Deaths in July 1991

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

July 1991

1

• Joost Baljeu, 65, Dutch artist.
• Paulo Mendes Campos, 69, Brazilian writer and journalist.
• Alfred Eisenbeisser, 83, Romanian football player and Olympic figure skater.
• Joachim Kroll, 58, German serial killer, necrophile and cannibal, heart attack.
• Michael Landon, 54, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Mike Reynolds, 27, Canadian soccer player.
• Ronald Sartori, 76, Australian cricketer.

2

• Shannie Barnett, 72, American basketball player.
• Bruno Engelmeier, 63, Austrian footballer and Olympian.
• Al Glossop, 76, American baseball player.
• Don Houghton, 61, British television screenwriter and producer.
• David Armine Howarth, 78, British naval officer, boatbuilder, and author.
• André Martin, 82, French Olympic sports shooter.
• Lee Remick, 55, American actress, kidney cancer.
• Arthur Robertson, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• José María Rosa, 84, Argentine historian.
• Ermanno Scaramuzzi, 63, Italian football player and coach.

3

• Dolly Anwar, 43, Bangladeshi actress and writer, suicide.
• Dick Delgado, 60, American Olympic wrestler.
• Ferdinand Denzler, 81, Swiss Olympic water polo player.
• Doro Levi, 93, Italian archaeologist.
• Domingo Tarasconi, 87, Argentine football player and Olympian.
• Lê Văn Thiêm, 73, Vietnamese mathematician.
• Sigismund Toduță, 83, Romanian composer, musicologist, and professor.
• Ephraim Urbach, 78–79, Israeli scholar and politician.
• Jimmy Van Alen, 88, American tennis official.
• Bernard Waley-Cohen, 77, British businessman and politician.
• Ernst Witt, 80, German mathematician.

4

• Victor Chang, 54, Chinese-Australian surgeon, shot.
• Ernie Hammerton, 64, Australian rugby player.
• Henry Koerner, 75, Austrian-American painter and graphic designer, bicycle accident.
• Hugo Lepe, 51, Chilean football player.
• Art Sansom, 70, American cartoonist.

5

• Mildred Dunnock, 90, American actress.
• Valentina Ivashova, 75, Soviet film actress.
• Bob Kennedy, 62, American gridiron football player.
• Nobuo Nakamura, 82, Japanese actor.
• Howard Nemerov, 71, American poet, cancer.
• Bjarne Schrøen, 73, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder.

6

• Raymond Boisset, 79, French Olympic sprinter.
• Léon Chertok, 79, French psychiatrist.
• Dorcas Cochran, 88, American lyricist and screenwriter.
• Nicholas P. Dallis, 79, American cartoonist.
• Renée Garilhe, 68, French fencer and Olympic medalist.
• Victor Korovin, 54, Soviet and Russian painter.
• Mudashiru Lawal, 37, Nigerian football player and Olympian.
• Stew Nairn, 59, New Zealand Olympic sports shooter.
• Ted Rudd, 70, Australian rugby league player.
• Thorley Walters, 78, English actor.
• Anton Yugov, 86, Bulgarian politician, prime minister.

7

• André Busch, 78, French Olympic water polo player.
• Suzy Prim, 94, French actress.
• Ivan Spiridonov, 85, Soviet statesman and party leader.
• Pete Williamson, 44, Canadian Olympic speed skater.
• Jan Wølner, 81, Norwegian pianist.

8

• Gordon Stewart Anderson, 33, Canadian writer, AIDS-related complications.
• William M. Callaghan, 93, American Navy officer.
• James Franciscus, 57, American actor, emphysema.
• Geoff Love, 73, British composer.
• Willie Nix, 68, American blues singer and drummer.
• Prem Nath Wahi, 83, Indian pathologist, writer, and academic.

9

• Danio Bardi, 54, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
• Kaj Frederiksen, 74, Danish Olympic boxer.
• Orhan Hançerlioğlu, 74, Turkish writer.
• José Salazar López, 81, Mexican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Michael Lynch, 46 or 47, American-born Canadian professor and AIDS activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Bill Miller, 66, American basketball player and college basketball coach.

