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

## December 1991
### 1

* Ernst Albrecht, 77, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Charles D. Breitel, 82, American lawyer and politician.
* Karl Chmielewski, 88, German SS officer and concentration camp commandant.
* Barbara Hanrahan, 52, Australian artist, printmaker and writer.
* Zin Harris, 64, New Zealand cricket player.
* Thomas J. Hillery, 87, American politician.
* Robert Kerber, 78, American swimmer and Olympian.
* Jim Knox, 72, New Zealand trade unionist.
* Buster Mills, 83, American baseball player, coach, and scout.
* Pat O'Callaghan, 85, Irish Olympic hammer thrower (1928, 1932).
* Pyotr Pochynchuk, 37, Soviet and Russian athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Alden Sanborn, 92, American rower and Olympic champion.
* George Stigler, 80, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (1982), heart failure.

### 2

* Ernst Achenbach, 82, German politician.
* Bimal Mitra, 79, Indian writer.
* Tracy D. Terrell, 48, American education theorist, AIDS.
* John J. Tolson, 76, United States Army lieutenant general.
* Eleanor Tufts, 64, American art historian and academic, ovarian cancer.

### 3

* René Brossy, 85, French cyclist.
* Arthur Fischer, 94, Swedish actor, writer, and sculptor.
* Jack Laird, 68, American screenwriter, heart disease.
* George Lott, 85, American tennis player and coach.
* Petre Țuțea, 89, Romanian philosopher, journalist, and economist.

### 4

* Cliff Bastin, 79, English football player.
* Moysés Baumstein, 60, Brazilian artist.
* Bert T. Combs, 80, American jurist and politician, hypothermia.
* Alex Graham, 78, Scottish cartoonist (Fred Basset).
* Orestes Jordán, 78, Peruvian international football player.
* Eugen Maucher, 79, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Irving Taylor, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Herb Thomas, 90, American baseball player and manager.

### 5

* Earl Evans, 91, American gridiron football player.
* Robert Karvelas, 70, American actor (Get Smart).
* Aad Mansveld, 47, Dutch footballer, cancer.
* Héctor Orezzoli, 38, Argentine stage director and costume-, set-, and lighting designer, cardiopulmonary arrest.
* Richard Speck, 49, American convicted mass murderer, heart attack.
* Dimitrije Stefanović, 95, Yugoslav Olympic long-distance runner (1928).
* Jack Trevor Story, 74, English novelist.
* Roy Welensky, 84, Northern Rhodesian politician and Prime Minister.
* Hein van der Zee, 62, Dutch boxer and Olympian.

### 6

* Rodney Ackland, 83, English playwright, actor, and screenwriter.
* György Aczél, 74, Hungarian communist politician.
* Vladimir Colin, 70, Romanian author.
* Virgilio Corbo, 73, Italian archaeologist.
* Vishnu Madhav Ghatage, 83, Indian aeronautical engineer.
* Tsuguhiro Hattori, 71, Japanese baseball player.
* Terry Slater, 54, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Mimi Smith, 85, British nurse and secretary, aunt and parental guardian of musician John Lennon.
* Richard Stone, 78, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (1984), pneumonia.

### 7

* Judith Hart, 67, British politician, cancer.
* Herb Jaffe, 70, American film producer (Fright Night), cancer.
* Ataur Rahman Khan, 86, Bangladeshi lawyer, politician and Prime Minister.
* Spiro Kostof, 55, American architectural historian, and academic, cancer.
* Gordon Pirie, 60, English Olympic runner (1956), cholangiocarcinoma.

### 8

* Francisco de Assis Barbosa, 77, Brazilian essayist, historian, and journalist.
* Buck Clayton, 80, American trumpeter.
* Attila Laták, 46, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1972).
* Bill Lewis, 75, Australian politician.

### 9

* Berenice Abbott, 93, American photographer.
* Olga Bondareva, 54, Soviet mathematician and economist, traffic accident.
* Maurice Joyeux, 81, French writer and anarchist.
* Greta Kempton, 90, American artist, heart failure.
* Gisèle Lestrange, 64, French graphic artist.

### 10

* Mark Faber, 41, English cricket player, complications from surgery.
* Tippy Larkin, 74, American boxer, kidney failure.
* Franco Maria Malfatti, 64, Italian politician, president of the European Commission (1970–1972).
* José María Cabo Puig, 84, Spanish football player and manager.
* Jean Rigaux, 82, French songwriter and actor.
* Gustav Schäfer, 85, German rower.
* György Szűcs, 79, Hungarian football player.

