The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1991
1
- Katharine Blake, 69, British actress (Anne of the Thousand Days, Within These Walls, Hammer the Toff).
- Mamie Geraldine Neale Bledsoe, 91, American educator and civil rights activist.
- Frank Esler-Smith, 42, English keyboardist, AIDS.
- Eugen Kamber, 66, Swiss Olympic cyclist (1948).[1]
- Edwin H. Land, 81, American inventor and businessman (Polaroid Corporation).[2]
- Leonid Markov, 63, Soviet actor, stomach cancer.[3]
- Marie Rossi, 32, U.S. Army pilot, helicopter crash one day after Operation Desert Storm.
- Louis Saguer, 83, German-French composer.[4]
2
- Arthur Attwell, 70, British Anglican prelate.
- Elmer Bischoff, 74, American artist.[5]
- Serge Gainsbourg, 62, French musician, heart attack.[6]
- Frank S. Giles Jr., 75, American politician.
- Mary Howard, 83, British novelist.[7]
- Clark R. Mollenhoff, 69, American journalist, cancer.[8]
- Josef Stalder, 72, Swiss Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).
- Lou Sullivan, 39, American author and transgender activist, AIDS.[9]
- Eduard Vanaaseme, 92, Estonian Olympic weightlifter (1924).[10]
- Ranjan Wijeratne, 59, Sri Lankan politician, explosion.
3
- Nikolai Bagley, 54, Soviet Olympic basketball player (1964).
- James Fullerton, 81, American ice hockey coach.
- Howard Head, 76, American aeronautical engineer.[11]
- Arthur Murray, 95, Hungarian-American businessman.[12]
- Sal Nistico, 50, American saxophonist.[13]
- William Penney, Baron Penney, 81, English mathematician.[14]
- Johnny Revolta, 79, American golfer.[15]
- John Spotton, 64, Canadian filmmaker, drowned.
- Antoine Tassy, 66, Haitian football player.
4
- Godfrey Bryan, 88, English cricket player.
- Vance Colvig, 72, American actor and voice actor (The Yogi Bear Show, UHF, The Quick Draw McGraw Show), cancer.[16]
- Michael Hardwick, 66, English author.
- Pepe Iglesias, 76, Argentine comedian.
- Ellamae Ellis League, 91, American architect.
- Kenneth Lindsay, 93, British politician.
- Jean Loubignac, 89, French film director and screenwriter.[17]
5
- Brian Batsford, 80, English politician.
- Steve Calvert, 74, American actor, heart attack.
- August de Schryver, 92, Belgian politician.[18]
- Ian McLellan Hunter, 75, English screenwriter (Roman Holiday), heart attack.[19]
- Helmut Sick, 81, German-Brazilian ornithologist.
6
- Habib Chatty, 74, Tunisian politician and diplomat.[20]
- Tan Chye Cheng, 80, Singaporean politician, heart failure.
- Keith Collin, 54, English Olympic diver (1960).[21]
- Herm Lee, 59, American football player.[22]
- Horace Winchell Magoun, 83, American medical researcher.
- Larry Olsonoski, 65, American football player.[23]
- Salvo Randone, 84, Italian actor.[24]
7
- John Bartha, 76, Hungarian actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
- Cool Papa Bell, 87, American baseball player.[25]
- Morton Fine, 74, American television writer (I Spy, Bold Venture, The Streets of San Francisco).[26]
- Raymond Joseph Gallagher, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate.[27]
- John Harris, 74, British novelist.[28]
- Al Klink, 75, American saxophonist.[29]
- Jean Piveteau, 91, French paleontologist.[30]
- Josef Páleníček, 76, Czech pianist and composer.[31]
- Bruno Venturini, 79, Italian football player.[32]
8
- John Bellairs, 53, American author (The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Face in the Frost, The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb), cardiovascular disease.[33]
- Michel d'Ornano, 66, French politician, struck by vehicle.[34]
- Maria Eisner, 82, Italian-American photographer.
- Ludwig Fischer, 75, German racing driver.
- Donald M. Frame, 79–80, American literary scholar.[35]
- Roman Brother, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, horse colic.
9
- Ely do Amparo, 69, Brazilian footballer.[36]
- Jack Meyer, 85, English cricket player and educator.[37]
- Max Fourny, 86, French art collector and racing driver.[38]
- Ralph Green, 79, Australian footballer.
- Jim Hardin, 47, American baseball player, plane crash.[39]
- Tomojirō Ikenouchi, 84, Japanese composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Fritz Neumark, 90, German economist.[40]
10
- Mildred Eldridge, 81, British artist.
- Fumio Ito, 51, Japanese racing motorcyclist.
