Deaths in October 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1991.

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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.

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.^[1]

2

• Hazen Argue, 70, Canadian politician.
• Maria Aurèlia Capmany, 73, Spanish novelist, playwright and essayist.^[2]
• Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, 77, Turkish archbishop, heart attack.^[3]
• Hope Evans, 89, Australian rules footballer.
• Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, 93, American lawyer.^[4]
• Jim Handby, 88, Australian footballer and politician.
• Peter Heyworth, 70, American-British music critic and biographer, stroke.^[5]
• Mike McCarron, 69, American basketball player.
• Bo Westerberg, 77, Swedish Olympic sailor (1936).

3

• Max Cantor, 32, American journalist and actor (Dirty Dancing), heroin overdose.^[6]
• Ed Dancker, 77, American basketball player.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• Josefina Valencia Muñoz, 78, Colombian politician.
• Toivo Salminen, 67, Finnish Olympic field hockey player (1952).
• Laurie Taylor, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• John G. Williams Jr., 67, American admiral.
• J. Frank Wilson, 49, American singer, diabetes.^[9]

5

• Jørgen Beck, 76, Danish actor.
• Martin Ennals, 64, British human rights activist.^[10]
• Ramnath Goenka, 87, Indian newspaper publisher.^[11]
• Milan Milišić, 50, Yugoslav writer, shelling.
• Hope Portocarrero, 62, American-Nicaraguan socialite, First Lady of Nicaragua (1967–1972, 1974–1979), cancer.^[12]

6

• Alfred Bencini, 74, Maltese Olympic sprinter (1936).
• Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry, 87, British politician.
• Roger Forsythe, 36, American fashion designer, AIDS.^[13]
• Alphonse Gallegos, 60, American Roman Catholic bishop, traffic accident.^[14]
• Virginia Giorgi, 77, Italian Olympic gymnast (1928).
• Michael Kinek, 74, American football player (Cleveland Rams).
• Mark Shevelev, 86, Soviet pilot during World War II and polar aviation pioneer.
• Igor Talkov, 34, Soviet singer, shot.^[15]

7

• Leo Durocher, 86, American baseball player and manager.^[16]
• Alan Fletcher, 84, Australian politician.
• Natalia Ginzburg, 75, Italian writer and politician, cancer.^[17]
• 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.^[18]

8

• Kevin Bond, 63, Australian rules footballer.
• Ed Hanyzewski, 71, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).^[19]
• Arie Kaan, 89, Dutch Olympic hurdler (1928).
• Dick Moynihan, 89, American football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets).
• Edward Skórzewski, 61, Polish film director and screenwriter.^[20]
• 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.^[21]
• Sumiyuki Kotani, 88, Japanese marital artist and Olympian (1932).
• Dagmar Lange, 77, Swedish author of crime fiction.
• Camille Libar, 73, Luxembourgish football player and manager.^[22]
• Doris Lilly, 69, American newspaper columnist and writer, cancer.^[23]
• Charlie Moss, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
• Tom Philpott, 49, American professor, suicide by gunshot.^[24]
• Thalmus Rasulala, 51, American actor (Blacula, One Life to Live, New Jack City), heart attack.^[25]

10

• Victor Christgau, 97, American politician.^[26]
• Leonard Cook, 78, Australian Olympic boxer (1936).
• Pío Cabanillas Gallas, 67, Spanish jurist and politician, heart attack.^[27]
• Nickolaus Hirschl, 85, Austrian wrestler and Olympic medalist (1932).^[28]
• Yaroslav Lesiv, 46, Ukrainian poet and priest, traffic collision.
• Bob Morgan, 61, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, Calgary Stampeders).^[29]
• Wiesława Noskiewicz, 80, Polish Olympic gymnast (1936).
• Gamble Rogers, 54, American musician, drowned.^[30]
• 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.^[31]
• Ron Ferrier, 77, English footballer.^[32]
• Redd Foxx, 68, American actor (Sanford and Son, The Redd Foxx Show, Harlem Nights), heart attack.^[33]
• Luke Higgins, 70, American gridiron football player.^[34]
• Clay Kirby, 43, American baseball player (San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos), heart attack.^[35]
• Branislav Mihajlović, 54, Serbian football player.
• Martin Olofsson, 99, Swedish Olympic weightlifter (1920, 1924).
• Art Strobel, 68, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
• 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.^[36]
• Aline MacMahon, 92, American actress (Dragon Seed), pneumonia.^[37]
• Taso Mathieson, 83, British racing driver and author of automotive history books.^[38]
• Regis Toomey, 93, American actor (The Big Sleep, Guys and Dolls, Spellbound).^[39]
• Grigoris Vlastos, 84, Greek scholar of ancient philosophy.^[40]

