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

## May 1991
### 1

* Jack Cope, 77, South African writer.
* Charles Sutherland Elton, 91, English zoologist.
* Frank N. Ikard, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1961), heart attack.
* Mary McAllister, 82, American silent film actress.
* Cesare Merzagora, 92, Italian politician, acting president (1964).
* Richard Thorpe, 95, American film director.

### 2

* Richard Threlkeld Cox, 92, American physicist.
* Robert Elter, 92, Luxembourgish footballer.
* Susan Fassbender, 32, English singer, suicide.
* Jens Haugland, 81, Norwegian politician.
* Charles Kaufman, 86, American screenwriter, pneumonia.
* Abby Crawford Milton, 110, American suffragist and supercentenarian.

### 3

* Harry Gibson, 75, American musician, heart failure.
* Truus Klapwijk, 87, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1924, 1928).
* Jerzy Kosiński, 57, Polish-American novelist (Being There, The Painted Bird, Steps), suicide by asphyxiation.
* Frank Leja, 55, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Günther Noack, 78, German figure skater.
* Yolande Plancke, 82, French Olympic sprinter (1928).
* Carlos Márquez Sterling, 92, Cuban politician.
* Margaret Tallichet, 77, American actress, cancer.

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* Dennis Crosby, 56, American actor and singer, son of Bing Crosby, suicide by gunshot.
* George T. Delacorte Jr., 96, American magazine publisher.
* Luigi Facelli, 92, Italian hurdler and Olympian.
* Mohammed Khadda, 61, Algerian artist, lung cancer.
* Chandravadan Mehta, 90, Indian playwright and author.
* Xiaocun Sun, 84, Chinese politician.
* Mohammed Abdel Wahab, 89, Egyptian singer, stroke.
* Bernie Winters, 60, English comedian, stomach cancer.

### 5

* Rolf Bremer, 64, German politician.
* Chaim Gross, 89, Austrian-American sculptor and educator, heart attack.
* Hermann Kopf, 89, German politician.
* Jimmy Lile, 57, American knifemaker.
* Rune Lindblad, 67, Swedish composer.
* Richard A. Teague, 67, American automobile designer.
* Arthur Trudeau, 88, American Army lieutenant general.

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* Mehrdad Avesta, 60, Iranian poet, heart attack.
* Virgil Calotescu, 63, Romanian film director.
* Thomas A. Carlin, 62, American actor (Caddyshack, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Ragtime).
* Konstantinos Engolfopoulos, 79, Greek navy officer.
* Wilfrid Hyde-White, 87, British actor (My Fair Lady, The Third Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), heart failure.
* Guido Martina, 85, Italian comic writer.
* Chucky Mullins, 21, American football player and quadriplegic, pulmonary embolism.

### 7

* Hans Bender, 84, German parapsychologist.
* Lucien Duquesne, 90, French Olympic runner (1920, 1924, 1928).
* Glenn Eagleston, 70, American flying ace.
* Fred Eggan, 84, American anthropologist.
* Bill McPeak, 64, American football player, heart attack.
* Alexandre Prigogine, 78, Russian mineralogist and ornithologist.
* Wolfgang Reichmann, 59, German actor, heart attack.
* István Zsolt, 69, Hungarian football referee.

### 8

* Edward G. Breen, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
* Ralph Theodore Breyer, 87, American Olympic swimmer (1924).
* Ronnie Brody, 72, British actor.
* Joseph Kramm, 83, American playwright.
* Hilde Krüger, 78, German actress.
* Jean Langlais, 84, French composer.
* Ronald McKie, 81, Australian novelist, kidney disease.
* Mireille Perrey, 87, French stage and film actress.
* Michel Robida, 81, French writer.
* Rudolf Serkin, 88, Austrian-American pianist, cancer.
* Cedric Tallis, 76, American baseball executive, heart attack.
* Alun Thomas, 65, Welsh rugby player.
* Friedelind Wagner, 73, German opera director.

### 9

* Yanka Dyagileva, 24, Russian poet and singer-songwriter, suicide.
* Charles Fox, 69-70, English jazz critic.
* Flip Keegstra, 76, Dutch Olympic sailor (1948, 1952).
* István Messzi, 29, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (1988), traffic collision.
* Ross Story, 71, Australian politician.

