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

## October 1991
### 1

* Willie Borsch, 61, American drag racer.
* Victor Teterin, 68, Soviet artist.
* Stu Williamson, 58, American jazz musician.

### 2

* Hazen Argue, 70, Canadian politician.
* Maria Aurèlia Capmany, 73, Spanish novelist, playwright and essayist.
* Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, 77, Turkish archbishop, heart attack.
* Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, 93, American lawyer.
* Jim Handby, 88, Australian footballer and politician.
* Peter Heyworth, 70, American-British music critic and biographer, stroke.

### 3

* Max Cantor, 32, American journalist and actor (Dirty Dancing), heroin overdose.
* Ed Dancker, 77, American basketball player.
* Fazle Haq, 63, Pakistani general and politician, assassinated.
* Paule Herreman, 72, Belgian actress and television presenter.
* John Hood, 87, Australian diplomat.
* Gia Nadareishvili, 70, Soviet and Georgian chess player and author on chess studies.

### 4

* Heinrich Hellwege, 83, German politician.
* Josefina Valencia Muñoz, 78, Colombian politician.
* John G. Williams Jr., 67, American admiral.
* J. Frank Wilson, 49, American singer, diabetes.

### 5

* Jørgen Beck, 76, Danish actor.
* Martin Ennals, 64, British human rights activist.
* Ramnath Goenka, 87, Indian newspaper publisher.
* Milan Milišić, 50, Yugoslav writer, shelling.
* Hope Portocarrero, 62, American-Nicaraguan socialite, First Lady of Nicaragua (1967–1972, 1974–1979), cancer.

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* Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry, 87, British politician.
* Roger Forsythe, 36, American fashion designer, AIDS.
* Alphonse Gallegos, 60, American Roman Catholic bishop, traffic accident.
* Mark Shevelev, 86, Soviet pilot during World War II and polar aviation pioneer.
* Igor Talkov, 34, Soviet singer, shot.

### 7

* Leo Durocher, 86, American baseball player and manager.
* Alan Fletcher, 84, Australian politician.
* Natalia Ginzburg, 75, Italian writer and politician, cancer.
* Darren Millane, 26, Australian rules football player, traffic collision.
* Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi, 61, Argentine writer and philosopher.
* Prentiss Taylor, 83, American illustrator, lithographer, and painter.

### 8

* Ed Hanyzewski, 71, American baseball player.
* Edward Skórzewski, 61, Polish film director and screenwriter.
* Lyall Smith, 76, American sports writer and editor.
* Zoska Veras, 99, Belarusian writer and poet.
* Maria Zubreeva, 91, Soviet painter, watercolorist, and graphic artist.

### 9

* Roy Black, 48, German schlager singer and actor, heart failure.
* Dagmar Lange, 77, Swedish author of crime fiction.
* Camille Libar, 73, Luxembourgish football player and manager.
* Doris Lilly, 69, American newspaper columnist and writer, cancer.
* Thalmus Rasulala, 51, American actor (Blacula, One Life to Live, New Jack City), heart attack.

### 10

* Victor Christgau, 97, American politician.
* Pío Cabanillas Gallas, 67, Spanish jurist and politician, heart attack.
* Nickolaus Hirschl, 85, Austrian wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Yaroslav Lesiv, 46, Ukrainian poet and priest, traffic collision.
* Bob Morgan, 61, American gridiron football player.
* Gamble Rogers, 54, American musician, drowned.
* Andrzej Zaucha, 42, Polish rhythm & blues and pop-jazz singer, and actor, shot.

### 11

* Gene Barth, 61, American football player.
* Pietro Ferraris, 79, Italian football player.
* Ron Ferrier, 77, English footballer.
* Redd Foxx, 68, American actor (Sanford and Son, The Redd Foxx Show, Harlem Nights), heart attack.
* Luke Higgins, 70, American gridiron football player.
* Clay Kirby, 43, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Branislav Mihajlović, 54, Serbian football player.
* Lidiya Sukharevskaya, 82, Soviet stage actress and playwright.
* Carroll Williams, 74, American zoologist, lymphoma.

