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

## September 1991
### 1

* Otl Aicher, 69, German graphic designer and typographer, traffic collision.
* Allan Grossman, 80, Canadian politician, cancer.
* Luis Negrón López, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
* Hannibal Valdimarsson, 88, Icelandic politician.

### 2

* Arnold Chernushevich, 58, Soviet fencer and Olympic medalist.
* František Hanus, 75, Czech actor.
* Laura Riding, 90, American writer, cardiac arrest.
* Alfonso García Robles, 80, Mexican diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient (1982).

### 3

* Jean Bourgoin, 78, French cinematographer (The Longest Day), Oscar winner (1963).
* Frank Capra, 94, Italian-American film director (It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night), Oscar winner (1935, 1937, 1939), heart attack.
* Eduardo Cordero, 69, Chilean basketball player.
* Falk Harnack, 78, German film director.
* Daniel Prenn, 86, Polish-German-British tennis player, Alzheimer's disease.

### 4

* Charlie Barnet, 77, American jazz musician.
* Henri de Lubac, 95, French cardinal.
* Azellus Denis, 84, Canadian politician.
* Knud Hallest, 82, Danish film actor.
* Tom Tryon, 65, American actor and novelist, stomach cancer.
* Dottie West, 58, American country singer, complications from a traffic collision.

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* Raymond Dronne, 83, French resistance fighter during World War II.
* Sharad Joshi, 60, Indian poet, writer, and satirist.
* Carol Kalish, 36, American writer, editor, and comic book retailer, intracranial aneurysm.
* Åke Nilsson, 63, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian.
* Alexander Pushnin, 70, Soviet painter.
* Peter Slaghuis, 30, Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer, traffic collision.
* Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, 90, Turkish artist.

### 6

* Eugene Bolden, 92, American Olympic swimmer (1920).
* Donald Henry Gaskins, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by electric chair.
* Bob Goldham, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Mohamad Noah Omar, 93, Malaysian politician.
* Alfredo Rizzo, 89, Italian actor.
* Robert Stoller, 66, American psychiatrist and researcher , traffic collision.

### 7

* Buddy Banks, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist, pianist, and bandleader.
* Héctor-Neri Castañeda, 66, Guatemalan-American philosopher and publisher.
* John Crosby, 79, American media critic, cancer.
* John H. Lawrence, 87, American physicist.
* Edwin McMillan, 83, American physicist, first to synthesize neptunium, Nobel Prize recipient (1951), complications of diabetes mellitus.
* Chintaman Govind Pandit, 96, Indian virologist and writer.
* Haakon Pedersen, 84, Norwegian speed skater and Olympian.
* Ben Piazza, 58, American actor (Mask, Santa Barbara, The Blues Brothers), AIDS-related cancer.
* Ravi Narayana Reddy, 83, Indian communist politician and peasant leader.

### 8

* Odd Bull, 84, Norwegian Air Force general.
* Brad Davis, 41, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire, Querelle), assisted suicide.
* Gordon Gunson, 87, English footballer.
* Latif Karimov, 84, Azerbaijani artist.
* Alex North, 80, American film composer (A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, Cleopatra), Emmy winner (1976).
* Luigi Pareyson, 73, Italian philosopher.
* Mack Reynolds, 56, American gridiron football player.
* Lou Rosenberg, 87, American baseball player.

### 9

* Concetto Lo Bello, 67, Italian football referee and politician.
* Åke Holmberg, 84, Swedish writer and translator.
* Efraim Racker, 78, Austrian biochemist, stroke.
* Henri H. Stahl, 90, Romanian marxist cultural anthropologist and social historian.

### 10

* Jack Crawford, 83, Australian tennis player.
* Jan Józef Lipski, 65, Polish writer and politician.
* Eila Pehkonen, 66, Finnish actress.
* António Reis, 64, Portuguese film director, screenwriter, and producer.
* Michel Soutter, 59, Swiss film director and screenwriter, cancer.

### 11

* Gail Borden, 84, American figure skater and Olympian.
* Rudolf Kaiser, 69, German aerospace engineer.
* Iosif Lengheriu, 77, Romanian football player.
* Wera Liessem, 78, German actress.
* Viktor Tegelhoff, 72, Slovak football player and coach.

