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

## January 1991
### 1

* Inga Gentzel, 82, Swedish Olympic runner (1928).
* Dáithí Ó Conaill, 52, Irish politician and republican.
* Jerome Arthur Pechillo, 71, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Nicolae Petrescu, 77, Romanian football player and manager.
* Buck Ram, 83, American songwriter and music producer.

### 2

* Sydney Caine, 88, British economist and educator.
* Edmond Jabès, 78, Egyptian-French writer and poet.
* Joseph C. Fegan Jr., 70, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
* Irving Johnson, 85, American sailor, adventurer, and writer.
* Hiroshi Noma, 75, Japanese writer, cancer.
* Gilbert Price, 48, American actor, asphyxiation.
* Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, 78, Pakistani politician.
* Renato Rascel, 78, Italian actor and singer, heart attack.
* Joseph J. Spengler, 88, American economist, Alzheimer's disease.

### 3

* Fayeq Abdul-Jaleel, 42, Kuwaiti poet, playwright and lyricist, execution.
* Luke Appling, 83, American baseball player.
* João Azevedo, 75, Portuguese footballer.
* Tom Baker, 77, American baseball player.
* Anna Gmeyner, 88, Austrian-English writer.
* Cipe Pineles, 82, Austrian-American graphic designer, heart attack.
* Reuben Tam, 74, American painter, lymphoma.
* Doris Zinkeisen, 93, Scottish theatrical designer.

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* Eddie Barefield, 81, American jazz musician, heart attack.
* Bill Byrd, 83, American baseball player.
* Joe Hoague, 72, American football player.
* Berry Kroeger, 78, American actor, kidney failure.
* Ib Storm Larsen, 65, Danish Olympic rower (1948).
* Zvonko Lepetić, 62, Yugoslav actor, heart attack.
* Poon Lim, 72, Chinese sailor.
* Richard Maibaum, 81, American playwright and screenwriter (Dr. No, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love).
* Thomas Stanley Matthews, 89, American magazine editor, lung cancer.
* Tokushige Noto, 88, Japanese Olympic sprinter (1924).
* Eric Rodin, 60, American baseball player.
* Sanmao, 47, Chinese-born Taiwanese writer and translator, suicide by hanging.
* Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah, 84, Indian judge and Chief Justice of India.
* Leo Wright, 57, American jazz musician, heart attack.

### 5

* Hubert Butler, 90, Irish writer.
* Johnny Eck, 79, American freak show performer and actor (Freaks), heart attack.
* Tõnis Kint, 94, Estonian politician.
* Walt Lamb, 70, American football player.
* Vasko Popa, 68, Yugoslav poet.
* Ted Robertson, 61, Australian politician.

### 6

* Ed Beinor, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Heinrich Dathe, 80, German zoologist, cancer.
* Bobby Estalella, 79, Cuban baseball player.
* Antonio Blanco Freijeiro, 67, Spanish archaeologist.
* Nicholas Marsicano, 82, American painter.
* Ravikant Nagaich, 59, Indian filmmaker.
* Marko Nikezić, 69, Yugoslav politician.
* Ahmed Adnan Saygun, 83, Turkish composer and musicologist.
* Alan Wiggins, 32, American baseball player (San Diego Padres, Baltimore Orioles), AIDS.

### 7

* Kondrat Krapiva, 94, Soviet writer.
* Henri Louveau, 80, French racing driver.
* José Guilherme Merquior, 49, Brazilian writer and diplomat, cancer.
* Josef Stroh, 77, Austrian football player and manager.
* Charlotte Wynters, 91, American actress.

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* Steve Clark, 30, English guitarist and songwriter (Def Leppard), alcohol poisoning.
* Ursula Hirschmann, 77, German anti-fascist.
* Henry Rainsford Hulme, 82, British nuclear physicist.
* Windy Nicklaus, 87, American gridiron football player.

### 9

* Salatyn Asgarova, 29, Soviet journalist, shot.
* Cuthbert Bardsley, 83, British Anglican prelate.
* J. McVicker Hunt, 84, American psychologist.
* Roland Laudenbach, 69, French writer, editor, and journalist.
* Antonio León Ortega, 83, Spanish sculptor.
* Soemarno Sosroatmodjo, 79, Indonesian politician.
* Charles Sterling, 89, Polish-French art historian.

### 10

* Eva Bosáková, 59, Czechoslovak Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956, 1960).
* Malte Jaeger, 79, German actor, embolism.
* Richard Kuremaa, 78, Estonian football player.
* Bob Wallis, 56, British jazz musician.

