Deaths in September 1991

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

September 1991

1

• Otl Aicher, 69, German graphic designer and typographer, traffic collision.
• Don Campbell, 74, American football player.
• Allan Grossman, 80, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Luis Negrón López, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
• Hannibal Valdimarsson, 88, Icelandic politician.

2

• Arnold Chernushevich, 58, Soviet fencer and Olympic medalist.
• František Hanus, 75, Czech actor.
• Laura Riding, 90, American writer, cardiac arrest.
• Alfonso García Robles, 80, Mexican diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient.
• Henri Van Poucke, 85, Belgian footballer.

3

• Jean Bourgoin, 78, French cinematographer, Oscar winner.
• Frank Capra, 94, Italian-American film director, Oscar winner, heart attack.
• Eduardo Cordero, 69, Chilean Olympic basketball player.
• Falk Harnack, 78, German film director.
• Daniel Prenn, 86, Polish-German-British tennis player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Chico Renfroe, 68, American baseball player.

4

• Charlie Barnet, 77, American jazz musician.
• Henri de Lubac, 95, French cardinal.
• Azellus Denis, 84, Canadian politician.
• Knud Hallest, 82, Danish film actor.
• Tom Tryon, 65, American actor and novelist, stomach cancer.
• Dottie West, 58, American country singer, complications from a traffic collision.

5

• Loyd Christopher, 71, American baseball player.
• Raymond Dronne, 83, French resistance fighter during World War II.
• Sharad Joshi, 60, Indian poet, writer, and satirist.
• Carol Kalish, 36, American writer, editor, and comic book retailer, intracranial aneurysm.
• Åke Nilsson, 63, Swedish Olympic alpine skier.
• Alexander Pushnin, 70, Soviet painter.
• Peter Slaghuis, 30, Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer, traffic collision.
• Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, 90, Turkish artist.

6

• Eugene Bolden, 92, American Olympic swimmer.
• Donald Henry Gaskins, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by electric chair.
• Bob Goldham, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Mohamad Noah Omar, 93, Malaysian politician.
• Alfredo Rizzo, 89, Italian actor.
• Robert Stoller, 66, American psychiatrist and researcher, traffic collision.

7

• Buddy Banks, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist, pianist, and bandleader.
• Héctor-Neri Castañeda, 66, Guatemalan-American philosopher and publisher.
• John Crosby, 79, American media critic, cancer.
• John H. Lawrence, 87, American physicist.
• Edwin McMillan, 83, American physicist, first to synthesize neptunium, Nobel Prize recipient, complications of diabetes mellitus.
• Chintaman Govind Pandit, 96, Indian virologist and writer.
• Haakon Pedersen, 84, Norwegian Norwegian Olympic speed skater.
• Ben Piazza, 58, American actor, AIDS-related cancer.
• Ravi Narayana Reddy, 83, Indian communist politician and peasant leader.
• Reg Richards, 73, Australian rules footballer.

8

• Odd Bull, 84, Norwegian Air Force general.
• Brad Davis, 41, American actor, assisted suicide.
• Gordon Gunson, 87, English footballer.
• Latif Karimov, 84, Azerbaijani artist.
• Clem Koshorek, 66, American baseball player.
• Frank Neenan, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Alex North, 80, American film composer, Emmy winner.
• Luigi Pareyson, 73, Italian philosopher.
• Hans Pointner, 82, Austrian Olympic wrestler.
• Mack Reynolds, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Lou Rosenberg, 87, American baseball player.

9

• Concetto Lo Bello, 67, Italian football referee and politician.
• Åke Holmberg, 84, Swedish writer and translator.
• Efraim Racker, 78, Austrian biochemist, stroke.
• Les Rock, 79, American baseball player.
• Henri H. Stahl, 90, Romanian marxist cultural anthropologist and social historian.

10

• Jack Crawford, 83, Australian tennis player.
• Jan Józef Lipski, 65, Polish writer and politician.
• Gordon Maffina, 65, Australian rules footballer.
• Eila Pehkonen, 66, Finnish actress.
• António Reis, 64, Portuguese film director, screenwriter, and producer.
• Michel Soutter, 59, Swiss film director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Herbie Tonkes, 70, Australian rules footballer.

11

• Gail Borden, 84, American figure skater and Olympian.
• Lois Florreich, 64, American baseball player.
• Rudy Gollomb, 79, American football player.
• Rudolf Kaiser, 69, German aerospace engineer.
• Iosif Lengheriu, 77, Romanian football player.
• Wera Liessem, 78, German actress.
• Ernie Nunn, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Frank Perantoni, 67, American football player.
• Viktor Tegelhoff, 72, Slovak football player and coach.
• María Guillermina Valdes Villalva, 51, American scholar and activist, plane crash.

