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

• Katharine Blake, 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).
• 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.
• Arthur Murray, 95, Hungarian-American businessman.
• Sal Nistico, 50, American saxophonist.
• William Penney, Baron Penney, 81, English mathematician.
• Johnny Revolta, 79, American golfer.
• 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.

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.
• Horace Winchell Magoun, 83, American medical researcher.
• Larry Olsonoski, 65, American football player.
• Salvo Randone, 84, Italian actor.

7

• John Bartha, 76, Hungarian actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
• Cool Papa Bell, 87, American 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.

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.
• Roman Brother, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, horse colic.

9

• Ely do Amparo, 69, Brazilian footballer.
• Jack Meyer, 85, English cricket player and educator.
• Max Fourny, 86, French art collector and racing driver.
• Ralph Green, 79, Australian footballer.
• Jim Hardin, 47, American baseball player, plane crash.
• Tomojirō Ikenouchi, 84, Japanese composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Fritz Neumark, 90, German economist.

10

• Mildred Eldridge, 81, British artist.
• Fumio Ito, 51, Japanese racing motorcyclist.
• Etheridge Knight, 59, American poet, lung cancer.
• Elie Siegmeister, 82, American composer.
• Paul Ukena, 69, American opera singer, heart failure.

11

• Robert A. Cook, 78, American academic and radio broadcaster.
• Hector Crawford, 77, Australian entrepreneur.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Miodrag Bulatović, 61, Yugoslav novelist.
• Robert Busnel, 76, French basketball player, traffic collision.
• 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.
• 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.

17

• Carl Aarvold, 83, English barrister.
• Pilar Primo de Rivera, 83, Spanish politician.
• Carlo Donat-Cattin, 71, Italian politician.
• 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.
• Carl Jensen, 81, Danish Olympic boxer (1932).
• Dezider Kardoš, 76, Czechoslovak composer.
• Narda Onyx, 59, Estonian-American actress.
• Herbert Sandberg, 82, German artist.
• John D. Voelker, 87, American judge and author.

19

• Justus Buchler, 76, American philosopher.
• Richard Hawkey, 67, English cricket player.
• Bruno Kessler, 67, Italian politician.
• Russ Thomas, 66, American football player.
• Sunday Wilshin, 86, British actress and radio presenter.

20

• Billy Butler, 66, American guitarist.
• George Friedrichs, 51, American sailor and Olympic champion.
• 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).

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.
• 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.
• Adrie Zwartepoorte, 74, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936).

25

• Rusty Bryant, 61, American jazz musician.
• Robert Duis, 77, German Olympic basketball player (1936).
• 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.
• Riccardo Fellini, 70, Italian film actor.
• Paul Gayten, 71, American musician.
• Angus Charles Graham, 71, Welsh sinologist.
• Doug Herland, 39, American Olympic rower (1984).
• Henri Lhote, 88, French ethnographer and explorer.
• P. L. A. Somapala, 69, Sri Lankan singer.
• R. Sudarsanam, 76, Indian composer.

27

• Ralph Bates, 51, English actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Alfredo Campoli, 84, Italian-British violinist.
• Jack Davis, 74, Canadian politician.
• Heinrich Gerlach, 82, German soldier and author.
• Helmut Kronsbein, 76, German footballer.
• Aldo Ray, 64, American actor (Pat and Mike, The Marrying Kind, The Secret of NIMH), throat cancer.
• Hans-Henning Freiherr von Beust, 77, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.

28

• Griffith Buck, 75–76, American horticulturist.
• Maude Hutchins, 92, American artist.
• Carlos Montalbán, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Harder They Fall, Bananas, The Out-of-Towners), heart failure.
• Lyall Wilkes, 76, English politician.

29

• Karl Aletter, 84, German Olympic rower (1928, 1932).
• Lee Atwater, 40, American political consultant, chairman of the Republican National Committee (1989–1991), brain cancer.
• Guy Bourdin, 62, French photographer, cancer.
• John Daniel Hayes, 89, American naval admiral and historian.
• Mikaela, 55, Spanish singer, leukemia.
• Hans Stark, 69, German war criminal.
• John Stradling Thomas, 65, Welsh politician.

30

• Silvia Monfort, 67, French actress, lung cancer.
• Sid Schacht, 73, American baseball player.
• Bud Taylor, 74, American golfer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Nikola Todev, 62, Bulgarian actor.
• Cheng Zihua, 85, Chinese politician.

31

• Emilian Bratu, 86, Romanian chemical engineer.
• John Carter, 61, American jazz musician.
• Stanley Diamond, 69, American poet and anthropologist.
• Consuelo Frank, 78, Mexican actress.
• Josip Jović, 21, Yugoslav Croatian police officer, shot.
• A. W. Lawrence, 90, British archaeologist.

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