### 11

* Enid Moodie Heddle, 87, Australian poet, editor children's writer.
* Kavisena Herath, 75, Ceylonese politician.
* Dick Kelley, 51, American baseball player.
* Robert Q. Lewis, 70, American television personality (What's My Line?) and actor, pulmonary emphysema.
* Artur Lundkvist, 85, Swedish writer.
* Matthew Rapf, 71, American television producer (Kojak, Ben Casey, The Loretta Young Show), influenza.
* Carmen Rosales, 74, Filipina actress and guerilla fighter during World War II.
* Joe Scibelli, 52, American gridiron football player.
* Simon Scott, 71, American actor (Trapper John, M.D., McHale's Navy, Cold Turkey), Alzheimer's disease.
* Mudiyanse Tennakoon, 57, Sri Lankan politician.
* Mario Tobino, 81, Italian poet, writer and psychiatrist.
* Pat Walshe, 91, American dwarf actor and circus performer, heart attack.

### 12

* Eleanor Boardman, 93, American actress (The Crowd).
* Moshe Castel, 82, Israeli painter.
* Joaquim Gomis, 89, Spanish photographer, entrepreneur, and art collector.
* Harold St. John, 99, American botanist and academic.
* Ken Keltner, 75, American baseball player.
* Peter Kienast, 42, Austrian bobsledder and Olympian.
* Henk Ngantung, 64, Indonesian painter and politician.
* Ronnie Ross, 58, British saxophonist, cancer.
* Amherst Villiers, 91, English engineer and painter.

### 13

* Stuart Challender, 44, Australian conductor, AIDS-related complications.
* André Pieyre de Mandiargues, 82, French writer.
* Jan Hendriks, 63, German film actor.
* Judy Moorcroft, 58, British costume designer (A Passage to India, The Europeans, The Killing Fields).
* Vincent Saurin, 84, French rower and Olympian.

### 14

* John Arlott, 77, English broadcaster (Test Match Special).
* Guillermo Barreto, 62, Cuban drummer and timbalero.
* Robert Eddison, 83, English actor (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), pneumonia.
* Claude Faraggi, 49, French writer.
* Nikolay Gusakov, 57, Soviet nordic combined skier and Olympic medalist.

### 15

* Reidar Andersen, 80, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic medalist.
* Grete Mostny, 77, Austrian-Chilean anthropologist, cancer.
* Ray Smith, 55, Welsh actor, heart attack.
* Sid Youngelman, 60, American gridiron football player.
* Vasily Zaytsev, 76, Soviet sniper during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.

### 16

* H. C. Casserley, 88, British photographer.
* Horatio Luro, 90, American racehorse trainer, pancreatic cancer.
* Pier Vittorio Tondelli, 36, Italian writer, AIDS-related complications.
* Mohammad Javad Tondguyan, 41, Iranian engineer and politician.
* Leopold Vogl, 81, Austrian football player and manager.

### 17

* Mitsuo Aida, 67, Japanese poet, brain hemorrhage.
* John Anton Blatnik, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1974).
* Heinz Brücher, 76, German-Argentine botanist and SS officer during World War II, murdered.
* Jim Cunningham, 56, American basketball player.
* Jesse Flores, 77, Mexican Major League Baseball player.
* Armand Frappier, 87, Canadian physisican.
* Chen Wen Hsi, 85, Chinese-Singaporean artist.
* Carl Shy, 83, American basketball player.
* Joey Smallwood, 90, Canadian politician.
* Ronnie Starling, 82, English football player.
* Kurt Weyher, 90, German rear admiral of the navy (Kriegsmarine) of Nazi Germany.

### 18

* George Abecassis, 78, British racing driver.
* Richard Bruck, 76, American mathematician.
* Kerry Fitzgerald, 43, Australian rugby referee.
* King Kolax, 79, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, Alzheimer's disease.
* Jean Orcibal, 78, French historian on religion.
* Marion L. Starkey, 90, American historian.
* June Storey, 73, Canadian-American actress, cancer.

### 19

* Joe Cole, 30, American roadie (Rollins Band, Black Flag), shot.
* Howie Dallmar, 69, American basketball player, heart failure.
* Ernest K. Gann, 81, American aviator, sailor, and author (Fate Is the Hunter, The High and the Mighty), kidney failure.
* Paul Maxwell, 70, Canadian-British actor (Coronation Street, Aliens, A Bridge Too Far).

### 20

* Simone Beck, 87, French cookbook writer.
* Walter Chiari, 67, Italian actor, heart attack.
* John Brian Harley, 59, English cartographer.
* Lal Chand Yamla Jatt, 77, Indian folk singer.
* Waldemar Kazanecki, 62, Polish musician.
* Maynard C. Krueger, 85, American socialist politician and academic.
* Samuel Rabin, 80, English artist and Olympic wrestler (1928).
* Albert Van Vlierberghe, 49, Belgian cyclist.
* Gaston Waringhien, 90, French linguist.

