Deaths in October 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Willie Borsch, 61, American drag racer.
 * Keith Ranspot, 77, American gridiron football player.
 * Victor Teterin, 68, Soviet artist.
 * Stu Williamson, 58, American jazz musician.

2

 * Hazen Argue, 70, Canadian politician.
 * Maria Aurèlia Capmany, 73, Spanish novelist, playwright and essayist.
 * Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, 77, Turkish archbishop, heart attack.
 * Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, 93, American lawyer.
 * Jim Handby, 88, Australian footballer and politician.
 * Peter Heyworth, 70, American-British music critic and biographer, stroke.

3

 * Max Cantor, 32, American journalist and actor (Dirty Dancing), heroin overdose.
 * Ed Dancker, 77, American basketball player.
 * Fazle Haq, 63, Pakistani general and politician, assassinated.
 * Paule Herreman, 72, Belgian actress and television presenter.
 * John Hood, 87, Australian diplomat.
 * Gia Nadareishvili, 70, Soviet and Georgian chess player and author on chess studies.

4

 * Heinrich Hellwege, 83, German politician.
 * Josefina Valencia Muñoz, 78, Colombian politician.
 * John G. Williams Jr., 67, American admiral.
 * J. Frank Wilson, 49, American singer, diabetes.

5

 * Jørgen Beck, 76, Danish actor.
 * Martin Ennals, 64, British human rights activist.
 * Ramnath Goenka, 87, Indian newspaper publisher.
 * Milan Milišić, 50, Yugoslav writer, shelling.
 * Hope Portocarrero, 62, American-Nicaraguan socialite, First Lady of Nicaragua (1967–1972, 1974–1979), cancer.

6

 * Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry, 87, British politician.
 * Roger Forsythe, 36, American fashion designer, AIDS.
 * Alphonse Gallegos, 60, American Roman Catholic bishop, traffic accident.
 * Mark Shevelev, 86, Soviet pilot during World War II and polar aviation pioneer.
 * Igor Talkov, 34, Soviet singer, shot.

7

 * Leo Durocher, 86, American baseball player and manager.
 * Alan Fletcher, 84, Australian politician.
 * Natalia Ginzburg, 75, Italian writer and politician, cancer.
 * Darren Millane, 26, Australian rules football player, traffic collision.
 * Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi, 61, Argentine writer and philosopher.
 * Prentiss Taylor, 83, American illustrator, lithographer, and painter.

8

 * Ed Hanyzewski, 71, American baseball player.
 * Edward Skórzewski, 61, Polish film director and screenwriter.
 * Lyall Smith, 76, American sports writer and editor.
 * Zoska Veras, 99, Belarusian writer and poet.
 * Maria Zubreeva, 91, Soviet painter, watercolorist, and graphic artist.

9

 * Roy Black, 48, German schlager singer and actor, heart failure.
 * Dagmar Lange, 77, Swedish author of crime fiction.
 * Camille Libar, 73, Luxembourgian football player and manager.
 * Doris Lilly, 69, American newspaper columnist and writer, cancer.
 * Thalmus Rasulala, 51, American actor (Blacula, One Life to Live, New Jack City), heart attack.

10

 * Victor Christgau, 97, American politician.
 * Pío Cabanillas Gallas, 67, Spanish jurist and politician, heart attack.
 * Nickolaus Hirschl, 85, Austrian wrestler and Olympic medalist.
 * Yaroslav Lesiv, 46, Ukrainian poet and priest, traffic collision.
 * Bob Morgan, 61, American gridiron football player.
 * Gamble Rogers, 54, American musician, drowned.
 * Andrzej Zaucha, 42, Polish rhythm & blues and pop-jazz singer, and actor, shot.

11

 * Gene Barth, 61, American football player.
 * Pietro Ferraris, 79, Italian football player.
 * Ron Ferrier, 77, English footballer.
 * Redd Foxx, 68, American actor (Sanford and Son, The Redd Foxx Show, Harlem Nights), heart attack.
 * Luke Higgins, 70, American gridiron football player.
 * Clay Kirby, 43, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Branislav Mihajlović, 54, Serbian football player.
 * Lidiya Sukharevskaya, 82, Soviet stage actress and playwright.
 * Carroll Williams, 74, American zoologist, lymphoma.

