# Deaths in April 1991
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

## April 1991
### 1

* Angus Cameron, 61, Scottish rugby player.
* Jon Eardley, 62, American trumpeter.
* Martha Graham, 96, American dancer and choreographer, pneumonia.
* Frankie Gustine, 71, American baseball player.
* Jaime Guzmán, 44, Chilean politician, shot.
* George Lee, 71, English footballer.
* Eddie Miller, 79, American jazz musician, pneumonia.
* Paulo Muwanga, 66, Ugandan politician, president (1980).
* Bjarne Nerem, 67, Norwegian jazz musician.
* Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, 58, German politician, shot.
* Rina Zelyonaya, 89, Soviet actress, singer and comedian, cancer.

### 2

* Noel George Butlin, 69, Australian economic historian.
* Gisa Geert, 90, Austrian actress and choreographer.
* Ken Gunning, 76, American basketball player.
* Cheng Shewo, 92, Chinese journalist, publisher, and educator.
* Robert Veyron-Lacroix, 68, French harpsichordist and pianist.

### 3

* P. K. Balakrishnan, 66, Indian novelist.
* Fred Capossela, 88, American horse racing announcer, stroke.
* Charles Goren, 90, American bridge player.
* Graham Greene, 86, English writer, leukemia.
* John Mullen, 66, American Major League Baseball executive.
* Coral Lansbury, 61, Australian writer, bowel cancer.
* Alan Stewart Orr, 80, British barrister.
* Jo Teunissen-Waalboer, 71, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1948).

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* Edmund Adamkiewicz, 70, German football player.
* Max Frisch, 79, Swiss playwright and novelist, colorectal cancer.
* Louis Guglielmi, 75, French composer.
* John Heinz, 52, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1977) and Senate (since 1977), plane crash.
* Graham Ingels, 75, American comic artist.
* Johnny Moore, 89, American baseball player.
* The Thinker, 12, British thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

### 5

* Nona Balakian, 72, American literary critic and an editor.
* Gerald Blake, 62, British television director.
* Sonny Carter, 43, American astronaut, plane crash.
* William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, 81, English-Australian politician, Governor-General of Australia (1961–1965).
* Eve Garnett, 91, English writer.
* Kōzō Masuda, 73, Japanese professional shogi player.
* Jiří Mucha, 76, Czechoslovak journalist, cancer.
* John Tower, 65, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1961–1985), plane crash.
* Renato Turi, 70, Italian actor and voice actor.

### 6

* Ed Craney, 86, American radio executive.
* Dennis Cross, 66, American actor, cancer.
* Louis Joxe, 89, French politician.
* Joaquín Nogueras Márquez, 84, Spanish Olympic equestrian (1948, 1952, 1956).
* Bill Ponsford, 90, Australian cricketer.

### 7

* Cora DuBois, 87, American anthropologist, pneumonia.
* Henry Glover, 69, American songwriter, heart attack.
* Véra Nabokov, 89, Soviet-Swiss translator.
* Ruth Page, 92, American ballerina.

### 8

* Dink Carroll, 91, Canadian sports journalist.
* Pierre Grégoire, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
* Haim Hanani, 78, Polish-Israeli mathematician.
* Max Janowski, 78-79, German-American composer.
* Per "Dead" Ohlin, 22, Swedish black metal musician (Mayhem), suicide by gunshot.
* Paul Söllner, 79, German Olympic rower (1936).
* Kristian Osvald Viderø, 84, Faroese clergyman and translator.
* Tilo Freiherr von Berlepsch, 77, German actor.

### 9

* Maurice Binder, 72, American film title designer (James Bond), lung cancer.
* Norris Bowden, 64, Canadian figure skater.
* Antoine Dignef, 80, Belgian cyclist.
* William Mims, 64, American actor, cardiac arrest.
* Forrest Towns, 77, American track and field athlete, heart attack.

### 10

* Otto Berg, 84, Norwegian Olympic long jumper (1936).
* Kevin Peter Hall, 35, American actor (Predator, Harry and the Hendersons, 227), AIDS.
* Marian Kaiser, 58, Polish speedway rider.
* Natalie Schafer, 90, American actress (Gilligan's Island), liver cancer.
* Paul Stader, 80, American actor and stuntman (The Towering Inferno, The Goonies, The Poseidon Adventure).
* Wu Yin, 81, Chinese actress.

