Deaths in April 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Angus Cameron, 61, Scottish rugby player.
 * Jon Eardley, 62, American trumpeter.
 * Martha Graham, 96, American dancer and choreographer, pneumonia.
 * Frankie Gustine, 71, American baseball player.
 * Jaime Guzmán, 44, Chilean politician, shot.
 * George Lee, 71, English footballer.
 * Eddie Miller, 79, American jazz musician, pneumonia.
 * Paulo Muwanga, 66, Ugandan politician, president (1980).
 * Bjarne Nerem, 67, Norwegian jazz musician.
 * Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, 58, German politician, shot.
 * Rina Zelyonaya, 89, Soviet actress, singer and comedian, cancer.

2

 * Noel George Butlin, 69, Australian economic historian.
 * Gisa Geert, 90, Austrian actress and choreographer.
 * Ken Gunning, 76, American basketball player.
 * Cheng Shewo, 92, Chinese journalist, publisher, and educator.
 * Robert Veyron-Lacroix, 68, French harpsichordist and pianist.

3

 * P. K. Balakrishnan, 66, Indian novelist.
 * Fred Capossela, 88, American horse racing announcer, stroke.
 * Charles Goren, 90, American bridge player.
 * Graham Greene, 86, English writer, leukemia.
 * John Mullen, 66, American Major League Baseball executive.
 * Coral Lansbury, 61, Australian writer, bowel cancer.
 * Alan Stewart Orr, 80, British barrister.
 * Jo Teunissen-Waalboer, 71, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1948).

4

 * Edmund Adamkiewicz, 70, German football player.
 * Max Frisch, 79, Swiss playwright and novelist, colorectal cancer.
 * Louis Guglielmi, 75, French composer.
 * John Heinz, 52, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1977) and Senate (since 1977), plane crash.
 * Graham Ingels, 75, American comic artist.
 * Johnny Moore, 89, American baseball player.
 * The Thinker, 12, British thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

5

 * Nona Balakian, 72, American literary critic and an editor.
 * Gerald Blake, 62, British television director.
 * Sonny Carter, 43, American astronaut, plane crash.
 * William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, 81, English-Australian politician, Governor-General of Australia (1961–1965).
 * Eve Garnett, 91, English writer.
 * Kōzō Masuda, 73, Japanese professional shogi player.
 * Jiří Mucha, 76, Czechoslovak journalist, cancer.
 * John Tower, 65, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1961–1985), plane crash.
 * Renato Turi, 70, Italian actor and voice actor.

6

 * Ed Craney, 86, American radio executive.
 * Dennis Cross, 66, American actor, cancer.
 * Louis Joxe, 89, French politician.
 * Joaquín Nogueras Márquez, 84, Spanish Olympic equestrian (1948, 1952, 1956).
 * Bill Ponsford, 90, Australian cricketer.

7

 * Cora DuBois, 87, American anthropologist, pneumonia.
 * Henry Glover, 69, American songwriter, heart attack.
 * Véra Nabokov, 89, Soviet-Swiss translator.
 * Ruth Page, 92, American ballerina.

8

 * Dink Carroll, 91, Canadian sports journalist.
 * Pierre Grégoire, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
 * Haim Hanani, 78, Polish-Israeli mathematician.
 * Max Janowski, 78-79, German-American composer.
 * Per "Dead" Ohlin, 22, Swedish black metal musician (Mayhem), suicide by gunshot.
 * Paul Söllner, 79, German Olympic rower (1936).
 * Kristian Osvald Viderø, 84, Faroese clergyman and translator.
 * Tilo Freiherr von Berlepsch, 77, German actor.

9

 * Maurice Binder, 72, American film title designer (James Bond), lung cancer.
 * Norris Bowden, 64, Canadian figure skater.
 * Antoine Dignef, 80, Belgian cyclist.
 * William Mims, 64, American actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Forrest Towns, 77, American track and field athlete, heart attack.

10

 * Otto Berg, 84, Norwegian Olympic long jumper (1936).
 * Kevin Peter Hall, 35, American actor (Predator, Harry and the Hendersons, 227), AIDS.
 * Marian Kaiser, 58, Polish speedway rider.
 * Natalie Schafer, 90, American actress (Gilligan's Island), liver cancer.
 * Paul Stader, 80, American actor and stuntman (The Towering Inferno, The Goonies, The Poseidon Adventure).
 * Wu Yin, 81, Chinese actress.

