Deaths in February 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Sam Busich, 77, American football player.
 * Carol Dempster, 89, American silent film actress, heart failure.
 * Shiro Kuramata, 56, Japanese interior designer.
 * Jimmy MacDonald, 84, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse) and sound effects designer, heart failure.
 * Herzl Rosenblum, 87, Lithuanian-born Israeli journalist.
 * Oscar Rudolph, 79, American television director, complications from a stroke.
 * Phil Watson, 76, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (New York Rangers).

2

 * Pete Axthelm, 47, American sports journalist, liver failure.
 * Maurice G. Burnside, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1953, 1955–1957).
 * Lorang Christiansen, 74, Norwegian Olympic cyclist (1948, 1952).
 * Jack Daugherty, 60, American musician, complications from heart surgery.
 * Alan Green, 79, British politician.
 * Natalie Kingston, 85, American actress.
 * Franco Latini, 63, Italian actor and voice actor, stroke.
 * Howie Rader, 69, American basketball player.
 * Stanislav Sorokin, 49, Soviet Olympic boxer (1964).
 * Aryness Joy Wickens, 90, American statistician.

3

 * Harry Ackerman, 78, American television producer (Bewitched, The Flying Nun, Hazel).
 * Walter Brown, 75, American baseball player.
 * Ernst Kalwitzki, 81, German football player.
 * Nancy Kulp, 69, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, The Parent Trap), cancer.

4

 * Juozas Baltušis, 81, Lithuanian writer.
 * Károly Bartha, 83, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1924).
 * Johannes Pløger, 68, Danish football player.
 * Harry Lancaster Towe, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1951).
 * Eleni Skoura, 94, Greek politician.

5

 * Pedro Arrupe, 83, Spanish Jesuit priest.
 * Lawrence Gowing, 72, English artist, heart attack.
 * Dean Jagger, 87, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, White Christmas, Mr. Novak), Oscar winner (1950).
 * James L. Knight, 81, American newspaper publisher.
 * Margarethe von Oven, 86, German secretary and 20 July plot accomplice.

6

 * John Paul Elford, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Salvador Luria, 78, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1969), heart attack.
 * Bassett Maguire, 86, American botanist, kidney failure.
 * Alex McColl, 96, American baseball player.
 * George McNaughton, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Danny Thomas, 79, American actor (The Danny Thomas Show, The Jazz Singer, Big City) and philanthropist, Emmy winner (1955), heart attack.
 * María Zambrano, 86, Spanish writer.

7

 * Otto Friedrich Bollnow, 87, German philosopher.
 * George Detore, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
 * John War Eagle, 89, American Sioux actor (Tonka, Tomahawk, Westward Ho, the Wagons!).
 * Werner Fuetterer, 84, German actor.
 * John Guise, 76, Papua New Guinean politician, governor-general (1975–1977).
 * Don McDougall, 73, American television director (The Virginian, Bonanza, The Dukes of Hazzard).
 * Jean-Paul Mousseau, 64, Canadian artist.
 * John Steinbeck IV, 44, American journalist, complications from spinal surgery.
 * Dick Winslow, 75, American actor (Tom Sawyer, King Creole, The Apple Dumpling Gang), diabetes.
 * Amos Yarkoni, 70, Bedouin-Israeli military officer and civil servant, cancer.

8

 * Aris T. Allen, 80, American politician, suicide.
 * Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., 64, American sociologist.
 * Miran Bux, 83, Pakistani cricket player.
 * Silvio O. Conte, 69, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1959), prostate cancer.
 * Daphne Jackson, 54, English nuclear physicist, cancer.
 * James Jacoby, 57, American bridge player, cancer.
 * Casimir Lewy, 71, Polish philosopher.
 * Evan Luard, 64, English politician.
 * Aaron Siskind, 87, American photographer, stroke.