12

 * Ian Ayre, 62, Australian tennis player.
 * Narciso Horacio Doval, 47, Argentine football player, heart attack.
 * Sheila Florance, 75, Australian actress, lung cancer.
 * Diana Gibson, 76, American film actress.
 * Aline MacMahon, 92, American actress (Dragon Seed), pneumonia.
 * Taso Mathieson, 83, British racing driver and author of automotive history books.
 * Regis Toomey, 93, American actor (The Big Sleep, Guys and Dolls, Spellbound).
 * Grigoris Vlastos, 84, Greek scholar of ancient philosophy.

13

 * William Gentry, 92, New Zealand Military Forces general.
 * Donald Houston, 67, Welsh actor (Clash of the Titans, Where Eagles Dare, The Blue Lagoon), stroke.
 * Hugh Molson, Baron Molson, 88, British politician.
 * Daniel Oduber Quirós, 70, Costa Rican politician, president (1974–1978).
 * Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, 59, Spanish politician and businessman.

14

 * Thomas H. Eliot, 84, American lawyer, politician, and academic.
 * Walter M. Elsasser, 87, German-American physicist.
 * Richard Hittleman, 64, American yoga teacher and author.
 * Jay Richard Kennedy, 80, American writer, screenwriter, composer, and record executive.
 * David Neville, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.

15

 * Antonio Canale, 76, Italian comic writer and artist.
 * John Greenway, 71, American folklorist and folk singer.
 * Verda James, 90, Canadian-American politician.
 * Robert Pastene, 73, American actor.
 * Han Ying-chieh, 64, Hong Kong actor, cancer.

16

 * Arthur E. Arling, 85, American cameraman and cinematographer.
 * Ole Beich, 36, Danish bassist (Guns N' Roses), drowned.
 * Lore Fischer, 80, German singer.
 * Giacomo Mari, 66, Italian football player.
 * Boris Papandopulo, 85, Croatian composer.
 * Barry Wong, 44, Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and actor, heart attack.
 * Blago Zadro, 47, Croatian army officer, killed in action.

17

 * John C. Bailar, Jr., 87, American chemist and academic.
 * J. G. Devlin, 84, Northern Irish actor.
 * Tennessee Ernie Ford, 72, American singer ("Sixteen Tons", "The Shotgun Boogie"), liver failure.
 * Władysław Giergiel, 74, Polish football player.
 * Håkon Johnsen, 77, Norwegian politician.
 * Harlan James Smith, 67, American astronomer.
 * Piet van Est, 57, Dutch cyclist.

18

 * Enrico Boniforti, 73, Italian football player.
 * Stephen Dickson, 40, American baritone, complications from AIDS.
 * Bronisław Gosztyła, 56, Polish ice hockey player.
 * Judith Sulian, 71, Argentine film actress.
 * Gunnar Sønstevold, 78, Norwegian composer.

19

 * Walter Gericke, 83, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
 * Henry Holst, 92, Danish violinist.
 * Gheorghe Pahonțu, 58, Romanian football player.
 * Howard Swearer, 59, American academic, cancer.
 * Naum Vilenkin, 70, Soviet mathematician.

20

 * Georges Beuchat, 81, French inventor, businessman, and underwater diving pioneer.
 * Marcus Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter.
 * Clifford Last, 72, English sculptor.
 * Susan Noel, 79, English squash and tennis player.
 * J. Graham Parsons, 83, American diplomat.
 * Yehuda Tzadka, 81, Israeli rabbi and rosh yeshiva.

21

 * Lorenc Antoni, 82, Kosovo Albanian composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist.
 * Louis Calabro, 64, Italian American orchestral composer.
 * Lev Chegorovsky, 77, Soviet and Russian artist.
 * Bobby Coombs, 83, American baseball player.
 * Jim Hamby, 94, American baseball player.