10

• Lycia de Biase Bidart, 81, Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, and composer.
• Aase Bye, 87, Norwegian actress.
• Jerry Leaf, 50, American businessman and cryonics pioneer, heart attack.
• Grace MacInnis, 85, Canadian socialist politician.
• Gerome Ragni, 55, American songwriter, cancer.

11

• Osvaldo Carvajal, 76, Chilean football player.
• Roger Christian, 57, American lyricist, kidney failure.
• Mokhtar Dahari, 37, Malaysian football player, ALS.
• Atang de la Rama, 89, Filipino singer and actress.
• Fred Fechtman, 80, American basketball player.
• Hitoshi Igarashi, 44, Japanese scholar and translator, stabbed.
• James McCallion, 72, Irish-American actor.
• Morton Smith, 76, American professor of ancient history, heart failure.
• Gale Wilhelm, 83, American writer, cancer.
• Fehmi Yavuz, 79, Turkish civil servant, academic, and writer.

12

• Frederick Allen Aldrich, 64, American marine biologist.
• Luce Guilbeault, 56, Canadian actress, cancer.
• Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad Malhi, 79, Pakistani politician.
• Francis Mugavero, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, heart attack.
• Ken Yackel, 61, American ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

13

• Jacques Geus, 71, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Aldo Ghira, 71, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Riccardo Lattanzi, 57, Italian football referee.
• Ray McPharlin, 75, Australian politician.

14

• Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st Baronet, 89, British politician.
• Robert Clavel, 78, French art director.
• Axel Eggebrecht, 92, German journalist, writer and screenwriter.
• Ruth Haktin, 89, Russian-Israeli politician.
• Pavel Morozenko, 52, Soviet actor, drowned.
• Constance Stokes, 85, Australian painter.

15

• Arthur Briggs, 92, American jazz trumpeter and orchestra leader.
• Keith Brown, 78, American athlete, politician and businessman.
• Bert Convy, 57, American game show host, brain cancer.
• Mihály Fekete, 96, Hungarian Olympic racewalker.
• Roger Revelle, 82, American geophysicist, cardiac arrest.
• Joe Turnesa, 90, American golfer.
• Johnny Vergez, 85, American baseball player.

16

• Meindert DeJong, 85, Dutch-American children's author.
• Robert Motherwell, 76, American artist.
• Albert Eide Parr, 90, Norwegian-American marine biologist, zoologist and oceanographer.
• Frank Rizzo, 70, American politician, mayor of Philadelphia, heart attack.
• Robert Templeton, 62, American artist.
• Georges Tourry, 87, French architect.
• Dwight Weist, 81, American radio announcer, heart attack.

17

• Arthur Raymond Brooks, 95, American flying ace.
• Harold Butler, 78, English cricket player.
• Campbell Millar, 80, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• John O'Sullivan, 73, New Zealand cricketer.
• William Wesley Peters, 79, American architect.
• Joaquim Roderbourg, 73, Brazilian Olympic sailor.
• Angela Sidney, 89, Native Canadian author and storyteller.
• Johan Vogt, 90, Norwegian economist and journalist.

18

• Michele Alverà, 61, Italian Olympic bobsledder.
• Edmond Brossard, 91, French Olympic runner.
• André Cools, 63, Belgian politician, shot.
• Magnus Goodman, 93, Icelandic-Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Bruno Mondi, 87, German cameraman and director of photography.
• Ambrus Nagy, 63, Hungarian Olympic fencer, traffic collision.
• Hendrik Stroo, 63, Dutch Olympic canoer.

19

• Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, 56, Mexican writer.
• Odette du Puigaudeau, 96, French ethnologist, traveler and journalist.
• Charles-André Julien, 99, French journalist and historian.
• Niilo Nikunen, 78, Finnish Olympic skier.

20

• Vugar Huseynov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Aleksey Konsovsky, 79, Soviet actor.
• Joe Martinelli, 74, American soccer forward.
• Rellys, 85, French actor.
• Earl Robinson, 81, American composer, traffic collision.
• Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, 78, Indian royal, Maharaja of Travancore, stroke.

