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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.
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.[1]
- Chris Short, 53, American baseball player, complications from a brain aneurysm.[2]
- Vlado Šegrt, 83, Yugoslav and Bosnian partisan, politician and political commissar.
2
- Marcel Blistène, 80, French film director.[3]
- Bob Perina, 70, American gridiron football player.[4]
- Jack Sensenbrenner, 88, American politician.
- Boris Ugarov, 69, Soviet painter.
- John Francis Whealon, 70, American Roman Catholic archbishop.[5]
3
- Georg Krog, 76, Norwegian Olympic speed skater and lawyer.[6]
- 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.[7]
- Ali Sabri, 70, Egyptian politician, prime minister (1961–1968) and vice-president (1965–1968), heart attack.
- Károly Sós, 82, Hungarian football player and manager.
4
- Dean Burch, 63, American lawyer and lobbyist, bladder cancer.[8]
- Don DaGradi, 80, American animator (Peter Pan) and screenwriter (Mary Poppins, Lady and the Tramp).[9]
- Yevgeny Dragunov, 71, Soviet weapon designer (SVD-63 rifle).
- Jeri Southern, 64, American singer, heart attack.[10]
- Emil Tschakarow, 43, Bulgarian conductor.[11]
- Nikiforos Vrettakos, 79, Greek writer.[12]
- Sammy White, 64, American baseball player.[13]
5
- Paul Brown, 82, American football coach (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.[14]
- Murray Golden, 78, American television director and producer (Death Valley Days, The Twilight Zone, Medical Center).[15]
- Sōichirō Honda, 84, Japanese engineer and businessman (Honda), liver failure.[16]
- Gaston Litaize, 81, French organist and composer.[17]
- Lena Mukhina, 66, Russian diarist during the Siege of Leningrad.
6
- Shapour Bakhtiar, 77, Iranian politician, prime minister (1979), murdered.[18]
- Roland Michener, 91, Canadian politician, governor general (1967–1974).[19]
- Arthur Pentelow, 67, English actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Privilege), heart attack.[20]
- Harry Reasoner, 68, American journalist and commentator (60 Minutes), brain aneurysm.[21]
- Max Rostal, 86, Austrian-British violinist.[22]
- Joe Verdeur, 65, American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder.[23]
7
- Jimmy Cooney, 96, American baseball player.[24]
- Kalina Jędrusik, 61, Polish singer and actress, asthma.
- Charles Manring, 61, American Olympic rower (1952).[25]
- William James Te Wehi Taitoko, 43, New Zealand comedian, heart failure.
- Bai Xiangguo, 73, Chinese military officer and politician.
8
- András Benkei, 67, Hungarian politician.
- Julissa Gomez, 18, American gymnast and quadriplegic, infection.
- Daniel Haberman, 58, American poet, translator and graphic designer, lymphoma.[26]
- Gladys Hulette, 95, American silent film actress.[27]
- James Irwin, 61, American astronaut (Apollo 15), heart attack.[28]
- Ivan Kozhedub, 71, Soviet flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
- Nicholas Poppe, 94, Russian-American linguist.
- Mitsuko Yoshikawa, 90, Japanese actress, heart attack.
- Walter Zeman, 64, Austrian football goalkeeper.[29]
9
- Richard Lee Armstrong, 54, American-Canadian scientist, liver cancer.
- Cella Delavrancea, 103, Romanian pianist.
- Schubert Gambetta, 71, Uruguayan football player.[30]
- Corrie Hartong, 85, Dutch choreographer.[31]
- Richard Löwenthal, 83, German journalist and academic.
- Hank Majeski, 74, American baseball player and coach, cancer.[32]
10
- John Abt, 87, American lawyer and communist politician[33]
- Herbert Blankenhorn, 86, German diplomat.
- Ellen Braumüller, 80, German Olympic track and field athlete (1932).[34]
- Danny Casolaro, 44, American writer, suicide by exsanguination.
- Hans Jakob Polotsky, 85, Israeli linguist.[35]
- Jessie Robins, 86, English actress.