### 21

* José Miguel Barandiarán, 101, Spanish anthropologist, ethnographer, and catholic priest.
* Minna Citron, 95, American painter and printmaker.
* Alvin Robert Cornelius, 88, Pakistani jurist, legal philosopher and judge.
* Colin Douglas, 79, English actor.
* Francesco Golisano, 62, Italian film actor.
* Hannes Häyrinen, 77, Finnish actor.
* Sheldon Mayer, 74, American comics artist, writer, and editor.
* Byron N. Scott, 88, American lawyer and politician.

### 22

* Franz Brunner, 78, Austrian field handball player and Olympian silver medalist.
* Joe Carter, 82, American football player.
* James C. Fletcher, 72, American academic and NASA administrator.
* Ernesto Grassi, 89, Italian philosopher.
* Beaver Harris, 55, American jazz drummer.
* Mirza Nurul Huda, 72, Bangladesh politician and academic.
* Ernst Krenek, 91, Austrian-American composer.
* Jack Otterson, 86, American art director.
* Bruno Pellizzari, 84, Italian racing cyclist.
* Hans Edmund Wolters, 76, German ornithologist.
* Édouard Woolley, 75, Haitian-Canadian tenor, actor, and composer.

### 23

* José Guerrero, 77, Spanish artist.
* Gene Milford, 89, American film and television editor.
* Andrew Odom, 55, American blues musician, heart attack.
* Bořivoj Zeman, 79, Czech film director and screenwriter.

### 24

* Jimmy Crapnell, 88, Scottish footballer.
* El-Sayed El-Dhizui, 65, Egyptian football player.
* Alfons Goppel, 86, German politician and Prime Minister of Bavaria.
* Marion West Higgins, 76, American politician, traffic collision.
* Ghulam Rasul, 60, Pakistani educationist and field hockey Olympic champion.
* Virginia Sorensen, 79, American writer.

### 25

* Curt Bois, 90, German actor.
* Anton Burger, 80, German SS officer and concentration camp commandant.
* Orane Demazis, 97, French actress.
* Frank Finnigan, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Wilhelm Harster, 87, German policeman, SS officer and war criminal during World War ||.
* Mahmood Hussain, 59, Pakistani cricket player, diabetes.
* Gotlib Roninson, 75, Soviet actor.
* Wilbur Snyder, 62, American gridiron football player.
* Richard G. Stilwell, 74, United States Army general.

### 26

* Prince Gorm of Denmark, 72, Danish prince.
* Gustav Neidlinger, 81, German bass-baritone.
* Tom Neumeier, 70, Dutch rower and Olympian.
* Sid Wayne, 69, American songwriter, lyricist and composer.

### 27

* Cary Cox, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Hervé Guibert, 36, French writer and photographer, AIDS.
* Eitan Livni, 72, Israeli revisionist zionist activist and politician.
* Petro Marko, 78, Albanian writer.

### 28

* Jacques Aubuchon, 67, American actor, heart failure.
* Cassandra Harris, 43, Australian actress (For Your Eyes Only), ovarian cancer.
* Enrique Herrera, 87, Cuban film actor.
* Cy Kasper, 96, American football player and coach.
* Leon Punch, 63, Australian politician.
* Alfred Dudley Ward, 86, British Army general.

### 29

* Dora Gordine, 96, Estonian-British sculptor.
* V. N. Reddy, 77, Indian cinematographer and director.
* Brian Reilly, 90, Irish chess master, writer and editor.
* Tony Strobl, 76, American comic artist and animator (Pinocchio).
* Alex Tremulis, 77, American automotive designer.

### 30

* Jean Grumellon, 68, French football player.
* Louis Henry, 80, French historian.
* José Miguel Marín, 46, Argentine football player and coach, heart attack.
* Michiko Nakanishi, 78, Japanese sprinter.
* Marcus Morton Rhoades, 88, American cytogeneticist.
* Piet Vermeylen, 87, Belgian lawyer and politician.

### 31

* Yuri Belov, 61, Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor.
* Felicja Blumental, 83, Polish pianist.
* Marco Antonio Serna Díaz, 55, Colombian herpetologist, ornithologist, and naturalist.
* Mary Virginia Gaver, 85, American librarian.
* Raymond R. Guest, 84, American businessman and thoroughbred race horse owner, pneumonia.
* Laurdine "Pat" Patrick, 62, American jazz musician, leukemia.
* Georges Poulet, 89, Belgian literary critic.
* Ken Robinson, 64, Canadian lawyer and politician.
* Christopher Steel, 53, British composer.