Deaths in June 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Gordon Jackson, 67, Australian businessman.
 * David Ruffin, 50, American singer (The Temptations), crack cocaine overdose.
 * Árpád Soós, 78, Hungarian zoologist, entomologist and museologist.
 * Toshio Usami, 83, Japanese field hockey player.

2

 * Ahmed Arif, 64, Turkish-Kurdish poet, heart attack.
 * John Coughlan, 56, Australian politician.
 * Richard Meikle, 61, Australian actor.
 * Vincent Miceli, 76, American Catholic priest, theologian, and philosopher.
 * Robert Russell Newton, 72, American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science.
 * Joyce Treiman, 69, American painter.

3

 * Margit Anna, 77, Hungarian painter.
 * Brian Bevan, 66, Australian rugby player.
 * Vince Colletta, 67, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four, Thor, Wonder Woman).
 * Raffaele Costantino, 83, Italian footballer.
 * Harry Glicken, 33, American volcanologist, pyroclastic flow.
 * Katia Krafft, 49, French volcanologist, pyroclastic flow.
 * Maurice Krafft, 45, French volcanologist, pyroclastic flow.
 * Dinesh Goswami, 56, Indian politician.
 * Osmo Kaila, 75, Finnish chess master.
 * Eva Le Gallienne, 92, English-American actress.
 * Andy Milligan, 62, American playwright, AIDS.
 * Takeshi Nagata, 77, Japanese geophysicist.

4

 * Pentti Elo, 61, Finnish Olympic field hockey player (1952).
 * Adriaan Katte, 90, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1928).
 * Franz Schafranek, 61, Austrian theatre director.
 * MC Trouble, 20, American rap artist, heart failure.
 * Rudolf Vogel, 85, German politician and member of the Bundestag.

5

 * Rosalina Abejo, 68, Filipino composer.
 * Evelyn Boucher, 99, British film actress.
 * Min Chueh Chang, 82, Chinese-American biologist.
 * Carl-Erik Holmberg, 84, Swedish football player.
 * Ho Jong-suk, 88, Korean communist revolutionist, atheist, activist, journalist, and writer.
 * Barry Kelley, 82, American actor (Oklahoma!, The Manchurian Candidate, The Asphalt Jungle).
 * Larry Kert, 60, American actor (West Side Story), AIDS-related complications.
 * Jacques Mitterrand, 82, French politician and Grand Master.
 * Sylvia Porter, 77, American economist, journalist and author.
 * Arthur Trudeau, 88, American Army lieutenant general.

6

 * Gianni De Luca, 64, Italian comic book artist and visual artist.
 * Stan Getz, 64, American saxophonist ("The Girl from Ipanema"), liver cancer.
 * Adnan Süvari, 64-65, Turkish football coach, heart attack.
 * Kurt Treu, 62, German classical philologist.

7

 * Tahir Allauddin Al-Qadri Al-Gillani, 58, Iraqi-Pakistani Sufi philosopher.
 * Antoine Blondin, 69, French writer.
 * Sydney McMeekan, 66, British basketball player.
 * Haoui Montaug, 38-39, American nightclub bouncer and revue operator, suicide by overdose.

8

 * Mary Bacon, 43, American jockey and model, suicide.
 * Heidi Brühl, 49, German singer and actress, breast cancer.
 * Pierrette Caillol, 92, French stage and film actress.
 * Monroe D. Donsker, 66, American mathematician, cancer.
 * Maurice Huet, 72, French fencer.
 * Bimal Krishna Matilal, 56, British-Indian philosopher.
 * Bertice Reading, 57, American-English actress, stroke.
 * David Allan Young, 76, American entomologist.
 * Wilhelm Szewczyk, 75, Polish writer, poet, communist activist, and politician.

9

 * Claudio Arrau, 88, Chilean pianist, complications from surgery.
 * Joe Hamilton, 62, American television producer and actor, cancer.
 * Howard Hobson, 87, American basketball player and coach.
 * J. Raymond Jones, 91, American politician.
 * Raj Khosla, 66, Indian filmmaker.
 * Charles Loloma, 70, American artist and jeweler.

