Deaths in March 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Katharine Blake, 69, British actress (Anne of the Thousand Days, Within These Walls, Hammer the Toff).
 * Mamie Geraldine Neale Bledsoe, 91, American educator and civil rights activist.
 * Frank Esler-Smith, 42, English keyboardist, AIDS.
 * Eugen Kamber, 66, Swiss Olympic cyclist (1948).
 * Edwin H. Land, 81, American inventor and businessman (Polaroid Corporation).
 * Leonid Markov, 63, Soviet actor, stomach cancer.
 * Marie Rossi, 32, U.S. Army pilot, helicopter crash one day after Operation Desert Storm.
 * Louis Saguer, 83, German-French composer.

2

 * Arthur Attwell, 70, British Anglican prelate.
 * Elmer Bischoff, 74, American artist.
 * Serge Gainsbourg, 62, French musician, heart attack.
 * Frank S. Giles Jr., 75, American politician.
 * Mary Howard, 83, British novelist.
 * Clark R. Mollenhoff, 69, American journalist, cancer.
 * Josef Stalder, 72, Swiss Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).
 * Lou Sullivan, 39, American author and transgender activist, AIDS.
 * Eduard Vanaaseme, 92, Estonian Olympic weightlifter (1924).
 * Ranjan Wijeratne, 59, Sri Lankan politician, explosion.

3

 * Nikolai Bagley, 54, Soviet Olympic basketball player (1964).
 * James Fullerton, 81, American ice hockey coach.
 * Howard Head, 76, American aeronautical engineer.
 * Arthur Murray, 95, Hungarian-American businessman.
 * Sal Nistico, 50, American saxophonist.
 * William Penney, Baron Penney, 81, English mathematician.
 * Johnny Revolta, 79, American golfer.
 * John Spotton, 64, Canadian filmmaker, drowned.
 * Antoine Tassy, 66, Haitian football player.

4

 * Godfrey Bryan, 88, English cricket player.
 * Vance Colvig, 72, American actor and voice actor (The Yogi Bear Show, UHF, The Quick Draw McGraw Show), cancer.
 * Michael Hardwick, 66, English author.
 * Pepe Iglesias, 76, Argentine comedian.
 * Ellamae Ellis League, 91, American architect.
 * Kenneth Lindsay, 93, British politician.
 * Jean Loubignac, 89, French film director and screenwriter.

5

 * Brian Batsford, 80, English politician.
 * Steve Calvert, 74, American actor, heart attack.
 * August de Schryver, 92, Belgian politician.
 * Ian McLellan Hunter, 75, English screenwriter (Roman Holiday), heart attack.
 * Helmut Sick, 81, German-Brazilian ornithologist.

6

 * Habib Chatty, 74, Tunisian politician and diplomat.
 * Tan Chye Cheng, 80, Singaporean politician, heart failure.
 * Keith Collin, 54, English Olympic diver (1960).
 * Herm Lee, 59, American football player.
 * Horace Winchell Magoun, 83, American medical researcher.
 * Larry Olsonoski, 65, American football player.
 * Salvo Randone, 84, Italian actor.

7

 * John Bartha, 76, Hungarian actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
 * Cool Papa Bell, 87, American baseball player.
 * Morton Fine, 74, American television writer (I Spy, Bold Venture, The Streets of San Francisco).
 * Raymond Joseph Gallagher, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * John Harris, 74, British novelist.
 * Al Klink, 75, American saxophonist.
 * Jean Piveteau, 91, French paleontologist.
 * Josef Páleníček, 76, Czech pianist and composer.
 * Bruno Venturini, 79, Italian football player.

8

 * John Bellairs, 53, American author (The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Face in the Frost, The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb), cardiovascular disease.
 * Michel d'Ornano, 66, French politician, struck by vehicle.
 * Maria Eisner, 82, Italian-American photographer.
 * Ludwig Fischer, 75, German racing driver.
 * Donald M. Frame, 79–80, American literary scholar.
 * Roman Brother, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, horse colic.

9

 * Ely do Amparo, 69, Brazilian footballer.
 * Jack Meyer, 85, English cricket player and educator.
 * Max Fourny, 86, French art collector and racing driver.
 * Ralph Green, 79, Australian footballer.
 * Jim Hardin, 47, American baseball player, plane crash.
 * Tomojirō Ikenouchi, 84, Japanese composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Fritz Neumark, 90, German economist.

10

 * Mildred Eldridge, 81, British artist.
 * Fumio Ito, 51, Japanese racing motorcyclist.
 * Etheridge Knight, 59, American poet, lung cancer.
 * Elie Siegmeister, 82, American composer.
 * Paul Ukena, 69, American opera singer, heart failure.

