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

## June 1991
### 1

* Gordon Jackson, 67, Australian businessman.
* David Ruffin, 50, American singer (The Temptations), crack cocaine overdose.
* Árpád Soós, 78, Hungarian zoologist, entomologist and museologist.
* Toshio Usami, 83, Japanese field hockey player.

### 2

* Ahmed Arif, 64, Turkish-Kurdish poet, heart attack.
* John Coughlan, 56, Australian politician.
* Richard Meikle, 61, Australian actor.
* Vincent Miceli, 76, American Catholic priest, theologian, and philosopher.
* Robert Russell Newton, 72, American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science.
* Joyce Treiman, 69, American painter.

### 3

* Margit Anna, 77, Hungarian painter.
* Brian Bevan, 66, Australian rugby player.
* Vince Colletta, 67, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four, Thor, Wonder Woman).
* Raffaele Costantino, 83, Italian footballer.
* Harry Glicken, 33, American volcanologist, pyroclastic flow.
* Katia Krafft, 49, French volcanologist, pyroclastic flow.
* Maurice Krafft, 45, French volcanologist, pyroclastic flow.
* Dinesh Goswami, 56, Indian politician.
* Osmo Kaila, 75, Finnish chess master.
* Eva Le Gallienne, 92, English-American actress.
* Andy Milligan, 62, American playwright, AIDS.
* Takeshi Nagata, 77, Japanese geophysicist.

### 4

* Pentti Elo, 61, Finnish Olympic field hockey player (1952).
* Adriaan Katte, 90, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1928).
* Franz Schafranek, 61, Austrian theatre director.
* MC Trouble, 20, American rap artist, heart failure.
* Rudolf Vogel, 85, German politician and member of the Bundestag.

### 5

* Rosalina Abejo, 68, Filipino composer.
* Evelyn Boucher, 99, British film actress.
* Min Chueh Chang, 82, Chinese-American biologist.
* Carl-Erik Holmberg, 84, Swedish football player.
* Ho Jong-suk, 88, Korean communist revolutionist, atheist, activist, journalist, and writer.
* Barry Kelley, 82, American actor (Oklahoma!, The Manchurian Candidate, The Asphalt Jungle).
* Larry Kert, 60, American actor (West Side Story), AIDS-related complications.
* Jacques Mitterrand, 82, French politician and Grand Master.
* Sylvia Porter, 77, American economist, journalist and author.
* Arthur Trudeau, 88, American Army lieutenant general.

### 6

* Gianni De Luca, 64, Italian comic book artist and visual artist.
* Stan Getz, 64, American saxophonist ("The Girl from Ipanema"), liver cancer.
* Adnan Süvari, 64-65, Turkish football coach, heart attack.
* Kurt Treu, 62, German classical philologist.

### 7

* Tahir Allauddin Al-Qadri Al-Gillani, 58, Iraqi-Pakistani Sufi philosopher.
* Antoine Blondin, 69, French writer.
* Sydney McMeekan, 66, British basketball player.
* Haoui Montaug, 38-39, American nightclub bouncer and revue operator, suicide by overdose.

### 8

* Mary Bacon, 43, American jockey and model, suicide.
* Heidi Brühl, 49, German singer and actress, breast cancer.
* Pierrette Caillol, 92, French stage and film actress.
* Monroe D. Donsker, 66, American mathematician, cancer.
* Maurice Huet, 72, French fencer.
* Bimal Krishna Matilal, 56, British-Indian philosopher.
* Bertice Reading, 57, American-English actress, stroke.
* David Allan Young, 76, American entomologist.
* Wilhelm Szewczyk, 75, Polish writer, poet, communist activist, and politician.

### 9

* Claudio Arrau, 88, Chilean pianist, complications from surgery.
* Joe Hamilton, 62, American television producer and actor, cancer.
* Howard Hobson, 87, American basketball player and coach.
* J. Raymond Jones, 91, American politician.
* Raj Khosla, 66, Indian filmmaker.
* Charles Loloma, 70, American artist and jeweler.

