Deaths in August 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Helen Page Camp, 60, American actress (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), stroke.
 * Carmine Fatico, 81, American mobster and caporegime in the Gambino crime family.
 * John Gilchrist, 51, Scottish football player.
 * Yusuf Idris, 64, Egyptian playwright and novelist, heart attack.
 * Chris Short, 53, American baseball player, complications from a brain aneurysm.
 * Vlado Šegrt, 83, Yugoslav and Bosnian partisan, politician and political commissar.

2

 * Marcel Blistène, 80, French film director.
 * Bob Perina, 70, American gridiron football player.
 * Jack Sensenbrenner, 88, American politician.
 * Boris Ugarov, 69, Soviet painter.
 * John Francis Whealon, 70, American Roman Catholic archbishop.

3

 * Georg Krog, 76, Norwegian Olympic speed skater and lawyer.
 * Louise Hammond Raymond, 104, American tennis player.
 * Armando Contreras Reyes, 72, Chilean football player.
 * Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt, 75, American World War II veteran and grandson of president Theodore Roosevelt.
 * Ali Sabri, 70, Egyptian politician, prime minister (1961–1968) and vice-president (1965–1968), heart attack.
 * Károly Sós, 82, Hungarian football player and manager.

4

 * Dean Burch, 63, American lawyer and lobbyist, bladder cancer.
 * Don DaGradi, 80, American animator (Peter Pan) and screenwriter (Mary Poppins, Lady and the Tramp).
 * Yevgeny Dragunov, 71, Soviet weapon designer (SVD-63 rifle).
 * Jeri Southern, 64, American singer, heart attack.
 * Emil Tschakarow, 43, Bulgarian conductor.
 * Nikiforos Vrettakos, 79, Greek writer.
 * Sammy White, 64, American baseball player.

5

 * Paul Brown, 82, American football coach (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.
 * Murray Golden, 78, American television director and producer (Death Valley Days, The Twilight Zone, Medical Center).
 * Sōichirō Honda, 84, Japanese engineer and businessman (Honda), liver failure.
 * Gaston Litaize, 81, French organist and composer.
 * Lena Mukhina, 66, Russian diarist during the Siege of Leningrad.

6

 * Shapour Bakhtiar, 77, Iranian politician, prime minister (1979), murdered.
 * Roland Michener, 91, Canadian politician, governor general (1967–1974).
 * Arthur Pentelow, 67, English actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Privilege), heart attack.
 * Harry Reasoner, 68, American journalist and commentator (60 Minutes), brain aneurysm.
 * Max Rostal, 86, Austrian-British violinist.
 * Joe Verdeur, 65, American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder.

7

 * Jimmy Cooney, 96, American baseball player.
 * Kalina Jędrusik, 60, Polish singer and actress, asthma.
 * Charles Manring, 61, American Olympic rower (1952).
 * William James Te Wehi Taitoko, 42, New Zealand comedian, heart failure.
 * Bai Xiangguo, 73, Chinese military officer and politician.

8

 * András Benkei, 67, Hungarian politician.
 * Julissa Gomez, 18, American gymnast and quadriplegic, infection.
 * Daniel Haberman, 58, American poet, translator and graphic designer, lymphoma.
 * Gladys Hulette, 95, American silent film actress.
 * James Irwin, 61, American astronaut (Apollo 15), heart attack.
 * Ivan Kozhedub, 71, Soviet flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
 * Nicholas Poppe, 94, Russian-American linguist.
 * Mitsuko Yoshikawa, 90, Japanese actress, heart attack.
 * Walter Zeman, 64, Austrian football goalkeeper.

9

 * Richard Lee Armstrong, 54, American-Canadian scientist, liver cancer.
 * Cella Delavrancea, 103, Romanian pianist.
 * Schubert Gambetta, 71, Uruguayan football player.
 * Corrie Hartong, 85, Dutch choreographer.
 * Richard Löwenthal, 83, German journalist and academic.
 * Hank Majeski, 74, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

10

 * John Abt, 87, American lawyer and communist politician
 * Herbert Blankenhorn, 86, German diplomat.
 * Ellen Braumüller, 80, German Olympic track and field athlete (1932).
 * Danny Casolaro, 44, American writer, suicide by exsanguination.
 * Hans Jakob Polotsky, 85, Israeli linguist.
 * Jessie Robins, 86, English actress.
 * Buster Smith, 86, American saxophonist, heart attack.

