Deaths in August 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1991

1 Helen Page Camp, 60, American actress (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), stroke. Carmine Fatico, 81, American mobster and caporegime in the Gambino crime family. John Gilchrist, 51, Scottish football player. Yusuf Idris, 64, Egyptian playwright and novelist, heart attack. Chris Short, 53, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers), complications from a brain aneurysm. Vlado Šegrt, 83, Yugoslav and Bosnian partisan, politician and political commissar.

2 Marcel Blistène, 80, French film director. Gianni Patrignani, 85, Italian Olympic swimmer (1924). Bob Perina, 70, American gridiron football player. Jack Sensenbrenner, 88, American politician. Boris Ugarov, 69, Soviet painter. John Francis Whealon, 70, American Roman Catholic archbishop.

3 Georg Krog, 76, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1936), and lawyer. Louise Hammond Raymond, 104, American tennis player. Armando Contreras Reyes, 72, Chilean football player. Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt, 75, American World War II veteran and grandson of president Theodore Roosevelt. Ali Sabri, 70, Egyptian politician, prime minister (1961–1968) and vice-president (1965–1968), heart attack. Károly Sós, 82, Hungarian football player and manager. Jim Steigenberger, 79, Australian rules footballer.

4 Dean Burch, 63, American lawyer and lobbyist, bladder cancer. Don DaGradi, 80, American animator (Peter Pan) and screenwriter (Mary Poppins, Lady and the Tramp). Yevgeny Dragunov, 71, Soviet weapon designer (SVD-63 rifle). Jeri Southern, 64, American singer, heart attack. Emil Tschakarow, 43, Bulgarian conductor. Nikiforos Vrettakos, 79, Greek writer. Sammy White, 64, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies).

5 Frank Bateman, 67, Australian rules footballer. Paul Brown, 82, American football coach (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), pneumonia. Murray Golden, 78, American television director and producer (Death Valley Days, The Twilight Zone, Medical Center). Sōichirō Honda, 84, Japanese engineer and businessman (Honda), liver failure. Gaston Litaize, 81, French organist and composer. Lena Mukhina, 66, Russian diarist during the Siege of Leningrad. Andrei Sibiryakov, 27, Soviet serial killer.

6 Shapour Bakhtiar, 77, Iranian politician, prime minister (1979), murdered. Jørgen Robert Hansen, 80, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936, 1948). Roland Michener, 91, Canadian politician, governor general (1967–1974). Arthur Pentelow, 67, English actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Privilege), heart attack. Harry Reasoner, 68, American journalist and commentator (60 Minutes), brain aneurysm. Max Rostal, 86, Austrian-British violinist. Joe Verdeur, 65, American competition swimmer, Olympic champion (1948), and world record-holder. Bill Volok, 81, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).

7 Jimmy Cooney, 96, American baseball player. Kalina Jędrusik, 61, Polish singer and actress, asthma. Charles Manring, 61, American Olympic rower (1952). William James Te Wehi Taitoko, 43, New Zealand comedian, heart failure. Bai Xiangguo, 73, Chinese military officer and politician.

8 Walt Atanas, 67, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). András Benkei, 67, Hungarian politician. Julissa Gomez, 18, American gymnast and quadriplegic, infection. Daniel Haberman, 58, American poet, translator and graphic designer, lymphoma. Gladys Hulette, 95, American silent film actress. James Irwin, 61, American astronaut (Apollo 15), heart attack. Matt Kelsh, 86, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Eamonn Kinsella, 58, Irish Olympic hurdler (1956). Ivan Kozhedub, 71, Soviet flying ace during World War II, heart attack. Nicholas Poppe, 93, Russian-American linguist. Mitsuko Yoshikawa, 90, Japanese actress, heart attack. Walter Zeman, 64, Austrian football goalkeeper.

