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

## February 1991
### 1

* Sam Busich, 77, American football player.
* Carol Dempster, 89, American silent film actress, heart failure.
* Shiro Kuramata, 56, Japanese interior designer.
* Jimmy MacDonald, 84, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse) and sound effects designer, heart failure.
* Herzl Rosenblum, 87, Lithuanian-born Israeli journalist.
* Oscar Rudolph, 79, American television director, complications from a stroke.
* Phil Watson, 76, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (New York Rangers).

### 2

* Pete Axthelm, 47, American sports journalist, liver failure.
* Maurice G. Burnside, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1953, 1955–1957).
* Lorang Christiansen, 74, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1948, 1952).
* Jack Daugherty, 60, American musician, complications from heart surgery.
* Alan Green, 79, British politician.
* Natalie Kingston, 85, American actress.
* Franco Latini, 63, Italian actor and voice actor, stroke.
* Howie Rader, 69, American basketball player.
* Stanislav Sorokin, 49, Soviet Olympic boxer (1964).
* Aryness Joy Wickens, 90, American statistician.

### 3

* Harry Ackerman, 78, American television producer (Bewitched, The Flying Nun, Hazel).
* Walter Brown, 75, American baseball player.
* Ernst Kalwitzki, 81, German football player.
* Nancy Kulp, 69, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, The Parent Trap), cancer.

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* Juozas Baltušis, 81, Lithuanian writer.
* Károly Bartha, 83, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1924).
* Johannes Pløger, 68, Danish football player.
* Harry Lancaster Towe, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1951).
* Eleni Skoura, 94, Greek politician.

### 5

* Pedro Arrupe, 83, Spanish Jesuit priest.
* Lawrence Gowing, 72, English artist, heart attack.
* Dean Jagger, 87, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, White Christmas, Mr. Novak), Oscar winner (1950).
* James L. Knight, 81, American newspaper publisher.
* Margarethe von Oven, 86, German secretary and 20 July plot accomplice .

### 6

* John Paul Elford, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Salvador Luria, 78, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1969), heart attack.
* Bassett Maguire, 86, American botanist, kidney failure.
* Alex McColl, 96, American baseball player.
* George McNaughton, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Danny Thomas, 79, American actor (The Danny Thomas Show, The Jazz Singer, Big City) and philanthropist, Emmy winner (1955), heart attack.
* María Zambrano, 86, Spanish writer.

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* Otto Friedrich Bollnow, 87, German philosopher.
* George Detore, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
* John War Eagle, 89, American Sioux actor (Tonka, Tomahawk, Westward Ho, the Wagons!).
* Werner Fuetterer, 84, German actor.
* John Guise, 76, Papua New Guinean politician, governor-general (1975–1977).
* Don McDougall, 73, American television director (The Virginian, Bonanza, The Dukes of Hazzard).
* Jean-Paul Mousseau, 64, Canadian artist.
* John Steinbeck IV, 44, American journalist, complications from spinal surgery.
* Dick Winslow, 75, American actor (Tom Sawyer, King Creole, The Apple Dumpling Gang), diabetes.
* Amos Yarkoni, 70, Bedouin-Israeli military officer and civil servant, cancer.

### 8

* Aris T. Allen, 80, American politician, suicide.
* Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., 64, American sociologist.
* Miran Bux, 83, Pakistani cricket player.
* Silvio O. Conte, 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1959), prostate cancer.
* Daphne Jackson, 54, English nuclear physicist, cancer.
* James Jacoby, 57, American bridge player, cancer.
* Casimir Lewy, 71, Polish philosopher.
* Evan Luard, 64, English politician.
* Aaron Siskind, 87, American photographer, stroke.

