Deaths in March 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1991

1 Katherine Blake, 67 or 69, British actress (Anne of the Thousand Days, Within These Walls, Hammer the Toff). Mamie Geraldine Neale Bledsoe, 91, American educator and civil rights activist. Frank Esler-Smith, 42, English keyboardist, AIDS. Eugen Kamber, 66, Swiss Olympic cyclist (1948). Edwin H. Land, 81, American inventor and businessman (Polaroid Corporation). Leonid Markov, 63, Soviet actor, stomach cancer. Marie Rossi, 32, U.S. Army pilot, helicopter crash one day after Operation Desert Storm. Louis Saguer, 83, German-French composer.

2 Arthur Attwell, 70, British Anglican prelate. Elmer Bischoff, 74, American artist. Serge Gainsbourg, 62, French musician, heart attack. Frank S. Giles Jr., 75, American politician. Mary Howard, 83, British novelist. Clark R. Mollenhoff, 69, American journalist, cancer. Josef Stalder, 72, Swiss Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952). John Stephens, 93, American baseball player. Lou Sullivan, 39, American author and transgender activist, AIDS. Eduard Vanaaseme, 92, Estonian Olympic weightlifter (1924). Ranjan Wijeratne, 59, Sri Lankan politician, explosion.

3 Nikolai Bagley, 54, Soviet Olympic basketball player (1964). James Fullerton, 81, American ice hockey coach. Howard Head, 76, American aeronautical engineer. Joop van der Leij, 92, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1928). Arthur Murray, 95, Hungarian-American businessman. Sal Nistico, 50, American saxophonist. William Penney, Baron Penney, 81, English mathematician. Johnny Revolta, 79, American golfer. Dizzy Royal, 76, American baseball player. John Spotton, 64, Canadian filmmaker, drowned. Antoine Tassy, 66, Haitian football player.

4 Vance Colvig, 72, American actor and voice actor (The Yogi Bear Show, UHF, The Quick Draw McGraw Show), cancer. Michael Hardwick, 66, English author. Pepe Iglesias, 76, Argentine comedian. Ellamae Ellis League, 91, American architect. Kenneth Lindsay, 93, British politician. Jean Loubignac, 89, French film director and screenwriter. Gready McKinnis, 77, American baseball player.

5 Brian Batsford, 80, English politician. Steve Calvert, 74, American actor, heart attack. August de Schryver, 92, Belgian politician. Ian McLellan Hunter, 75, English screenwriter (Roman Holiday), heart attack. Helmut Sick, 81, German-Brazilian ornithologist.

6 Habib Chatty, 74, Tunisian politician and diplomat. Tan Chye Cheng, 80, Singaporean politician, heart failure. Keith Collin, 54, English Olympic diver (1960). Herm Lee, 59, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears). Horace Winchell Magoun, 83, American medical researcher. Larry Olsonoski, 65, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Salvo Randone, 84, Italian actor. Phoebe Blair-White, 95, Irish tennis player and Olympian (1924).

7 John Bartha, 76, Hungarian actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). Cool Papa Bell, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball player. Morton Fine, 74, American television writer (I Spy, Bold Venture, The Streets of San Francisco). Raymond Joseph Gallagher, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate. John Harris, 74, British novelist. Al Klink, 75, American saxophonist. Jean Piveteau, 91, French paleontologist. Josef Páleníček, 76, Czech pianist and composer. Bruno Venturini, 79, Italian football player and Olympian (1936).

8 John Bellairs, 53, American author (The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Face in the Frost, The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb), cardiovascular disease. Michel d'Ornano, 66, French politician, struck by vehicle. Maria Eisner, 82, Italian-American photographer. Ludwig Fischer, 75, German racing driver. Donald M. Frame, 79–80, American literary scholar. Ernesto Minetto, 56, Italian cyclist. Roman Brother, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, horse colic.