### 11

* Carl David Anderson, 85, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1936).
* Garland Frazier, 73, American sports coach.
* Maxine Jennings, 81, American actress.
* Sepp Ketterer, 91, Austrian cinematographer.
* Jaroslav Kučera, 61, Czech cinematographer.
* Charles Mozley, 76, British painter.
* Sarangapani Raman, 70-71, Indian football player.
* Alec Rose, 82, English sailor.
* Ronald Sanders, 58, American journalist.
* Georg Schäfer, 64, German writer, heart attack.

### 12

* Charles Drury, 78, Canadian politician.
* Eric Evans, 69, English rugby player.
* Robert Jackson, 79, Australian public servant.
* Keye Luke, 86, Chinese-American actor (Kung Fu, The Green Hornet, Gremlins), stroke.
* Doug McEnulty, 68, American football player.
* Vasco Pratolini, 77, Italian writer.
* Niels Rasmussen, 68, Danish Olympic rower (1948).
* Arthur L. White, 83, American Seventh-day Adventist writer, and theology professor.

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* François Falc'hun, 89, French linguist.
* Tribhuvandas Luhar, 82, Indian poet.
* Eladio Rojas, 56, Chilean football player.
* Ed Williamson, 78, American football coach, cancer.

### 14

* David Arkin, 49, American actor (All the President's Men, M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye), suicide.
* Duncan Black, 82, Scottish economist.
* Gordon Bryant, 76, Australian politician.
* Chitragupta, 73, Indian composer.
* Donald Coleman, 65, British politician, heart attack.
* Miles Copeland, Jr., 74, American musician and CIA officer, heart attack.
* Heli Finkenzeller, 76, German actress.
* Irwin Goodman, 47, Finnish singer, heart attack.
* Salah Khalaf, 57-58, Palestinian politician, shot.
* Harry Shorten, 77, American writer, editor, and book publisher.
* Roger Tubby, 80, American diplomat and press secretary.

### 15

* Leona Baumgartner, 88, American physician.
* Vishwa Gopal Jhingran, 72, Indian zoologist.
* Lyle Judy, 77, American baseball player.
* Julius Podlipny, 92, Czechoslovak and Romanian artist.
* Karl L. Rankin, 92, American diplomat, prostate cancer.
* Tony Slydini, 90, Italian-American magician.
* Bob Stirling, 71, English rugby union player.

### 16

* Preston Cloud, 78, American paleontologist, pneumonia.
* Rinaldo Del Bo, 74, Italian politician.
* Nicholas Mansergh, 80, British historian.
* Jabbo Smith, 82, American jazz musician.

### 17

* Marv Breuer, 76, American baseball player.
* Giacomo Manzù, 82, Italian sculptor.
* John C. Morgan, 76, American Air Force pilot and Medal of Honor recipient, Alzheimer's disease.
* Paul Mross, 80, Polish-German chess player.
* Olav V of Norway, 87, Norwegian royal, king (since 1957), heart attack.
* Scott Speicher, 33, United States Navy aviator, killed in action.

### 18

* Bryan Alton, 71, Irish politician and physician.
* Charles W. Davis, 73, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
* Hamilton Fish III, 102, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1920–1945).
* Vic Fusia, 77, American gridiron football player and coach, heart attack.
* Leo Hurwitz, 81, American documentary filmmaker, colon cancer.
* Jakob Kiefer, 71, German Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956).

### 19

* Uzeir Abduramanov, 74, Soviet Red Army officer and war hero during World War II.
* Don Beddoe, 87, American actor.
* Paul Bikle, 74, American aeronautical engineer.
* Winston H. Bostick, 74, American physicist, lung cancer.
* Marcel Chaput, 72, Canadian Quebecois independence activist.
* Bobby Combe, 66, Scottish footballer.
* Gernot Reinstadler, 20, Austrian skier, skiing accident.
* John Russell, 70, American actor (Rio Bravo, Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josey Wales), emphysema.
* Roy Weatherly, 75, American baseball player.

### 20

* Joseph Carroll, 80, American general, Alzheimer's disease.
* Harry Giese, 87, German actor and narrator.
* Louis Hardiquest, 80, Belgian cyclist.
* Herbie Lewis, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Owen Madden, 74, Irish footballer.
* Frank Pfütze, 32, German Olympic swimmer (1976, 1980), heart failure.
* Louis Seigner, 87, French actor, house fire.
* James Stewart, 84, American Olympic athlete (1928).
* Stan Szelest, 48, American musician, heart attack.
* Alfred Wainwright, 84, British writer.
* Aldert van der Ziel, 80, Dutch physicist.