### 12

* Ian Ayre, 62, Australian tennis player.
* Narciso Horacio Doval, 47, Argentine football player, heart attack.
* Sheila Florance, 75, Australian actress, lung cancer.
* Diana Gibson, 76, American film actress.
* Severo Gomes, 68, Brazilian politician, plane crash.
* Ulysses Guimarães, 76, Brazilian politician, plance crash.
* Aline MacMahon, 92, American actress (Dragon Seed), pneumonia.
* Taso Mathieson, 83, British racing driver and author of automotive history books.
* Regis Toomey, 93, American actor (The Big Sleep, Guys and Dolls, Spellbound).
* Grigoris Vlastos, 84, Greek scholar of ancient philosophy.

### 13

* William Gentry, 92, New Zealand Military Forces general.
* Donald Houston, 67, Welsh actor (Clash of the Titans, Where Eagles Dare, The Blue Lagoon), stroke.
* Hugh Molson, Baron Molson, 88, British politician.
* Daniel Oduber Quirós, 70, Costa Rican politician, president (1974–1978).
* Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, 59, Spanish politician and businessman.

### 14

* Thomas H. Eliot, 84, American lawyer, politician, and academic.
* Walter M. Elsasser, 87, German-American physicist.
* Richard Hittleman, 64, American yoga teacher and author.
* Jay Richard Kennedy, 80, American writer, screenwriter, composer, and record executive.
* David Neville, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.

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* Antonio Canale, 76, Italian comic writer and artist.
* John Greenway, 71, American folklorist and folk singer.
* Verda James, 90, Canadian-American politician.
* Robert Pastene, 73, American actor.
* Han Ying-chieh, 64, Hong Kong actor, cancer.

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* Arthur E. Arling, 85, American cameraman and cinematographer.
* Ole Beich, 36, Danish bassist (Guns N' Roses), drowned.
* Lore Fischer, 80, German singer.
* Giacomo Mari, 66, Italian football player.
* Boris Papandopulo, 85, Croatian composer.
* Barry Wong, 44, Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and actor, heart attack.
* Blago Zadro, 47, Croatian army officer, killed in action.

### 17

* John C. Bailar, Jr., 87, American chemist and academic.
* J. G. Devlin, 84, Northern Irish actor.
* Tennessee Ernie Ford, 72, American singer ("Sixteen Tons", "The Shotgun Boogie"), liver failure.
* Władysław Giergiel, 74, Polish football player.
* Håkon Johnsen, 77, Norwegian politician.
* Harlan James Smith, 67, American astronomer.
* Piet van Est, 57, Dutch cyclist.

### 18

* Enrico Boniforti, 73, Italian football player.
* Stephen Dickson, 40, American baritone, complications from AIDS.
* Bronisław Gosztyła, 56, Polish ice hockey player.
* Judith Sulian, 71, Argentine film actress.
* Gunnar Sønstevold, 78, Norwegian composer.

### 19

* Walter Gericke, 83, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
* Henry Holst, 92, Danish violinist.
* Gheorghe Pahonțu, 58, Romanian football player.
* Howard Swearer, 59, American academic, cancer.
* Naum Vilenkin, 70, Soviet mathematician.

### 20

* Georges Beuchat, 81, French inventor, businessman, and underwater diving pioneer.
* Marcus Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter.
* Clifford Last, 72, English sculptor.
* Susan Noel, 79, English squash and tennis player.
* J. Graham Parsons, 83, American diplomat.
* Yehuda Tzadka, 81, Israeli rabbi and rosh yeshiva.

### 21

* Lorenc Antoni, 82, Kosovo Albanian composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist.
* Louis Calabro, 64, Italian American orchestral composer.
* Lev Chegorovsky, 77, Soviet and Russian artist.
* Bobby Coombs, 83, American baseball player.
* Jim Hamby, 94, American baseball player.

