Deaths in October 1991

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

October 1991

1

• Willie Borsch, 61, American drag racer.
• Jack Fidler, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Keith Ranspot, 77, American football player.
• Victor Teterin, 68, Soviet artist.
• Stu Williamson, 58, American jazz musician.

2

• Hazen Argue, 70, Canadian politician.
• Maria Aurèlia Capmany, 73, Spanish novelist, playwright and essayist.
• Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, 77, Turkish archbishop, heart attack.
• Hope Evans, 89, Australian rules footballer.
• Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, 93, American lawyer.
• Jim Handby, 88, Australian footballer and politician.
• Peter Heyworth, 70, American-British music critic and biographer, stroke.
• Mike McCarron, 69, American basketball player.
• Bo Westerberg, 77, Swedish Olympic sailor.

3

• Max Cantor, 32, American journalist and actor, heroin overdose.
• Ed Dancker, 77, American basketball player.
• Fazle Haq, 63, Pakistani general and politician, assassinated.
• Paule Herreman, 72, Belgian actress and television presenter.
• John Hood, 87, Australian diplomat.
• Gia Nadareishvili, 70, Soviet and Georgian chess player and author on chess studies.

4

• Heinrich Hellwege, 83, German politician.
• Josefina Valencia Muñoz, 78, Colombian politician.
• Laurie Taylor, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• John G. Williams Jr., 67, American admiral.
• J. Frank Wilson, 49, American singer, diabetes.

5

• Jørgen Beck, 76, Danish actor.
• Martin Ennals, 64, British human rights activist.
• Ramnath Goenka, 87, Indian newspaper publisher.
• Milan Milišić, 50, Yugoslav writer, shelling.
• Hope Portocarrero, 62, American-Nicaraguan socialite, First Lady of Nicaragua, cancer.

6

• Alfred Bencini, 74, Maltese Olympic sprinter.
• Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry, 87, British politician.
• Roger Forsythe, 36, American fashion designer, AIDS.
• Alphonse Gallegos, 60, American Roman Catholic bishop, traffic accident.
• Virginia Giorgi, 77, Italian Olympic gymnast.
• Michael Kinek, 74, American football player.
• Mark Shevelev, 86, Soviet pilot during World War II and polar aviation pioneer.
• Igor Talkov, 34, Soviet singer, shot.

7

• Leo Durocher, 86, American baseball player and manager.
• Alan Fletcher, 84, Australian politician.
• Natalia Ginzburg, 75, Italian writer and politician, cancer.
• Lindsay McNamara, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Darren Millane, 26, Australian rules football player, traffic collision.
• Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi, 61, Argentine writer and philosopher.
• Prentiss Taylor, 83, American illustrator, lithographer, and painter.

8

• Kevin Bond, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Ed Hanyzewski, 71, American baseball player.
• Arie Kaan, 89, Dutch Olympic hurdler.
• Dick Moynihan, 89, American football player.
• Edward Skórzewski, 61, Polish film director and screenwriter.
• Lyall Smith, 76, American sports writer and editor.
• Zoska Veras, 99, Belarusian writer and poet.
• Maria Zubreeva, 91, Soviet painter, watercolorist, and graphic artist.

9

• Roy Black, 48, German schlager singer and actor, heart failure.
• Sumiyuki Kotani, 88, Japanese martial artist and Olympian.
• Dagmar Lange, 77, Swedish author of crime fiction.
• Camille Libar, 73, Luxembourgish football player and manager.
• Doris Lilly, 69, American newspaper columnist and writer, cancer.
• Charlie Moss, 80, American baseball player.
• Tom Philpott, 49, American professor, suicide by gunshot.
• Thalmus Rasulala, 51, American actor, heart attack.

10

• Victor Christgau, 97, American politician.
• Leonard Cook, 78, Australian Olympic boxer.
• Pío Cabanillas Gallas, 67, Spanish jurist and politician, heart attack.
• Nickolaus Hirschl, 85, Austrian wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Yaroslav Lesiv, 46, Ukrainian poet and priest, traffic collision.
• Bob Morgan, 61, American gridiron football player.
• Wiesława Noskiewicz, 80, Polish Olympic gymnast.
• Gamble Rogers, 54, American musician, drowned.
• Andrzej Zaucha, 42, Polish rhythm & blues and pop-jazz singer, and actor, shot.

