Deaths in May 1991

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

May 1991

1

• Jack Cope, 77, South African writer.
• Charles Sutherland Elton, 91, English zoologist.
• Frank N. Ikard, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Mary McAllister, 82, American silent film actress.
• Cesare Merzagora, 92, Italian politician, acting president.
• Richard Thorpe, 95, American film director.

2

• Gábor Boróczi, 52, Hungarian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Richard Threlkeld Cox, 92, American physicist.
• Robert Elter, 92, Luxembourgish Olympic footballer.
• Susan Fassbender, 32, English singer, suicide.
• Jens Haugland, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Charles Kaufman, 86, American screenwriter, pneumonia.
• Abby Crawford Milton, 110, American suffragist and supercentenarian.
• James Augustine Walsh, 84, American district judge.

3

• Harry Gibson, 75, American musician, heart failure.
• Eric Guy, 58, Australian rules footballer.
• Truus Klapwijk, 87, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
• Jerzy Kosiński, 57, Polish-American novelist, suicide by asphyxiation.
• Frank Leja, 55, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Günther Noack, 78, German figure skater.
• Yolande Plancke, 82, French Olympic sprinter.
• Carlos Márquez Sterling, 92, Cuban politician.
• Margaret Tallichet, 77, American actress, cancer.
• Don Whitmire, 68, American navy officer and college football player.

4

• Dennis Crosby, 56, American actor and singer, son of Bing Crosby, suicide by gunshot.
• George T. Delacorte Jr., 96, American magazine publisher.
• Luigi Facelli, 92, Italian hurdler and Olympian.
• Mohammed Khadda, 61, Algerian artist, lung cancer.
• Bill Macdonald, 62, American baseball player.
• Chandravadan Mehta, 90, Indian playwright and author.
• Eugene P. Spellman, 60, American district judge.
• Xiaocun Sun, 84, Chinese politician.
• Mohammed Abdel Wahab, 89, Egyptian singer, stroke.
• Bernie Winters, 60, English comedian, stomach cancer.

5

• Rolf Bremer, 64, German politician.
• Chaim Gross, 89, Austrian-American sculptor and educator, heart attack.
• Hermann Kopf, 89, German politician.
• Jimmy Lile, 57, American knifemaker.
• Rune Lindblad, 67, Swedish composer.
• Rolf Lund, 60, Norwegian Olympic sailor.
• Richard A. Teague, 67, American automobile designer.

6

• Mehrdad Avesta, 60, Iranian poet, heart attack.
• Virgil Calotescu, 63, Romanian film director.
• Thomas A. Carlin, 62, American actor.
• Konstantinos Engolfopoulos, 79, Greek navy officer.
• Wilfrid Hyde-White, 87, British actor, heart failure.
• Guido Martina, 85, Italian comic writer.
• Chucky Mullins, 21, American football player and quadriplegic, pulmonary embolism.
• Béla Pósa, 76, Hungarian footballer.
• Herbert Schäfer, 63, German footballer and Olympian.

7

• Martín Alarcón, 63, Mexican Olympic long-distance runner.
• Hans Bender, 84, German parapsychologist.
• Lucien Duquesne, 90, French Olympic runner.
• Glenn Eagleston, 70, American flying ace.
• Fred Eggan, 84, American anthropologist.
• Bill McPeak, 64, American football player, heart attack.
• Alexandre Prigogine, 78, Russian mineralogist and ornithologist.
• Wolfgang Reichmann, 59, German actor, heart attack.
• István Zsolt, 69, Hungarian football referee.

8

• Hans Arnold, 49, German footballer.
• Edward G. Breen, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Ralph Theodore Breyer, 87, American Olympic swimmer.
• Ronnie Brody, 72, British actor.
• Joseph Kramm, 83, American playwright.
• Hilde Krüger, 78, German actress.
• Jean Langlais, 84, French composer.
• Ronald McKie, 81, Australian novelist, kidney disease.
• Mireille Perrey, 87, French stage and film actress.
• Michel Robida, 81, French writer.
• Rudolf Serkin, 88, Austrian-American pianist, cancer.
• Cedric Tallis, 76, American baseball executive, heart attack.
• Alun Thomas, 65, Welsh rugby player.
• Friedelind Wagner, 73, German opera director.

9

• Loran Ellis Baker, 85, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Yanka Dyagileva, 24, Russian poet and singer-songwriter, suicide.
• Charles Fox, 69-70, English jazz critic.
• Flip Keegstra, 76, Dutch Olympic sailor.
• István Messzi, 29, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter, traffic collision.
• Adrian Anthony Spears, 80, American district judge.
• Ross Story, 71, Australian politician.

10

• Béla Balassa, 63, Hungarian economist.
• Thomas Leather, 80, Australian cricket player.
• Georg Strobl, 81, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Teisutis Zikaras, 68, Lithuanian-Australian sculptor.

