Deaths in October 1991

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.
• Sergei Metreveli, 84, Georgian humanitarian.
• Vic Sluce, 63, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Victor Teterin, 68, Soviet artist.
• Arleigh Williams, 78, American football player and academic.
• Stu Williamson, 58, American jazz musician.

2

• Demetrios I of Constantinople, 77, Turkish Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (since 1973).
• Roland Gööck, 68, German author.
• Jim Handby, 88, Australian footballer and politician.
• Peter Heyworth, 70, American-born British music critic and biographer, stroke.

3

• Max Cantor, 32, American journalist and actor (Dirty Dancing), heroin overdose.
• Fazle Haq, 63, Pakistani general and politician, assassinated.
• Roland St John, 76, Australian Anglican prelate.

4

• Clara Brawner, 62, American physician.
• J. Frank Wilson, 49, American singer, diabetes.

5

• Jørgen Beck, 76, Danish actor.
• Kinder Lal, 77, Indian politician.
• Milan Milišić, 50, Yugoslav writer, shelling.
• Hope Portocarrero, 62, American-Nicaraguan socialite, First Lady of Nicaragua (1967–1972, 1974–1979), cancer.

6

• Sonia Rescalvo Zafra, 45, Spanish transgender woman, murdered.
• Igor Talkov, 34, Soviet singer, shot.

7

• Harry W. Brown, 70, American flying ace.
• Leo Durocher, 86, American baseball player.
• Natalia Ginzburg, 75, Italian writer and politician.
• Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi, 61, Argentine writer and philosopher.

8

• Ed Hanyzewski, 71, American baseball player.
• Paul N. Yu, 75, Chinese-American physiologist.

9

• Roy Black, 48, German singer and actor.
• Thalmus Rasulala, 51, American actor, heart attack.

10

• Victor Christgau, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929–1933).
• Nickolaus Hirschl, 85, Austrian wrestler.
• Bob Morgan, 61, American football player.
• Gamble Rogers, 54, American musician, drowned.

11

• Gene Barth, 61, American football player.
• Harley Copp, 69, American car designer, stroke.
• Ron Ferrier, 77, English footballer.
• Redd Foxx, 68, American actor (Sanford and Son, The Redd Foxx Show), heart attack.
• Leon Wolff, 77, American historian.

12

• Sheila Florance, 75, Australian actress, lung cancer.
• Aline MacMahon, 92, American actress (Dragon Seed), pneumonia.
• Arkady Strugatsky, 66, Soviet science fiction author.
• Regis Toomey, 93, American actor.

13

• George August, 74, English cricketer.
• Owen Guyatt, 72, Australian footballer.
• Donald Houston, 67, Welsh actor, stroke.
• Daniel Oduber Quirós, 70, Costa Rican politician, president (1974–1978).

14

• Walter M. Elsasser, 87, German-American physicist.
• Paul Estèbe, 87, French politician.

15

• Verda James, 90, Canadian-born American politician.
• Robert Pastene, 73, American actor.
• Ann C. Whitman, 83, American government official.
• Fedor Zinchenko, 89, Soviet army officer.

16

• Stanley Autler, 69, American physicist.
• Ole Beich, 36, Danish bassist (Guns N' Roses), drowned.
• Walter Buswell, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• William R. Collins, 78, American major general.
• Bert Delotto, 72, American politician.
• Lore Fischer, 80, German singer.
• George Hennard, 35, American mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.
• Giacomo Mari, 66, Italian footballer.
• Boris Papandopulo, 85, Croatian composer.

17

• J. G. Devlin, 84, Northern Irish actor.
• Tennessee Ernie Ford, 72, American singer ("Sixteen Tons", "The Shotgun Boogie"), liver failure.
• Władysław Giergiel, 74, Polish footballer.
• Piet van Est, 57, Dutch cyclist.
• Jorge Yarur Banna, 72, Chilean banker.

18

• Gunnar Sønstevold, 78, Norwegian composer.

19

• Walter Gericke, 83, German Luftwaffe officer.
• Gheorghe Pahonțu, 58, Romanian footballer.
• Howard Swearer, 59, American academic, cancer.
• Harold Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson, 72, British hereditary peer.
• Naum Ya. Vilenkin, 70, Soviet mathematician.

20

• Marcus Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter.

21

• Bobby Coombs, 83, American baseball player.

22

• Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, 40, American writer and performance artist, suicide by exsanguination.
• Robert Carlin, 90, Canadian politician.
• Hachiro Kasuga, 67, Japanese singer.

23

• Nelly Bell Knutsen, 86, Norwegian politician.

24

• Jonathan Uhry Newman, 64, American judge, leukemia.
• Gene Roddenberry, 70, American television producer (Star Trek), cardiac arrest.
• Vilko Ukmar, 86, Slovenian composer.

25

• Khigh Dhiegh, 81, American actor.
• Bill Graham, 60, German-American impresario, helicopter crash.
• Walter Stude, 77, American field hockey player.

26

• Henry Wilson Allen, 79, American writer and screenwriter.

27

• George Barker, 78, English poet.
• R Adams Cowley, 74, American surgeon.
• P. J. Gallagher, 76, American politician.
• Howard Kingsbury, 87, American Olympic rower (1924).
• Andrzej Panufnik, 77, Polish composer.

28

• Sylvia Fine, 78, American composer, emphysema.
• William J. Nuss, 77, American politician.
• Akram Ojjeh, 73, Syrian-born Saudi businessman.
• George Treweek, 86, Australian rugby player.

29

• Donald Churchill, 60, English actor and playwright, heart attack.
• Jimmie Coker, 55, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Roena Muckelroy Savage, 86, American singer.
• Hikmat Muradov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Sir Nigel Poett, 84, British army officer.
• Mario Scelba, 90, Italian politician, prime minister (1954–1955), president of the European Parliament (1969–1971), thrombosis.
• Johan Støa, 91, Norwegian multi-sportsman.

30

• Renne Hughes, 50, American painter.
• Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, 84, Nazi German politician.

31

• Gene Anderson, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Alexander Frick, 81, Liechtensteiner politician, prime minister (1945–1962).
• Joseph Papp, 70, American theatrical producer, prostate cancer.