### 21

* Cornelia Aalten, 77, Dutch Olympic runner (1932).
* Muhammad Taqi Amini, 64, Indian theologian.
* John Bicknell Auden, 87, English geologist.
* Ganga Devi, 63, Indian painter.
* James W. Duckett, 79, American military academic.
* Mieczysław Gracz, 71, Polish footballer.
* Nick Gulas, 76, American professional wrestling promoter.
* Frank Mitchell, 85, American actor, cardiac arrest.
* Princess Ileana of Romania, 82, Romanian royal, heart attack.

### 22

* Kenos Aroi, 48, Nauruan politician, president (1989).
* Robert Choquette, 85, Canadian novelist.
* Les Gore, 77, English footballer.
* Arnholdt Kongsgaard, 76, Norwegian skier and Olympian.
* Kristo Kono, 83, Albanian composer.

### 23

* Northrop Frye, 78, Canadian literary critic and theorist.
* Herbert Fröhlich, 85, German-British physicist.
* Ester Graff, 93, Danish feminist and businesswoman.
* Václav Janeček, 61, Czechoslovak Olympic sprinter (1952, 1956).
* Annie Markart, 83, German actress.
* P. Padmarajan, 45, Indian film maker, screenwriter and author, cardiac arrest.
* Nikolai Talyzin, 61, Soviet economist.
* Luis Hernán Álvarez, 52, Chilean footballer, stomach cancer.

### 24

* Rūdolfs Bārda, 87, Soviet footballer.
* Everett Freeman, 79, American screenwriter.
* John M. Kelly, 59, Irish politician, heart attack.
* John Middleton, 84, British Olympic racing cyclist (1928).
* Sarashi Ranjan Mukherjee, 71, Indian surgeon and a neurobiologist.
* Jack Schaefer, 83, American writer, heart failure.
* Sensitive Prince, 15, American thoroughbred racehorse.

### 25

* Lilian Bond, 83, English-American actress, heart attack.
* Stanley Brock, 59, American actor (Days of Our Lives, UHF, He's the Mayor), heart attack.
* Diana Turbay Castillo, 40, Colombian journalist, shot.
* Hoot Evers, 69, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Per Gjelten, 63, Norwegian Olympic skier (1952).
* Fiorenzo Marini, 76, Italian Olympic fencer (1948, 1960).
* Ismail Marjan, 70, Singaporean badminton player.
* Lafran Pane, 69, Indonesian academic, traffic collision.
* Gino Pollini, 88, Italian architect.
* Frank Soo, 76, English footballer, dementia.

### 26

* Des Koch, 58, American Olympic discus thrower (1956).
* Glenn Langan, 73, American actor, lymphoma.
* Orestes López, 82, Cuban musician.
* Hans Strååt, 73, Swedish actor.
* Johnny van Doorn, 46, Dutch writer, cancer.
* Karen Young, 39, American disco singer, peptic ulcer bleeding.

### 27

* Zheng Dongguo, 88, Chinese National Revolutionary Army officer.
* George Hazelwood Locket, 90, British arachnologist.
* Dale Long, 64, American baseball player, cancer.
* Miroslav Válek, 63, Czechoslovak poet and politician.
* Leif Wikström, 72, Swedish Olympic sailor (1956).

### 28

* Red Grange, 87, American gridiron football player, Parkinson's disease.
* Christopher Jackman, 74, American politician.
* Nikola Radović, 57, Yugoslav football player.
* Alexander M. Schmidt, 61, American physician and government official, coronary artery disease.

### 29

* Jal Cursetji, 71, Indian naval admiral.
* Ingebrigt Davik, 65, Norwegian children's writer, singer and songwriter..
* Hasan Dosti, 96, Albanian politician.
* Joan Gilbert, 84, English broadcaster.
* Yasushi Inoue, 83, Japanese writer.
* Władysław Król, 83, Polish ice hockey and football player and coach.
* V. N. Navaratnam, 61, Sri Lankan politician, heart attack.
* Arne Robertsson, 48, Swedish wrestler and Olympian.
* Joe Stynes, 88, Irish footballer.

### 30

* John Bardeen, 82, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1956, 1972), heart attack.
* Kurt Bittel, 83, German prehistorian.
* Clifton C. Edom, 83, American photojournalist.
* Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, 83, Welsh politician.
* John McIntire, 83, American actor (Wagon Train, Psycho, Turner & Hooch), lung cancer.
* José Ferrater Mora, 78, Spanish philosopher, heart attack.

### 31

* Robert J. Havighurst, 90, American chemist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Márcio Melo, 84, Brazilian politician.
* Kostas Mountakis, 64, Greek musician.
* Åge Rønning, 65, Norwegian writer and journalist.
* Justin Apostol, 69, Romanian football player.