, 70, American football player.
• Vasko Popa, 68, Yugoslav poet.
• Ted Robertson, 61, Australian politician.

6

• Ed Beinor, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Jim Brown, 78, American basketball player.
• Heinrich Dathe, 80, German zoologist, cancer.
• Bobby Estalella, 79, Cuban baseball player.
• Antonio Blanco Freijeiro, 67, Spanish archaeologist.
• Nicholas Marsicano, 82, American painter.
• Ravikant Nagaich, 59, Indian filmmaker.
• Marko Nikezić, 69, Yugoslav politician.
• Ahmed Adnan Saygun, 83, Turkish composer and musicologist.
• Hermann Schlöske, 85, German Olympic sprinter.
• Alan Wiggins, 32, American baseball player, AIDS.

7

• Mitchell Harry Cohen, 86, American district judge.
• Kondrat Krapiva, 94, Soviet writer.
• Henri Louveau, 80, French racing driver.
• José Guilherme Merquior, 49, Brazilian writer and diplomat, cancer.
• Josef Stroh, 77, Austrian football player, Olympian, and manager.
• Charlotte Wynters, 91, American actress.

8

• Steve Clark, 30, English guitarist and songwriter, alcohol poisoning.
• Ursula Hirschmann, 77, German anti-fascist.
• Henry Rainsford Hulme, 82, British nuclear physicist.
• Windy Nicklaus, 87, American gridiron football player.

9

• Salatyn Asgarova, 29, Soviet journalist, shot.
• Cuthbert Bardsley, 83, British Anglican prelate.
• J. McVicker Hunt, 84, American psychologist.
• Roland Laudenbach, 69, French writer, editor, and journalist.
• Antonio León Ortega, 83, Spanish sculptor.
• Soemarno Sosroatmodjo, 79, Indonesian politician.
• Charles Sterling, 89, Polish-French art historian.

10

• Eva Bosáková, 59, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast.
• Malte Jaeger, 79, German actor, embolism.
• Richard Kuremaa, 78, Estonian football player.
• Bob Wallis, 56, British jazz musician.

11

• Carl David Anderson, 85, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient.
• Larry Condon, 57, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Garland Frazier, 73, American sports coach.
• Maxine Jennings, 81, American actress.
• Sepp Ketterer, 91, Austrian cinematographer.
• Jaroslav Kučera, 61, Czech cinematographer.
• Walter Frederick Kuhl, 85, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Charles Mozley, 76, British painter.
• Sarangapani Raman, 70-71, Indian football player and Olympian.
• Alec Rose, 82, English sailor.
• Ronald Sanders, 58, American journalist.
• Georg Schäfer, 64, German writer, heart attack.

12

• Charles Drury, 78, Canadian politician.
• Eric Evans, 69, English rugby player.
• Geoff Iden, 76, British runner and Olympian.
• Robert Jackson, 79, Australian public servant.
• Tom Johannessen, 57, Norwegian footballer.
• Keye Luke, 86, Chinese-American actor, stroke.
• Doug McEnulty, 68, American football player.
• Vasco Pratolini, 77, Italian writer.
• Niels Rasmussen, 68, Danish Olympic rower.
• Arthur L. White, 83, American Seventh-day Adventist writer, and theology professor.

13

• François Falc'hun, 89, French linguist.
• Tribhuvandas Luhar, 82, Indian poet.
• Eladio Rojas, 56, Chilean football player.
• Ed Williamson, 78, American football coach, cancer.

14

• David Arkin, 49, American actor, suicide.
• Duncan Black, 82, Scottish economist.
• Gordon Bryant, 76, Australian politician.
• Chitragupta, 73, Indian composer.
• Donald Coleman, 65, British politician, heart attack.
• Miles Copeland, Jr., 74, American musician and CIA officer, heart attack.
• Heli Finkenzeller, 76, German actress.
• Irwin Goodman, 47, Finnish singer, heart attack.
• Salah Khalaf, 57-58, Palestinian politician, shot.
• Harry Shorten, 77, American writer, editor, and book publisher.
• Roger Tubby, 80, American diplomat and press secretary.
• Cliff Tyson, 81, Australian rules footballer.