### 10

* Béla Balassa, 63, Hungarian economist.
* Thomas Leather, 80, Australian cricket player.
* Georg Strobl, 81, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Teisutis Zikaras, 68, Lithuanian-Australian sculptor.

### 11

* Ho Dam, 62, North Korean politician.
* Dino Di Luca, 88, Italian actor.
* Jusuf Hatunić, 40, Yugoslav football player.
* Friedrich Issak, 75, Estonian javelin thrower and journalist.

### 12

* Danny Little Bear, 53, American professional wrestler, liver cancer.
* Leland Hickman, 56, American poet, AIDS.
* Deny King, 81, Australian naturalist, environmentalist, and painter, heart attack.
* Konstantin Sokolsky, 86, Latvian singer.

### 13

* Abderrahmane Farès, 80, Algerian politician.
* Hal Gregg, 69, American baseball player.
* David Mercer MacDougall, 86, Hong Kong politician.
* Delia Parodi, 78, Argentine politician.
* Carl Weinrich, 86, American organist.

### 14

* Giampiero Albertini, 63, Italian actor, heart attack.
* Joy Batchelor, 77, English animator.
* Agehananda Bharati, 68, American Hindu monk and anthropologist, cancer.
* Omar Truman Burleson, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1978).
* Aladár Gerevich, 81, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
* High Echelon, 24, American thoroughbred racehorse.
* Jiang Qing, 77, Chinese actress and politician, widow of Mao Zedong, suicide by hanging.
* José María Rodero, 68, Spanish actor.
* Frank Sanucci, 90, Argentine-American composer.

### 15

* Shintarō Abe, 67, Japanese politician, liver cancer.
* Reno Browne, 70, American actress, cancer.
* Amadou Hampâté Bâ, 90-91, Malian writer and ethnologist.
* Andreas Floer, 34, German mathematician, suicide.
* Ken Jones, 88, American baseball player.
* Ronald Lacey, 55, English actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Red Sonja, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension), liver cancer.
* Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, 89, Indian writer.
* Fritz Riess, 68, German racing driver.
* Ed Weir, 88, American gridiron football player.
* İhsan Yüce, 62, Turkish actor.
* Vukašin Šoškoćanin, 32, Yugoslav military commander, drowned.

### 16

* Rufe Persful, 84, American criminal.
* Herbert Schäfer, 63, German football player.
* Willem Jacob Visser, 76, Dutch linguist.
* Osmar White, 82, Australian journalist.

### 17

* Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, 83, Belgian diplomat.
* Maurie Dunstan, 62, Australian footballer.
* Göthe Grefbo, 69, Swedish actor.
* G. Evelyn Hutchinson, 88, English ecologist.
* Herman Kalckar, 83, Danish biochemist.
* Harry Rée, 76, British academic.
* Ross Somerville, 88, Canadian golfer.
* Tom Trana, 53, Swedish rally driver, cancer.
* Ilse Trautschold, 85, German actress.

### 18

* Gerd Achgelis, 82, German aviator.
* Edwina Booth, 86, American actress.
* Muriel Box, 85, English screenwriter and director.
* Nicholas Elko, 81, American Catholic prelate.
* Litzi Friedmann, 81, Austrian spy for the Soviet Union.
* Gunnar Johansson, 85, Swedish composer.
* Rudolf Nierlich, 25, Austrian skier, traffic collision.
* Jimmy Thomson, 64, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
* Hoang Van Hoan, 85-86, Vietnamese politician.

### 19

* Gabino Arregui, 76, Argentine footballer.
* Lloyd Butler, 66, American Olympic rower (1948).
* Odia Coates, 49, American singer, breast cancer.
* Royce Goodbread, 83, American football player.
* Wim Lakenberg, 70, Dutch football player.
* Mario Panzeri, 79, Italian composer.
* Greg Rice, 75, American long-distance runner, stroke.
* Nexhmedin Zajmi, 75, Albanian artist.

### 20

* Milko Bambič, 86, Italian artist.
* Bill Champion, 69, American racing driver.
* Zdzisław Kostrzewa, 35, Polish footballer.
* Joseph J. Maraziti, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–1975).
* Pete Runnels, 63, American baseball player, stroke.

### 21

* Ioan P. Culianu, 41, Romanian historian and philosopher, shot.
* Nicholas Dante, 49, American dancer and writer, AIDS.
* Rajiv Gandhi, 46, Indian politician, prime minister (1984–1989), suicide bombing.
* Julián Orbón, 65, Cuban composer, cancer.