11

 * Robert A. Cook, 78, American academic and radio broadcaster.
 * Hector Crawford, 77, Australian entrepreneur.
 * Abul Kashem, 70, Bangladeshi linguist.
 * Nikolaos Matussi, 91, Greek politician and Aromanian paramilitary leader during World War II.
 * Maria Reining, 87, Austrian singer.

12

 * José Maria Antunes, 77, Portuguese football player and a manager.
 * LeRoy Collins, 82, American politician, governor of Florida (1955–1961), cancer.
 * Ralph Henry Carless Davis, 72, British historian.
 * Étienne Decroux, 92, French actor and mime artist.
 * Ragnar Granit, 90, Finnish-Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize recipient (1967).
 * William Heinesen, 91, Faroese writer.
 * Michael Langdon, 70, British opera singer.
 * Muhammad Musa, 82, Pakistani general.
 * Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, 70, Turkish-American opera singer.

13

 * Donald Kaberry, Baron Kaberry of Adel, 83, British politician, homicide.
 * Josef Manger, 77, German weightlifter and Olympic champion.
 * Jimmy McPartland, 83, American cornetist, lung cancer.
 * Max Poll, 82, Belgian ichthyologist.
 * Walter Presch, 80, Austrian football player.
 * Göran Strindberg, 74, Swedish cinematographer.

14

 * Howard Ashman, 40, American lyricist (Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid), Oscar winner (1990, 1992).
 * Roy Hall, 71, American racing driver.
 * Ebenezer Joshua, 82, Vincentian politician.
 * Doc Pomus, 65, American blues musician, lung cancer.
 * Margery Sharp, 86, English writer (The Rescuers).
 * Maurice Zolotow, 77, American writer and biographer.

15

 * G. Aravindan, 56, Indian filmmaker, musician, cartoonist, and painter, heart attack.
 * Miodrag Bulatović, 61, Yugoslav novelist.
 * Robert Busnel, 76, French basketball player, traffic collision.
 * Bud Freeman, 84, American jazz musician.
 * Robin Hill, 91, British biochemist.
 * Stanisław Lorentz, 91, Polish art historian.
 * Eileen Sedgwick, 92, American silent film actress, pneumonia.
 * Vladimir Seleznev, 62, Soviet realist painter.
 * George Sherman, 82, American filmmaker.
 * Gerd Völs, 81, German Olympic rower (1936).
 * Cloyd Webb, 49, Canadian football player.

16

 * Chris Austin, 27, American country musician, plane crash.
 * Jean Bellette, 82, Australian artist.
 * Urbain Caffi, 74, Italian-French racing cyclist.
 * Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, 72, British diplomat.
 * Raymond Fletcher, 69, British politician and alleged spy.
 * James Darcy Freeman, 83, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Trude Herr, 63, German actress.
 * Walter Georg Kühne, 80, German paleontologist.
 * Jan Herman van Roijen Jr., 85, Dutch diplomat.

17

 * Carl Aarvold, 83, English barrister.
 * Pilar Primo de Rivera, 83, Spanish politician.
 * Carlo Donat-Cattin, 71, Italian politician.
 * Peter Gordon, 69, New Zealand politician.

18

 * Aladár Bitskey, 85, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1928).
 * Vilma Bánky, 90, Hungarian-American silent film actress, cardiopulmonary failure.
 * Landis Gores, 71, American architect.
 * Carl Jensen, 81, Danish Olympic boxer (1932).
 * Dezider Kardoš, 76, Czechoslovak composer.
 * Narda Onyx, 59, Estonian-American actress.
 * Herbert Sandberg, 82, German artist.
 * John D. Voelker, 87, American judge and author.

19

 * Justus Buchler, 76, American philosopher.
 * Richard Hawkey, 67, English cricket player.
 * Bruno Kessler, 67, Italian politician.
 * Russ Thomas, 66, American football player.
 * Sunday Wilshin, 86, British actress and radio presenter.

20

 * Billy Butler, 66, American guitarist.
 * George Friedrichs, 51, American Olympic sailor (1968).
 * George W. Grider, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967).
 * David Marshall Lang, 66, British historian and academic.
 * John Palmer MacBeth, 69, Canadian politician.
 * Minatullah Rahmani, 77, Indian Islamic scholar.
 * Nick Vanoff, 61, American theatre producer, cardiac arrest.

21

 * Almé Z, 24, French sport horse.
 * Nan Britton, 94, American secretary, mistress of Warren G. Harding.
 * Vedat Dalokay, 63, Turkish politician and architect, traffic collision.
 * Leo Fender, 81, American musician and businessman (Fender), Parkinson's disease.
 * Oscar Heidenstam, 80, British bodybuilder.
 * Bill Sweeney, 54, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).