### 12

* Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, 79, Scottish nobleman, general practitioner and farmer.
* Saburo Date, 67, Japanese actor.
* Milton Harris, 85, American chemist.
* Franz Keller, 78, Swiss psychologist.
* Feliks Konarski, 84, Polish poet, songwriter, and cabaret performer.
* Bruce Matthews, 82, Canadian army officer.
* Chris Von Erich, 21, American professional wrestler, suicide.
* Harland G. Wood, 84, American biochemist.

### 13

* Baruch Ashlag, 84, Polish rabbi.
* Michael Harrison, 84, English detective and fantasy writer.
* Robert Irving, 78, British conductor.
* Huy Kanthoul, 82, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister.
* Erich Kern, 85, Austrian journalist, nazi propagandist during World War II, and a post-war neo-nazi.
* Metin Oktay, 55, Turkish football player, traffic collision.
* Joe Pasternak, 89, Hungarian-American film director, Parkinson's disease.
* Paul Thompson, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 14

* Liu Dagang (chemist), 87, Chinese chemist.
* Julie Bovasso, 61, American actress (Saturday Night Fever, The Verdict, Moonstruck), cancer.
* Heinz Budde, 65, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Mieczysław Czechowicz, 60, Polish actor.
* John King Fairbank, 84, American historian.
* Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, 66, German-Israeli linguist.
* Russell Lynes, 80, American art historian.

### 15

* André Baruch, 83, French-American radio host, narrator, and sportscaster.
* Antoine Blavier, 77, Belgian football referee.
* Đorđe Božović, 35, Serbian mobster and war commander, shot.
* Otto Buggisch, 81, German mathematician.
* Petronella Burgerhof, 82, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1928).
* Smoky Burgess, 64, American baseball player.
* John Hoyt, 85, American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Julius Caesar, When Worlds Collide), lung cancer.
* Luis Miró, 78, Spanish footballer.
* Charles E. Osgood, 74, American psychologist and academic.
* K. H. Scheer, 63, German science fiction writer.
* Sulkhan Tsintsadze, 66, Georgian composer.

### 16

* Ernest Davies, 89, British journalist, author and politician.
* Ronald DeWolf, 57, American writer and critic of scientology, diabetes.
* Murilo Rubião, 75, Brazilian writer.
* Olga Spessivtseva, 96, Russian ballerina.
* Carol White, 48, English actress (Poor Cow, I'll Never Forget What's'isname, The Fixer).

### 17

* Bernhard Bischoff, 84, German historian, paleographer, and philologist.
* Zino Francescatti, 89, French violinist.
* Frank H. Netter, 85, American surgeon.
* Song Shi-Lun, 84, Chinese general.
* John Tocher, 65, British trade unionist and communist activist.

### 18

* Leland Bell, 68, American painter, leukemia.
* John Anthony Donovan, 80, Canadian-American Roman Catholic bishop, heart ailment.
* Harry Sandbach, 88, British academic.
* Rob Tyner, 46, American singer (MC5), heart attack.

### 19

* Lydia Cabrera, 92, Cuban-American ethnographer.
* Eurico de Freitas, 89, Brazilian athlete and Olympian.
* LeRoy Lemke, 55, American politician and lawyer.
* Theodore McEvoy, 86, British Royal Air Force officer.

### 20

* Ricardo Arredondo, 42, Mexican boxer.
* Anton Besold, 87, German politician.
* Richard Holt, 60, British politician.
* Chet Morgan, 81, American baseball player and manager.
* Steve Peek, 77, American baseball player.
* Louis Clyde Stoumen, 74, American photographer, film director and producer, cancer.
* Seiichirō Tsuda, 85, Japanese long-distance runner and Olympian.

### 21

* Gordon Bashford, 75, British automotive designer.
* Paul Henry Lang, 90, Hungarian-American musicologist and music critic.
* Henri Lemoine, 82, French cyclist.
* Mirza Masood, 82, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
* Ante Paradžik, 48, Croatian politician, assassinated.
* Angelo Rossitto, 83, American actor (Freaks).
* Álvaro, 59, Brazilian football player and manager.

