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

## August 1991
### 1

* Helen Page Camp, 60, American actress (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), stroke.
* Carmine Fatico, 81, American mobster and caporegime in the Gambino crime family.
* John Gilchrist, 51, Scottish football player.
* Yusuf Idris, 64, Egyptian playwright and novelist, heart attack.
* Chris Short, 53, American baseball player, complications from a brain aneurysm.
* Vlado Šegrt, 83, Yugoslav and Bosnian partisan, politician and political commissar.

### 2

* Marcel Blistène, 80, French film director.
* Bob Perina, 70, American gridiron football player.
* Jack Sensenbrenner, 88, American politician.
* Boris Ugarov, 69, Soviet painter.
* John Francis Whealon, 70, American Roman Catholic archbishop.

### 3

* Georg Krog, 76, Norwegian Olympic speed skater and lawyer.
* Louise Hammond Raymond, 104, American tennis player.
* Armando Contreras Reyes, 72, Chilean football player.
* Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt, 75, American World War II veteran and grandson of president Theodore Roosevelt.
* Ali Sabri, 70, Egyptian politician, prime minister (1961–1968) and vice-president (1965–1968), heart attack.
* Károly Sós, 82, Hungarian football player and manager.

### 4

* Dean Burch, 63, American lawyer and lobbyist, bladder cancer.
* Don DaGradi, 80, American animator (Peter Pan) and screenwriter (Mary Poppins, Lady and the Tramp).
* Yevgeny Dragunov, 71, Soviet weapon designer (SVD-63 rifle).
* Jeri Southern, 64, American singer, heart attack.
* Emil Tschakarow, 43, Bulgarian conductor.
* Nikiforos Vrettakos, 79, Greek writer.
* Sammy White, 64, American baseball player.

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* Paul Brown, 82, American football coach (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.
* Murray Golden, 78, American television director and producer (Death Valley Days, The Twilight Zone, Medical Center).
* Sōichirō Honda, 84, Japanese engineer and businessman (Honda), liver failure.
* Gaston Litaize, 81, French organist and composer.
* Lena Mukhina, 66, Russian diarist during the Siege of Leningrad.
* Andrei Sibiryakov, 27, Soviet serial killer.

### 6

* Shapour Bakhtiar, 77, Iranian politician, prime minister (1979), murdered.
* Roland Michener, 91, Canadian politician, governor general (1967–1974).
* Arthur Pentelow, 67, English actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Privilege), heart attack.
* Harry Reasoner, 68, American journalist and commentator (60 Minutes), brain aneurysm.
* Max Rostal, 86, Austrian-British violinist.
* Joe Verdeur, 65, American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder.

### 7

* Jimmy Cooney, 96, American baseball player.
* Kalina Jędrusik, 61, Polish singer and actress, asthma.
* Charles Manring, 61, American Olympic rower (1952).
* William James Te Wehi Taitoko, 43, New Zealand comedian, heart failure.
* Bai Xiangguo, 73, Chinese military officer and politician.

### 8

* András Benkei, 67, Hungarian politician.
* Julissa Gomez, 18, American gymnast and quadriplegic, infection.
* Daniel Haberman, 58, American poet, translator and graphic designer, lymphoma.
* Gladys Hulette, 95, American silent film actress.
* James Irwin, 61, American astronaut (Apollo 15), heart attack.
* Ivan Kozhedub, 71, Soviet flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
* Nicholas Poppe, 93, Russian-American linguist.
* Mitsuko Yoshikawa, 90, Japanese actress, heart attack.
* Walter Zeman, 64, Austrian football goalkeeper.

### 9

* Richard Lee Armstrong, 54, American-Canadian scientist, liver cancer.
* Cella Delavrancea, 103, Romanian pianist.
* Schubert Gambetta, 71, Uruguayan football player.
* Corrie Hartong, 85, Dutch choreographer.
* Richard Löwenthal, 83, German journalist and academic.
* Hank Majeski, 74, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

### 10

* John Abt, 87, American lawyer and communist politician
* Herbert Blankenhorn, 86, German diplomat.
* Ellen Braumüller, 80, German Olympic track and field athlete (1932).
* Danny Casolaro, 44, American writer, suicide by exsanguination.
* Hans Jakob Polotsky, 85, Israeli linguist.
* Jessie Robins, 86, English actress.
* Buster Smith, 86, American saxophonist, heart attack.