- Etheridge Knight, 59, American poet, lung cancer.[41]
- Elie Siegmeister, 82, American composer.[42]
- Paul Ukena, 69, American opera singer, heart failure.[43]
11
- Robert A. Cook, 78, American academic and radio broadcaster.[44]
- Hector Crawford, 77, Australian entrepreneur.
- Abul Kashem, 70, Bangladeshi linguist.
- Nikolaos Matussi, 91, Greek politician and Aromanian paramilitary leader during World War II.
- Maria Reining, 87, Austrian singer.[45]
12
- José Maria Antunes, 77, Portuguese football player and a manager.
- LeRoy Collins, 82, American politician, governor of Florida (1955–1961), cancer.[46]
- Ralph Henry Carless Davis, 72, British historian.[47]
- Étienne Decroux, 92, French actor and mime artist.[48]
- Ragnar Granit, 90, Finnish-Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1967).[49]
- William Heinesen, 91, Faroese writer.[50]
- Michael Langdon, 70, British opera singer.[51]
- Muhammad Musa, 82, Pakistani general.
- Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, 70, Turkish-American opera singer.[52]
13
- Donald Kaberry, Baron Kaberry of Adel, 83, British politician, homicide.
- Josef Manger, 77, German weightlifter and Olympic champion.[53]
- Jimmy McPartland, 83, American cornetist, lung cancer.[54]
- Max Poll, 82, Belgian ichthyologist.[55]
- Walter Presch, 80, Austrian football player.
- Göran Strindberg, 74, Swedish cinematographer.[56]
14
- Howard Ashman, 40, American lyricist (Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid), Oscar winner (1990, 1992).[57]
- Roy Hall, 71, American racing driver.
- Ebenezer Joshua, 82, Vincentian politician.
- Doc Pomus, 65, American blues musician, lung cancer.[58]
- Margery Sharp, 86, English writer (The Rescuers).[59]
- Maurice Zolotow, 77, American writer and biographer.[60]
15
- G. Aravindan, 56, Indian filmmaker, musician, cartoonist, and painter, heart attack.
- Miodrag Bulatović, 61, Yugoslav novelist.
- Robert Busnel, 76, French basketball player, traffic collision.[61]
- Bud Freeman, 84, American jazz musician.[62]
- Robin Hill, 91, British biochemist.
- Stanisław Lorentz, 91, Polish art historian.
- Eileen Sedgwick, 92, American silent film actress, pneumonia.
- Vladimir Seleznev, 62, Soviet realist painter.
- George Sherman, 82, American filmmaker.[63]
- Gerd Völs, 81, German Olympic rower (1936).[64]
- Cloyd Webb, 49, Canadian football player.
16
- Chris Austin, 27, American country musician, plane crash.[65]
- Jean Bellette, 82, Australian artist.
- Urbain Caffi, 74, Italian-French racing cyclist.[66]
- Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, 72, British diplomat.
- Raymond Fletcher, 69, British politician and alleged spy.
- James Darcy Freeman, 83, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal.
- Trude Herr, 63, German actress.[67]
- Walter Georg Kühne, 80, German paleontologist.
- Jan Herman van Roijen Jr., 85, Dutch diplomat.[68]
17
- Carl Aarvold, 83, English barrister.
- Pilar Primo de Rivera, 83, Spanish politician.[69]
- Carlo Donat-Cattin, 71, Italian politician.[70]
- Peter Gordon, 69, New Zealand politician.
18
- Aladár Bitskey, 85, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1928).[71]
- Vilma Bánky, 90, Hungarian-American silent film actress, cardiopulmonary failure.
- Landis Gores, 71, American architect.[72]
- Carl Jensen, 81, Danish Olympic boxer (1932).[73]
- Dezider Kardoš, 76, Czechoslovak composer.
- Narda Onyx, 59, Estonian-American actress.[74]
- Herbert Sandberg, 82, German artist.
- John D. Voelker, 87, American judge and author.[75]
19
- Justus Buchler, 76, American philosopher.[76]
- Richard Hawkey, 67, English cricket player.[77]
- Bruno Kessler, 67, Italian politician.
- Russ Thomas, 66, American football player.[78]
- Sunday Wilshin, 86, British actress and radio presenter.
20
- Billy Butler, 66, American guitarist.[79]
- George Friedrichs, 51, American Olympic sailor (1968).
- George W. Grider, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967).
- David Marshall Lang, 66, British historian and academic.
- John Palmer MacBeth, 69, Canadian politician.
- Minatullah Rahmani, 77, Indian Islamic scholar.
- Nick Vanoff, 61, American theatre producer, cardiac arrest.[80]
21
- Almé Z, 24, French sport horse.
- Nan Britton, 94, American secretary, mistress of Warren G. Harding.[81]
- Vedat Dalokay, 63, Turkish politician and architect, traffic collision.[82]
- Leo Fender, 81, American musician and businessman (Fender), Parkinson's disease.[83]
- Oscar Heidenstam, 80, British bodybuilder.