### 10

* Jean Bruller, 89, French novelist.
* Jim Burrows, 86, New Zealand rugby player and soldier.
* Tormod Mobraaten, 81, Norwegian-Canadian Olympic skier (1936, 1948).
* Irvine Page, 90, American physiologist.
* Jack Purcell, 87, Canadian world champion badminton player.
* Silvan Tomkins, 80, American psychologist.

### 11

* David Croll, 91, Canadian politician.
* Cromwell Everson, 65, South African composer.
* George Henry Guilfoyle, 77, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Friedl Hardt, 72, German actress.
* Goldie Holt, 89, American baseball player, scout, coach and manager.
* Bert Reisfeld, 84, Austrian lyricist.
* Carl Ring, 89, American hurdler and Olympian.
* Moe Spahn, 79, American basketball player, heart failure.
* Wolfgang Stegmüller, 68, German-Austrian philosopher.
* John Vallier, 70, English pianist, lung cancer.
* Michael Wall, 44, British playwright.

### 12

* Iwao Ageishi, 83, Japanese Olympic skier (1932).
* Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton, 93, British businessman and politician.
* Reg Hamilton, 77, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Branko Hofman, 61, Slovene poet, writer and playwright.
* Alfred Pasquali, 92, French actor and theatre director.
* Eric Smith, 56, Scottish football player.

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* Ubaldesco Baldi, 46, Italian sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
* Karl Bielig, 92, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Loulou Boulaz, 83, Swiss mountain climber and alpine skier.
* Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, 81, Irish language activist, nationalist and far-right politician.
* John Jordan, 81, American basketball player and coach.
* Marek Kuczma, 55, Polish mathematician.
* John Schmitt, 89, American Olympic rower (1928).

### 14

* Peggy Ashcroft, 83, English actress (A Passage to India ,The Nun's Story, Three into Two Won't Go), stroke.
* Shiro Kasamatsu, 93, Japanese artist.
* Lozan Kotsev, 80, Bulgarian football manager.
* Bernard Miles, 83, English actor.
* Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov, 84, Soviet diplomat and defector.
* John Pilch, 65, American basketball player.
* Frank Valentino, 84, American operatic baritone.

### 15

* Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, 76, Kuwaiti royal.
* Happy Chandler, 92, American politician and baseball official, heart attack.
* Wacław Król, 75, Polish Air Force pilot and officer.
* Arthur Lewis, 76, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize recipient (1979).
* Virgil Rayburn, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Les Selvage, 48, American basketball player.

### 16

* Vicki Brown, 50, English singer, breast cancer.
* Bruce Cummings, 64, Canadian football player, heart attack.
* Emmanuel Laroche, 76, French linguist.
* Leslie Mahaffy, 14, Canadian murder victim.
* Adina Mandlová, 81, Czech film and stage actress, tuberculosis.

### 17

* Mehmet Aziz, 97, Turkish Cypriot medical doctor.
* Harry Darbyshire, 59, English footballer.
* Pierre Jamet, 98, French harpist.
* Beatrice Pons, 85, American actress.

### 18

* Ronald Allen, 60, British actor (Crossroads, A Night to Remember, Doctor Who), cancer.
* Vivion Brewer, 90, American desegregationist.
* Joan Caulfield, 69, American actress, cancer.
* Bill Douglas, 57, Scottish film director.
* Leonida Frascarelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
* Eric Halstead, 79, New Zealand politician.

### 19

* Jean Arthur, 90, American actress (The More the Merrier, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Only Angels Have Wings), heart failure.
* Larry Bogart, 77, American anti–nuclear power activist, traffic accident.
* Åke Dahlqvist, 90, Swedish cinematographer.
* Antonio del Amo, 79, Spanish screenwriter and film director, traffic collision.
* Oskar Fredriksen, 82, Norwegian cross-country skier.