9 Ely do Amparo, 69, Brazilian footballer. Esther Blackie, 75, New Zealand cricketer. Jack Meyer, 85, English cricket player and educator. Max Fourny, 86, French art collector and racing driver. Paul Killeen, 87, Australian rules footballer. Jim Hardin, 47, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves), plane crash. Tomojirō Ikenouchi, 84, Japanese composer, cerebral hemorrhage. Fritz Neumark, 90, German economist.

10 Mildred Eldridge, 81, British artist. Antônio Giusfredi, 82, Brazilian Olympic hurdler (1932). Fumio Ito, 51, Japanese racing motorcyclist. Etheridge Knight, 59, American poet, lung cancer. Jock Morison, 76, Australian rules footballer. Elie Siegmeister, 82, American composer. Paul Ukena, 69, American opera singer, heart failure.

11 Eric Brochon, 85, Swiss Olympic water polo player (1928). Robert A. Cook, 78, American academic and radio broadcaster. Hector Crawford, 77, Australian entrepreneur. Felix Fernström, 74, Swedish Olympic bobsledder (1952). Abul Kashem, 70, Bangladeshi linguist. Nikolaos Matussi, 91, Greek politician and Aromanian paramilitary leader during World War II. Maria Reining, 87, Austrian singer.

12 José Maria Antunes, 77, Portuguese football player and a manager. LeRoy Collins, 82, American politician, governor of Florida (1955–1961), cancer. Ralph Henry Carless Davis, 72, British historian. Étienne Decroux, 92, French actor and mime artist. Ragnar Granit, 90, Finnish-Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1967). William Heinesen, 91, Faroese writer. Michael Langdon, 70, British opera singer. Muhammad Musa, 82, Pakistani general. Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, 70, Turkish-American opera singer.

13 Donald Kaberry, Baron Kaberry of Adel, 83, British politician, homicide. Josef Manger, 77, German weightlifter and Olympic champion (1936). Jimmy McPartland, 83, American cornetist, lung cancer. Max Poll, 82, Belgian ichthyologist. Walter Presch, 80, Austrian football player. Göran Strindberg, 74, Swedish cinematographer.

14 Howard Ashman, 40, American lyricist (Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid), Oscar winner (1990, 1992). Roy Hall, 71, American racing driver. John Jones, 91, Australian cricketer. Ebenezer Joshua, 82, Vincentian politician. Doc Pomus, 65, American blues musician, lung cancer. Margery Sharp, 86, English writer (The Rescuers). Maurice Zolotow, 77, American writer and biographer.

15 G. Aravindan, 56, Indian filmmaker, musician, cartoonist, and painter, heart attack. Larry Bleach, 78, American baseball player. Miodrag Bulatović, 61, Yugoslav novelist. Robert Busnel, 76, French basketball player, traffic collision. George Eastman, 87, English cricketer. Bud Freeman, 84, American jazz musician. Robin Hill, 91, British biochemist. Stanisław Lorentz, 91, Polish art historian. Eileen Sedgwick, 92, American silent film actress, pneumonia. Vladimir Seleznev, 62, Soviet realist painter. George Sherman, 82, American filmmaker. Gerd Völs, 81, German Olympic rower (1936). Cloyd Webb, 49, Canadian football player.

16 Chris Austin, 27, American country musician, plane crash. Jean Bellette, 82, Australian artist. Urbain Caffi, 74, Italian-French racing cyclist. Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, 72, British diplomat. Raymond Fletcher, 69, British politician and alleged spy. Roland Frank, 58, British-Kenyan Olympic field hockey player (1956). James Darcy Freeman, 83, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal. Trude Herr, 63, German actress. Walter Georg Kühne, 80, German paleontologist. Jan Herman van Roijen Jr., 85, Dutch diplomat. Armas Valste, 85, Finnish Olympic athlete (1928).

17 Carl Aarvold, 83, English barrister. Pilar Primo de Rivera, 83, Spanish politician. Carlo Donat-Cattin, 71, Italian politician. Edward Gedge, 95, British Olympic pentathlete (1920). Peter Gordon, 69, New Zealand politician.