15

• Leona Baumgartner, 88, American physician.
• Amédée Isola, 92, French Olympic runner.
• Vishwa Gopal Jhingran, 72, Indian zoologist.
• Lyle Judy, 77, American baseball player.
• Julius Podlipny, 92, Czechoslovak and Romanian artist.
• Karl L. Rankin, 92, American diplomat, prostate cancer.
• Tony Slydini, 90, Italian-American magician.
• Bob Stirling, 71, English rugby union player.

16

• Preston Cloud, 78, American paleontologist, pneumonia.
• Rinaldo Del Bo, 74, Italian politician.
• Nicholas Mansergh, 80, British historian.
• Jabbo Smith, 82, American jazz musician.

17

• Marv Breuer, 76, American baseball player.
• Denis Johansson, 62, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Giacomo Manzù, 82, Italian sculptor.
• John C. Morgan, 76, American Air Force pilot and Medal of Honor recipient, Alzheimer's disease.
• Paul Mross, 80, Polish-German chess player.
• Olav V of Norway, 87, Norwegian royal, king, and Olympic sailor, heart attack.
• Scott Speicher, 33, United States Navy aviator, killed in action.

18

• Bryan Alton, 71, Irish politician and physician.
• Charles W. Davis, 73, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Hamilton Fish III, 102, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Vic Fusia, 77, American gridiron football player and coach, heart attack.
• Herb Harris, 77, American baseball player.
• Leo Hurwitz, 81, American documentary filmmaker, colon cancer.
• Jakob Kiefer, 71, German Olympic gymnast.
• Gilberte Mortier, 83, French Olympic swimmer.

19

• Uzeir Abduramanov, 74, Soviet Red Army officer and war hero during World War II.
• Don Beddoe, 87, American actor.
• Paul Bikle, 74, American aeronautical engineer.
• Winston H. Bostick, 74, American physicist, lung cancer.
• Maria Brodacka, 86, Polish painter.
• Marcel Chaput, 72, Canadian Quebecois independence activist.
• Bobby Combe, 66, Scottish footballer.
• Arnulfo Hernández, 87, Mexican Olympic sports shooter.
• Gernot Reinstadler, 20, Austrian skier, skiing accident.
• John Russell, 70, American actor, emphysema.
• Roy Weatherly, 75, American baseball player.

20

• Irv Brenner, 77, American basketball player.
• Joseph Carroll, 80, American general, Alzheimer's disease.
• Harry Giese, 87, German actor and narrator.
• Louis Hardiquest, 80, Belgian cyclist.
• Herbie Lewis, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Owen Madden, 74, Irish footballer.
• Frank Pfütze, 32, German Olympic swimmer, heart failure.
• Louis Seigner, 87, French actor, house fire.
• James Stewart, 84, American Olympic athlete.
• Stan Szelest, 48, American musician, heart attack.
• Alfred Wainwright, 84, British writer.
• Aldert van der Ziel, 80, Dutch physicist.

21

• Cornelia Aalten, 77, Dutch Olympic runner.
• Muhammad Taqi Amini, 64, Indian theologian.
• John Bicknell Auden, 87, English geologist.
• Ganga Devi, 63, Indian painter.
• James W. Duckett, 79, American military academic.
• Mieczysław Gracz, 71, Polish footballer.
• Nick Gulas, 76, American professional wrestling promoter.
• Eigil Hansen, 68, Danish Olympic field hockey player.
• Frank Mitchell, 85, American actor, cardiac arrest.
• Princess Ileana of Romania, 82, Romanian royal, heart attack.

22

• Kenos Aroi, 48, Nauruan politician, president.
• Robert Choquette, 85, Canadian novelist.
• Les Gore, 77, English footballer.
• Arnholdt Kongsgaard, 76, Norwegian skier and Olympian.
• Kristo Kono, 83, Albanian composer.
• An Yeong-sik, 62-63, South Korean Olympic basketball player.

