Deaths in July 1991 explained
The following is a list of deaths in July 1991 of notable people.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
July 1991
1
- Joost Baljeu, 65, Dutch artist.[1]
- Paulo Mendes Campos, 69, Brazilian writer and journalist.
- Alfred Eisenbeisser, 83, Romanian football player.[2]
- Joachim Kroll, 58, German serial killer, necrophile and cannibal, heart attack.
- Michael Landon, 54, American actor (Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza. Highway to Heaven), pancreatic cancer.[3]
2
- Bruno Engelmeier, 63, Austrian football goalkeeper.
- Al Glossop, 76, American baseball player.[4]
- Don Houghton, 61, British television screenwriter and producer.
- David Armine Howarth, 78, British naval officer, boatbuilder, and author.[5]
- Lee Remick, 55, American actress (Days of Wine and Roses, The Omen, Wait Until Dark), kidney cancer.[6]
- José María Rosa, 84, Argentine historian.
- Ermanno Scaramuzzi, 63, Italian football player and coach.[7]
3
- Dolly Anwar, 43, Bangladeshi actress and writer, suicide.
- Doro Levi, 93, Italian archaeologist.[8]
- Domingo Tarasconi, 87, Argentine football player.[9]
- Lê Văn Thiêm, 73, Vietnamese mathematician.
- Sigismund Toduță, 83, Romanian composer, musicologist, and professor.
- Ephraim Urbach, 78–79, Israeli scholar and politician.[10]
- Jimmy Van Alen, 88, American tennis official.
- Bernard Waley-Cohen, 77, British businessman and politician.
- Ernst Witt, 80, German mathematician.[11]
4
- Victor Chang, 54, Chinese-Australian surgeon, shot.[12]
- Ernie Hammerton, 64, Australian rugby player.
- Henry Koerner, 75, Austrian-American painter and graphic designer, bicycle accident.[13]
- Hugo Lepe, 51, Chilean football player.[14]
- Art Sansom, 70, American cartoonist (The Born Loser).[15]
5
- Mildred Dunnock, 90, American actress (Death of a Salesman, Baby Doll).[16]
- Valentina Ivashova, 75, Soviet film actress.
- Bob Kennedy, 62, American gridiron football player.[17]
- Nobuo Nakamura, 82, Japanese actor (Ikiru, Tokyo Story, The Human Condition).
- Howard Nemerov, 71, American poet, cancer.[18]
6
- Raymond Boisset, 79, French sprinter and Olympian.[19]
- Léon Chertok, 79, French psychiatrist.[20]
- Dorcas Cochran, 88, American lyricist and screenwriter.
- Nicholas P. Dallis, 79, American cartoonist (Rex Morgan, M.D.).[21]
- Renée Garilhe, 68, French fencer and Olympic medalist.[22]
- Victor Korovin, 54, Soviet and Russian painter.
- Mudashiru Lawal, 37, Nigerian football player.
- Stew Nairn, 59, New Zealand sports shooter and Olympian.[23]
- Thorley Walters, 78, English actor.[24]
- Anton Yugov, 86, Bulgarian politician, prime minister (1956–1962).
7
8
- Gordon Stewart Anderson, 33, Canadian writer, AIDS-related complications.[27]
- William M. Callaghan, 93, American Navy officer.[28]
- James Franciscus, 57, American actor (Mr. Novak, Naked City, Beneath the Planet of the Apes), emphysema.[29]
- Geoff Love, 73, British composer.[30]
- Willie Nix, 68, American blues singer and drummer.[31]
- Prem Nath Wahi, 83, Indian pathologist, writer, and academic.
9
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.[35]
- Gerome Ragni, 55, American songwriter (Hair), cancer.[36]
11
- Osvaldo Carvajal, 76, Chilean football player.[37]
- Roger Christian, 57, American lyricist ("Little Deuce Coupe"), kidney failure.[38]
- Mokhtar Dahari, 37, Malaysian football player, ALS.
- Atang de la Rama, 89, Filipino singer and actress.
- Hitoshi Igarashi, 44, Japanese scholar and translator (The Satanic Verses), stabbed.[39]
- Morton Smith, 76, American professor of ancient history, heart failure.[40]
- Gale Wilhelm, 83, American writer, cancer.[41]
- Fehmi Yavuz, 79, Turkish civil servant, academic, and writer.