12

• Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, 79, Scottish nobleman, general practitioner and farmer.
• Saburo Date, 67, Japanese actor.
• Milton Harris, 85, American chemist.
• Franz Keller, 78, Swiss psychologist.
• Feliks Konarski, 84, Polish poet, songwriter, and cabaret performer.
• Bruce Matthews, 82, Canadian army officer.
• Chris Von Erich, 21, American professional wrestler, suicide.
• Joseph Wirtz, 79, French Olympic hammer thrower.
• Harland G. Wood, 84, American biochemist.

13

• Orlando Asbury, 94, American baseball player.
• Baruch Ashlag, 84, Polish rabbi.
• Michael Harrison, 84, English detective and fantasy writer.
• Robert Irving, 78, British conductor.
• Huy Kanthoul, 82, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister.
• Erich Kern, 85, Austrian journalist, nazi propagandist during World War II, and a post-war neo-nazi.
• Metin Oktay, 55, Turkish football player, traffic collision.
• Joe Pasternak, 89, Hungarian-American film director, Parkinson's disease.
• Paul Thompson, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.

14

• Liu Dagang, 87, Chinese chemist.
• Julie Bovasso, 61, American actress, cancer.
• Heinz Budde, 65, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Mieczysław Czechowicz, 60, Polish actor.
• John King Fairbank, 84, American historian.
• Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, 66, German-Israeli linguist.
• Russell Johnson, 71, American Olympic sports shooter.
• Russell Lynes, 80, American art historian.
• Andy Nacrelli, 58, American football player.

15

• Garnett Bankhead, 63, American baseball player.
• André Baruch, 83, French-American radio host, narrator, and sportscaster.
• Antoine Blavier, 77, Belgian football referee.
• Đorđe Božović, 35, Serbian mobster and war commander, shot.
• Otto Buggisch, 81, German mathematician.
• Petronella Burgerhof, 82, Dutch Olympic gymnast.
• Smoky Burgess, 64, American baseball player.
• John Hoyt, 85, American actor, lung cancer.
• Luis Miró, 78, Spanish footballer.
• Charles E. Osgood, 74, American psychologist and academic.
• K. H. Scheer, 63, German science fiction writer.
• Sulkhan Tsintsadze, 66, Georgian composer.

16

• Ernest Davies, 89, British journalist, author and politician.
• Ronald DeWolf, 57, American writer and critic of scientology, diabetes.
• Alan McInnes, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Murilo Rubião, 75, Brazilian writer.
• Olga Spessivtseva, 96, Russian ballerina.
• Carol White, 48, English actress.

17

• Bernhard Bischoff, 84, German historian, paleographer, and philologist.
• Zino Francescatti, 89, French violinist.
• Frank H. Netter, 85, American surgeon.
• Song Shi-Lun, 84, Chinese general.
• John Tocher, 65, British trade unionist and communist activist.

18

• Leland Bell, 68, American painter, leukemia.
• John Anthony Donovan, 80, Canadian-American Roman Catholic bishop, heart ailment.
• Martin Norberg, 88, Swedish Olympic water polo player.
• Harry Sandbach, 88, British academic.
• Kevin R. Smith, 59, Australian rules footballer.
• Rob Tyner, 46, American singer, heart attack.

19

• Lydia Cabrera, 92, Cuban-American ethnographer.
• Eurico de Freitas, 89, Brazilian Olympic athlete.
• LeRoy Lemke, 55, American politician and lawyer.
• Theodore McEvoy, 86, British Royal Air Force officer.

20

• Ricardo Arredondo, 42, Mexican boxer.
• Anton Besold, 87, German politician.
• Jack Chase, 86, Irish Olympic boxer.
• Richard Holt, 60, British politician.
• Chet Morgan, 81, American baseball player and manager.
• Steve Peek, 77, American baseball player.
• Louis Clyde Stoumen, 74, American photographer, film director and producer, cancer.
• Seiichirō Tsuda, 85, Japanese long-distance runner and Olympian.

21

• Gordon Bashford, 75, British automotive designer.
• Paul Henry Lang, 90, Hungarian-American musicologist and music critic.
• Henri Lemoine, 82, French cyclist and Olympian.
• Mirza Masood, 82, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Ante Paradžik, 48, Croatian politician, assassinated.
• Angelo Rossitto, 83, American actor.
• Álvaro, 59, Brazilian football player and manager.