22

 * Léon Balcer, 73, Canadian politician.
 * Jimmy Boyd, 83, Scottish football player.
 * Paul Engle, 82, American writer.
 * Dave Guard, 56, American musician, lymphoma.
 * Gloria Holden, 87, English-American actress, heart attack.
 * Adrie Lasterie, 47, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1964).
 * Albert McKinley Rains, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1965).
 * R. L. Ryan, 44, American actor (The Toxic Avenger, Birdy, Street Trash), heart attack.

23

 * Elisaveta Bagriana, 97, Bulgarian poet.
 * Susumu Fujita, 79, Japanese actor (The Hidden Fortress, The Human Condition, Mothra vs. Godzilla), liver cancer.
 * Bill Gunn, 59, Australian football player.
 * Guy Benton Johnson, 90, American sociologist.
 * Mona Maris, 87, Argentine film actress, lung disease.
 * Neta Snook Southern, 95, American aviation pioneer.
 * Innozenz Stangl, 80, German Olympic gymnast (1936).
 * Pauline Vanier, 92, Canadian humanitarian and academic.
 * Lars Wolfbrandt, 62, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).

24

 * Maudie Edwards, 84, Welsh actress (Welsh Rarebit, Coronation Street).
 * Albert Järvinen, 40, Finnish guitarist, heart attack.
 * Sir John Kerr, 76, Australian politician, governor-general (1974–1977), brain cancer.
 * Max Truex, 55, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Adrie Zwartepoorte, 74, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936).

25

 * Rusty Bryant, 61, American jazz musician.
 * Robert Duis, 77, German Olympic basketball player (1936).
 * Margaret Hoffman, 79, American Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932).
 * Vitaliy Holubyev, 65, Soviet football player.
 * Eileen Joyce, 83, Australian pianist.
 * Marcel Lefebvre, 85, French Roman Catholic prelate, bone cancer.
 * Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, 67, German architecture historian, archaeologist and Byzantinist.
 * Mohammed Ahmed Sadek, 73, Egyptian general.
 * Sandy Williams, 84, American trombonist.

26

 * Karel Burkert, 81, Czechoslovak footballer.
 * Warren Chappell, 86–87, American illustrator and teacher, heart failure.
 * Riccardo Fellini, 69, Italian film actor.
 * Paul Gayten, 71, American musician.
 * Angus Charles Graham, 71, Welsh sinologist.
 * Doug Herland, 39, American Olympic rower (1984).
 * Henri Lhote, 88, French ethnographer and explorer.
 * P. L. A. Somapala, 69, Sri Lankan singer.
 * R. Sudarsanam, 76, Indian composer.

27

 * Ralph Bates, 51, English actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Alfredo Campoli, 84, Italian-British violinist.
 * Jack Davis, 74, Canadian politician.
 * Heinrich Gerlach, 82, German soldier and author.
 * Helmut Kronsbein, 76, German footballer.
 * Aldo Ray, 64, American actor (Pat and Mike, The Marrying Kind, The Secret of NIMH), throat cancer.
 * Hans-Henning Freiherr von Beust, 77, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.

28

 * Griffith Buck, 75–76, American horticulturist.
 * Maude Hutchins, 92, American artist.
 * Carlos Montalbán, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Harder They Fall, Bananas, The Out-of-Towners), heart failure.
 * Lyall Wilkes, 76, English politician.

29

 * Karl Aletter, 84, German Olympic rower (1928, 1932).
 * Lee Atwater, 40, American political consultant, chairman of the Republican National Committee (1989–1991), brain cancer.
 * Guy Bourdin, 62, French photographer, cancer.
 * John Daniel Hayes, 89, American naval admiral and historian.
 * Mikaela, 55, Spanish singer, leukemia.
 * Hans Stark, 69, German war criminal.
 * John Stradling Thomas, 65, Welsh politician.

30

 * Silvia Monfort, 67, French actress, lung cancer.
 * Sid Schacht, 73, American baseball player.
 * Bud Taylor, 74, American golfer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Nikola Todev, 62, Bulgarian actor.
 * Cheng Zihua, 85, Chinese politician.

31

 * Emilian Bratu, 86, Romanian chemical engineer.
 * John Carter, 61, American jazz musician.
 * Stanley Diamond, 69, American poet and anthropologist.
 * Consuelo Frank, 78, Mexican actress.
 * Josip Jović, 21, Yugoslav Croatian police officer, shot.
 * Arnold Walter Lawrence, 90, British archaeologist.