### 11

* Alfred Dompert, 76, German Olympic runner (1936).
* J. D. McDuffie, 52, American racing driver, racing accident.
* Alan Spenner, 43, English bass player, heart attack.
* Wilhelm Utermann, 78, German film producer.
* Helmut Walcha, 83, German organist.

### 12

* Edward George Bowen, 80, Welsh physicist and inventor of radar.
* Chuck Chuckovits, 79, American basketball player.
* Lin Fengmian, 90, Chinese painter.
* William D. Gordon, 73, American screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.
* Édson Campos Martins, 61, Brazilian football player.
* Hans Weigel, 83, Austrian writer and theater critic.

### 13

* Lucia Peka, 79, Latvian-American artist.
* James Roosevelt, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1965), stroke.
* Jack Ryan, 64, American toy designer (Barbie, Hot Wheels), suicide by gunshot.
* Richard A. Snelling, 64, American businessman and politician, heart attack.
* John Sommerfield, 83, British writer and left-wing activist.
* Kazuo Yamada, 78, Japanese conductor and composer.

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* Waldemar Christoffer Brøgger, 79, Norwegian novelist, journalist, and translator.
* Stanley Chambers, 80, British cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.
* Alberto Crespo, 71, Argentine racing driver.
* Taslim Olawale Elias, 76, Nigerian jurist.
* Douglas Kiker, 61, American author, heart attack.
* Ludwig Landgrebe, 89, Austrian phenomenologist and professor of philosophy.

### 15

* Eduardo Herrera Bueno, 77, Spanish football player.
* Ken Gunn, 82, Scottish football player.
* Ali Abu Nuwar, 67, Jordanian Army officer.
* Marietta Peabody Tree, 74, American political reporter, breast cancer.
* Jack Twyford, 82, Australian football player.

### 16

* Charles Garry, 82, American civil rights lawyer, stroke.
* C. Achutha Menon, 78, Indian politician, heart attack.
* Bruno Nicolai, 65, Italian film music composer and orchestra director.
* Johannes Wiese, 76, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
* Luigi Zampa, 86, Italian film director.

### 17

* Don Dubbins, 63, American actor, cancer.
* Lorna Hill, 89, English children's author.
* Dieter König, 60, German motorboat racer.
* Mervyn Nelson, 76, American actor and producer.
* Marguerite Williams, 95, American geologist.

### 18

* Luís Lindley Cintra, 66, Portuguese philologist and linguist.
* David Gale, 54, British actor, complications from surgery.
* Rick Griffin, 47, American artist and cartoonist, traffic collision.
* Patrick Joseph Kelly, 96, Scottish-Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Porter Lainhart, 83, American football player.
* Les McDowall, 78, Scottish football player.
* Chiang Sheng, 40, Taiwanese martial arts actor, heart attack.
* Vaughn Shoemaker, 89, American cartoonist, cancer.

### 19

* Oliver Drake, 88, American filmmaker.
* Xan Fielding, 72, British author, journalist and traveller.
* Hans van der Laan, 86, Dutch architect and monk.
* Richard Maltby, 77, American musician.
* Henri van Schaik, 92, Dutch horse rider and Olympic medalist.

### 20

* Herbert Ferber, 85, American visual artist.
* Kalman Kahana, 81, Israeli politician and journalist.
* Gopinath Mohanty, 77, Indian writer and novelist.
* José Luis Sagi-Vela, 46, Spanish basketball player.
* Harley Orrin Staggers, 84, American politician.
* Mihály Teleki, 95, Hungarian politician.

### 21

* Mikhail Agursky, 58, Russian sovietologist, cybernetic, dissident, and historian.
* Nick DeCarbo, 81, American gridiron football player.
* Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 74, German author.
* Eugen Jebeleanu, 80, Romanian poet, journalist and scholar.
* Paul Miller, 84, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia.
* Rajaram Shastri, 87, Indian educationist.
* Oswald von Nell-Breuning, 101, German theologian.
* Richard Wilson, 75, American film director, pancreatic cancer.