9 Richard Lee Armstrong, 54, American-Canadian scientist, liver cancer. Cella Delavrancea, 103, Romanian pianist. Schubert Gambetta, 71, Uruguayan football player. Corrie Hartong, 85, Dutch choreographer. Rafael Lledó, 69, Argentine Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952). Richard Löwenthal, 83, German journalist and academic. Hank Majeski, 74, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

10 John Abt, 87, American lawyer and communist politician Herbert Blankenhorn, 86, German diplomat. Anthony A. Bliss, 78, executive director and general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Ellen Braumüller, 80, German Olympic track and field athlete (1932). Danny Casolaro, 44, American writer, suicide by exsanguination. Hans Jakob Polotsky, 85, Israeli linguist. Jessie Robins, 86, English actress. Buster Smith, 86, American saxophonist, heart attack.

11 Valér Barač, 82, Slovak Olympic discus thrower (1936). Julio Berrocal, 94, Peruvian artist. Jack Davis, 83, Australian rules footballer. Alfred Dompert, 76, German Olympic runner (1936). J. D. McDuffie, 52, American racing driver, racing accident. Alan Spenner, 43, English bass player, heart attack. Wilhelm Utermann, 78, German film producer. Tieleman Vuurman, 92, Dutch Olympic sports shooter (1936). Helmut Walcha, 83, German organist.

12 Edward George Bowen, 80, Welsh physicist and inventor of radar. Chuck Chuckovits, 79, American basketball player. Lin Fengmian, 90, Chinese painter. William D. Gordon, 73, American screenwriter and actor, lung cancer. Édson Campos Martins, 61, Brazilian Olympic football player (1952). Archie Milano, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions) and coach. Bill Starr, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Hans Weigel, 83, Austrian writer and theater critic.

13 Lucia Peka, 79, Latvian-American artist. James Roosevelt, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1965), stroke. Jack Ryan, 64, American toy designer (Barbie, Hot Wheels), suicide by gunshot. Richard A. Snelling, 64, American businessman and politician, heart attack. John Sommerfield, 83, British writer and left-wing activist. Kazuo Yamada, 78, Japanese conductor and composer.

14 Waldemar Christoffer Brøgger, 79, Norwegian novelist, journalist, and translator. Stanley Chambers, 80, British cyclist and Olympic silver medalist (1932). Alberto Crespo, 71, Argentine racing driver. Charlie Davey, 83, Australian rules footballer. Taslim Olawale Elias, 76, Nigerian jurist. Douglas Kiker, 61, American author, heart attack. Ludwig Landgrebe, 89, Austrian phenomenologist and professor of philosophy.

15 Eduardo Herrera Bueno, 77, Spanish football player. George Edwards, 64, Australian rules footballer. Ken Gunn, 82, Scottish football player. Ali Abu Nuwar, 67, Jordanian Army officer. Marietta Peabody Tree, 74, American political reporter, breast cancer. Jack Twyford, 82, Australian football player.

16 Charles Garry, 82, American civil rights lawyer, stroke. C. Achutha Menon, 78, Indian politician, heart attack. Bruno Nicolai, 65, Italian film music composer and orchestra director. Johannes Wiese, 76, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II. Luigi Zampa, 86, Italian film director.

17 Don Dubbins, 63, American actor, cancer. Lorna Hill, 89, English children's author. Dieter König, 60, German motorboat racer. Mervyn Nelson, 76, American actor and producer. Marguerite Williams, 95, American geologist.

18 Luís Lindley Cintra, 66, Portuguese philologist and linguist. David Gale, 54, British actor, complications from surgery. Rick Griffin, 47, American artist and cartoonist, traffic collision. Patrick Joseph Kelly, 96, Scottish-Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate. Porter Lainhart, 83, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Les McDowall, 78, Scottish football player. Chiang Sheng, 40, Taiwanese martial arts actor, heart attack. Vaughn Shoemaker, 89, American cartoonist, cancer.

