# Deaths in March 1991
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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.

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* 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.