Deaths in February 1991

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

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.

February 1991

1 Sam Busich, 77, American football player (Boston Redskins, Cleveland Rams, Detroit Lions). Carol Dempster, 89, American silent film actress, heart failure. Shiro Kuramata, 56, Japanese interior designer. Jimmy MacDonald, 84, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse) and sound effects designer, heart failure. Herzl Rosenblum, 87, Lithuanian-born Israeli journalist. Oscar Rudolph, 79, American television director, complications from a stroke. Phil Watson, 76, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (New York Rangers).

2 Pete Axthelm, 47, American sports journalist, liver failure. Maurice G. Burnside, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1953, 1955–1957). Lorang Christiansen, 74, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1948, 1952). Jack Daugherty, 60, American musician, complications from heart surgery. Alan Green, 79, British politician. Hans Jamnig, 78, Austrian Olympic cross-country skier (1936). Al Johnson, 77, American basketball player. Natalie Kingston, 85, American actress. Franco Latini, 63, Italian actor and voice actor, stroke. Howie Rader, 69, American basketball player. Stanislav Sorokin, 49, Soviet Olympic boxer (1964). Aryness Joy Wickens, 90, American statistician.

3 Harry Ackerman, 78, American television producer (Bewitched, The Flying Nun, Hazel). Walter Brown, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). Augusto Cantón, 62, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1948). Ernst Kalwitzki, 81, German football player. Nancy Kulp, 69, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, The Parent Trap), cancer.

4 Juozas Baltušis, 81, Lithuanian writer. Károly Bartha, 83, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1924). Harry Carey, 75, Australian rules footballer. Johannes Pløger, 68, Danish football player and Olympian (1948). Harry Lancaster Towe, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1951). Eleni Skoura, 94, Greek politician.

5 Pedro Arrupe, 83, Spanish Jesuit priest. Lawrence Gowing, 72, English artist, heart attack. Dean Jagger, 87, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, White Christmas, Mr. Novak), Oscar winner (1950). James L. Knight, 81, American newspaper publisher. Lennart Moberg, 72, Swedish Olympic triple jumper (1948). Margarethe von Oven, 86, German secretary and 20 July plot accomplice. Laurie Slack, 75, Australian rules footballer.

6 John Paul Elford, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate. Salvador Luria, 78, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1969), heart attack. Bassett Maguire, 86, American botanist, kidney failure. Alex McColl, 96, American baseball player (Washington Senators). George McNaughton, 93, Canadian ice hockey player. Danny Thomas, 79, American actor (The Danny Thomas Show, The Jazz Singer, Big City) and philanthropist, Emmy winner (1955), heart attack. María Zambrano, 86, Spanish writer.

7 Otto Friedrich Bollnow, 87, German philosopher. George Detore, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). John War Eagle, 89, American Sioux actor (Tonka, Tomahawk, Westward Ho, the Wagons!). Werner Fuetterer, 84, German actor. John Guise, 76, Papua New Guinean politician, governor-general (1975–1977). Don McDougall, 73, American television director (The Virginian, Bonanza, The Dukes of Hazzard). Jean-Paul Mousseau, 64, Canadian artist. John Steinbeck IV, 44, American journalist, complications from spinal surgery. Dick Winslow, 75, American actor (Tom Sawyer, King Creole, The Apple Dumpling Gang), diabetes. Amos Yarkoni, 70, Bedouin-Israeli military officer and civil servant, cancer.

8 Aris T. Allen, 80, American politician, suicide. Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., 64, American sociologist. Miran Bux, 83, Pakistani cricket player. Silvio O. Conte, 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1959), prostate cancer. Frank Crapper, 79, Australian rules footballer. Bob Drummond, 71, Australian rules footballer. Daphne Jackson, 54, English nuclear physicist, cancer. James Jacoby, 57, American bridge player, cancer. Casimir Lewy, 71, Polish philosopher. Evan Luard, 64, English politician. Teuvo Ojala, 43, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1968). Aaron Siskind, 87, American photographer, stroke. Ron Todd, 74, Australian rules footballer.