23

• Northrop Frye, 78, Canadian literary critic and theorist.
• Herbert Fröhlich, 85, German-British physicist.
• Percy Furler, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Ester Graff, 93, Danish feminist and businesswoman.
• Václav Janeček, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic sprinter.
• Annie Markart, 83, German actress.
• P. Padmarajan, 45, Indian film maker, screenwriter and author, cardiac arrest.
• Nikolai Talyzin, 61, Soviet economist.
• Luis Hernán Álvarez, 52, Chilean footballer, stomach cancer.

24

• Rūdolfs Bārda, 87, Latvian Olympic footballer.
• Tom Becker, 67, American basketball player.
• Everett Freeman, 79, American screenwriter.
• John M. Kelly, 59, Irish politician, heart attack.
• John Middleton, 84, British Olympic racing cyclist.
• Sarashi Ranjan Mukherjee, 71, Indian surgeon and a neurobiologist.
• Jack Schaefer, 83, American writer, heart failure.
• Sensitive Prince, 15, American thoroughbred racehorse.

25

• Ern Aitchison, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Lilian Bond, 83, English-American actress, heart attack.
• Stanley Brock, 59, American actor, heart attack.
• Diana Turbay Castillo, 40, Colombian journalist, shot.
• Hoot Evers, 69, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Per Gjelten, 63, Norwegian Olympic skier.
• Fiorenzo Marini, 76, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Ismail Marjan, 70, Singaporean badminton player.
• Lafran Pane, 69, Indonesian academic, traffic collision.
• Gino Pollini, 88, Italian architect.
• Frank Soo, 76, English footballer, dementia.

26

• Wilbur Fox, 72, American basketball player.
• Des Koch, 58, American Olympic discus thrower.
• Glenn Langan, 73, American actor, lymphoma.
• Orestes López, 82, Cuban musician.
• Hans Strååt, 73, Swedish actor.
• Johnny van Doorn, 46, Dutch writer, cancer.
• Karen Young, 39, American disco singer, peptic ulcer bleeding.

27

• Zheng Dongguo, 88, Chinese National Revolutionary Army officer.
• George Hazelwood Locket, 90, British arachnologist.
• Dale Long, 64, American baseball player, cancer.
• Miroslav Válek, 63, Czechoslovak poet and politician.
• Leif Wikström, 72, Swedish Olympic sailor.

28

• Red Grange, 87, American Hall of Fame gridiron football player, Parkinson's disease.
• Christopher Jackman, 74, American politician.
• Nikola Radović, 57, Yugoslav football player and Olympian.
• Richard Earl Robinson, 87, American district judge.
• Alexander M. Schmidt, 61, American physician and government official, coronary artery disease.

29

• Jal Cursetji, 71, Indian naval admiral.
• Ingebrigt Davik, 65, Norwegian children's writer, singer and songwriter..
• Hasan Dosti, 96, Albanian politician.
• Joan Gilbert, 84, English broadcaster.
• Yasushi Inoue, 83, Japanese writer.
• Władysław Król, 83, Polish Olympic ice hockey player, and football player, football player and coach.
• V. N. Navaratnam, 61, Sri Lankan politician, heart attack.
• Arne Robertsson, 48, Swedish wrestler and Olympian.
• Joe Stynes, 88, Irish footballer.

30

• John Bardeen, 82, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, heart attack.
• Lemoine Batson, 92, American Olympic ski jumper.
• Kurt Bittel, 83, German prehistorian.
• Clifton C. Edom, 83, American photojournalist.
• Marcel Galey, 85, French footballer.
• Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, 83, Welsh politician.
• John McIntire, 83, American actor, lung cancer.
• José Ferrater Mora, 78, Spanish philosopher, heart attack.

31

• Robert J. Havighurst, 90, American chemist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Márcio Melo, 84, Brazilian politician.
• Kostas Mountakis, 64, Greek musician.
• Åge Rønning, 65, Norwegian writer and journalist.
• Justin Apostol, 69, Romanian football player.