9

 * James Cleveland, 59, American gospel singer, heart failure.
 * John Sloan Dickey, 83, American academic.
 * Walter Klien, 62, Austrian pianist.
 * Daigoro Kondo, 83, Japanese footballer, intracranial hemorrhage.
 * Fatma Memik, 87-88, Turkish politician.
 * Arkady Migdal, 79, Soviet physicist and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
 * Edward H. Schafer, 77, American historian, liver cancer.
 * Cliff Shaw, 68, American programmer.

10

 * William Foley, 59, Australian Roman Catholic archbishop.
 * Rowe Harding, 89, Welsh rugby player.
 * Bernard Lee, 55, American civil rights activist, heart failure.
 * Marion Roper, 80, American Olympic diver (1932).
 * Marcel Tolkowsky, 91, Belgian diamond cutter.

11

 * Ricardo Gullón, 82, Spanish writer.
 * Bohumil Kudrna, 70, Czechoslovak Olympic canoeist (1948, 1952).
 * Ruth Landes, 82, American anthropologist.
 * Pete Parker, 95, Canadian radio announcer.

12

 * Wilhelm Brinkmann, 80, German Olympic handball player (1936).
 * Liu Chieh, 83, Taiwanese diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Norman Fisher, 74, New Zealand boxer.
 * Ruth Morley, 65, Austrian-American costume designer (Superman, Taxi Driver, Tootsie), breast cancer.
 * Roger Patterson, 22, American bassist (Atheist), traffic collision.
 * Robert F. Wagner, 80, American politician, mayor of New York City (1954–1965), bladder cancer.

13

 * Arno Breker, 90, German architect and sculptor.
 * Gunnar Hultgren, 88, Swedish archbishop.
 * Flaviano Labò, 64, Italian singer, traffic collision.
 * Ron Pickering, 60, British sports commentator.
 * Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, 90, German royal, head of the house of Saxe-Altenburg (since 1955).
 * Heinz Willeg, 72, German film producer.

14

 * Alex Clark, 74, American politician, head injury.
 * Felix Gilbert, 85, German-American historian.
 * Pafsanias Katsotas, 95, Greek Army general and politician.
 * Alfred R. Lindesmith, 85, American sociologist.
 * John A. McCone, 89, American politician, Director of Central Intelligence (1961–1965), cardiac arrest.
 * Kim Slavin, 62, Soviet and Russian painter.
 * José Ádem, 69, Mexican mathematician.

15

 * Virginia Mae Brown, 67, American civil servant, heart attack.
 * Alfred Gleisner, 82, German politician.
 * David Herlihy, 60, American historian.
 * Birger Malmsten, 70, Swedish actor.
 * Tillie Manton, 80, American football player.
 * George Motola, 71, American record producer.
 * Ernest Robert Sears, 80, American agricultural geneticist.
 * Ivan Shkadov, 77, Soviet general, traffic accident.
 * Earl E. T. Smith, 87, American politician and diplomat.
 * István Ströck, 90, Romanian football player.

16

 * Enrique Bermúdez, 58, Nicaraguan soldier, shot.
 * Bob Geddins, 78, American musician, liver cancer.
 * Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick, 82, Spanish actor and noble.
 * Bobby Maples, 48, American football player (Houston Oilers, Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers), Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Didar Sandhu, 48, Indian folk singer and songwriter.

17

 * Gitta Alpár, 88, Hungarian-American opera singer.
 * Madina Gulgun, 65, Iranian-Soviet poet.
 * Louis O. Kelso, 77, American economist.
 * Miroslav Macháček, 68, Czechoslovak actor.
 * Jean Palluch, 67, French football player (b.1923).
 * Francis Pearson, 79, British politician and colonial administrator.
 * Hans Thimig, 90, Austrian actor and director.
 * Travis Williams, 45, American football player, heart failure.

18

 * Liu Chi-Sheng, 76, Chinese pilot, intracerebral hemorrhage.
 * Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas, 87, Spanish linguist.
 * Eugene Fodor, 85, Hungarian-American writer.
 * Dick Hart, 63, American Olympic long-distance runner (1956).
 * Fulke Walwyn, 80, British jockey.
 * Zhang Wenjin, 76, Chinese diplomat.