- Buster Smith, 86, American saxophonist, heart attack.[36]
11
- Alfred Dompert, 76, German Olympic runner (1936).[37]
- J. D. McDuffie, 52, American racing driver, racing accident.
- Alan Spenner, 43, English bass player, heart attack.
- Wilhelm Utermann, 78, German film producer.[38]
- Helmut Walcha, 83, German organist.[39]
12
- Edward George Bowen, 80, Welsh physicist and inventor of radar.
- Chuck Chuckovits, 79, American basketball player.[40]
- Lin Fengmian, 90, Chinese painter.[41]
- William D. Gordon, 73, American screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.
- Édson Campos Martins, 61, Brazilian football player.
- Hans Weigel, 83, Austrian writer and theater critic.[42]
13
- Lucia Peka, 79, Latvian-American artist.
- James Roosevelt, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1965), stroke.[43]
- Jack Ryan, 64, American toy designer (Barbie, Hot Wheels), suicide by gunshot.
- Richard A. Snelling, 64, American businessman and politician, heart attack.[44]
- John Sommerfield, 83, British writer and left-wing activist.
- Kazuo Yamada, 78, Japanese conductor and composer.[45]
14
- Waldemar Christoffer Brøgger, 79, Norwegian novelist, journalist, and translator.[46]
- Stanley Chambers, 80, British cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.[47]
- Alberto Crespo, 71, Argentine racing driver.
- Taslim Olawale Elias, 76, Nigerian jurist.
- Douglas Kiker, 61, American author, heart attack.[48]
- Ludwig Landgrebe, 89, Austrian phenomenologist and professor of philosophy.[49]
15
- Eduardo Herrera Bueno, 77, Spanish football player.[50]
- Ken Gunn, 82, Scottish football player.
- Ali Abu Nuwar, 67, Jordanian Army officer.
- Marietta Peabody Tree, 74, American political reporter, breast cancer.[51]
- Jack Twyford, 82, Australian football player.
16
- Charles Garry, 82, American civil rights lawyer, stroke.[52]
- C. Achutha Menon, 78, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Bruno Nicolai, 65, Italian film music composer and orchestra director.[53]
- Johannes Wiese, 76, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
- Luigi Zampa, 86, Italian film director.[54]
17
- Don Dubbins, 63, American actor, cancer.[55]
- Lorna Hill, 89, English children's author.[56]
- Dieter König, 60, German motorboat racer.
- Mervyn Nelson, 76, American actor and producer.[57]
- 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.[58]
- Patrick Joseph Kelly, 96, Scottish-Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate.[59]
- Porter Lainhart, 83, American football player.[60]
- Les McDowall, 78, Scottish football player.[61]
- Chiang Sheng, 40, Taiwanese martial arts actor, heart attack.
- Vaughn Shoemaker, 89, American cartoonist, cancer.[62]
19
- Oliver Drake, 88, American filmmaker.[63]
- Xan Fielding, 72, British author, journalist and traveller.[64]
- Hans van der Laan, 86, Dutch architect and monk.[65]
- Richard Maltby, 77, American musician.[66]
- Henri van Schaik, 92, Dutch horse rider and Olympic medalist.[67]
20
- Herbert Ferber, 85, American visual artist.[68]
- Kalman Kahana, 81, Israeli politician and journalist.
- Gopinath Mohanty, 77, Indian writer and novelist.
- José Luis Sagi-Vela, 46, Spanish basketball player.[69]
- Harley Orrin Staggers, 84, American politician.
- Mihály Teleki, 95, Hungarian politician.
21
- Mikhail Agursky, 58, Russian sovietologist, cybernetic, dissident, and historian.[70]
- Nick DeCarbo, 81, American gridiron football player.[71]
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 74, German author.[72]
- Eugen Jebeleanu, 80, Romanian poet, journalist and scholar.
- Paul Miller, 84, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia.[73]
- Rajaram Shastri, 87, Indian educationist.
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning, 101, German theologian.