### 9

* James Cleveland, 59, American gospel singer, heart failure.
* John Sloan Dickey, 83, American academic.
* Walter Klien, 62, Austrian pianist.
* Daigoro Kondo, 83, Japanese footballer, intracranial hemorrhage.
* Fatma Memik, 87-88, Turkish politician.
* Arkady Migdal, 79, Soviet physicist and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
* Edward H. Schafer, 77, American historian, liver cancer.
* Cliff Shaw, 68, American programmer.

### 10

* William Foley, 59, Australian Roman Catholic archbishop.
* Rowe Harding, 89, Welsh rugby player.
* Bernard Lee, 55, American civil rights activist, heart failure.
* Marion Roper, 80, American Olympic diver (1932).
* Marcel Tolkowsky, 91, Belgian diamond cutter.

### 11

* Ricardo Gullón, 82, Spanish writer.
* Bohumil Kudrna, 70, Czechoslovak Olympic canoeist (1948, 1952).
* Ruth Landes, 82, American anthropologist.
* Pete Parker, 95, Canadian radio announcer.

### 12

* Wilhelm Brinkmann, 80, German Olympic handball player (1936).
* Liu Chieh, 83, Taiwanese diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Norman Fisher, 74, New Zealand boxer.
* Ruth Morley, 65, Austrian-American costume designer (Superman, Taxi Driver, Tootsie), breast cancer.
* Roger Patterson, 22, American bassist (Atheist), traffic collision.
* Robert F. Wagner, 80, American politician, mayor of New York City (1954–1965), bladder cancer.

### 13

* Arno Breker, 90, German architect and sculptor.
* Gunnar Hultgren, 88, Swedish archbishop.
* Flaviano Labò, 64, Italian singer, traffic collision.
* Ron Pickering, 60, British sports commentator.
* Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, 90, German royal, head of the house of Saxe-Altenburg (since 1955).
* Heinz Willeg, 72, German film producer.

### 14

* Alex Clark, 74, American politician, head injury.
* Felix Gilbert, 85, German-American historian.
* Pafsanias Katsotas, 95, Greek Army general and politician.
* Alfred R. Lindesmith, 85, American sociologist.
* John A. McCone, 89, American politician, Director of Central Intelligence (1961–1965), cardiac arrest.
* Kim Slavin, 62, Soviet and Russian painter.
* José Ádem, 69, Mexican mathematician.

### 15

* Virginia Mae Brown, 67, American civil servant, heart attack.
* Alfred Gleisner, 82, German politician.
* David Herlihy, 60, American historian.
* Birger Malmsten, 70, Swedish actor.
* Tillie Manton, 80, American football player.
* George Motola, 71, American record producer.
* Ernest Robert Sears, 80, American agricultural geneticist.
* Ivan Shkadov, 77, Soviet general, traffic accident.
* Earl E. T. Smith, 87, American politician and diplomat.
* István Ströck, 90, Romanian football player.

### 16

* Enrique Bermúdez, 58, Nicaraguan soldier, shot.
* Bob Geddins, 78, American musician, liver cancer.
* Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick, 82, Spanish actor and noble.
* Bobby Maples, 48, American football player (Houston Oilers, Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers), Hodgkin's lymphoma.
* Didar Sandhu, 48, Indian folk singer and songwriter.

### 17

* Gitta Alpár, 88, Hungarian-American opera singer.
* Madina Gulgun, 65, Iranian-Soviet poet.
* Louis O. Kelso, 77, American economist.
* Miroslav Macháček, 68, Czechoslovak actor.
* Jean Palluch, 67, French football player (b.1923).
* Francis Pearson, 79, British politician and colonial administrator.
* Hans Thimig, 90, Austrian actor and director.
* Travis Williams, 45, American football player, heart failure.

### 18

* Liu Chi-Sheng, 76, Chinese pilot, intracerebral hemorrhage.
* Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas, 87, Spanish linguist.
* Eugene Fodor, 85, Hungarian-American writer.
* Dick Hart, 63, American Olympic long-distance runner (1956).
* Fulke Walwyn, 80, British jockey.
* Zhang Wenjin, 76, Chinese diplomat.

