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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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
- Willie Borsch, 61, American drag racer.
- 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]
- 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]
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.
- 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
- 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]
- 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]
- 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
- Ed Hanyzewski, 71, American baseball player.[19]
- 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]
- Dagmar Lange, 77, Swedish author of crime fiction.
- Camille Libar, 73, Luxembourgian football player and manager.[22]
- Doris Lilly, 69, American newspaper columnist and writer, cancer.[23]
- Thalmus Rasulala, 51, American actor (Blacula, One Life to Live, New Jack City), heart attack.[24]
10
- Victor Christgau, 97, American politician.[25]
- Pío Cabanillas Gallas, 67, Spanish jurist and politician, heart attack.[26]
- Nickolaus Hirschl, 85, Austrian wrestler and Olympic medalist.[27]
- Yaroslav Lesiv, 46, Ukrainian poet and priest, traffic collision.
- Bob Morgan, 61, American gridiron football player.[28]
- Gamble Rogers, 54, American musician, drowned.[29]
- 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.[30]
- Ron Ferrier, 77, English footballer.[31]
- Redd Foxx, 68, American actor (Sanford and Son, The Redd Foxx Show, Harlem Nights), heart attack.[32]
- Luke Higgins, 70, American gridiron football player.[33]
- Clay Kirby, 43, American baseball player, heart attack.[34]
- Branislav Mihajlović, 54, Serbian football player.
- 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.[35]
- Aline MacMahon, 92, American actress (Dragon Seed), pneumonia.[36]
- Taso Mathieson, 83, British racing driver and author of automotive history books.[37]
- Regis Toomey, 93, American actor (The Big Sleep, Guys and Dolls, Spellbound).[38]
- Grigoris Vlastos, 84, Greek scholar of ancient philosophy.[39]
13
- William Gentry, 92, New Zealand Military Forces general.[40]
- Donald Houston, 67, Welsh actor (Clash of the Titans, Where Eagles Dare, The Blue Lagoon), stroke.[41]
- Hugh Molson, Baron Molson, 88, British politician.
- Daniel Oduber Quirós, 70, Costa Rican politician, president (1974–1978).[42]
- Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, 59, Spanish politician and businessman.[43]
14
- Thomas H. Eliot, 84, American lawyer, politician, and academic.[44]
- Walter M. Elsasser, 87, German-American physicist.[45]
- Richard Hittleman, 64, American yoga teacher and author.
- Jay Richard Kennedy, 80, American writer, screenwriter, composer, and record executive.[46]
- David Neville, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.[47]
15
- Antonio Canale, 76, Italian comic writer and artist.
- John Greenway, 71, American folklorist and folk singer.[48]
- Verda James, 90, Canadian-American politician.
- Robert Pastene, 73, American actor.[49]
- Han Ying-chieh, 64, Hong Kong actor, cancer.
16
- Arthur E. Arling, 85, American cameraman and cinematographer.[50]
- Ole Beich, 36, Danish bassist (Guns N' Roses), drowned.
- Lore Fischer, 80, German singer.[51]
- Giacomo Mari, 66, Italian football player.[52]
- Boris Papandopulo, 85, Croatian composer.[53]
- 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.[54]
- J. G. Devlin, 84, Northern Irish actor.
- Tennessee Ernie Ford, 72, American singer ("Sixteen Tons", "The Shotgun Boogie"), liver failure.[55]
- Władysław Giergiel, 74, Polish football player.
- Håkon Johnsen, 77, Norwegian politician.
- Harlan James Smith, 67, American astronomer.
- Piet van Est, 57, Dutch cyclist.[56]
18
- Enrico Boniforti, 73, Italian football player.
- Stephen Dickson, 40, American baritone, complications from AIDS.[57]
- Bronisław Gosztyła, 56, Polish ice hockey player.[58]
- Judith Sulian, 71, Argentine film actress.
- Gunnar Sønstevold, 78, Norwegian composer.
19
- Walter Gericke, 83, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
- Henry Holst, 92, Danish violinist.
- Gheorghe Pahonțu, 58, Romanian football player.[59]
- Howard Swearer, 59, American academic, cancer.[60]
- Naum Vilenkin, 70, Soviet mathematician.