12
- Frederick Allen Aldrich, 64, American marine biologist.[42]
- Luce Guilbeault, 56, Canadian actress, cancer.[43]
- 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.[44]
13
14
- Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st Baronet, 89, British politician.
- Robert Clavel, 78, French art director.[48]
- Axel Eggebrecht, 92, German journalist, writer and screenwriter.[49]
- 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.[50]
- Keith Brown, 78, American athlete, politician and businessman.[51]
- Bert Convy, 57, American game show host (Tattletales, Super Password, Win, Lose or Draw), brain cancer.[52]
- Roger Revelle, 82, American geophysicist, cardiac arrest.[53]
- Joe Turnesa, 90, American golfer.
- Johnny Vergez, 85, American baseball player.[54]
16
- Meindert DeJong, 85, Dutch-American children's author.[55]
- Robert Motherwell, 76, American artist.[56]
- Albert Eide Parr, 90, Norwegian-American marine biologist, zoologist and oceanographer.[57]
- Frank Rizzo, 70, American politician, mayor of Philadelphia (1972–1980), heart attack.[58]
- Robert Templeton, 62, American artist.
- Dwight Weist, 81, American radio announcer, heart attack.[59]
17
- Arthur Raymond Brooks, 95, American flying ace.
- Harold Butler, 78, English cricket player.[60]
- William Wesley Peters, 79, American architect.[61]
- Angela Sidney, 89, Native Canadian author and storyteller.
- Johan Vogt, 90, Norwegian economist and journalist.
18
- André Cools, 63, Belgian politician, shot.[62]
- Bruno Mondi, 87, German cameraman and director of photography.[63]
- Ambrus Nagy, 63, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1956), traffic collision.[64]
- Hendrik Stroo, 63, Dutch Olympic canoer (1948).[65]
19
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.[68]
- Earl Robinson, 81, American composer, traffic collision.[69]
- Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, 78, Indian royal, Maharaja of Travancore (1924–1949), stroke.
21
- Jasmine Bligh, 78, British television presenter.
- Helen Meany, 86, American diver and Olympic champion.[70]
- Glauco Pellegrini, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director.[71]
- Maxie Vaz, 68, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.[72]
- Paul Warwick, 22, British racing driver, racing accident.
- Allan Wilson, 56, New Zealand biochemist, leukemia.[73]
- Theodore Wilson, 47, American actor (That's My Mama, Good Times, Sanford Arms), stroke.[74]
22
- Jack Albright, 70, American baseball player.[75]
- André Dhôtel, 90, French writer, novelist, storyteller, and poet.[76]
- José Gómez-Sicre, 75, Cuban lawyer, art critic and writer.
- John Human, 79, English cricket player.[77]
- Andrew Lee Jones, 35, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
- 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.[78]
- Tadashi Katakura, 93, Japanese general.[79]
- Mikhail Yasnov, 85, Soviet politician.
24
- Kaif Bhopali, 74, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
- Howie Carter, 86, American baseball player.[80]
- Edmund Białas, 71, Polish football player.
- Freddie Brown, 80, English cricket player.[81]
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, 87, Polish-American writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1978), stroke.[82]
25
- Eduardo de Guzmán, 83, Spanish journalist and writer.[83]
- Henri George Doll, 88, French-American scientist.[84]
- Lazar Kaganovich, 97, Soviet politician.[85]
- Arthur Knight, 74, American movie critic, film historian, and TV host.[86]
- Douglas Stewart, 78, British Olympic equestrian (1952).[87]
26
27
- Martin Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee, 63, British politician.
- Pierre Brunet, 89, French-American Olympic figure skater (1924, 1928, 1932).[90]
- Gino Colaussi, 77, Italian football player.[91]
- Xu Shijie, 70, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
- Wolf Witzemann, 67, Austrian art director.
28
- Suzanne Davis, 79, American figure skater.[92]
- Aad de Bruyn, 81, Dutch athlete and shot put champion.[93]
- Ray Felix, 60, American basketball player.[94]
- Jan Gonda, 86, Dutch indologist.[95]
- Wang Ming-Dao, 91, Chinese protestant writer, evangelist and dissident.[96]
- Al Huggins, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.[97]
- Elko Mrduljaš, 81, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1936).[98]
29
- María Antinea, 76, Spanish actress, vedette, and dancer.