11

• Gene Barth, 61, American football player.
• Pietro Ferraris, 79, Italian football player.
• Ron Ferrier, 77, English footballer.
• Redd Foxx, 68, American actor, heart attack.
• Luke Higgins, 70, American gridiron football player.
• Clay Kirby, 43, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Branislav Mihajlović, 54, Serbian football player.
• Martin Olofsson, 99, Swedish Olympic weightlifter.
• Art Strobel, 68, Canadian-born American ice hockey player.
• Lidiya Sukharevskaya, 82, Soviet stage actress and playwright.
• Carroll Williams, 74, American zoologist, lymphoma.

12

• Ian Ayre, 62, Australian tennis player.
• Narciso Horacio Doval, 47, Argentine football player, heart attack.
• Sheila Florance, 75, Australian actress, lung cancer.
• Diana Gibson, 76, American film actress.
• Severo Gomes, 68, Brazilian politician, plane crash.
• Ulysses Guimarães, 76, Brazilian politician, plance crash.
• Aline MacMahon, 92, American actress, pneumonia.
• Taso Mathieson, 83, British racing driver and author of automotive history books.
• Regis Toomey, 93, American actor.
• Grigoris Vlastos, 84, Greek scholar of ancient philosophy.

13

• William Gentry, 92, New Zealand Military Forces general.
• Owen Guyatt, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Donald Houston, 67, Welsh actor, stroke.
• Sixten Johansson, 81, Swedish Olympic ski jumper.
• János Kelen, 80, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Hugh Molson, Baron Molson, 88, British politician.
• Daniel Oduber Quirós, 70, Costa Rican politician, president.
• Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, 59, Spanish politician and businessman.

14

• Thomas H. Eliot, 84, American lawyer, politician, and academic.
• Walter M. Elsasser, 87, German-American physicist.
• Al Goldstein, 55, American football player.
• Richard Hittleman, 64, American yoga teacher and author.
• Jay Richard Kennedy, 80, American writer, screenwriter, composer, and record executive.
• David Neville, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.

15

• Antonio Canale, 76, Italian comic writer and artist.
• John Greenway, 71, American folklorist and folk singer.
• Verda James, 90, Canadian-American politician.
• Robert Pastene, 73, American actor.
• Han Ying-chieh, 64, Hong Kong actor, cancer.

16

• Arthur E. Arling, 85, American cameraman and cinematographer.
• Ole Beich, 36, Danish bassist, drowned.
• Walter Buswell, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Lore Fischer, 80, German singer.
• Giacomo Mari, 66, Italian football player and Olympian.
• Boris Papandopulo, 85, Croatian composer.
• Juku Pent, 72, Estonian-born German Olympic cross-country skier.
• Barry Wong, 44, Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and actor, heart attack.
• Blago Zadro, 47, Croatian army officer, killed in action.

17

• John C. Bailar, Jr., 87, American chemist and academic.
• Herman Maxwell Batten, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• J. G. Devlin, 84, Northern Irish actor.
• Tennessee Ernie Ford, 72, American singer, liver failure.
• Władysław Giergiel, 74, Polish football player.
• Håkon Johnsen, 77, Norwegian politician.
• Harlan James Smith, 67, American astronomer.
• Piet van Est, 57, Dutch cyclist.

18

• Enrico Boniforti, 73, Italian football player.
• Ron Cooper, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Stephen Dickson, 40, American baritone, complications from AIDS.
• Bronisław Gosztyła, 56, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Judith Sulian, 71, Argentine film actress.
• Gunnar Sønstevold, 78, Norwegian composer.

19

• George Beaumont, 87, British Olympic rower.
• Walter Gericke, 83, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
• Henry Holst, 92, Danish violinist.
• Gheorghe Pahonțu, 58, Romanian football player.
• Otakar Rademacher, 65, Czech Olympic boxer.
• Howard Swearer, 59, American academic, cancer.
• Naum Vilenkin, 70, Soviet mathematician.

20

• Georges Beuchat, 81, French inventor, businessman, and underwater diving pioneer.
• Marcus Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter.
• Clifford Last, 72, English sculptor.
• Susan Noel, 79, English squash and tennis player.
• J. Graham Parsons, 83, American diplomat.
• Yehuda Tzadka, 81, Israeli rabbi and rosh yeshiva.

21

• Lorenc Antoni, 82, Kosovo Albanian composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist.
• Louis Calabro, 64, Italian American orchestral composer.
• Lev Chegorovsky, 77, Soviet and Russian artist.
• Bobby Coombs, 83, American baseball player.
• Jim Hamby, 94, American baseball player.

22

• Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, 40, American writer and performance artist, suicide by exsanguination.
• Robert Carlin, 90, Canadian politician.
• Joy Harington, 77, English television actress, writer, producer, and director.
• Hachiro Kasuga, 67, Japanese singer.
• Judy Kelly, 77, Australian-British actress.

