Deaths in July 1991

The following is a list of deaths in July 1991 of notable people.

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

 * Joost Baljeu, 65, Dutch artist.
 * Paulo Mendes Campos, 69, Brazilian writer and journalist.
 * Alfred Eisenbeisser, 83, Romanian football player.
 * Joachim Kroll, 58, German serial killer, necrophile and cannibal, heart attack.
 * Michael Landon, 54, American actor (Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza. Highway to Heaven), pancreatic cancer.

2

 * Bruno Engelmeier, 63, Austrian football goalkeeper.
 * Al Glossop, 76, American baseball player.
 * Don Houghton, 61, British television screenwriter and producer.
 * David Armine Howarth, 78, British naval officer, boatbuilder, and author.
 * Lee Remick, 55, American actress (Days of Wine and Roses, The Omen, Wait Until Dark), kidney cancer.
 * José María Rosa, 84, Argentine historian.
 * Ermanno Scaramuzzi, 63, Italian football player and coach.

3

 * Dolly Anwar, 43, Bangladeshi actress and writer, suicide.
 * Doro Levi, 93, Italian archaeologist.
 * Domingo Tarasconi, 87, Argentine football player.
 * Lê Văn Thiêm, 73, Vietnamese mathematician.
 * Sigismund Toduță, 83, Romanian composer, musicologist, and professor.
 * Ephraim Urbach, 78–79, Israeli scholar and politician.
 * Jimmy Van Alen, 88, American tennis official.
 * Bernard Waley-Cohen, 77, British businessman and politician.
 * Ernst Witt, 80, German mathematician.

4

 * Victor Chang, 54, Chinese-Australian surgeon, shot.
 * Ernie Hammerton, 64, Australian rugby player.
 * Henry Koerner, 75, Austrian-American painter and graphic designer, bicycle accident.
 * Hugo Lepe, 51, Chilean football player.
 * Art Sansom, 70, American cartoonist (The Born Loser).

5

 * Mildred Dunnock, 90, American actress (Death of a Salesman, Baby Doll).
 * Valentina Ivashova, 75, Soviet film actress.
 * Bob Kennedy, 62, American gridiron football player.
 * Nobuo Nakamura, 82, Japanese actor (Ikiru, Tokyo Story, The Human Condition).
 * Howard Nemerov, 71, American poet, cancer.

6

 * Raymond Boisset, 79, French sprinter and Olympian.
 * Léon Chertok, 79, French psychiatrist.
 * Dorcas Cochran, 88, American lyricist and screenwriter.
 * Nicholas P. Dallis, 79, American cartoonist (Rex Morgan, M.D.).
 * Renée Garilhe, 68, French fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * Victor Korovin, 54, Soviet and Russian painter.
 * Mudashiru Lawal, 37, Nigerian football player.
 * Stew Nairn, 59, New Zealand sports shooter and Olympian.
 * Thorley Walters, 78, English actor.
 * Anton Yugov, 86, Bulgarian politician, prime minister (1956–1962).

7

 * Suzy Prim, 94, French actress.
 * Ivan Spiridonov, 85, Soviet statesman and party leader.
 * Pete Williamson, 44, Canadian Olympic speed skater (1968).
 * Jan Wølner, 81, Norwegian pianist.

8

 * Gordon Stewart Anderson, 33, Canadian writer, AIDS-related complications.
 * William M. Callaghan, 93, American Navy officer.
 * James Franciscus, 57, American actor (Mr. Novak, Naked City, Beneath the Planet of the Apes), emphysema.
 * Geoff Love, 73, British composer.
 * Willie Nix, 68, American blues singer and drummer.
 * Prem Nath Wahi, 83, Indian pathologist, writer, and academic.

9

 * Danio Bardi, 54, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
 * Orhan Hançerlioğlu, 74, Turkish writer.
 * José Salazar López, 81, Mexican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Bill Miller, 66, American basketball player and college basketball coach.

10

 * Lycia de Biase Bidart, 81, Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, and composer.
 * Aase Bye, 87, Norwegian actress.
 * Jerry Leaf, 50, American businessman and cryonics pioneer, heart attack.
 * Grace MacInnis, 85, Canadian socialist politician.
 * Gerome Ragni, 55, American songwriter (Hair), cancer.

11

 * Osvaldo Carvajal, 76, Chilean football player.
 * Roger Christian, 57, American lyricist ("Little Deuce Coupe"), kidney failure.
 * Mokhtar Dahari, 37, Malaysian football player, ALS.
 * Atang de la Rama, 89, Filipino singer and actress.
 * Hitoshi Igarashi, 44, Japanese scholar and translator (The Satanic Verses), stabbed.
 * Morton Smith, 76, American professor of ancient history, heart failure.
 * Gale Wilhelm, 83, American writer, cancer.
 * Fehmi Yavuz, 79, Turkish civil servant, academic, and writer.

12

 * Frederick Allen Aldrich, 64, American marine biologist.
 * Luce Guilbeault, 56, Canadian actress, cancer.
 * Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad Malhi, 79, Pakistani politician.
 * Francis Mugavero, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, heart attack.
 * Ken Yackel, 61, American ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

13

 * Jacques Geus, 71, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Aldo Ghira, 71, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
 * Riccardo Lattanzi, 57, Italian football referee.
 * Ray McPharlin, 75, Australian politician.

14

 * Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st Baronet, 89, British politician.
 * Robert Clavel, 78, French art director.
 * Axel Eggebrecht, 92, German journalist, writer and screenwriter.
 * Ruth Haktin, 89, Russian-Israeli politician.
 * Pavel Morozenko, 52, Soviet actor, drowned.
 * Constance Stokes, 85, Australian painter.