11

• Ho Dam, 62, North Korean politician.
• Dino Di Luca, 88, Italian actor.
• Jusuf Hatunić, 40, Yugoslav football player.
• Friedrich Issak, 75, Estonian javelin thrower and journalist.
• Peter Mangels, 63, Brazilian Olympic sailor.
• Denis Zanoni, 50, Australian rules footballer.

12

• Danny Little Bear, 53, American professional wrestler, liver cancer.
• Leland Hickman, 56, American poet, AIDS.
• Clive Johnston, 65, Australian cricketer.
• Deny King, 81, Australian naturalist, environmentalist, and painter, heart attack.
• Aleksander Niezabitowski, 82, Polish footballer.
• Konstantin Sokolsky, 86, Latvian singer.

13

• Abderrahmane Farès, 80, Algerian politician.
• Hal Gregg, 69, American baseball player.
• David Mercer MacDougall, 86, Hong Kong politician.
• Delia Parodi, 78, Argentine politician.
• László Szomjas, 86, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter.
• Carl Weinrich, 86, American organist.

14

• Giampiero Albertini, 63, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Joy Batchelor, 77, English animator.
• Agehananda Bharati, 68, American Hindu monk and anthropologist, cancer.
• Omar Truman Burleson, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• José Carvalhosa, 80, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
• Aladár Gerevich, 81, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• High Echelon, 24, American thoroughbred racehorse.
• Jiang Qing, 77, Chinese actress and politician, widow of Mao Zedong, suicide by hanging.
• José María Rodero, 68, Spanish actor.
• Frank Sanucci, 90, Argentine-American composer.
• Louis Stynen, 84, Belgian architect.

15

• Shintarō Abe, 67, Japanese politician, liver cancer.
• Reno Browne, 70, American actress, cancer.
• Amadou Hampâté Bâ, 90-91, Malian writer and ethnologist.
• Andreas Floer, 34, German mathematician, suicide.
• Ken Jones, 88, American baseball player.
• Ronald Lacey, 55, English actor, liver cancer.
• Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, 89, Indian writer.
• Fritz Riess, 68, German racing driver.
• Fraser Sweatman, 77, Canadian figure skater and Olympian.
• Ed Weir, 88, American gridiron football player.
• William Williamson, 75, Canadian Olympic canoeist.
• İhsan Yüce, 62, Turkish actor.
• Vukašin Šoškoćanin, 32, Yugoslav military commander, drowned.

16

• Jim Bicknell, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Rufe Persful, 84, American criminal.
• Herbert Schäfer, 63, German football player.
• Willem Jacob Visser, 76, Dutch linguist.
• Osmar White, 82, Australian journalist.

17

• Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, 83, Belgian diplomat.
• Maurie Dunstan, 62, Australian footballer.
• Göthe Grefbo, 69, Swedish actor.
• G. Evelyn Hutchinson, 88, English ecologist.
• Herman Kalckar, 83, Danish biochemist.
• Harry Rée, 76, British academic.
• Ross Somerville, 88, Canadian golfer.
• Tom Trana, 53, Swedish rally driver, cancer.
• Ilse Trautschold, 85, German actress.

18

• Gerd Achgelis, 82, German aviator.
• Edwina Booth, 86, American actress.
• Muriel Box, 85, English screenwriter and director.
• Nicholas Elko, 81, American Catholic prelate.
• Litzi Friedmann, 81, Austrian spy for the Soviet Union.
• Gunnar Johansson, 85, Swedish composer.
• Rudolf Nierlich, 25, Austrian skier, traffic collision.
• Jimmy Thomson, 64, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Hoang Van Hoan, 85-86, Vietnamese politician.

19

• Gabino Arregui, 76, Argentine footballer.
• Lloyd Butler, 66, American Olympic rower.
• Odia Coates, 49, American singer, breast cancer.
• Royce Goodbread, 83, American football player.
• Wim Lakenberg, 70, Dutch football player.
• Mario Panzeri, 79, Italian composer.
• Greg Rice, 75, American long-distance runner, stroke.
• Nexhmedin Zajmi, 75, Albanian artist.

20

• Milko Bambič, 86, Italian artist.
• Bill Champion, 69, American racing driver.
• Zdzisław Kostrzewa, 35, Polish footballer.
• Joseph J. Maraziti, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Pete Runnels, 63, American baseball player, stroke.

21

• Ioan P. Culianu, 41, Romanian historian and philosopher, shot.
• Nicholas Dante, 49, American dancer and writer, AIDS.
• Rajiv Gandhi, 46, Indian politician, prime minister, suicide bombing.
• Julián Orbón, 65, Cuban composer, cancer.
• Sam Pothecary, 85, English cricketer.
• Kalaivani Rajaratnam, 22, Sri Lankan assassin of Rajiv Gandhi.