- Christian de Castries, 88, French general.[99]
- Yusuf Khattak, 73, Pakistani lawyer, politician, and intellectual,.
- Albert Lord, 78, American academic.[100]
30
- William Ball, 60, American stage director.[101]
- Tom Bridger, 57, English racing driver.[102]
- Lee Eastman, 81, American business attorney, stroke.[103]
- Benny Grant, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.[104]
- Flora Steiger-Crawford, 91, Swiss architect and sculptor.[105]
31
- Miro Barešić, 40, Yugoslav-Croatian émigré and neo-fascist paramilitary, killed in action.
- Charlie Beal, 82, American jazz pianist.[106]
- Charles Jonker, 57, South African cyclist.[107]
- Al Loquasto, 51, Italian-American racecar driver, plane crash.[108]
- Nikola Yordanov, 52, Bulgarian football player.
Notes and References
- Web site: Joost Baljeu . biografischportaal.nl . 24 October 2022 . nl .
- Web site: Olympedia – Alfred Eisenbeisser . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Michael Landon . britannica.com . Encyclopædia Britannica Online . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Al Glossop Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: David Armine Howarth - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Lee Remick . britannica.com . Encyclopædia Britannica Online . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Ermanno Scaramuzzi . worldfootball.net . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Doro Levi - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia – Domingo Tarasconi . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Ephraim E. Urbach; Hebrew Scholar, 79 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 3 July 1991 . D 19.
- Web site: Ernst Witt . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 24 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Victor Chang - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Joan Cook . Henry Koerner, 75, Painter of Portraits And War Posters . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 9 July 1991 . D 19.
- Web site: Hugo Lepe . worldfootball.net . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Art Sansom - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 5 November 2022 .
- News: Eric Pace . Eric Pace . Mildred Dunnock, 90, Acclaimed As Broadway's First Mrs. Loman . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 7 July 1991 . 1 18.
- Web site: Bob Kennedy Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 5 November 2022 .
- Web site: Howard Nemerov . britannica.com . Encyclopædia Britannica Online . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia – Raymond Boisset . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: matchID - Léon Chertok . . 24 October 2022 . fr .
- News: Nicholas P. Dallis; Comic Strip Creator, 79 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 9 July 1991 . D 19.
- Web site: Olympedia – Renée Garilhe . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia – Stew Nairn . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Thorley Walters - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: matchID - Suzy Prim . . 24 October 2022 . fr .
- Web site: Olympedia – Pete Williamson . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Gordon Stewart Anderson - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Glenn Fowler . William M. Callaghan Dies at 93; Headed Logistics Service for Navy . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 9 July 1991 . D 19.
- News: James Franciscus Is Dead at 57; Played Lead Roles on TV Series . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 10 July 1991 . B 5.
- Web site: Geoff Love . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 24 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Willie Nix - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia – Danio Bardi . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Orhan Hançerlioğlu . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 24 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Bill Miller Stats . basketball-reference.com . 24 October 2022.
- Web site: Grace MacInnis - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Richard F. Shepard . Gerome Ragni, 48, a Stage Actor; Co-Author of Broadway's 'Hair' . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 13 July 1991 . 1 9.
- Web site: Osvaldo Carvajal . worldfootball.net . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Roger Christian - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Weisman . Steven R. . Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain . 24 October 2022 . . July 13, 1991.
- News: Glenn Fowler . Morton Smith, Columbia Professor And Ancient-Religion Scholar, 76 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 13 July 1991 . 1 9.
- Web site: Frauendatenbank fembio.org . fembio.org . 24 October 2022 . de .
- Web site: Frederick Allen Aldrich - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 5 November 2022 .
- Web site: Luce Guilbeault . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 24 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Olympedia – Ken Yackel . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Jacques Geus . procyclingstats.com . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia – Aldo Ghira . olympedia.org . . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia - Riccardo Lattanzi . olympedia.org . . 5 November 2022.
- Web site: Robert Clavel . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 24 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Axel Eggebrecht - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 24 October 2022 . de .
- News: Arthur Briggs, Trumpeter, 92 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 18 July 1991 . B 8.
- News: Keith Brown, Pole Vaulter, 76 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 18 July 1991 . B 8.