- Bill Sweeney, 54, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
22
- Léon Balcer, 73, Canadian politician.
- Jimmy Boyd, 83, Scottish football player.
- Paul Engle, 82, American writer.[84]
- Dave Guard, 56, American musician, lymphoma.[85]
- Gloria Holden, 87, English-American actress, heart attack.[86]
- Adrie Lasterie, 47, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1964).[87]
- Albert McKinley Rains, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1965).[88]
- R. L. Ryan, 44, American actor (The Toxic Avenger, Birdy, Street Trash), heart attack.
23
- Elisaveta Bagriana, 97, Bulgarian poet.[89]
- Susumu Fujita, 79, Japanese actor (The Hidden Fortress, The Human Condition, Mothra vs. Godzilla), liver cancer.
- Bill Gunn, 59, Australian football player.
- Guy Benton Johnson, 90, American sociologist.[90]
- Mona Maris, 87, Argentine film actress, lung disease.
- Neta Snook Southern, 95, American aviation pioneer.[91]
- Innozenz Stangl, 80, German Olympic gymnast (1936).[92]
- Pauline Vanier, 92, Canadian humanitarian and academic.
- Lars Wolfbrandt, 62, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).[93]
24
- Maudie Edwards, 84, Welsh actress (Welsh Rarebit, Coronation Street).
- Albert Järvinen, 40, Finnish guitarist, heart attack.
- Sir John Kerr, 76, Australian politician, governor-general (1974–1977), brain cancer.[94]
- Max Truex, 55, American long-distance runner and Olympian.[95]
- Adrie Zwartepoorte, 74, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936).[96]
25
- Rusty Bryant, 61, American jazz musician.[97]
- Robert Duis, 77, German Olympic basketball player (1936).[98]
- Margaret Hoffman, 79, American Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932).[99]
- Vitaliy Holubyev, 65, Soviet football player.
- Eileen Joyce, 83, Australian pianist.[100]
- Marcel Lefebvre, 85, French Roman Catholic prelate, bone cancer.[101]
- Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, 67, German architecture historian, archaeologist and Byzantinist.[102]
- Mohammed Ahmed Sadek, 73, Egyptian general.
- Sandy Williams, 84, American trombonist.[103]
26
- Karel Burkert, 81, Czechoslovak footballer.[104]
- Warren Chappell, 86–87, American illustrator and teacher, heart failure.[105]
- Riccardo Fellini, 69, Italian film actor.
- Paul Gayten, 71, American musician.
- Angus Charles Graham, 71, Welsh sinologist.[106]
- Doug Herland, 39, American Olympic rower (1984).[107]
- Henri Lhote, 88, French ethnographer and explorer.[108]
- P. L. A. Somapala, 69, Sri Lankan singer.
- R. Sudarsanam, 76, Indian composer.
27
- Ralph Bates, 51, English actor, pancreatic cancer.[109]
- Alfredo Campoli, 84, Italian-British violinist.[110]
- Jack Davis, 74, Canadian politician.
- Heinrich Gerlach, 82, German soldier and author.
- Helmut Kronsbein, 76, German footballer.
- Aldo Ray, 64, American actor (Pat and Mike, The Marrying Kind, The Secret of NIMH), throat cancer.[111]
- Hans-Henning Freiherr von Beust, 77, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
28
- Griffith Buck, 75–76, American horticulturist.[112]
- Maude Hutchins, 92, American artist.[113]
- Carlos Montalbán, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Harder They Fall, Bananas, The Out-of-Towners), heart failure.[114]
- Lyall Wilkes, 76, English politician.
29
- Karl Aletter, 84, German Olympic rower (1928, 1932).[115]
- Lee Atwater, 40, American political consultant, chairman of the Republican National Committee (1989–1991), brain cancer.
- Guy Bourdin, 62, French photographer, cancer.[116]
- John Daniel Hayes, 89, American naval admiral and historian.[117]
- Mikaela, 55, Spanish singer, leukemia.
- Hans Stark, 69, German war criminal.
- John Stradling Thomas, 65, Welsh politician.
30
- Silvia Monfort, 67, French actress, lung cancer.[118]
- Sid Schacht, 73, American baseball player.[119]
- Bud Taylor, 74, American golfer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Nikola Todev, 62, Bulgarian actor.
- Cheng Zihua, 85, Chinese politician.
31
- Emilian Bratu, 86, Romanian chemical engineer.
- John Carter, 61, American jazz musician.
- Stanley Diamond, 69, American poet and anthropologist.[120]
- Consuelo Frank, 78, Mexican actress.
- Josip Jović, 21, Yugoslav Croatian police officer, shot.
- Arnold Walter Lawrence, 90, British archaeologist.[121]
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