11

 * Chester Anderson, 58, American underground press poet and editor.
 * Fredson Bowers, 85, American bibliographer.
 * Walker Cooper, 76, American baseball player.
 * Doris de Jong, 89, Dutch Olympic fencer (1928, 1932).
 * Bruno Hoffmann, 77, German glass harpist.
 * Mikine Kuwahara, 95, Japanese politician.
 * Dick Manning, 78, Russian-American songwriter.
 * Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield, 95, British politician.

12

 * Gene Lillard, 77, American baseball player.
 * Tom Rosqui, 62, American actor (The Godfather Part II), cancer.
 * James Schuyler, 67, American poet, stroke.
 * Orville Vogel, 83, American scientist and wheat biologist, cancer.
 * Ivar Waller, 92, Swedish theoretical physicist.

13

 * Bobby Boriello, 47, American mobster (Gambino crime family), shot.
 * Serge David, 58, French racing cyclist.
 * Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto, 82, Danish horn player.
 * Kalevi Laurila, 53, Finnish Olympic skier (1964, 1968).
 * Leo Rodak, 77, American featherweight boxer.

14

 * Dhalia, 66, Indonesian actress, cancer.
 * Randolfo Pacciardi, 92, Italian politician.
 * Lionello Levi Sandri, 80, Italian politician.
 * Yosef Tekoah, 66, Polish-Israeli diplomat, heart attack.

15

 * Francisco Herrera Luque, 63, Venezuelan writer, psychiatrist and diplomat.
 * Dante Milano, 91, Brazilian poet.
 * Teddy Petersen, 98, Danish violinist.
 * Erich Zander, 86, German Olympic field hockey player (1928, 1936).

16

 * Qin Benli, 72, Chinese journalist, stomach cancer.
 * Patrick Bergin, 78, Irish politician and trade union official.
 * Homer Bigart, 83, American journalist, cancer.
 * John V. Breakwell, 74, American control theorist.
 * Bob Dill, 70, American ice hockey player.
 * Roman Jasinski, 84, Polish ballet dancer.
 * David Lean, 83, English film director (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai), Oscar winner (1958, 1963), esophageal cancer.
 * Rafton Pounder, 57, Northern Irish unionist politician.

17

 * Giovanni Malagodi, 86, Italian politician.
 * Michael Long, 43, Australian actor, lung cancer.
 * Les Mallon, 85, American baseball player.
 * Michael Pertwee, 74, English screenwriter.
 * Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, 74, Polish boxer and Holocaust survivor.
 * Jack Yellen, 98, Polish-American lyricist ("Happy Days Are Here Again").

18

 * Ron Bottcher, 50, American opera singer, AIDS.
 * Gabriel Celaya, 80, Spanish poet.
 * Thomas Arthur Connolly, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Martin Hannett, 42, English record producer, heart failure.
 * John Morse Haydon, 71, American politician.
 * Austin Bradford Hill, 93, English epidemiologist.
 * Sheldon Jones, 69, American baseball player.
 * Menios Koutsogiorgas, 68-69, Greek politician.
 * Barry Rogers, 55, American trombonist.

19

 * Dilara Aliyeva, 61, Soviet philologist and translator, traffic collision.
 * Leon Foster, 77, Barbadian cricket player.
 * Judy Gunn, 76, British actress.
 * Stanley Hawes, 86, British-Australian filmmaker.
 * Louise Dickinson Rich, 87, American writer.

20

 * Hiroyuki Ebihara, 51, Japanese boxer.
 * Seán Ó Faoláin, 91, Irish writer.
 * Anton Kotzig, 71, Czechoslovak-Canadian mathematician.
 * Steve Marriott, 44, English musician (Small Faces, Humble Pie), house fire.
 * Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga, 76, Ugandan Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Don Siegel, 78, American film director (Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Escape from Alcatraz), cancer.
 * Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, 74, Mongolian politician, bile duct cancer.
 * Bucky Walters, 82, American baseball player.

21

 * Richard Walker Bolling, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1983).
 * Willi Boskovsky, 81, Austrian violinist.
 * Li Choh-ming, 79, Chinese-American economist and educator.
 * Bernard Laidebeur, 48, French Olympic runner (1964).
 * Alexey Vodyagin, 66, Soviet footballer.
 * Dick Weik, 63, American baseball player.