- Richard Wilson, 75, American film director, pancreatic cancer.[74]
22
- Chan Coulter, 89, American track and field athlete and Olympian.[75]
- Colleen Dewhurst, 67, Canadian-American actress, cervical cancer.[76]
- Gottfried E. Noether, 76, German-American mathematician.[77]
- Boris Pugo, 54, Soviet politician, suicide by gunshot.
23
- George Dixon, 90, American rugby union player.[78]
- Wilhelm Hahnemann, 77, Austrian-German football player.
- Innes Lloyd, 65, Welsh television producer.
- Ágnes Nemes Nagy, 69, Hungarian poet, writer, and educator.[79]
- Florence Barbara Seibert, 93, American biochemist.[80]
- Mildred Trotter, 92, American forensic anthropology pioneer.[81]
24
- Sergey Akhromeyev, 68, Soviet M\marshal, suicide by gunshot.[82]
- Dick Beddoes, 65, Canadian sports journalist, liver cancer.
- Reynold Brown, 73, American realist artist.
- Abel Kiviat, 99, American Olympic runner (1912), prostate cancer.[83]
- Tony Martínez, 51, Cuban-American baseball player.
- Åge Ramberg, 69, Norwegian politician.
- Vivian Vachon, 40, Canadian professional wrestler and singer, traffic collision.
- Beb Vuyk, 86, Dutch writer.[84]
25
- Niven Busch, 88, American novelist and screenwriter (The Postman Always Rings Twice), congestive heart failure.[85]
- Kunnenkeril K. Jacob, 87, Indian educationist.
- Shigeyoshi Matsumae, 89, Japanese engineer.
- Eddie Phillipson, 80, English cricket player.[86]
- Yoshiko Shibaki, 77, Japanese writer of short stories and novels.
26
- Nikolay Kruchina, 63, Soviet communist official, suicide.
- Ron Livingstone, 65, American basketball player.[87]
- John Petts, 77, British artist.
- Vera Stroyeva, 87, Soviet film director and screenwriter.[88]
- Willie Thornton, 71, Scottish football player.[89]
27
- Pierre Bousquet, 71, French journalist and far-right politician.
- Gordon Heath, 72, American actor (The Emperor Jones, Animal Farm).[90]
- Martín Karadagian, 69, Argentine professional wrestler and actor, diabetes.
- Toto Koopman, 82, Dutch model and spy.[91]
- 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.[92]
- Piet van Boxtel, 88, Dutch football player.[93]
28
- Pierre Guillaumat, 82, French politician.[94]
- Emiliano Piedra, 60, Spanish film producer, cancer.[95]
- Alekos Sakellarios, 77, Greek writer and a director.[96]
- Nicholas Schaffner, 38, American author, journalist, and singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.[97]
- Vince Taylor, 52, English rock and roll singer ("Brand New Cadillac"), lung cancer.
29
- Dallas Adams, 44, English actor, AIDS.
- Ivan Bodin, 68, Swedish football player.[98]
- Alick Buchanan-Smith, 59, Scottish politician.
- Dixie Dunbar, 72, American actress and singer.[99]
- Libero Grassi, 67, Italian clothing manufacturer, murdered.
30
- Joyce Ackroyd, 72, Australian academic.[100]
- Adão Nunes Dornelles, 68, Brazilian football player.
- Cyril Knowles, 47, English footballer, brain cancer.[101]
- Jean Tinguely, 66, Swiss sculptor, heart failure.[102]
- Alan Wheatley, 84, English actor, heart attack.
- Danny Wheelahan, 88, Australian football player.
31
- Ed Buchanan, 57, Canadian football player, ALS.
- Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel, 59, Polish ski jumper and Olympian.[103]
- Gerry Davis, 61, British television writer (Doctor Who).
- Cliff Lumsdon, 60, Canadian world champion marathon swimmer.[104]
- Siti Sukaptinah Sunaryo Mangunpuspito, 83, Indonesian women's rights activist and politician.
- Phoolchandra Shastri, 90, Indian jain scholar, writer, and social reformer.
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