19 Oliver Drake, 88, American filmmaker. Xan Fielding, 72, British author, journalist and traveller. Hans van der Laan, 86, Dutch architect and monk. Richard Maltby, 77, American musician. Henri van Schaik, 92, Dutch horse rider and Olympic medalist (1936). John Sherf, 78, American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).

20 Herbert Ferber, 85, American visual artist. Kalman Kahana, 81, Israeli politician and journalist. Gopinath Mohanty, 77, Indian writer and novelist. Keith Parris, 86, Australian rules footballer. José Luis Sagi-Vela, 46, Olympic basketball player (1968). Harley Orrin Staggers, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1949-1981). Mihály Teleki, 95, Hungarian politician.

21 Mikhail Agursky, 58, Russian sovietologist, cybernetic, dissident, and historian. Nick DeCarbo, 81, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates. Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 74, German author. Eugen Jebeleanu, 80, Romanian poet, journalist and scholar. Paul Miller, 84, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia. Rajaram Shastri, 87, Indian educationist. Oswald von Nell-Breuning, 101, German theologian. Richard Wilson, 75, American film director, pancreatic cancer.

22 Jim Adamson, 86, Australian rules footballer. Chan Coulter, 89, American Olympic track and field athlete (1924). Colleen Dewhurst, 67, Canadian-American actress, cervical cancer. Gottfried E. Noether, 76, German-American mathematician. Boris Pugo, 54, Soviet politician, suicide by gunshot. Francis C. Whelan, 83, American district judge.

23 George Dixon, 90, American Olympic rugby union player (1924). Harlan Hobart Grooms, 90, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama). Wilhelm Hahnemann, 77, Austrian-German football player and Olympian (1948). Innes Lloyd, 65, Welsh television producer. Ágnes Nemes Nagy, 69, Hungarian poet, writer, and educator. Florence Barbara Seibert, 93, American biochemist. Mildred Trotter, 92, American forensic anthropology pioneer.

24 Sergey Akhromeyev, 68, Soviet M\marshal, suicide by gunshot. Dick Beddoes, 65, Canadian sports journalist, liver cancer. Bernard Castro, 87, Italian-born American inventor. Reynold Brown, 73, American realist artist. Bob Friedlund, 51, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), and coach. Abel Kiviat, 99, American Olympic runner (1912), prostate cancer. Tony Martínez, 51, Cuban-American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Åge Ramberg, 69, Norwegian politician. Vivian Vachon, 40, Canadian professional wrestler and singer, traffic collision. Beb Vuyk, 86, Dutch writer.

25 Stan Brett, 78, Australian rules footballer. Niven Busch, 88, American novelist and screenwriter (The Postman Always Rings Twice), congestive heart failure. Kunnenkeril K. Jacob, 87, Indian educationist. Shigeyoshi Matsumae, 89, Japanese engineer. Eddie Phillipson, 80, English cricket player. Yoshiko Shibaki, 77, Japanese writer of short stories and novels.

26 Nikolay Kruchina, 63, Soviet communist official, suicide. Ron Livingstone, 65, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors). Georg Mattli, 36, Swiss ice hockey player and Olympian (1976). John Petts, 77, British artist. Vera Stroyeva, 87, Soviet film director and screenwriter. Willie Thornton, 71, Scottish football player.

27 Pierre Bousquet, 71, French journalist and far-right politician. Gordon Heath, 72, American actor (The Emperor Jones, Animal Farm). Martín Karadagian, 69, Argentine professional wrestler and actor, diabetes. Toto Koopman, 82, Dutch model and spy. Gioacchino Muccin, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate. Mike Naumenko, 36, Soviet singer, cerebral hemorrhage. Patriarch German of Serbia, 92, Serbian Orthodox patriarch (1958–1990). Teddy Stauffer, 82, Swiss bandleader, entertainer, and restaurateur. Piet van Boxtel, 88, Dutch Olympic football player (1928).

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