11

 * Alfred Dompert, 76, German Olympic runner (1936).
 * J. D. McDuffie, 52, American racing driver, racing accident.
 * Alan Spenner, 43, English bass player, heart attack.
 * Wilhelm Utermann, 78, German film producer.
 * Helmut Walcha, 83, German organist.

12

 * Edward George Bowen, 80, Welsh physicist and inventor of radar.
 * Chuck Chuckovits, 79, American basketball player.
 * Lin Fengmian, 90, Chinese painter.
 * William D. Gordon, 73, American screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.
 * Édson Campos Martins, 61, Brazilian football player.
 * Hans Weigel, 83, Austrian writer and theater critic.

13

 * Lucia Peka, 79, Latvian-American artist.
 * James Roosevelt, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1965), stroke.
 * Jack Ryan, 64, American toy designer (Barbie, Hot Wheels), suicide by gunshot.
 * Richard A. Snelling, 64, American businessman and politician, heart attack.
 * John Sommerfield, 83, British writer and left-wing activist.
 * Kazuo Yamada, 78, Japanese conductor and composer.

14

 * Waldemar Christoffer Brøgger, 79, Norwegian novelist, journalist, and translator.
 * Stanley Chambers, 80, British cyclist and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Alberto Crespo, 71, Argentine racing driver.
 * Taslim Olawale Elias, 76, Nigerian jurist.
 * Douglas Kiker, 61, American author, heart attack.
 * Ludwig Landgrebe, 89, Austrian phenomenologist and professor of philosophy.

15

 * Eduardo Herrera Bueno, 77, Spanish football player.
 * Ken Gunn, 82, Scottish football player.
 * Ali Abu Nuwar, 67, Jordanian Army officer.
 * Marietta Peabody Tree, 74, American political reporter, breast cancer.
 * Jack Twyford, 82, Australian football player.

16

 * Charles Garry, 82, American civil rights lawyer, stroke.
 * C. Achutha Menon, 78, Indian politician, heart attack.
 * Bruno Nicolai, 65, Italian film music composer and orchestra director.
 * Johannes Wiese, 76, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
 * Luigi Zampa, 86, Italian film director.

17

 * Don Dubbins, 63, American actor, cancer.
 * Lorna Hill, 89, English children's author.
 * Dieter König, 60, German motorboat racer.
 * Mervyn Nelson, 76, American actor and producer.
 * Marguerite Williams, 95, American geologist.

18

 * Luís Lindley Cintra, 66, Portuguese philologist and linguist.
 * David Gale, 54, British actor, complications from surgery.
 * Rick Griffin, 47, American artist and cartoonist, traffic collision.
 * Patrick Joseph Kelly, 96, Scottish-Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Porter Lainhart, 83, American football player.
 * Les McDowall, 78, Scottish football player.
 * Chiang Sheng, 40, Taiwanese martial arts actor, heart attack.
 * Vaughn Shoemaker, 89, American cartoonist, cancer.

19

 * Oliver Drake, 88, American filmmaker.
 * Xan Fielding, 72, British author, journalist and traveller.
 * Hans van der Laan, 86, Dutch architect and monk.
 * Richard Maltby, 77, American musician.
 * Henri van Schaik, 92, Dutch horse rider and Olympic medalist.

20

 * Herbert Ferber, 85, American visual artist.
 * Kalman Kahana, 81, Israeli politician and journalist.
 * Gopinath Mohanty, 77, Indian writer and novelist.
 * José Luis Sagi-Vela, 46, Spanish basketball player.
 * Harley Orrin Staggers, 84, American politician.
 * Mihály Teleki, 95, Hungarian politician.

21

 * Mikhail Agursky, 58, Russian sovietologist, cybernetic, dissident, and historian.
 * Nick DeCarbo, 81, American gridiron football player.
 * Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 74, German author.
 * Eugen Jebeleanu, 80, Romanian poet, journalist and scholar.
 * Paul Miller, 84, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia.
 * Rajaram Shastri, 87, Indian educationist.
 * Oswald von Nell-Breuning, 101, German theologian.
 * Richard Wilson, 75, American film director, pancreatic cancer.