22

 * Jack Kid Berg, 81, English boxer.
 * Andrew Boyle, 71, Scottish journalist and biographer.
 * Anne Howard, 66, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Karl Klasen, 81, German banker.
 * Mikheil Meskhi, 54, Georgian football player.
 * Sylvio Pirillo, 74, Brazilian footballer.
 * Jason Richard Swallen, 87, American botanist.
 * Feriha Tevfik, 80-81, Turkish actress, cerebral hemorrhage.

23

 * Paul Brickhill, 74, Australian author (The Great Escape, The Dam Busters).
 * Arthur Derounian, 82,Turkish-American journalist, heart attack.
 * William Dozier, 83, American film and television producer (Batman, The Green Hornet, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers), stroke.
 * Lokman Hossain Fakir, 56, Bangladeshi musician.
 * Johnny Thunders, 38, American musician, drug overdose.

24

 * Mario Acchini, 75, Italian Olympic rower (1948).
 * Werner Neumann, 86, German musicologist.
 * Haakon Tranberg, 74, Norwegian sprinter.
 * Cafer Çağatay, 91-92, Turkish footballer.

25

 * Lamberto V. Avellana, 76, Filipino film director.
 * Laz Barrera, 66, Cuban-American racehorse trainer.
 * Carl Brandt, 76, American composer.
 * Michael Kühnen, 35, German neo-Nazi leader, AIDS.
 * Theo Laseroms, 51, Dutch football player, heart attack.
 * Antônio de Castro Mayer, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, respiratory failure.

26

 * Nate Andrews, 77, American baseball player.
 * Leo Arnaud, 86, French-American composer.
 * Gordon Chalk, 77, Australian politician.
 * Carmine Coppola, 80, American film composer (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders), Oscar winner (1975), stroke.
 * Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, 88, French historian.
 * A. B. Guthrie Jr., 90, American author.
 * Lars Hall, 63, Swedish Olympic pentathlete (1952, 1956).
 * Richard Hatfield, 60, Canadian politician, brain cancer.
 * Henry Lipson, 81, British physicist, heart attack.
 * Ezio Marano, 63, Italian actor.
 * Emily McLaughlin, 62, American actress (General Hospital), cancer.
 * William Andrew Paton, 101, American accountancy scholar.
 * Walter Reder, 76, Austrian war criminal (Marzabotto massacre).
 * Thaddeus Anthony Shubsda, 66, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

27

 * Georg Ehnes, 70, German politician.
 * Alfred Eriksen, 72, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).
 * Pavlos Oikonomou-Gouras, 93, Greek diplomat.
 * Robert Velter, 82, French cartoonist (Spirou & Fantasio).
 * Elinor Remick Warren, 91, American composer.

28

 * Steve Broidy, 85, American film executive, heart attack.
 * Ken Curtis, 74, American actor (Gunsmoke, The Searchers, Robin Hood) and singer, heart attack.
 * Jean Goujon, 77, French racing cyclist.
 * Albrecht Joseph, 89, German playwright, screenwriter and film editor.
 * Nicola Manzari, 82, Italian filmmaker.
 * Floyd McKissick, 69, American lawyer and civil rights activist, lung cancer.
 * Tommy Paul, 82, American boxer.
 * Pushpavalli, 65, Indian actress, diabetes.
 * Igal Roodenko, 74, American pacifist and civil rights activist.
 * Harry Sorensen, 77, American basketball player.
 * Ollie Spencer, 60, American football player, heart attack.
 * Stan Turner, 64, English football player.
 * Willy von Känel, 81, Swiss football player.

29

 * Claude Gallimard, 77, French publisher.
 * Gonzaguinha, 45, Brazilian singer, traffic collision.
 * Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 44, American writer and horse breeder, cancer.
 * Jackie Searl, 69, American actor.

30

 * Simon Achikgyozyan, 52, Soviet Armenian soldier and war hero, killed in battle.
 * André Badonnel, 92, French entomologist.
 * Ghislaine Dommanget, 90, French-Monegasque royal and actress, princess consort (1946–1949).
 * Tatul Krpeyan, 26, Soviet Armenian soldier and war hero, shot.
 * Juozas Urbšys, 95, Lithuanian diplomat.