19

 * Fad Browne, 84, Irish politician.
 * Arne Kleven, 91, Danish footballer.
 * Herbert Niemann, 55, German Olympic judoka (1964), suicide.
 * Milton S. Plesset, 83, American physicist.
 * Francis D. Rauber, 89, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Major.

20

 * Sir George Clark, 3rd Baronet, 77, Northern Irish politician.
 * Isabelle Delorme, 90, Canadian composer.
 * John Fetzer, 89, American sports executive.
 * Eugene Forsey, 86, Canadian politician.
 * Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, 81, English linguist.
 * George Lennon, 90, Irish-American buddhist and republican leader.

21

 * Dorothy Auchterlonie, 75, English-born Australian poet.
 * John Sherman Cooper, 89, American politician and diplomat, member of the U.S. Senate (1946–1949, 1952–1955, 1956–1973), heart failure.
 * Margot Fonteyn, 71, English ballerina, ovarian cancer.
 * Oscar Christian Gundersen, 82, Norwegian politician.
 * Mordechai Ish-Shalom, 90, Israeli politician and labor leader.
 * Nutan, 54, Indian actress, breast cancer.
 * Frederick J. Pohl, 101, American author.
 * Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, 69, Iranian writer.

22

 * Ladislav Fialka, 59, Czechoslovak mime.
 * Eric Hosking, 81, English photographer.
 * William Loose, 80, American composer, heart attack.
 * Jimmy Pattison, 82, American baseball player.
 * Atanasie Protopopesco, 90, Romanian football player.

23

 * John Alfred Hannah, 88, American academic.
 * Argeliers León, 72, Cuban composer and musicologist.
 * Leo Thomas Maher, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer.
 * Gösta Persson, 87, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1924, 1936).
 * William Howard Taft III, 75, American diplomat, prostate cancer.

24

 * Georges Capdeville, 91, French football referee.
 * John Charles Daly, 77, American journalist and television personality, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
 * Robert B. Downs, 87, American librarian.
 * George Gobel, 71, American actor and comedian.
 * Shingo Kanemoto, 58, Japanese voice actor, intracerebral hemorrhage.
 * Stewart Morris, 81, British Olympic sailor (1948).
 * Webb Pierce, 69, American musician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Héctor Rial, 62, Argentine football player.
 * Jean Rogers, 74, American actress, surgical complications.
 * Lina Volonghi, 76, Italian actress.
 * Hans-Joachim Weise, 78, German Olympic sailor (1936).

25

 * John Dunning, 74, American film editor (Ben-Hur, Julius Caesar, Dr. Kildare), Oscar winner (1960).
 * Sverre Hansen, 91, Norwegian Olympic long jumper (1924).
 * Suleiman Ali Nashnush, 47-48, Libyan basketball player.
 * Otto Tibulski, 78, German footballer.
 * André Turp, 65, Canadian singer.

26

 * Bernard W. Burton, 92, American film editor.
 * Abraham Charité, 73, Dutch Olympic weightlifter (1948).
 * Slim Gaillard, 80, American musician, cancer.
 * Han Lih-wu, 88, Taiwanese diplomat.
 * William McMahon, 81, American Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
 * Jimmy Zinn, 96, American baseball player.

27

 * Owen Dougherty, 61, American sports coach, complications from heart surgery.
 * Florence Gilbert, 87, American silent film actress.
 * Leo Katcher, 79, American reporter, heart attack.
 * Martinho da Costa Lopes, 73, East Timorese religious and political leader.
 * Artie Mitchell, 45, American pornographer, shot.
 * Bob Widlar, 53, American electronics engineer, heart attack.

28

 * Reinhard Bendix, 75, German-American sociologist, heart attack.
 * Wassily Hoeffding, 76, Finnish-American statistician.
 * Prince Wenzel of Liechtenstein, 28, Liechtenstein royal.
 * Sante Monachesi, 81, Italian painter.
 * Guillermo Ungo, 59, Salvadoran politician.
 * Werner Wägelin, 77, Swiss Olympic cyclist (1936).