### 11

* Chester Anderson, 58, American underground press poet and editor.
* Fredson Bowers, 85, American bibliographer.
* Walker Cooper, 76, American baseball player.
* Doris de Jong, 89, Dutch Olympic fencer (1928, 1932).
* Bruno Hoffmann, 77, German glass harpist.
* Mikine Kuwahara, 95, Japanese politician.
* Dick Manning, 78, Russian-American songwriter.
* Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield, 95, British politician.

### 12

* Gene Lillard, 77, American baseball player.
* Tom Rosqui, 62, American actor (The Godfather Part II), cancer.
* James Schuyler, 67, American poet, stroke.
* Orville Vogel, 83, American scientist and wheat biologist, cancer.
* Ivar Waller, 92, Swedish theoretical physicist.

### 13

* Bobby Boriello, 47, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
* Serge David, 58, French racing cyclist.
* Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto, 82, Danish horn player.
* Kalevi Laurila, 53, Finnish Olympic skier (1964, 1968).
* Leo Rodak, 77, American featherweight boxer.

### 14

* Dhalia, 66, Indonesian actress, cancer.
* Randolfo Pacciardi, 92, Italian politician.
* Lionello Levi Sandri, 80, Italian politician.
* Yosef Tekoah, 66, Polish-Israeli diplomat, heart attack.

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* Francisco Herrera Luque, 63, Venezuelan writer, psychiatrist and diplomat.
* Dante Milano, 91, Brazilian poet.
* Teddy Petersen, 98, Danish violinist.
* Erich Zander, 86, German Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).

### 16

* Qin Benli, 72, Chinese journalist, stomach cancer.
* Patrick Bergin, 78, Irish politician and trade union official.
* Homer Bigart, 83, American journalist, cancer.
* John V. Breakwell, 74, American control theorist.
* Bob Dill, 70, American ice hockey player.
* Roman Jasinski, 84, Polish ballet dancer.
* David Lean, 83, English film director (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai), Oscar winner (1958, 1963), esophageal cancer.
* Rafton Pounder, 57, Northern Irish unionist politician.

### 17

* Giovanni Malagodi, 86, Italian politician.
* Michael Long, 43, Australian actor, lung cancer.
* Les Mallon, 85, American baseball player.
* Michael Pertwee, 74, English screenwriter.
* Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, 74, Polish boxer and Holocaust survivor.
* Jack Yellen, 98, Polish-American lyricist ("Happy Days Are Here Again").

### 18

* Ron Bottcher, 50, American opera singer, AIDS.
* Gabriel Celaya, 80, Spanish poet.
* Thomas Arthur Connolly, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Martin Hannett, 42, English record producer, heart failure.
* John Morse Haydon, 71, American politician.
* Austin Bradford Hill, 93, English epidemiologist.
* Sheldon Jones, 69, American baseball player.
* Menios Koutsogiorgas, 68-69, Greek politician.
* Barry Rogers, 55, American trombonist.

### 19

* Dilara Aliyeva, 61, Soviet philologist and translator, traffic collision.
* Leon Foster, 77, Barbadian cricket player.
* Judy Gunn, 76, British actress.
* Stanley Hawes, 86, British-Australian filmmaker.
* Louise Dickinson Rich, 87, American writer.

### 20

* Hiroyuki Ebihara, 51, Japanese boxer.
* Seán Ó Faoláin, 91, Irish writer.
* Anton Kotzig, 71, Czechoslovak-Canadian mathematician.
* Steve Marriott, 44, English musician (Small Faces, Humble Pie), house fire.
* Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga, 76, Ugandan Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Don Siegel, 78, American film director (Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Escape from Alcatraz), cancer.
* Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, 74, Mongolian politician, bile duct cancer.
* Bucky Walters, 82, American baseball player.

### 21

* Richard Walker Bolling, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1983).
* Willi Boskovsky, 81, Austrian violinist.
* Li Choh-ming, 79, Chinese-American economist and educator.
* Bernard Laidebeur, 48, French Olympic runner (1964).
* Alexey Vodyagin, 66, Soviet footballer.
* Dick Weik, 63, American baseball player.