### 22

* Tino Casal, 41, Spanish singer, songwriter and producer, traffic collision.
* Ray Cillien, 52, Luxembourgish Olympic boxer (1960).
* Louis Dugauguez, 73, French football player and football manager.
* Yevgeni Ivanovski, 73, Soviet general.
* Durga Khote, 86, Indian actress.

### 23

* Charles V. Dingley, 51, American pornographic film and B movie producer, screenwriter, and director.
* Harriet Hammond, 91, American silent film actress.
* Yue-Kong Pao, 72, Hong Kong businessman.
* Harold Phelps, 88, American long-distance runner.
* Keith Robertson, 77, American writer, cancer.
* Philippus Vethaak, 76, Dutch cyclist.

### 24

* Yusif Aliyev, 21, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
* Bolesław Banaś, 79, Polish Olympic fencer (1948).
* Peter Bellamy, 47, English singer, suicide.
* Mary Lawrence, 73, American actress, pneumonia.
* Dom Orejudos, 58, American choreographer, AIDS.
* Dr. Seuss, 87, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham), cancer.
* Joyce Steele, 82, Australian politician.

### 25

* LeRoy H. Anderson, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1961).
* Viviane Romance, 79, French actress.
* Anita Traversi, 54, Swiss singer.
* Stanley Waters, 71, Canadian politician.
* Ted A. Wells, 84, American aircraft engineer.

### 26

* Leonard J. Chabert, 58, American politician.
* Helmut Kohl, 48, Austrian football referee and butcher, cancer.
* Benjamin A. Smith II, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1960–1962).
* Billy Vaughn, 72, American singer, peritoneal carcinoma.

### 27

* Roy Fuller, 79, English writer.
* Garry Glenn, 36, American songwriter, kidney failure.
* Richard Goldner, 83, Romanian-Australian violist, pedagogue and inventor.
* Floyd Huddleston, 73, American songwriter, screenwriter, and television producer.
* Joe Hulme, 87, English football player and cricket player.
* Stefan Kisielewski, 80, Polish writer, composer and politician.
* Eryk Lipiński, 83, Polish artist.
* Oona O'Neill, 66, American socialite, widow of Charlie Chaplin, pancreatic cancer.
* Roberto Rojas, 35, Peruvian football player, traffic collision.
* Alois Vansteenkiste, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Øyvind Vennerød, 72, Norwegian filmmaker.

### 28

* Eugène Bozza, 86, French composer and violinist.
* Sir Clifford Campbell, 99, Jamaican politician, governor-general (1962–1973).
* Olin Hatfield Chilson, 87, American district judge of the American District Court for the District of Colorado.
* Miles Davis, 65, American jazz musician, intracerebral hemorrhage.
* Ellic Howe, 81, British author.
* Barbara Rose Johns, 56, American civil rights activist, bone cancer.
* Peter McKennan, 73, Scottish football player.
* Shankar Guha Niyogi, 48, Indian labor leader, murdered.
* Dilgo Khyentse Tashi Peljor, 81, Bhutanese Buddhist spiritual teacher and poet.
* A. L. Philpott, 72, American politician.

### 29

* Zelimir Bakša, 34, Yugoslav People's Army officer, killed in action.
* Henry Joseph Kelliher, 95, New Zealand businessman.
* Roger Lafontant, 60, Haitian military leader and politician.
* Ed Moriarty, 78, American baseball player.
* Stojadin Mirković, 19, Yugoslav People's Army conscript, killed in action.
* Lou Nova, 78, American boxer and actor, cancer.
* Grace Zaring Stone, 100, American novelist and short-story writer.
* Yury Veksler, 51, Soviet and Russian cinematographer.

### 30

* Osman Alyanak, 79-80, Turkish actor and footballer.
* Sven Barthel, 88, Swedish writer, journalist, theatre critic and translator.
* Shmuel Gonen, 61, Israeli general.
* William Albert Hiltner, 77, American astronomer.
* King Levinsky, 81, American heavyweight boxer.
* Nancy Welford, 87, British-American actress.
* Toma Zdravković, 52, Yugoslav singer, prostate cancer.
* Claire Zeisler, 88, American fiber artist.