### 22

* Lino Brocka, 52, Filipino film director, traffic collision.
* Shripad Amrit Dange, 91, Indian politician.
* Valentin Iremonger, 73, Irish diplomat and poet.
* Derrick Henry Lehmer, 86, American mathematician.
* Jacob Millman, 79-80, Ukrainian-American electrical engineer.
* Stan Mortensen, 69, English footballer.
* Stan Richards, 59-60, American sportscaster.
* Ernie Robinson, 83, English footballer.

### 23

* Manning Clark, 76, Australian historian.
* Henri Dauban de Silhouette, 90, British javelin thrower and Olympian.
* David H. Frisch, 73, American nuclear physicist.
* Wilhelm Kempff, 95, German pianist.
* René Lefèvre, 93, French actor.
* Fletcher Markle, 70, Canadian filmmaker, heart failure.
* Kemal Satır, 80, Turkish politician.
* Jean Van Houtte, 84, Belgian politician, prime minister (1952–1954).

### 24

* John Anderton, 61, South African Olympic sprinter (1952).
* Mo Bassett, 60, American football player.
* Gene Clark, 46, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds), peptic ulcer disease.
* Pat Scantlebury, 73, Panamanian-American baseball player.
* Juozas Ūdras, 66, Lithuanian Olympic fencer (1952, 1956).

### 25

* Lorne MacLaine Campbell, 88, Scottish army officer.
* Eddie Fullerton, 56, Irish politician, shot.
* Gunnar Johansen, 85, Danish-American pianist, liver cancer.
* Doug Nott, 79, American football player.

### 26

* Aleksandar Benko, 66, Yugoslav footballer.
* José Caballero, 75, Spanish painter.
* Doris M. Curtis, 77, American geologist.
* Claudine Dupuis, 67, French actress.
* Tom Eyen, 50, American playwright and lyricist (Dreamgirls), AIDS.
* Tim Landers, 80, Irish footballer.
* Eugène Lourié, 88, French filmmaker, stroke.
* Kisaburo Osawa, 80-81, Japanese aikido teacher.
* John Price, 71, American competitive sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
* Wilfrid Roberts, 90, British politician.
* Nick Wasnie, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Hailu Yimenu, Ethiopian politician, suicide.

### 27

* Ed Dodd, 88, American cartoonist (Mark Trail).
* Eric Heffer, 69, British politician.
* Herman Struve Hensel, 89, American lawyer, heart failure.
* Leopold Nowak, 86, Austrian musicologist.

### 28

* Roy Cullenbine, 77, American baseball player, heart disease.
* Garton Hone, 90, Australian tennis player.
* Victor Aloysius Meyers, 93, American politician and musician.
* Ethel L. Payne, 79, American journalist, editor, and foreign correspondent.
* Walter Steinbauer, 45, German bobsledder and Olympic medalist.

### 29

* Margaret Barr, 86, Australian choreographer.
* Peter Betz, 61, German Olympic rower (1952).
* Coral Browne, 77, Australian-American actress (An Englishman Abroad, Dreamchild, The Ruling Class), breast cancer.
* Andrew Mensaros, 69, Australian politician.
* John Tronolone, 80, American mobster (Cleveland crime family).
* Henry Walston, Baron Walston, 78, British politician.

### 30

* Edgar Bodenheimer, 83, German-American author and law professor.
* Manolo Gómez Bur, 74, Spanish actor.
* Uma Shankar Dikshit, 90, Indian politician.
* Walter Dirks, 90, German theologian.
* Roland V. Libonati, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1965).
* Jim Magnuson, 44, American baseball player, alcohol poisoning.
* Eugene Oberst, 89, American football player, javelin thrower, and Olympic medalist .
* Lafayette G. Pool, 71, American tank commander.

### 31

* Rubens Josué da Costa, 62, Brazilian football player.
* Ronald Garvey, 87, British colonial administrator.
* Magnus Hestenes, 85, American mathematician.
* Ian Milner, 79, New Zealand political scientist and alleged KGB spy.
* Robert Schlapp, 91, British physicist.
* Hans Schwartz, 78, German footballer.
* Angus Wilson, 77, English novelist, stroke.
* Artur Woźniak, 77, Polish football player.
* Yuri Zhukov, 83, Soviet journalist, publicist and political figure.