13

• George August, 74, English cricketer.
• William Gentry, 92, New Zealand Military Forces general.^[41]
• Owen Guyatt, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Donald Houston, 67, Welsh actor (Clash of the Titans, Where Eagles Dare, The Blue Lagoon), stroke.^[42]
• Sixten Johansson, 81, Swedish Olympic ski jumper (1936).
• János Kelen, 80, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
• Hugh Molson, Baron Molson, 88, British politician.
• Daniel Oduber Quirós, 70, Costa Rican politician, president (1974–1978).^[43]
• Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, 59, Spanish politician and businessman.^[44]

14

• Thomas H. Eliot, 84, American lawyer, politician, and academic.^[45]
• Walter M. Elsasser, 87, German-American physicist.^[46]
• Al Goldstein, 55, American football player (Oakland Raiders).
• Richard Hittleman, 64, American yoga teacher and author.
• Jay Richard Kennedy, 80, American writer, screenwriter, composer, and record executive.^[47]
• David Neville, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian (1936).^[48]

15

• Antonio Canale, 76, Italian comic writer and artist.
• John Greenway, 71, American folklorist and folk singer.^[49]
• Verda James, 90, Canadian-American politician.
• Robert Pastene, 73, American actor.^[50]
• Han Ying-chieh, 64, Hong Kong actor, cancer.

16

• Arthur E. Arling, 85, American cameraman and cinematographer.^[51]
• Ole Beich, 36, Danish bassist (Guns N' Roses), drowned.
• Walter Buswell, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens).
• Lore Fischer, 80, German singer.^[52]
• Giacomo Mari, 66, Italian football player and Olympian (1948).^[53]
• Boris Papandopulo, 85, Croatian composer.^[54]
• Juku Pent, 72, Estonian-born German Olympic cross-country skier (1952).
• 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.^[55]
• Herman Maxwell Batten, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953-1968).
• J. G. Devlin, 84, Northern Irish actor.
• Tennessee Ernie Ford, 72, American singer ("Sixteen Tons", "The Shotgun Boogie"), liver failure.^[56]
• Władysław Giergiel, 74, Polish football player.
• Håkon Johnsen, 77, Norwegian politician.
• Harlan James Smith, 67, American astronomer.
• Piet van Est, 57, Dutch cyclist.^[57]

18

• Enrico Boniforti, 73, Italian football player.
• Ron Cooper, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Stephen Dickson, 40, American baritone, complications from AIDS.^[58]
• Bronisław Gosztyła, 56, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1956, 1964).^[59]
• Judith Sulian, 71, Argentine film actress.
• Gunnar Sønstevold, 78, Norwegian composer.

19

• George Beaumont, 87, British Olympic rower (1928).
• Walter Gericke, 83, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
• Henry Holst, 92, Danish violinist.
• Gheorghe Pahonțu, 58, Romanian football player.^[60]
• Otakar Rademacher, 65, Czechoslovakian Olympic boxer (1948).
• Howard Swearer, 59, American academic, cancer.^[61]
• Naum Vilenkin, 70, Soviet mathematician.

20

• Georges Beuchat, 81, French inventor, businessman, and underwater diving pioneer.^[62]
• Marcus Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter.
• Clifford Last, 72, English sculptor.^[63]
• Susan Noel, 79, English squash and tennis player.
• J. Graham Parsons, 83, American diplomat.^[64]
• Geoffrey Rimbault, 83, English cricketer and British Army officer.
• 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.^[65]
• Lev Chegorovsky, 77, Soviet and Russian artist.
• Bobby Coombs, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, New York Giants).^[66]
• Jim Hamby, 94, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[67]

22

• Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, 40, American writer and performance artist, suicide by exsanguination.^[68]
• Robert Carlin, 90, Canadian politician.
• Joy Harington, 77, English television actress, writer, producer, and director.
• Hachiro Kasuga, 67, Japanese singer.^[69]
• Judy Kelly, 77, Australian-British actress.
• Francis O'Brien, 80, New Zealand cricketer.