22

 * Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, 40, American writer and performance artist, suicide by exsanguination.
 * Robert Carlin, 90, Canadian politician.
 * Joy Harington, 77, English television actress, writer, producer, and director.
 * Hachiro Kasuga, 67, Japanese singer.
 * Judy Kelly, 77, Australian-British actress.

23

 * Derek Edge, 49, English football player.
 * Job Stewart, 57, British stage and screen actor.
 * Július Torma, 69, Czechoslovak boxer and Olympic champion.
 * Alida van Leeuwen, 83, Dutch diver and Olympian.

24

 * Ismat Chughtai, 76, Indian Urdu novelist, humanist and filmmaker.
 * J. A. Milton Perera, 62, Sri Lankan singer and composer.
 * Gene Roddenberry, 70, American television producer (Star Trek), cardiac arrest.
 * Vilko Ukmar, 86, Slovenian composer.
 * Luisa Vehil, 78, Uruguayan theater and movie actress.

25

 * Albert Baldauf, 73, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * George Brunet, 56, American baseball player.
 * Khigh Dhiegh, 81, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds).
 * Bill Graham, 60, German-American impresario, helicopter crash.
 * Louis le Grange, 63, Lawyer, a South African politician.
 * Tamaz Namgalauri, 34, Georgian judoka and Olympian.
 * John Stratton, 65, British actor.
 * Walter Stude, 77, American field hockey player and Olympian.

26

 * Henry Wilson Allen, 79, American writer and screenwriter, pneumonia.
 * Bill Bevens, 75, American baseball player, lymphoma.
 * Vivian Dandridge, 70, American singer, actress and dancer, stroke.
 * Major Holley, 67, American jazz bassist.
 * Ed Justice, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Enrique Sorrel, 79, Chilean football player and manager.
 * Tahira Tahirova, 77, Soviet politician and diplomat.

27

 * George Barker, 78, English poet.
 * Rocky Hata, 43, Japanese professional wrestler, diabetes.
 * Howard Kingsbury, 87, American Olympic rower (1924).
 * Pyke Koch, 90, Dutch artist.
 * Andrzej Panufnik, 77, Polish composer.

28

 * Sylvia Fine, 78, American lyricist, composer, and producer, emphysema.
 * Joseph Fletcher, 86, American professor.
 * John Kobal, 51, Austrian film historian, pneumonia.
 * Ilie Murgulescu, 89, Romanian physical chemist and a communist politician.
 * Akram Ojjeh, 73, Syrian-Saudi businessman, diabetes.
 * George Treweek, 86, Australian rugby player.
 * Billy Wright, 59, American singer, pulmonary embolism.

29

 * Cyril Black, 89, British politician.
 * Lee Boltin, 73, American photographer, leukemia.
 * Donald Churchill, 60, English actor and playwright, heart attack.
 * Jimmie Coker, 55, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * John DeCuir, Sr., 73, American art director and production designer (The King and I, Cleopatra, Hello, Dolly!), Oscar winner (1957, 1964, 1970).
 * Hikmat Muradov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Nigel Poett, 84, British Army officer.
 * Mario Scelba, 90, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1954–1955), thrombosis.
 * Johan Støa, 91, Norwegian multi-sportsman and Olympian.

30

 * Aniela Jaffé, 88, German-Swiss psychoanalysts.
 * Ellis Kolchin, 75, American mathematician and academic, pancreatic cancer.
 * George Lambert, 72, English cricket player.
 * Prince Emich, 7th Prince of Leiningen, 65, German noble and entrepreneur.
 * Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, 84, Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and politician.

31

 * Gene Anderson, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Ewald Bucher, 77, German politician.
 * Garvin Bushell, 89, American musician and multi-instrumentalist.
 * Charles K.L. Davis, 66, American opera singer and musician.
 * Alexander Frick, 81, Liechtensteiner politician, Prime Minister (1945–1962).
 * Simon Gjoni, 66, Albanian conductor, and composer.
 * Frederick Hartt, 77, Italian Renaissance scholar and author.
 * Dick Joy, 75, American radio and television announcer.
 * Agnes Katharina Maxsein, 86, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Joseph Papp, 70, American theatrical producer, prostate cancer.