9 James Cleveland, 59, American gospel singer, heart failure. John Sloan Dickey, 83, American academic. Walter Klien, 62, Austrian pianist. Daigoro Kondo, 83, Japanese footballer, intracranial hemorrhage. Fatma Memik, 87-88, Turkish politician. Arkady Migdal, 79, Soviet physicist and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Henry Oehler, 74, American Olympic handball player (1936). Ervin Pringle, 80, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968–1972). Edward H. Schafer, 77, American historian, liver cancer. Cliff Shaw, 68, American programmer.

10 Fernand Blaise, 66, Belgian footballer. William Foley, 59, Australian Roman Catholic archbishop. Rowe Harding, 89, Welsh rugby player. Bernard Lee, 55, American civil rights activist, heart failure. Marion Roper, 80, American Olympic diver (1932). Marcel Tolkowsky, 91, Belgian diamond cutter. Valery Zubanov, 39, Soviet Olympic sailor (1972, 1976, 1980).

11 Ricardo Gullón, 82, Spanish writer. Bohumil Kudrna, 70, Czechoslovak Olympic canoeist (1948, 1952). Ruth Landes, 82, American anthropologist. Pete Parker, 95, Canadian radio announcer. Ernest Shabaylo, 59, Soviet Russian Olympic equestrian (1960).

12 Wilhelm Brinkmann, 80, German Olympic handball player (1936). Liu Chieh, 83, Taiwanese diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage. Norman Fisher, 74, New Zealand Olympic boxer (1936). Eugène Kuborn, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer and water polo player (1924, 1928). Robert Livermore, 81, American Olympic alpine skier (1936). Ruth Morley, 65, Austrian-American costume designer (Superman, Taxi Driver, Tootsie), breast cancer. Roger Patterson, 22, American bassist (Atheist), traffic collision. Robert F. Wagner, 80, American politician, mayor of New York City (1954–1965), bladder cancer. Jerzy Wostal, 76, Polish footballer and Olympian (1936).

13 Arno Breker, 90, German architect and sculptor. Gunnar Hultgren, 88, Swedish archbishop. Flaviano Labò, 64, Italian singer, traffic collision. Ron Pickering, 60, British sports commentator. Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, 90, German royal, head of the house of Saxe-Altenburg (since 1955). Fred Taylor, 72, Australian rules footballer. Heinz Willeg, 72, German film producer.

14 Alex Clark, 74, American politician, head injury. Felix Gilbert, 85, German-American historian. Harry Johns, 87, Australian rules footballer. Pafsanias Katsotas, 95, Greek Army general and politician. Alfred R. Lindesmith, 85, American sociologist. John A. McCone, 89, American politician, Director of Central Intelligence (1961–1965), cardiac arrest. Kim Slavin, 62, Soviet and Russian painter. José Ádem, 69, Mexican mathematician.

15 Virginia Mae Brown, 67, American civil servant, heart attack. Alfred Gleisner, 82, German politician. Julio González, 70, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators). David Herlihy, 60, American historian. Birger Malmsten, 70, Swedish actor. Tillie Manton, 80, American football player (New York Giants, Washington Redskins). George Motola, 71, American record producer. Ernest Robert Sears, 80, American agricultural geneticist. Ivan Shkadov, 77, Soviet general, traffic accident. Earl E. T. Smith, 87, American politician and diplomat. István Ströck, 90, Romanian Olympic footballer (1924).

16 Enrique Bermúdez, 58, Nicaraguan soldier, shot. Bob Geddins, 78, American musician, liver cancer. Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick, 82, Spanish actor and noble. Bobby Maples, 48, American football player (Houston Oilers, Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers), Hodgkin's lymphoma. Didar Sandhu, 48, Indian folk singer and songwriter.