10

 * Jean Bruller, 89, French novelist.
 * Jim Burrows, 86, New Zealand rugby player and soldier.
 * Tormod Mobraaten, 81, Norwegian-Canadian Olympic skier (1936, 1948).
 * Irvine Page, 90, American physiologist.
 * Jack Purcell, 87, Canadian world champion badminton player.
 * Silvan Tomkins, 80, American psychologist.

11

 * David Croll, 91, Canadian politician.
 * Cromwell Everson, 65, South African composer.
 * George Henry Guilfoyle, 77, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Friedl Hardt, 72, German actress.
 * Goldie Holt, 89, American baseball player, scout, coach and manager.
 * Bert Reisfeld, 84, Austrian lyricist.
 * Carl Ring, 89, American hurdler and Olympian.
 * Moe Spahn, 79, American basketball player, heart failure.
 * Wolfgang Stegmüller, 68, German-Austrian philosopher.
 * John Vallier, 70, English pianist, lung cancer.
 * Michael Wall, 44, British playwright.

12

 * Iwao Ageishi, 83, Japanese Olympic skier (1932).
 * Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton, 93, British businessman and politician.
 * Reg Hamilton, 77, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Branko Hofman, 61, Slovene poet, writer and playwright.
 * Alfred Pasquali, 92, French actor and theatre director.
 * Eric Smith, 56, Scottish football player.

13

 * Ubaldesco Baldi, 46, Italian sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
 * Karl Bielig, 92, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Loulou Boulaz, 83, Swiss mountain climber and alpine skier.
 * Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, 81, Irish language activist, nationalist and far-right politician.
 * John Jordan, 81, American basketball player and coach.
 * Marek Kuczma, 55, Polish mathematician.
 * John Schmitt, 89, American Olympic rower (1928).

14

 * Peggy Ashcroft, 83, English actress (A Passage to India ,The Nun's Story, Three into Two Won't Go), stroke.
 * Shiro Kasamatsu, 93, Japanese artist.
 * Lozan Kotsev, 80, Bulgarian football manager.
 * Bernard Miles, 83, English actor.
 * Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov, 84, Soviet diplomat and defector.
 * John Pilch, 65, American basketball player.
 * Frank Valentino, 84, American operatic baritone.

15

 * Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, 76, Kuwaiti royal.
 * Happy Chandler, 92, American politician and baseball official, heart attack.
 * Wacław Król, 75, Polish Air Force pilot and officer.
 * Arthur Lewis, 76, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize recipient (1979).
 * Virgil Rayburn, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Les Selvage, 48, American basketball player.

16

 * Vicki Brown, 50, English singer, breast cancer.
 * Bruce Cummings, 64, Canadian football player, heart attack.
 * Emmanuel Laroche, 76, French linguist.
 * Adina Mandlová, 81, Czech film and stage actress, tuberculosis.

17

 * Mehmet Aziz, 97, Turkish Cypriot medical doctor.
 * Harry Darbyshire, 59, English footballer.
 * Pierre Jamet, 98, French harpist.
 * Beatrice Pons, 85, American actress.

18

 * Ronald Allen, 60, British actor (Crossroads, A Night to Remember, Doctor Who), cancer.
 * Joan Caulfield, 69, American actress, cancer.
 * Bill Douglas, 57, Scottish film director.
 * Leonida Frascarelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Eric Halstead, 79, New Zealand politician.

19

 * Jean Arthur, 90, American actress (The More the Merrier, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Only Angels Have Wings), heart failure.
 * Larry Bogart, 77, American anti–nuclear power activist, traffic accident.
 * Åke Dahlqvist, 90, Swedish cinematographer.
 * Antonio del Amo, 79, Spanish screenwriter and film director, traffic collision.
 * Oskar Fredriksen, 82, Norwegian cross-country skier.