15

 * Arthur Briggs, 92, American jazz trumpeter and orchestra leader.
 * Keith Brown, 78, American athlete, politician and businessman.
 * Bert Convy, 57, American game show host (Tattletales, Super Password, Win, Lose or Draw), brain cancer.
 * Roger Revelle, 82, American geophysicist, cardiac arrest.
 * Joe Turnesa, 90, American golfer.
 * Johnny Vergez, 85, American baseball player.

16

 * Meindert DeJong, 85, Dutch-American children's author.
 * Robert Motherwell, 76, American artist.
 * Albert Eide Parr, 90, Norwegian-American marine biologist, zoologist and oceanographer.
 * Frank Rizzo, 70, American politician, mayor of Philadelphia (1972–1980), heart attack.
 * Robert Templeton, 62, American artist.
 * Dwight Weist, 81, American radio announcer, heart attack.

17

 * Arthur Raymond Brooks, 95, American flying ace.
 * Harold Butler, 78, English cricket player.
 * William Wesley Peters, 79, American architect.
 * Angela Sidney, 89, Native Canadian author and storyteller.
 * Johan Vogt, 90, Norwegian economist and journalist.

18

 * André Cools, 63, Belgian politician, shot.
 * Bruno Mondi, 87, German cameraman and director of photography.
 * Ambrus Nagy, 63, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1956), traffic collision.
 * Hendrik Stroo, 63, Dutch Olympic canoer (1948).

19

 * Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, 56, Mexican writer.
 * Odette du Puigaudeau, 96, French ethnologist, traveler and journalist.
 * Charles-André Julien, 99, French journalist and historian.
 * Niilo Nikunen, 78, Finnish skier and Olympian.

20

 * Vugar Huseynov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Aleksey Konsovsky, 79, Soviet actor.
 * Joe Martinelli, 74, American soccer forward.
 * Rellys, 85, French actor.
 * Earl Robinson, 81, American composer, traffic collision.
 * Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, 78, Indian royal, Maharaja of Travancore (1924–1949), stroke.

21

 * Jasmine Bligh, 78, British television presenter.
 * Helen Meany, 86, American diver and Olympic champion.
 * Glauco Pellegrini, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director.
 * Maxie Vaz, 68, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Paul Warwick, 22, British racing driver, racing accident.
 * Allan Wilson, 56, New Zealand biochemist, leukemia.
 * Theodore Wilson, 47, American actor (That's My Mama, Good Times, Sanford Arms), stroke.

22

 * Jack Albright, 70, American baseball player.
 * André Dhôtel, 90, French writer, novelist, storyteller, and poet.
 * José Gómez-Sicre, 75, Cuban lawyer, art critic and writer.
 * John Human, 79, English cricket player.
 * Andrew Lee Jones, 35, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
 * Jack Reardon, 77, Australian rugby player.

23

 * Jūkei Fujioka, 57, Japanese actor and seiyū.
 * Nora Gal, 79, Soviet translator and literary critic.
 * Martin Hodgson, 82, English rugby player.
 * Peter Kane, 73, English flyweight boxer and a world champions.
 * Tadashi Katakura, 93, Japanese general.
 * Mikhail Yasnov, 85, Soviet politician.

24

 * Kaif Bhopali, 74, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
 * Howie Carter, 86, American baseball player.
 * Edmund Białas, 71, Polish football player.
 * Freddie Brown, 80, English cricket player.
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer, 87, Polish-American writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1978), stroke.

25

 * Eduardo de Guzmán, 83, Spanish journalist and writer.
 * Henri George Doll, 88, French-American scientist.
 * Lazar Kaganovich, 97, Soviet politician.
 * Arthur Knight, 74, American movie critic, film historian, and TV host.
 * Douglas Stewart, 78, British Olympic equestrian (1952).

26

 * Frédéric Dumas, 78, French writer.
 * Andrés Gómez, 77, Mexican basketball player.
 * Marie-Louise Horn, 79, German tennis player.
 * Maria Treben, 83, Austrian writer and herbalist.

27

 * Martin Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee, 63, British politician.
 * Pierre Brunet, 89, French-American Olympic figure skater (1924, 1928, 1932).
 * Gino Colaussi, 77, Italian football player.
 * Xu Shijie, 70, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
 * Wolf Witzemann, 67, Austrian art director.

28

 * Suzanne Davis, 79, American figure skater.
 * Aad de Bruyn, 81, Dutch athlete and shot put champion.
 * Ray Felix, 60, American basketball player.
 * Jan Gonda, 86, Dutch indologist.
 * Wang Ming-Dao, 91, Chinese protestant writer, evangelist and dissident.
 * Al Huggins, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Elko Mrduljaš, 81, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1936).

29

 * María Antinea, 76, Spanish actress, vedette, and dancer.
 * Christian de Castries, 88, French general.
 * Yusuf Khattak, 73, Pakistani lawyer, politician, and intellectual,.
 * Albert Lord, 78, American academic.

30

 * William Ball, 60, American stage director.
 * Tom Bridger, 57, English racing driver.
 * Lee Eastman, 81, American business attorney, stroke.
 * Benny Grant, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Flora Steiger-Crawford, 91, Swiss architect and sculptor.

31

 * Miro Barešić, 40, Yugoslav-Croatian émigré and neo-fascist paramilitary, killed in action.
 * Charlie Beal, 82, American jazz pianist.
 * Charles Jonker, 57, South African cyclist.
 * Al Loquasto, 51, Italian-American racecar driver, plane crash.
 * Nikola Yordanov, 52, Bulgarian football player.