### 22

* Jack Kid Berg, 81, English boxer.
* Andrew Boyle, 71, Scottish journalist and biographer.
* Anne Howard, 66, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Karl Klasen, 81, German banker.
* Mikheil Meskhi, 54, Georgian football player.
* Sylvio Pirillo, 74, Brazilian footballer.
* Jason Richard Swallen, 87, American botanist.
* Feriha Tevfik, 80-81, Turkish actress, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 23

* Paul Brickhill, 74, Australian author (The Great Escape, The Dam Busters).
* Arthur Derounian, 82, Turkish-American journalist, heart attack.
* William Dozier, 83, American film and television producer (Batman, The Green Hornet, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers), stroke.
* Lokman Hossain Fakir, 56, Bangladeshi musician.
* Johnny Thunders, 38, American musician, drug overdose.

### 24

* Mario Acchini, 75, Italian Olympic rower (1948).
* Werner Neumann, 86, German musicologist.
* Haakon Tranberg, 74, Norwegian sprinter.
* Cafer Çağatay, 91-92, Turkish footballer.

### 25

* Lamberto V. Avellana, 76, Filipino film director.
* Laz Barrera, 66, Cuban-American racehorse trainer.
* Carl Brandt, 76, American composer.
* Michael Kühnen, 35, German neo-Nazi leader, AIDS.
* Theo Laseroms, 51, Dutch football player, heart attack.
* Antônio de Castro Mayer, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, respiratory failure.

### 26

* Nate Andrews, 77, American baseball player.
* Leo Arnaud, 86, French-American composer.
* Gordon Chalk, 77, Australian politician.
* Carmine Coppola, 80, American film composer (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders), Oscar winner (1975), stroke.
* Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, 88, French historian.
* A. B. Guthrie Jr., 90, American author.
* Lars Hall, 63, Swedish Olympic pentathlete (1952, 1956).
* Richard Hatfield, 60, Canadian politician, brain cancer.
* Henry Lipson, 81, British physicist, heart attack.
* Ezio Marano, 63, Italian actor.
* Emily McLaughlin, 62, American actress (General Hospital), cancer.
* William Andrew Paton, 101, American accountancy scholar.
* Walter Reder, 76, Austrian war criminal (Marzabotto massacre).
* Thaddeus Anthony Shubsda, 66, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

### 27

* Georg Ehnes, 70, German politician.
* Alfred Eriksen, 72, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
* Pavlos Oikonomou-Gouras, 93, Greek diplomat.
* Robert Velter, 82, French cartoonist (Spirou & Fantasio).
* Elinor Remick Warren, 91, American composer.

### 28

* Steve Broidy, 85, American film executive, heart attack.
* Ken Curtis, 74, American actor (Gunsmoke, The Searchers, Robin Hood) and singer, heart attack.
* Jean Goujon, 77, French racing cyclist.
* Albrecht Joseph, 89, German playwright, screenwriter and film editor.
* Nicola Manzari, 82, Italian filmmaker.
* Floyd McKissick, 69, American lawyer and civil rights activist, lung cancer.
* Tommy Paul, 82, American boxer.
* Pushpavalli, 65, Indian actress, diabetes.
* Igal Roodenko, 74, American pacifist and civil rights activist.
* Harry Sorensen, 77, American basketball player.
* Ollie Spencer, 60, American football player, heart attack.
* Stan Turner, 64, English football player.
* Willy von Känel, 81, Swiss football player.

### 29

* Claude Gallimard, 77, French publisher.
* Gonzaguinha, 45, Brazilian singer, traffic collision.
* Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 44, American writer and horse breeder, cancer.
* Jackie Searl, 69, American actor.

### 30

* Simon Achikgyozyan, 52, Soviet Armenian soldier and war hero, killed in battle.
* André Badonnel, 92, French entomologist.
* Ghislaine Dommanget, 90, French-Monegasque royal and actress, princess consort (1946–1949).
* Tatul Krpeyan, 26, Soviet Armenian soldier and war hero, shot.
* Juozas Urbšys, 95, Lithuanian diplomat.