20

 * Roy Fournier, 69, Canadian politician.
 * Malcolm Frager, 56, American pianist.
 * Max Lüthi, 82, Swiss literary theorist.
 * Jock Nelson, 83, Australian politician.
 * Gerald Priestland, 64, British broadcaster.
 * Michael Westphal, 26, German tennis player, AIDS-related complications.
 * Isaac Wolfson, 93, Scottish businessman and philanthropist.

21

 * Julio Gallardo, 49, Chilean football player.
 * Jackie Hunt, 71, American gridiron football player.
 * Ivor Salter, 65, English actor.
 * Klaus Schwarzkopf, 68, German actor, AIDS.
 * Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, 34, Bangladeshi poet, drug abuse and depression.
 * Toshihiro Shimamura, 79, Japanese Go player.

22

 * Luigi Infantino, 70, Italian operatic tenor.
 * Kevin O'Connor, 56, American actor.
 * Marv Owen, 85, American baseball player, manager, coach and scout.
 * Herbert Sohler, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.

23

 * Cyril Aldred, 77, English historian.
 * Basdeo Bissoondoyal, 85, Mauritian educator and activist.
 * António Jacinto, 66, Angolan poet and politician.
 * Piero Lulli, 68, Italian film actor.
 * Lea Padovani, 70, Italian film actress.
 * Michael Pfleghar, 58, German film director and screenwriter, suicide.
 * Masayuki Takayanagi, 58, Japanese jazz musician.

24

 * Sumner Locke Elliott, 73, Australian-American novelist and playwright.
 * James Fawcett, 78, British barrister.
 * Nitty Gritty, 34, Jamaican reggae singer, shot.
 * Franz Hengsbach, 80, German Catholic cardinal and bishop.
 * Philip Rastelli, 73, American mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family, liver cancer.
 * Rufino Tamayo, 91, Mexican painter, heart attack.

25

 * Colin Atkinson, 59, English cricket player and schoolmaster.
 * Hans Bernlöhr, 83, German boxer and Olympian.
 * Michael Heidelberger, 103, American immunologist.
 * Tauno Lindgren, 79, Finnish cyclist and Olympian.

26

 * Vlasta Fabianová, 78, Czechoslovak film actress.
 * Kunibert Gensichen, 84, German actor.
 * Domina Jalbert, 86, American aviator.
 * Johnny Johnson, 76, American baseball player.
 * Jack A. Marta, 88, American cinematographer.
 * Mike Masaoka, 76, Japanese-American lobbyist, author, and spokesman.
 * Iwa Wanja, 85, Bulgarian-German actress.
 * Öllegård Wellton, 59, Swedish actress.
 * Wolfgang Zilzer, 90, German actor.

27

 * Klaas Bruinsma, 37, Dutch drug lord, shot.
 * Molly Geertsema, 72, Dutch politician and jurist.
 * Cynthia Longfield, 95, Anglo-Irish entomologist and explorer.
 * George MacLeod, 96, Scottish presbyterian clergyman and soldier.
 * Milton Subotsky, 69, American screenwriter and producer.

28

 * Arnold Kieffer, 80, Luxembourgian football player.
 * Ernie McCormick, 85, Australian cricket player.
 * Hans Nüsslein, 81, German tennis player.
 * Nikolas Vogel, 24, Austrian actor and journalist, missile strike.
 * Norbert Werner, 23, Austrian journalist and war correspondent, missile strike.

29

 * Jim Connock, 66, English film editor.
 * Russ Hinze, 72, Australian politician.
 * Richard Holmes, 60, American organist, heart attack.
 * Henri Lefebvre, 90, French sociologist.
 * Enrique Cahen Salaberry, 79, Argentine film director.
 * Valerijonas Šadreika, 53, Lithuanian politician.

30

 * Berndt Carlsson, 84, Swedish cyclist and Olympian.
 * John B. Goodman, 89, American art director.
 * Tamara Khanum, 85, Soviet dancer.
 * Pamela Stanley, 81, British actress.
 * Hisao Tanaka, 70, American professional wrestler.