### 19

* Fad Browne, 84, Irish politician.
* Arne Kleven, 91, Danish footballer.
* Herbert Niemann, 55, German Olympic judoka (1964), suicide.
* Milton S. Plesset, 83, American physicist.
* Francis D. Rauber, 89, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Major.

### 20

* Sir George Clark, 3rd Baronet, 77, Northern Irish politician.
* Isabelle Delorme, 90, Canadian composer.
* John Fetzer, 89, American sports executive.
* Eugene Forsey, 86, Canadian politician.
* Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, 81, English linguist.
* George Lennon, 90, Irish-American buddhist and republican leader.

### 21

* Dorothy Auchterlonie, 75, English-born Australian poet.
* John Sherman Cooper, 89, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1949, 1952–1955, 1956–1973), heart failure.
* Margot Fonteyn, 71, English ballerina, ovarian cancer.
* Oscar Christian Gundersen, 82, Norwegian politician.
* Mordechai Ish-Shalom, 90, Israeli politician and labor leader.
* Nutan, 54, Indian actress, breast cancer.
* Frederick J. Pohl, 101, American author.
* Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, 69, Iranian writer.

### 22

* Ladislav Fialka, 59, Czechoslovak mime.
* Eric Hosking, 81, English photographer.
* William Loose, 80, American composer, heart attack.
* Jimmy Pattison, 82, American baseball player.
* Atanasie Protopopesco, 90, Romanian football player.

### 23

* John Alfred Hannah, 88, American academic.
* Argeliers León, 72, Cuban composer and musicologist.
* Leo Thomas Maher, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer.
* Gösta Persson, 87, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1924, 1936).
* William Howard Taft III, 75, American diplomat, prostate cancer.

### 24

* Georges Capdeville, 91, French football referee.
* John Charles Daly, 77, American journalist and television personality, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
* Robert B. Downs, 87, American librarian.
* George Gobel, 71, American actor and comedian.
* Shingo Kanemoto, 58, Japanese voice actor, intracerebral hemorrhage.
* Stewart Morris, 81, British Olympic sailor (1948).
* Webb Pierce, 69, American musician, pancreatic cancer.
* Héctor Rial, 62, Argentine football player.
* Jean Rogers, 74, American actress, surgical complications.
* Lina Volonghi, 76, Italian actress.
* Hans-Joachim Weise, 78, German Olympic sailor (1936).

### 25

* John Dunning, 74, American film editor (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar, Dr. Kildare), Oscar winner (1960).
* Sverre Hansen, 91, Norwegian Olympic long jumper (1924).
* Suleiman Ali Nashnush, 47-48, Libyan basketball player.
* Otto Tibulski, 78, German footballer.
* André Turp, 65, Canadian singer.

### 26

* Bernard W. Burton, 92, American film editor.
* Abraham Charité, 73, Dutch Olympic weightlifter (1948).
* Slim Gaillard, 80, American musician, cancer.
* Han Lih-wu, 88, Taiwanese diplomat.
* William McMahon, 81, American Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
* Jimmy Zinn, 96, American baseball player.

### 27

* Owen Dougherty, 61, American sports coach, complications from heart surgery.
* Florence Gilbert, 87, American silent film actress.
* Leo Katcher, 79, American reporter, heart attack.
* Martinho da Costa Lopes, 73, East Timorese religious and political leader.
* Artie Mitchell, 45, American pornographer, shot.
* Bob Widlar, 53, American electronics engineer, heart attack.

### 28

* Reinhard Bendix, 75, German-American sociologist, heart attack.
* Wassily Hoeffding, 76, Finnish-American statistician.
* Prince Wenzel of Liechtenstein, 28, Liechtenstein royal.
* Sante Monachesi, 81, Italian painter.
* Guillermo Ungo, 59, Salvadoran politician.
* Werner Wägelin, 77, Swiss Olympic cyclist (1936).