22

 * Chan Coulter, 89, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Colleen Dewhurst, 67, Canadian-American actress, cervical cancer.
 * Gottfried E. Noether, 76, German-American mathematician.
 * Boris Pugo, 54, Soviet politician, suicide by gunshot.

23

 * George Dixon, 90, American rugby union player.
 * Wilhelm Hahnemann, 77, Austrian-German football player.
 * Innes Lloyd, 65, Welsh television producer.
 * Ágnes Nemes Nagy, 69, Hungarian poet, writer, and educator.
 * Florence Barbara Seibert, 93, American biochemist.
 * Mildred Trotter, 92, American forensic anthropology pioneer.

24

 * Sergey Akhromeyev, 68, Soviet M\marshal, suicide by gunshot.
 * Dick Beddoes, 65, Canadian sports journalist, liver cancer.
 * Reynold Brown, 73, American realist artist.
 * Abel Kiviat, 99, American Olympic runner (1912), prostate cancer.
 * Tony Martínez, 51, Cuban-American baseball player.
 * Åge Ramberg, 69, Norwegian politician.
 * Vivian Vachon, 40, Canadian professional wrestler and singer, traffic collision.
 * Beb Vuyk, 86, Dutch writer.

25

 * Niven Busch, 88, American novelist and screenwriter (The Postman Always Rings Twice), congestive heart failure.
 * Kunnenkeril K. Jacob, 87, Indian educationist.
 * Shigeyoshi Matsumae, 89, Japanese engineer.
 * Eddie Phillipson, 80, English cricket player.
 * Yoshiko Shibaki, 77, Japanese writer of short stories and novels.

26

 * Nikolay Kruchina, 63, Soviet communist official, suicide.
 * Ron Livingstone, 65, American basketball player.
 * John Petts, 77, British artist.
 * Vera Stroyeva, 87, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
 * Willie Thornton, 71, Scottish football player.

27

 * Pierre Bousquet, 71, French journalist and far-right politician.
 * Gordon Heath, 72, American actor (The Emperor Jones, Animal Farm).
 * Martín Karadagian, 69, Argentine professional wrestler and actor, diabetes.
 * Toto Koopman, 82, Dutch model and spy.
 * Gioacchino Muccin, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Mike Naumenko, 36, Soviet singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Patriarch German of Serbia, 92, Serbian Orthodox patriarch (1958–1990).
 * Teddy Stauffer, 82, Swiss bandleader, entertainer, and restaurateur.
 * Piet van Boxtel, 88, Dutch football player.

28

 * Pierre Guillaumat, 82, French politician.
 * Emiliano Piedra, 60, Spanish film producer, cancer.
 * Alekos Sakellarios, 77, Greek writer and a director.
 * Nicholas Schaffner, 38, American author, journalist, and singer-songwriter, AIDS-related complications.
 * Vince Taylor, 52, English rock and roll singer ("Brand New Cadillac"), lung cancer.

29

 * Dallas Adams, 44, English actor, AIDS.
 * Ivan Bodin, 68, Swedish football player.
 * Alick Buchanan-Smith, 59, Scottish politician.
 * Dixie Dunbar, 72, American actress and singer.
 * Libero Grassi, 67, Italian clothing manufacturer, murdered.

30

 * Joyce Ackroyd, 72, Australian academic.
 * Adão Nunes Dornelles, 68, Brazilian football player.
 * Cyril Knowles, 47, English footballer, brain cancer.
 * Jean Tinguely, 66, Swiss sculptor, heart failure.
 * Alan Wheatley, 84, English actor, heart attack.
 * Danny Wheelahan, 88, Australian football player.

31

 * Ed Buchanan, 57, Canadian football player, ALS.
 * Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel, 59, Polish ski jumper and Olympian.
 * Gerry Davis, 61, British television writer (Doctor Who).
 * Cliff Lumsdon, 60, Canadian world champion marathon swimmer.
 * Siti Sukaptinah Sunaryo Mangunpuspito, 83, Indonesian women's rights activist and politician.
 * Phoolchandra Shastri, 90, Indian jain scholar, writer, and social reformer.