22

• Lino Brocka, 52, Filipino film director, traffic collision.
• Shripad Amrit Dange, 91, Indian politician.
• Valentin Iremonger, 73, Irish diplomat and poet.
• Derrick Henry Lehmer, 86, American mathematician.
• Jacob Millman, 79-80, Ukrainian-American electrical engineer.
• Stan Mortensen, 69, English footballer.
• Stan Richards, 59-60, American sportscaster.
• Ernie Robinson, 83, English footballer.
• René Soulier, 79, French Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Clarrie White, 77, Australian rules footballer.

23

• Manning Clark, 76, Australian historian.
• Henri Dauban de Silhouette, 90, British Olympic javelin thrower.
• David H. Frisch, 73, American nuclear physicist.
• Wilhelm Kempff, 95, German pianist.
• René Lefèvre, 93, French actor.
• Fletcher Markle, 70, Canadian filmmaker, heart failure.
• Edmond Michiels, 77, Belgian Olympic water polo player.
• Kemal Satır, 80, Turkish politician.
• Jean Van Houtte, 84, Belgian politician, prime minister.

24

• John Anderton, 61, South African Olympic sprinter.
• Mo Bassett, 60, American football player.
• Gene Clark, 46, American Hall of Fame singer, and songwriter, peptic ulcer disease.
• Bill Flynn, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Pat Scantlebury, 73, Panamanian-American baseball player.
• Juozas Ūdras, 66, Lithuanian Olympic fencer.

25

• Lorne MacLaine Campbell, 88, Scottish army officer.
• Eddie Fullerton, 56, Irish politician, shot.
• Gunnar Johansen, 85, Danish-American pianist, liver cancer.
• Bob Merrick, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Doug Nott, 79, American football player.

26

• Aleksandar Benko, 66, Yugoslav footballer.
• José Caballero, 75, Spanish painter.
• Doris M. Curtis, 77, American geologist.
• Claudine Dupuis, 67, French actress.
• Tom Eyen, 50, American playwright and lyricist, AIDS.
• Ossie Green, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Tim Landers, 80, Irish footballer.
• Eugène Lourié, 88, French filmmaker, stroke.
• Kisaburo Osawa, 80-81, Japanese aikido teacher.
• John Price, 71, American competitive sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
• Wilfrid Roberts, 90, British politician.
• Jean Salmon, 93, French Olympic equestrian.
• Nick Wasnie, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Hailu Yimenu, Ethiopian politician, suicide.
• Notable victims of Lauda Air Flight 004:
• *Clemens August Andreae, 62, Austrian economist and college professor.
• *Pairat Decharin, 54, Thai politician, governor of Chiang Mai Province.

27

• Ed Dodd, 88, American cartoonist.
• Eric Heffer, 69, British politician.
• Johnny Heimsch, 88, American football player.
• Herman Struve Hensel, 89, American lawyer, heart failure.
• Elimar Kloos, 83, German Olympic boxer.
• Leopold Nowak, 86, Austrian musicologist.

28

• Henrik Avellan, 89, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Roy Cullenbine, 77, American baseball player, heart disease.
• Garton Hone, 90, Australian tennis player.
• Victor Aloysius Meyers, 93, American politician and musician.
• Ethel L. Payne, 79, American journalist, editor, and foreign correspondent.
• Walter Steinbauer, 45, German bobsledder and Olympic medalist.

29

• Margaret Barr, 86, Australian choreographer.
• Peter Betz, 61, German Olympic rower.
• Coral Browne, 77, Australian-American actress, breast cancer.
• Rudolf Dobrijević, 85, Yugoslavian footballer.
• Harry Haenigsen, 90, American illustrator and cartoonist.
• Josef Lošek, 79, Czech Olympic cyclist.
• Andrew Mensaros, 69, Australian politician.
• John Tronolone, 80, American mobster.
• Henry Walston, Baron Walston, 78, British politician.

30

• Edgar Bodenheimer, 83, German-American author and law professor.
• Filip Bonačić, 80, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player.
• Manolo Gómez Bur, 74, Spanish actor.
• Federico De Luca, 77, Italian Olympic sailor.
• Uma Shankar Dikshit, 90, Indian politician.
• Walter Dirks, 90, German theologian.
• Roland V. Libonati, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Jim Magnuson, 44, American baseball player, alcohol poisoning.
• Eugene Oberst, 89, American football player, javelin thrower, and Olympic medalist.
• Lafayette G. Pool, 71, American tank commander.

31

• Rubens Josué da Costa, 62, Brazilian football player.
• Ronald Garvey, 87, British colonial administrator.
• Sherrill Halbert, 89, American district judge.
• Magnus Hestenes, 85, American mathematician.
• Ian Milner, 79, New Zealand political scientist and alleged KGB spy.
• Robert Schlapp, 91, British physicist.
• Hans Schwartz, 78, German footballer.
• Angus Wilson, 77, English novelist, stroke.
• Artur Woźniak, 77, Polish football player.
• Yuri Zhukov, 83, Soviet journalist, publicist and political figure.