### 22

* Chan Coulter, 89, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Colleen Dewhurst, 67, Canadian-American actress, cervical cancer.
* Gottfried E. Noether, 76, German-American mathematician.
* Boris Pugo, 54, Soviet politician, suicide by gunshot.

### 23

* George Dixon, 90, American rugby union player.
* Wilhelm Hahnemann, 77, Austrian-German football player.
* Innes Lloyd, 65, Welsh television producer.
* Ágnes Nemes Nagy, 69, Hungarian poet, writer, and educator.
* Florence Barbara Seibert, 93, American biochemist.
* Mildred Trotter, 92, American forensic anthropology pioneer.

### 24

* Sergey Akhromeyev, 68, Soviet M\marshal, suicide by gunshot.
* Dick Beddoes, 65, Canadian sports journalist, liver cancer.
* Reynold Brown, 73, American realist artist.
* Abel Kiviat, 99, American Olympic runner (1912), prostate cancer.
* Tony Martínez, 51, Cuban-American baseball player.
* Åge Ramberg, 69, Norwegian politician.
* Vivian Vachon, 40, Canadian professional wrestler and singer, traffic collision.
* Beb Vuyk, 86, Dutch writer.

### 25

* Niven Busch, 88, American novelist and screenwriter (The Postman Always Rings Twice), congestive heart failure.
* Kunnenkeril K. Jacob, 87, Indian educationist.
* Shigeyoshi Matsumae, 89, Japanese engineer.
* Eddie Phillipson, 80, English cricket player.
* Yoshiko Shibaki, 77, Japanese writer of short stories and novels.

### 26

* Nikolay Kruchina, 63, Soviet communist official, suicide.
* Ron Livingstone, 65, American basketball player.
* John Petts, 77, British artist.
* Vera Stroyeva, 87, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
* Willie Thornton, 71, Scottish football player.

### 27

* Pierre Bousquet, 71, French journalist and far-right politician.
* Gordon Heath, 72, American actor (The Emperor Jones, Animal Farm).
* Martín Karadagian, 69, Argentine professional wrestler and actor, diabetes.
* Toto Koopman, 82, Dutch model and spy.
* Gioacchino Muccin, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Mike Naumenko, 36, Soviet singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Patriarch German of Serbia, 92, Serbian Orthodox patriarch (1958–1990).
* Teddy Stauffer, 82, Swiss bandleader, entertainer, and restaurateur.
* Piet van Boxtel, 88, Dutch football player.

### 28

* Pierre Guillaumat, 82, French politician.
* Emiliano Piedra, 60, Spanish film producer, cancer.
* Alekos Sakellarios, 77, Greek writer and a director.
* Nicholas Schaffner, 38, American author, journalist, and singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.
* Vince Taylor, 52, English rock and roll singer ("Brand New Cadillac"), lung cancer.

### 29

* Dallas Adams, 44, English actor, AIDS.
* Ivan Bodin, 68, Swedish football player.
* Alick Buchanan-Smith, 59, Scottish politician.
* Dixie Dunbar, 72, American actress and singer.
* Libero Grassi, 67, Italian clothing manufacturer, murdered.

### 30

* Joyce Ackroyd, 72, Australian academic.
* Adão Nunes Dornelles, 68, Brazilian football player.
* Cyril Knowles, 47, English footballer, brain cancer.
* Jean Tinguely, 66, Swiss sculptor, heart failure.
* Alan Wheatley, 84, English actor, heart attack.
* Danny Wheelahan, 88, Australian football player.

### 31

* Ed Buchanan, 57, Canadian football player, ALS.
* Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel, 59, Polish ski jumper and Olympian.
* Gerry Davis, 61, British television writer (Doctor Who).
* Cliff Lumsdon, 60, Canadian world champion marathon swimmer.
* Siti Sukaptinah Sunaryo Mangunpuspito, 83, Indonesian women's rights activist and politician.
* Phoolchandra Shastri, 90, Indian jain scholar, writer, and social reformer.