23

• Derek Edge, 49, English football player.
• Nelly Bell Knutsen, 86, Norwegian politician.
• Job Stewart, 57, British stage and screen actor.^[70]
• Július Torma, 69, Czechoslovak boxer and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956).^[71]
• Alida van Leeuwen, 83, Dutch Olympic diver (1928).^[72]

24

• Ismat Chughtai, 76, Indian Urdu novelist, humanist and filmmaker.^[73]
• J. A. Milton Perera, 62, Sri Lankan singer and composer.
• Gene Roddenberry, 70, American television producer (Star Trek), cardiac arrest.^[74]
• Vilko Ukmar, 86, Slovenian composer.^[75]
• 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 (Washington Senators).
• George Brunet, 56, American baseball player.^[76]
• Khigh Dhiegh, 81, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds).^[77]
• Bill Graham, 60, German-American impresario, helicopter crash.^[78]
• 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 (1980).^[79]
• John Stratton, 65, British actor.
• Walter Stude, 77, American Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1956).^[80]

26

• Henry Wilson Allen, 79, American writer and screenwriter, pneumonia.^[81]
• Bill Bevens, 75, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lymphoma.^[82]
• Vivian Dandridge, 70, American singer, actress and dancer, stroke.
• Gladys Davis, 72, Canadian baseball player.
• Major Holley, 67, American jazz bassist.^[83]
• Ed Justice, 78, American gridiron football player (Boston/Washington Redskins).^[84]
• Joe Lapis, 92, Hungarian sound engineer (The Boys from Syracuse).
• Gabe Patterson, 72, American baseball and Canadian football player.
• Jack Sanders, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles).
• Enrique Sorrel, 79, Chilean football player and manager.^[85]
• Tahira Tahirova, 77, Soviet politician and diplomat.
• Osvaldo Wenzel, 80, Chilean Olympic decathlete (1936).

27

• George Barker, 78, English poet.^[86]
• Paul Erickson, 70, British screenwriter.
• Robert Gindre, 80, French Olympic cross country skier (1936).
• Rocky Hata, 43, Japanese professional wrestler, diabetes.
• Howard Kingsbury, 87, American Olympic rower (1924).^[87]
• Pyke Koch, 90, Dutch artist.^[88]
• Andrzej Panufnik, 77, Polish composer.^[89]

28

• Sylvia Fine, 78, American lyricist, composer, and producer, emphysema.^[90]
• Joseph Fletcher, 86, American professor.^[91]
• John Kobal, 51, Austrian film historian, pneumonia.^[92]
• 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.^[93]

29

• Cyril Black, 89, British politician.
• Lee Boltin, 73, American photographer, leukemia.^[94]
• Donald Churchill, 60, English actor and playwright, heart attack.^[95]
• Jimmie Coker, 55, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.^[96]
• John DeCuir, Sr., 73, American art director and production designer (The King and I, Cleopatra, Hello, Dolly!), Oscar winner (1957, 1964, 1970).
• Hikmat Muradov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Nigel Poett, 84, British Army officer.
• Mario Scelba, 90, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1954–1955), thrombosis.^[97]
• Jean Schmit, 76, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Johan Støa, 91, Norwegian multi-sportsman and Olympian (1928 Winter, 1928 Summer).^[98]
• Carl Tomasello, 74, American football player (New York Giants).

30

• Aniela Jaffé, 88, German-Swiss psychoanalysts.^[99]
• Ellis Kolchin, 75, American mathematician and academic, pancreatic cancer.^[100]
• George Lambert, 72, English cricket player.^[101]
• Prince Emich, 7th Prince of Leiningen, 65, German noble and entrepreneur.
• Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, 84, Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and politician.
• Richard Savignac, 86, French Olympic boxer (1924).

31

• Gene Anderson, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Ewald Bucher, 77, German politician.
• Garvin Bushell, 89, American musician and multi-instrumentalist.^[102]
• Charles K.L. Davis, 66, American opera singer and musician.^[103]
• John M. Dooley, 94, American football player.
• Alexander Frick, 81, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1945–1962).
• Simon Gjoni, 66, Albanian conductor, and composer.
• Frederick Hartt, 77, Italian Renaissance scholar and author.^[104]
• 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.^[105]
• Dixie Parsons, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).