22

• Tino Casal, 41, Spanish singer, songwriter and producer, traffic collision.
• Ray Cillien, 52, Luxembourgish Olympic boxer.
• Louis Dugauguez, 73, French football player and football manager.
• Yevgeni Ivanovski, 73, Soviet general.
• Durga Khote, 86, Indian actress.
• Fons Steuten, 53, Dutch cyclist.

23

• Charles V. Dingley, 51, American pornographic film and B movie producer, screenwriter, and director.
• Harriet Hammond, 91, American silent film actress.
• Yue-Kong Pao, 72, Hong Kong businessman.
• Harold Phelps, 88, American Olympic long-distance runner.
• Keith Robertson, 77, American writer, cancer.
• Philippus Vethaak, 76, Dutch Olympic cyclist.

24

• Yusif Aliyev, 21, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
• Bolesław Banaś, 79, Polish Olympic fencer.
• Peter Bellamy, 47, English singer, suicide.
• Wilhelm Hennings, 86, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
• Mary Lawrence, 73, American actress, pneumonia.
• Johnny Lenhart, 75, American basketball player.
• Dom Orejudos, 58, American choreographer, AIDS.
• Dr. Seuss, 87, American children's author, cancer.
• Joyce Steele, 82, Australian politician.

25

• LeRoy H. Anderson, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Ilse Kishauer, 85, German Olympic figure skater.
• Bob Prichard, 73, American baseball player.
• Viviane Romance, 79, French actress.
• Anita Traversi, 54, Swiss singer.
• Stanley Waters, 71, Canadian politician.
• Ted A. Wells, 84, American aircraft engineer.

26

• Leonard J. Chabert, 58, American politician.
• Helmut Kohl, 48, Austrian football referee and butcher, cancer.
• Benjamin A. Smith II, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate.
• Billy Vaughn, 72, American singer, peritoneal carcinoma.

27

• Roy Fuller, 79, English writer.
• Garry Glenn, 36, American songwriter, kidney failure.
• Richard Goldner, 83, Romanian-Australian violist, pedagogue and inventor.
• Floyd Huddleston, 73, American songwriter, screenwriter, and television producer.
• Joe Hulme, 87, English football player and cricket player.
• Stefan Kisielewski, 80, Polish writer, composer and politician.
• Karl-Heinz Köpcke, 68, German journalist and news presenter, cancer.
• Eryk Lipiński, 83, Polish artist.
• Oona O'Neill, 66, American socialite, widow of Charlie Chaplin, pancreatic cancer.
• Jean-Thomas Richard, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Roberto Rojas, 35, Peruvian football player, traffic collision.
• Alois Vansteenkiste, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Øyvind Vennerød, 72, Norwegian filmmaker.

28

• Eugène Bozza, 86, French composer and violinist.
• Sir Clifford Campbell, 99, Jamaican politician, governor-general.
• Olin Hatfield Chilson, 87, American district judge of the American District Court for the District of Colorado.
• James P. Coleman, 77, American circuit judge and Governor of Mississippi.
• Miles Davis, 65, American jazz musician, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Ellic Howe, 81, British author.
• Barbara Rose Johns, 56, American civil rights activist, bone cancer.
• Peter McKennan, 73, Scottish football player.
• Shankar Guha Niyogi, 48, Indian labor leader, murdered.
• Dilgo Khyentse Tashi Peljor, 81, Bhutanese Buddhist spiritual teacher and poet.
• A. L. Philpott, 72, American politician.
• Vezey Raffety, 85, English cricketer.

29

• Zelimir Bakša, 34, Yugoslav People's Army officer, killed in action.
• Henry Joseph Kelliher, 95, New Zealand businessman.
• Roger Lafontant, 60, Haitian military leader and politician.
• Graham Minihan, 57, Australian rules footballer.
• Ed Moriarty, 78, American baseball player.
• Stojadin Mirković, 19, Yugoslav People's Army conscript, killed in action.
• Lou Nova, 78, American boxer and actor, cancer.
• Grace Zaring Stone, 100, American novelist and short-story writer.
• Yury Veksler, 51, Soviet and Russian cinematographer.

30

• Osman Alyanak, 79-80, Turkish actor and footballer.
• Sven Barthel, 88, Swedish writer, journalist, theatre critic and translator.
• Shmuel Gonen, 61, Israeli general.
• William Albert Hiltner, 77, American astronomer.
• King Levinsky, 81, American heavyweight boxer.
• Nancy Welford, 87, British-American actress.
• Toma Zdravković, 52, Yugoslav singer, prostate cancer.
• Claire Zeisler, 88, American fiber artist.