### 22

* Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, 40, American writer and performance artist, suicide by exsanguination.
* Robert Carlin, 90, Canadian politician.
* Joy Harington, 77, English television actress, writer, producer, and director.
* Hachiro Kasuga, 67, Japanese singer.
* Judy Kelly, 77, Australian-British actress.

### 23

* Derek Edge, 49, English football player.
* Job Stewart, 57, British stage and screen actor.
* Július Torma, 69, Czechoslovak boxer and Olympic champion.
* Alida van Leeuwen, 83, Dutch diver and Olympian.

### 24

* Ismat Chughtai, 76, Indian Urdu novelist, humanist and filmmaker.
* J. A. Milton Perera, 62, Sri Lankan singer and composer.
* Gene Roddenberry, 70, American television producer (Star Trek), cardiac arrest.
* Vilko Ukmar, 86, Slovenian composer.
* Luisa Vehil, 78, Uruguayan theater and movie actress.

### 25

* Albert Baldauf, 73, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* George Brunet, 56, American baseball player.
* Khigh Dhiegh, 81, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds).
* Bill Graham, 60, German-American impresario, helicopter crash.
* Louis le Grange, 63, Lawyer, a South African politician.
* Tamaz Namgalauri, 34, Georgian judoka and Olympian.
* John Stratton, 65, British actor.
* Walter Stude, 77, American field hockey player and Olympian.

### 26

* Henry Wilson Allen, 79, American writer and screenwriter, pneumonia.
* Bill Bevens, 75, American baseball player, lymphoma.
* Vivian Dandridge, 70, American singer, actress and dancer, stroke.
* Major Holley, 67, American jazz bassist.
* Ed Justice, 78, American gridiron football player.
* Enrique Sorrel, 79, Chilean football player and manager.
* Tahira Tahirova, 77, Soviet politician and diplomat.

### 27

* George Barker, 78, English poet.
* Rocky Hata, 43, Japanese professional wrestler, diabetes.
* Howard Kingsbury, 87, American Olympic rower (1924).
* Pyke Koch, 90, Dutch artist.
* Andrzej Panufnik, 77, Polish composer.

### 28

* Sylvia Fine, 78, American lyricist, composer, and producer, emphysema.
* Joseph Fletcher, 86, American professor.
* John Kobal, 51, Austrian film historian, pneumonia.
* Ilie Murgulescu, 89, Romanian physical chemist and a communist politician.
* Akram Ojjeh, 73, Syrian-Saudi businessman, diabetes.
* George Treweek, 86, Australian rugby player.
* Billy Wright, 59, American singer, pulmonary embolism.

### 29

* Cyril Black, 89, British politician.
* Lee Boltin, 73, American photographer, leukemia.
* Donald Churchill, 60, English actor and playwright, heart attack.
* Jimmie Coker, 55, American baseball player, heart attack.
* John DeCuir, Sr., 73, American art director and production designer (The King and I, Cleopatra, Hello, Dolly!), Oscar winner (1957, 1964, 1970).
* Hikmat Muradov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Nigel Poett, 84, British Army officer.
* Mario Scelba, 90, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1954–1955), thrombosis.
* Johan Støa, 91, Norwegian multi-sportsman and Olympian.

### 30

* Aniela Jaffé, 88, German-Swiss psychoanalysts.
* Ellis Kolchin, 75, American mathematician and academic, pancreatic cancer.
* George Lambert, 72, English cricket player.
* Prince Emich, 7th Prince of Leiningen, 65, German noble and entrepreneur.
* Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, 84, Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and politician.

### 31

* Gene Anderson, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Ewald Bucher, 77, German politician.
* Garvin Bushell, 89, American musician and multi-instrumentalist.
* Charles K.L. Davis, 66, American opera singer and musician.
* Alexander Frick, 81, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1945–1962).
* Simon Gjoni, 66, Albanian conductor, and composer.
* Frederick Hartt, 77, Italian Renaissance scholar and author.
* Dick Joy, 75, American radio and television announcer.
* Agnes Katharina Maxsein, 86, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Joseph Papp, 70, American theatrical producer, prostate cancer.