17 Gitta Alpár, 88, Hungarian-American opera singer. Madina Gulgun, 65, Iranian-Soviet poet. Sidney Hinds, 90, American Army officer and Olympic sports shooter (1924). Louis O. Kelso, 77, American economist. Miroslav Macháček, 68, Czechoslovak actor. Jean Palluch, 67, French football player and Olympian (1948). Francis Pearson, 79, British politician and colonial administrator. Hans Thimig, 90, Austrian actor and director. Travis Williams, 45, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams), heart failure.

18 Liu Chi-Sheng, 76, Chinese pilot, intracerebral hemorrhage. Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas, 87, Spanish linguist. Eugene Fodor, 85, Hungarian-American writer. Dick Hart, 63, American Olympic long-distance runner (1956). Zdzisław Mordarski, 68, Polish footballer. Fulke Walwyn, 80, British jockey. Zhang Wenjin, 76, Chinese diplomat.

19 Fad Browne, 84, Irish politician. Arne Kleven, 91, Danish footballer. Herbert Niemann, 55, German Olympic judoka (1964), suicide. Milton S. Plesset, 83, American physicist. Francis D. Rauber, 89, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Major.

20 Sir George Clark, 3rd Baronet, 77, Northern Irish politician. Isabelle Delorme, 90, Canadian composer. John Fetzer, 89, American sports executive. Eugene Forsey, 86, Canadian politician. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, 81, English linguist. George Lennon, 90, Irish-American buddhist and republican leader. Neil Tompkins, 64, Australian rules footballer.

21 Dorothy Auchterlonie, 75, English-born Australian poet. John Sherman Cooper, 89, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1949, 1952–1955, 1956–1973), heart failure. Margot Fonteyn, 71, English ballerina, ovarian cancer. Oscar Christian Gundersen, 82, Norwegian politician. Mordechai Ish-Shalom, 90, Israeli politician and labor leader. Nutan, 54, Indian actress, breast cancer. Frederick J. Pohl, 101, American author. Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, 69, Iranian writer. Flemming Vögg, 76, Danish Olympic fencer (1948).

22 Joe Craig, 72, American baseball player. Ladislav Fialka, 59, Czechoslovak mime. Cyril Hawker, 90, English banker and cricketer. Eric Hosking, 81, English photographer. William Loose, 80, American composer, heart attack. Jimmy Pattison, 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins). Atanasie Protopopesco, 90, Romanian Olympic footballer (1924).

23 John Alfred Hannah, 88, American academic. Argeliers León, 72, Cuban composer and musicologist. Leo Thomas Maher, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer. Gösta Persson, 87, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1924, 1936). William Howard Taft III, 75, American diplomat, prostate cancer. Frank Traynor, 86, Irish Olympic boxer (1928).

24 Georges Capdeville, 91, French football referee. John Charles Daly, 77, American journalist and television personality, cardiac arrest, heart attack. Robert B. Downs, 87, American librarian. George Gobel, 71, American actor and comedian. Shingo Kanemoto, 58, Japanese voice actor, intracerebral hemorrhage. Ned Kick, 86, Australian rules footballer. Stewart Morris, 81, British Olympic sailor (1948). Joe Munson, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). Webb Pierce, 69, American musician, pancreatic cancer. Héctor Rial, 62, Argentine football player. Jean Rogers, 74, American actress, surgical complications. Martin Sharp, 73, British Olympic sailor (1952). Lina Volonghi, 76, Italian actress. Hans-Joachim Weise, 78, German Olympic sailor (1936).

25 Albino Baldan, 66, Italian Olympic rower (1952). John Dunning, 74, American film editor (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar, Dr. Kildare), Oscar winner (1960). Sverre Hansen, 91, Norwegian Olympic long jumper (1924). Suleiman Ali Nashnush, 47-48, Libyan basketball player. Otto Tibulski, 78, German footballer. André Turp, 65, Canadian singer.

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