- Web site: Bert Convy - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Walter Sullivan . Roger Revelle, 82, Early Theorist In Global Warming and Geology . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 17 July 1991 . B 5.
- News: Johnny Vergez Baseball Player, 85 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 17 July 1991 . B 5.
- Web site: Meindert DeJong - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- Web site: Robert Motherwell . britannica.com . Encyclopædia Britannica Online . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Glenn Fowler . Albert E. Parr, Museum Director and Oceanographer, Dies at 90 . subscription . 1 April 2022 . . 20 July 1991 . 1 30.
- Web site: Frank Rizzo - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 24 October 2022 .
- News: Eleanor Blau . Dwight Weist, a Radio Actor, 81, Known as 'Man of 1,000 Voices' . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 20 July 1991 . 1 30.
- Web site: Harold Butler profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos . . 28 October 2022.
- News: Glenn Fowler . William Wesley Peters Dies at 79; A Devotee of Frank Lloyd Wright . subscription . 1 April 2022 . . 18 July 1991 . B 8.
- Web site: André Cools . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Bruno Mondi - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 28 October 2022 . de .
- Web site: Olympedia – Ambrus Nagy . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia - Harry Stroo . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: matchID - Charles-André Julien . . 28 October 2022 . fr .
- Web site: Olympedia – Niilo Nikunen . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: matchID - Rellys . . 28 October 2022 . fr .
- News: Eleanor Blau . Earl Robinson, 81, a Composer Of Labor Movement Songs, Dies . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 23 July 1991 . B 5.
- Web site: Olympedia – Helen Meany . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Glauco Pellegrini . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Olympedia – Maxie Vaz . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Allan Wilson - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 October 2022 .
- News: Theodore Wilson, Actor, 47 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 25 July 1991 . B 10.
- Web site: Jack Albright Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: André Dhôtel - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: John Human profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos . . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: On This Day: Flyweight champion Peter Kane was born . . 28 October 2022 . 18 February 2018.
- Web site: Katakura Tadashi. Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. 28 October 2022. Japanese.
- Web site: Howie Carter Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Freddie Brown profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos . . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: Isaac Bashevis Singer . britannica.com . Encyclopædia Britannica Online . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Eduardo de Guzmán - DB~e . dbe.rah.es . Real Academia de la Historia . 5 November 2022 . es .
- Web site: Henri George Doll . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 5 November 2022 . French .
- Web site: Lazar Kaganovich . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Arthur Knight - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia - Duggie Stewart . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: Frédéric Dumas . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 October 2022 . French .
- Web site: Olympedia – Andrés Gómez . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022 .
- News: Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. . Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. . Pierre Brunet, a Champion Skater In 1920's and 30's, Is Dead at 89 . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 1 August 1991 . D 20.
- Web site: Gino Colaussi . worldfootball.net . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia – Suzanne Davis . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken . leiden.courant.nu . 28 October 2022 . 14 . nl.
- News: Ray Felix, 60, Is Dead; Knicks Center in 50's . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 31 July 1991 . D 20.
- Web site: Jan Gonda . biografischportaal.nl . 28 October 2022 . nl .
- Web site: Wang Ming-Dao - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Al Huggins Stats . hockey-reference.com . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: Olympedia – Elko Mrduljaš . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Christian de Castries . Encyclopædia Britannica Online . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: Albert Lord - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 October 2022 .
- News: Eleanor Blau . William Ball, Director, 60, Dies; Founded a Conservatory Theater . subscription . 28 October 2022 . . 2 August 1991 . D 16.
- Web site: Tommy Bridger . oldracingcars.com . 28 October 2022.
- News: Lee V. Eastman, 81, Entertainment Lawyer . subscription . 1 April 2022 . . 2 August 1991 . D 16.
- Web site: Benny Grant Stats . hockey-reference.com . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: Steiger-Crawford, Flora - SIKART Dictionary and database . sikart.ch . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: Charlie Beal - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 October 2022 .
- Web site: Olympedia - AbeJonker . olympedia.org . . 28 October 2022.
- Web site: Call. Kristin Casler, The Morning. WEISENBERG PLANE CRASH KILLS RACE DRIVER AL LOQUASTO, FRIEND. 2022-10-28. mcall.com. en-US.