20
- Georges Beuchat, 81, French inventor, businessman, and underwater diving pioneer.[61]
- Marcus Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter.
- Clifford Last, 72, English sculptor.[62]
- Susan Noel, 79, English squash and tennis player.
- J. Graham Parsons, 83, American diplomat.[63]
- 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.[64]
- Lev Chegorovsky, 77, Soviet and Russian artist.
- Bobby Coombs, 83, American baseball player.[65]
- Jim Hamby, 94, American baseball player.[66]
22
- Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, 40, American writer and performance artist, suicide by exsanguination.[67]
- Robert Carlin, 90, Canadian politician.
- Joy Harington, 77, English television actress, writer, producer, and director.
- Hachiro Kasuga, 67, Japanese singer.[68]
- Judy Kelly, 77, Australian-British actress.
23
- Derek Edge, 49, English football player.
- Job Stewart, 57, British stage and screen actor.[69]
- Július Torma, 69, Czechoslovak boxer and Olympic champion.[70]
- Alida van Leeuwen, 83, Dutch diver and Olympian.[71]
24
- Ismat Chughtai, 76, Indian Urdu novelist, humanist and filmmaker.[72]
- J. A. Milton Perera, 62, Sri Lankan singer and composer.
- Gene Roddenberry, 70, American television producer (Star Trek), cardiac arrest.[73]
- Vilko Ukmar, 86, Slovenian composer.[74]
- Luisa Vehil, 78, Uruguayan theater and movie actress.
25
- Albert Baldauf, 73, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- George Brunet, 56, American baseball player.[75]
- Khigh Dhiegh, 81, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds).[76]
- Bill Graham, 60, German-American impresario, helicopter crash.[77]
- Louis le Grange, 63, Lawyer, a South African politician.
- Tamaz Namgalauri, 34, Georgian judoka and Olympian.[78]
- John Stratton, 65, British actor.
- Walter Stude, 77, American field hockey player and Olympian.[79]
26
- Henry Wilson Allen, 79, American writer and screenwriter, pneumonia.[80]
- Bill Bevens, 75, American baseball player, lymphoma.[81]
- Vivian Dandridge, 70, American singer, actress and dancer, stroke.
- Major Holley, 67, American jazz bassist.[82]
- Ed Justice, 78, American gridiron football player.[83]
- Enrique Sorrel, 79, Chilean football player and manager.[84]
- Tahira Tahirova, 77, Soviet politician and diplomat.
27
- George Barker, 78, English poet.[85]
- Rocky Hata, 43, Japanese professional wrestler, diabetes.
- Howard Kingsbury, 87, American Olympic rower (1924).[86]
- Pyke Koch, 90, Dutch artist.[87]
- Andrzej Panufnik, 77, Polish composer.[88]
28
- Sylvia Fine, 78, American lyricist, composer, and producer, emphysema.[89]
- Joseph Fletcher, 86, American professor.[90]
- John Kobal, 51, Austrian film historian, pneumonia.[91]
- 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.[92]
29
- Cyril Black, 89, British politician.
- Lee Boltin, 73, American photographer, leukemia.[93]
- Donald Churchill, 60, English actor and playwright, heart attack.[94]
- Jimmie Coker, 55, American baseball player, heart attack.[95]
- 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.[96]
- Johan Støa, 91, Norwegian multi-sportsman and Olympian.[97]
30
- Aniela Jaffé, 88, German-Swiss psychoanalysts.[98]
- Ellis Kolchin, 75, American mathematician and academic, pancreatic cancer.[99]
- George Lambert, 72, English cricket player.[100]
- Prince Emich, 7th Prince of Leiningen, 65, German noble and entrepreneur.
- Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, 84, Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and politician.
31
- Gene Anderson, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Ewald Bucher, 77, German politician.
- Garvin Bushell, 89, American musician and multi-instrumentalist.[101]
- Charles K.L. Davis, 66, American opera singer and musician.[102]
- Alexander Frick, 81, Liechtensteiner politician, Prime Minister (1945–1962).
- Simon Gjoni, 66, Albanian conductor, and composer.
- Frederick Hartt, 77, Italian Renaissance scholar and author.[103]
- 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.[104]
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