### 20

* Roy Fournier, 69, Canadian politician.
* Malcolm Frager, 56, American pianist.
* Max Lüthi, 82, Swiss literary theorist.
* Jock Nelson, 83, Australian politician.
* Gerald Priestland, 64, British broadcaster.
* Michael Westphal, 26, German tennis player, AIDS-related complications.
* Isaac Wolfson, 93, Scottish businessman and philanthropist.

### 21

* Julio Gallardo, 49, Chilean football player.
* Jackie Hunt, 71, American gridiron football player.
* Ivor Salter, 65, English actor.
* Klaus Schwarzkopf, 68, German actor, AIDS.
* Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, 34, Bangladeshi poet, drug abuse and depression.
* Toshihiro Shimamura, 79, Japanese Go player.

### 22

* Luigi Infantino, 70, Italian operatic tenor.
* Kevin O'Connor, 56, American actor.
* Marv Owen, 85, American baseball player, manager, coach and scout.
* Herbert Sohler, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.

### 23

* Cyril Aldred, 77, English historian.
* Basdeo Bissoondoyal, 85, Mauritian educator and activist.
* António Jacinto, 66, Angolan poet and politician.
* Piero Lulli, 68, Italian film actor.
* Lea Padovani, 70, Italian film actress.
* Michael Pfleghar, 58, German film director and screenwriter, suicide.
* Masayuki Takayanagi, 58, Japanese jazz musician.

### 24

* Sumner Locke Elliott, 73, Australian-American novelist and playwright.
* James Fawcett, 78, British barrister.
* Nitty Gritty, 34, Jamaican reggae singer, shot.
* Franz Hengsbach, 80, German Catholic cardinal and bishop.
* Philip Rastelli, 73, American mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family, liver cancer.
* Rufino Tamayo, 91, Mexican painter, heart attack.

### 25

* Colin Atkinson, 59, English cricket player and schoolmaster.
* Hans Bernlöhr, 83, German boxer and Olympian.
* Michael Heidelberger, 103, American immunologist.
* Tauno Lindgren, 79, Finnish cyclist and Olympian.

### 26

* Vlasta Fabianová, 78, Czechoslovak film actress.
* Kunibert Gensichen, 84, German actor.
* Domina Jalbert, 86, American aviator .
* Johnny Johnson, 76, American baseball player.
* Jack A. Marta, 88, American cinematographer.
* Mike Masaoka, 76, Japanese-American lobbyist, author, and spokesman.
* Iwa Wanja, 85, Bulgarian-German actress.
* Öllegård Wellton, 59, Swedish actress.
* Wolfgang Zilzer, 90, German actor.

### 27

* Klaas Bruinsma, 37, Dutch drug lord, shot.
* Molly Geertsema, 72, Dutch politician and jurist.
* Cynthia Longfield, 95, Anglo-Irish entomologist and explorer.
* George MacLeod, 96, Scottish presbyterian clergyman and soldier.
* Milton Subotsky, 69, American screenwriter and producer.

### 28

* Arnold Kieffer, 80, Luxembourgish football player.
* Ernie McCormick, 85, Australian cricket player.
* Hans Nüsslein, 81, German tennis player.
* Nikolas Vogel, 24, Austrian actor and journalist, missile strike.
* Norbert Werner, 23, Austrian journalist and war correspondent, missile strike.

### 29

* Sheree Beasley, 6, Australian murder victim.
* Jim Connock, 66, English film editor.
* Russ Hinze, 72, Australian politician.
* Richard Holmes, 60, American organist, heart attack.
* Henri Lefebvre, 90, French sociologist.
* Enrique Cahen Salaberry, 79, Argentine film director.
* Valerijonas Šadreika, 53, Lithuanian politician.

### 30

* Berndt Carlsson, 84, Swedish cyclist and Olympian.
* John B. Goodman, 89, American art director.
* Tamara Khanum, 85, Soviet dancer.
* Pamela Stanley, 81, British actress.
* Hisao Tanaka, 70, American professional wrestler.