23

• Derek Edge, 49, English football player.
• Job Stewart, 57, British stage and screen actor.
• Július Torma, 69, Slovak boxer and Olympic champion.
• Alida van Leeuwen, 83, Dutch Olympic diver.

24

• Ismat Chughtai, 76, Indian Urdu novelist, humanist and filmmaker.
• J. A. Milton Perera, 62, Sri Lankan singer and composer.
• Gene Roddenberry, 70, American television producer, cardiac arrest.
• Toivo Salminen, 67, Finnish Olympic field hockey player.
• Vilko Ukmar, 86, Slovenian composer.
• Luisa Vehil, 78, Uruguayan theater and movie actress.

25

• Albert Baldauf, 73, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Joe Bokina, 81, American baseball player.
• George Brunet, 56, American baseball player.
• Khigh Dhiegh, 81, American actor.
• Bill Graham, 60, German-American impresario, helicopter crash.
• Ray Harry, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Ron Harvey, 55, Australian rules footballer.
• Israel Krupp, 83, Norwegian footballer.
• Louis le Grange, 63, Lawyer, a South African politician.
• Tamaz Namgalauri, 34, Georgian judoka and Olympian.
• John Stratton, 65, British actor.
• Walter Stude, 77, American Olympic field hockey player.

26

• Henry Wilson Allen, 79, American writer and screenwriter, pneumonia.
• Bill Bevens, 75, American baseball player, lymphoma.
• Vivian Dandridge, 70, American singer, actress and dancer, stroke.
• Gladys Davis, 72, Canadian baseball player.
• Major Holley, 67, American jazz bassist.
• Ed Justice, 78, American gridiron football player.
• Gabe Patterson, 72, American baseball and Canadian football player.
• Jack Sanders, 74, American football player.
• Enrique Sorrel, 79, Chilean football player and manager.
• Tahira Tahirova, 77, Soviet politician and diplomat.
• Osvaldo Wenzel, 80, Chilean Olympic decathlete.

27

• George Barker, 78, English poet.
• Robert Gindre, 80, French Olympic cross country skier.
• Rocky Hata, 43, Japanese professional wrestler, diabetes.
• Howard Kingsbury, 87, American Olympic rower.
• Pyke Koch, 90, Dutch artist.
• Andrzej Panufnik, 77, Polish composer.

28

• Sylvia Fine, 78, American lyricist, composer, and producer, emphysema.
• Joseph Fletcher, 86, American professor.
• John Kobal, 51, Austrian film historian, pneumonia.
• Ilie Murgulescu, 89, Romanian physical chemist and a communist politician.
• Akram Ojjeh, 73, Syrian-Saudi businessman, diabetes.
• George Treweek, 86, Australian rugby player.
• Billy Wright, 59, American singer, pulmonary embolism.

29

• Cyril Black, 89, British politician.
• Lee Boltin, 73, American photographer, leukemia.
• Donald Churchill, 60, English actor and playwright, heart attack.
• Jimmie Coker, 55, American baseball player, heart attack.
• John DeCuir, Sr., 73, American art director and production designer, Oscar winner.
• Hikmat Muradov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Nigel Poett, 84, British Army officer.
• Mario Scelba, 90, Italian politician, Prime Minister, thrombosis.
• Jean Schmit, 76, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Johan Støa, 91, Norwegian multi-sportsman and Olympian.
• Carl Tomasello, 74, American football player.

30

• Aniela Jaffé, 88, German-Swiss psychoanalysts.
• Ellis Kolchin, 75, American mathematician and academic, pancreatic cancer.
• George Lambert, 72, English cricket player.
• Prince Emich, 7th Prince of Leiningen, 65, German noble and entrepreneur.
• Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, 84, Nazi German Schutzstaffel officer and politician.
• Richard Savignac, 86, French Olympic boxer.

31

• Gene Anderson, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Ewald Bucher, 77, German politician.
• Garvin Bushell, 89, American musician and multi-instrumentalist.
• Charles K.L. Davis, 66, American opera singer and musician.
• John M. Dooley, 94, American football player.
• Alexander Frick, 81, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister.
• Simon Gjoni, 66, Albanian conductor, and composer.
• Frederick Hartt, 77, Italian Renaissance scholar and author.
• Dick Joy, 75, American radio and television announcer.
• Agnes Katharina Maxsein, 86, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Joseph Papp, 70, American theatrical producer, prostate cancer.
• Dixie Parsons, 75, American baseball player.