21

• Jasmine Bligh, 78, British television presenter.
• Helen Meany, 86, American diver and Olympic champion.
• Allan Oakley, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Glauco Pellegrini, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• Maxie Vaz, 68, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Paul Warwick, 22, British racing driver, racing accident.
• Allan Wilson, 56, New Zealand biochemist, leukemia.
• Theodore Wilson, 47, American actor, stroke.

22

• Louis-Henri Albinet, 93, French Olympic long jumper.
• Jack Albright, 70, American baseball player.
• Mike Baumgartner, 69, American Olympic bobsledder.
• André Dhôtel, 90, French writer, novelist, storyteller, and poet.
• José Gómez-Sicre, 75, Cuban lawyer, art critic and writer.
• John Human, 79, English cricket player.
• Andrew Lee Jones, 35, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
• John Reardon, 69, Australian cricketer.
• Jack Reardon, 77, Australian rugby player.

23

• Jūkei Fujioka, 57, Japanese actor and seiyū.
• Nora Gal, 79, Soviet translator and literary critic.
• Martin Hodgson, 82, English rugby player.
• Peter Kane, 73, English flyweight boxer and a world champions.
• Tadashi Katakura, 93, Japanese general.
• Mikhail Yasnov, 85, Soviet politician.

24

• Kaif Bhopali, 74, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
• Howie Carter, 86, American baseball player.
• Edmund Białas, 71, Polish football player.
• Freddie Brown, 80, English cricket player.
• Tadeusz Kwaśniak, 40, Polish serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, 87, Polish-American writer, Nobel Prize recipient, stroke.

25

• Eduardo de Guzmán, 83, Spanish journalist and writer.
• Henri George Doll, 88, French-American scientist.
• Lazar Kaganovich, 97, Soviet politician.
• Arthur Knight, 74, American movie critic, film historian, and TV host.
• George Meikle, 74, Australian cricketer.
• Douglas Stewart, 78, British Olympic equestrian.
• Harry Vallence, 86, Australian rules footballer.

26

• Frédéric Dumas, 78, French writer.
• Andrés Gómez, 77, Mexican Olympic basketball player.
• Marie-Louise Horn, 79, German tennis player.
• Jan Małkowiak, 72, Polish Olympic field hockey player.
• Maria Treben, 83, Austrian writer and herbalist.

27

• Martin Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee, 63, British politician.
• Pierre Brunet, 89, French-American Olympic figure skater.
• Gino Colaussi, 77, Italian football player.
• John Friedrich, 40, Australian fraudster, suicide by gunshot.
• Xu Shijie, 70, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
• Wolf Witzemann, 67, Austrian art director.

28

• Martin Bolger, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Suzanne Davis, 79, American figure skater and Olympian.
• Aad de Bruyn, 81, Dutch athlete and shot put champion.
• Ray Felix, 60, American basketball player.
• Jan Gonda, 86, Dutch indologist.
• Wang Ming-Dao, 91, Chinese protestant writer, evangelist and dissident.
• Al Huggins, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Pedro Massana, 67, Spanish Olympic rower.
• A. Al Moore, 76, American football player.
• Elko Mrduljaš, 81, Yugoslav Olympic rower.
• Dean Refram, 54, American golfer.

29

• María Antinea, 76, Spanish actress, vedette, and dancer.
• Christian de Castries, 88, French general.
• Yusuf Khattak, 73, Pakistani lawyer, politician, and intellectual.
• Albert Lord, 78, American academic.

30

• William Ball, 60, American stage director.
• Vincent P. Biunno, 75, American district judge.
• Tom Bridger, 57, English racing driver.
• Allen Conkwright, 94, American baseball player.
• Lee Eastman, 81, American business attorney, stroke.
• Benny Grant, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Flora Steiger-Crawford, 91, Swiss architect and sculptor.

31

• Miro Barešić, 40, Yugoslav-Croatian émigré and neo-fascist paramilitary, killed in action.
• Charlie Beal, 82, American jazz pianist.
• John Dobb, 89, American baseball player.
• Charles Jonker, 57, South African Olympic cyclist.
• Al Loquasto, 51, Italian-American racecar driver, plane crash.
• Nikola Yordanov, 52, Bulgarian football player.