18 Aladár Bitskey, 85, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1928). Vilma Bánky, 90, Hungarian-American silent film actress, cardiopulmonary failure. Landis Gores, 71, American architect. Will Inge, 83, English cricketer. Carl Jensen, 81, Danish Olympic boxer (1932). Dezider Kardoš, 76, Czechoslovak composer. Narda Onyx, 59, Estonian-American actress. Herbert Sandberg, 82, German artist. Karl Schubert, 82, German Olympic swimmer (1928). Henry Tröndle, 85, German Olympic cyclist (1932). John D. Voelker, 87, American judge and author.

19 Justus Buchler, 76, American philosopher. Godfred Bysheim, 81, Norwegian footballer. Richard Hawkey, 67, English cricket player. Bruno Kessler, 67, Italian politician. István Sugár, 86, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1928). Russ Thomas, 66, American football player (Detroit Lions). Sunday Wilshin, 86, British actress and radio presenter.

20 Billy Butler, 66, American guitarist. George Friedrichs, 51, American Olympic sailor (1968). George W. Grider, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967). David Marshall Lang, 66, British historian and academic. John Palmer MacBeth, 69, Canadian politician. Minatullah Rahmani, 77, Indian Islamic scholar. Nick Vanoff, 61, American theatre producer, cardiac arrest.

21 Almé Z, 24, French sport horse. Nan Britton, 94, American secretary, mistress of Warren G. Harding. Vedat Dalokay, 63, Turkish politician and architect, traffic collision. Leo Fender, 81, American musician and businessman (Fender), Parkinson's disease. Oscar Heidenstam, 80, British bodybuilder. Bill Sweeney, 54, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Harry Townley, 86, Australian rules footballer.

22 Léon Balcer, 73, Canadian politician. Jimmy Boyd, 83, Scottish football player. Paul Engle, 82, American writer. Dave Guard, 56, American musician, lymphoma. Gloria Holden, 87, English-American actress, heart attack. Adrie Lasterie, 47, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1964). Albert McKinley Rains, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1965). R. L. Ryan, 44, American actor (The Toxic Avenger, Birdy, Street Trash), heart attack.

23 Elisaveta Bagriana, 97, Bulgarian poet. Susumu Fujita, 79, Japanese actor (The Hidden Fortress, The Human Condition, Mothra vs. Godzilla), liver cancer. Bill Gunn, 59, Australian football player. Guy Benton Johnson, 90, American sociologist. Mona Maris, 87, Argentine film actress, lung disease. Neta Snook Southern, 95, American aviation pioneer. Innozenz Stangl, 80, German Olympic gymnast (1936). Pauline Vanier, 92, Canadian humanitarian and academic. Lars Wolfbrandt, 62, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).

24 Godfrey Bryan, 88, English cricket player. Doug Davies, 60, Australian rules footballer. Maudie Edwards, 84, Welsh actress (Welsh Rarebit, Coronation Street). Albert Järvinen, 40, Finnish guitarist, heart attack. Sir John Kerr, 76, Australian politician, governor-general (1974–1977), brain cancer. Max Truex, 55, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1956, 1960). Adrie Zwartepoorte, 74, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936).

25 Rusty Bryant, 61, American jazz musician. Robert Duis, 77, German Olympic basketball player (1936). Arthur Duncan, 78, Australian rules footballer. Margaret Hoffman, 79, American Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932). Vitaliy Holubyev, 65, Soviet football player. Eileen Joyce, 83, Australian pianist. Marcel Lefebvre, 85, French Roman Catholic prelate, bone cancer. Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, 67, German architecture historian, archaeologist and Byzantinist. Mohammed Ahmed Sadek, 73, Egyptian general. Sandy Williams, 84, American trombonist.

26 Karel Burkert, 81, Czechoslovak footballer. Warren Chappell, 86–87, American illustrator and teacher, heart failure. Herbert Dörner, 60, German footballer. Riccardo Fellini, 70, Italian film actor. Paul Gayten, 71, American musician. Angus Charles Graham, 71, Welsh sinologist. Horse Hagerty, 85, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Doug Herland, 39, American Olympic rower (1984).