Deaths in September 1991

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Otl Aicher, 69, German graphic designer and typographer, traffic collision.
 * Allan Grossman, 80, Canadian politician, cancer.
 * Luis Negrón López, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
 * Hannibal Valdimarsson, 88, Icelandic politician.

2

 * Arnold Chernushevich, 58, Soviet fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * František Hanus, 75, Czech actor.
 * Laura Riding, 90, American writer, cardiac arrest.
 * Alfonso García Robles, 80, Mexican diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient (1982).

3

 * Jean Bourgoin, 78, French cinematographer (The Longest Day), Oscar winner (1963).
 * Frank Capra, 94, Italian-American film director (It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night), Oscar winner (1935, 1937, 1939), heart attack.
 * Eduardo Cordero, 69, Chilean basketball player.
 * Falk Harnack, 78, German film director.
 * Daniel Prenn, 86, Polish-German-British tennis player, Alzheimer's disease.

4

 * Charlie Barnet, 77, American jazz musician.
 * Henri de Lubac, 95, French cardinal.
 * Azellus Denis, 84, Canadian politician.
 * Knud Hallest, 82, Danish film actor.
 * Tom Tryon, 65, American actor and novelist, stomach cancer.
 * Dottie West, 58, American country singer, complications from a traffic collision.

5

 * Raymond Dronne, 83, French resistance fighter during World War II.
 * Sharad Joshi, 60, Indian poet, writer, and satirist.
 * Carol Kalish, 36, American writer, editor, and comic book retailer, intracranial aneurysm.
 * Åke Nilsson, 63, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian.
 * Alexander Pushnin, 70, Soviet painter.
 * Peter Slaghuis, 30, Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer, traffic collision.
 * Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, 90, Turkish artist.

6

 * Eugene Bolden, 92, American Olympic swimmer (1920).
 * Donald Henry Gaskins, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by electric chair.
 * Bob Goldham, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Mohamad Noah Omar, 93, Malaysian politician.
 * Alfredo Rizzo, 89, Italian actor.
 * Robert Stoller, 66, American psychiatrist and researcher, traffic collision.

7

 * Buddy Banks, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist, pianist, and bandleader.
 * Héctor-Neri Castañeda, 66, Guatemalan-American philosopher and publisher.
 * John Crosby, 79, American media critic, cancer.
 * John H. Lawrence, 87, American physicist.
 * Edwin McMillan, 83, American physicist, first to synethesize neptunium, Nobel Prize recipient (1951), complications of diabetes mellitus.
 * Chintaman Govind Pandit, 96, Indian virologist and writer.
 * Haakon Pedersen, 84, Norwegian speed skater and Olympian.
 * Ben Piazza, 58, American actor (Mask, Santa Barbara, The Blues Brothers), AIDS-related cancer.
 * Ravi Narayana Reddy, 83, Indian communist politician and peasant leader.

8

 * Odd Bull, 84, Norwegian Air Force general.
 * Brad Davis, 41, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire, Querelle), assisted suicide.
 * Gordon Gunson, 87, English footballer.
 * Latif Karimov, 84, Azerbaijani artist.
 * Alex North, 80, American film composer (A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, Cleopatra), Emmy winner (1976).
 * Luigi Pareyson, 73, Italian philosopher.
 * Mack Reynolds, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Lou Rosenberg, 87, American baseball player.

9

 * Concetto Lo Bello, 67, Italian football referee and politician.
 * Åke Holmberg, 84, Swedish writer and translator.
 * Efraim Racker, 78, Austrian biochemist, stroke.
 * Henri H. Stahl, 90, Romanian marxist cultural anthropologist and social historian.

10

 * Jack Crawford, 83, Australian tennis player.
 * Jan Józef Lipski, 65, Polish writer and politician.
 * Eila Pehkonen, 66, Finnish actress.
 * António Reis, 64, Portuguese film director, screenwriter, and producer.
 * Michel Soutter, 59, Swiss film director and screenwriter, cancer.

11

 * Gail Borden, 84, American figure skater and Olympian.
 * Rudolf Kaiser, 69, German aerospace engineer.
 * Iosif Lengheriu, 77, Romanian football player.
 * Wera Liessem, 78, German actress.
 * Viktor Tegelhoff, 72, Slovak football player and coach.

12

 * Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, 79, Scottish nobleman, general practitioner and farmer.
 * Saburo Date, 67, Japanese actor.
 * Milton Harris, 85, American chemist.
 * Franz Keller, 78, Swiss psychologist.
 * Feliks Konarski, 84, Polish poet, songwriter, and cabaret performer.
 * Bruce Matthews, 82, Canadian army officer.
 * Chris Von Erich, 21, American professional wrestler, suicide.
 * Harland G. Wood, 84, American biochemist.

13

 * Baruch Ashlag, 84, Polish rabbi.
 * Michael Harrison, 84, English detective and fantasy writer.
 * Robert Irving, 78, British conductor.
 * Huy Kanthoul, 82, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister.
 * Erich Kern, 85, Austrian journalist, nazi propagandist during World War II, and a post-war neo-nazi.
 * Metin Oktay, 55, Turkish football player, traffic collision.
 * Joe Pasternak, 89, Hungarian-American film director, Parkinson's disease.
 * Paul Thompson, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.

14

 * Liu Dagang (chemist), 87, Chinese chemist.
 * Julie Bovasso, 61, American actress (Saturday Night Fever, The Verdict, Moonstruck), cancer.
 * Heinz Budde, 65, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Mieczysław Czechowicz, 60, Polish actor.
 * John King Fairbank, 84, American historian.
 * Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, 66, German-Israeli linguist.
 * Russell Lynes, 80, American art historian.

15

 * André Baruch, 83, French-American radio host, narrator, and sportscaster.
 * Antoine Blavier, 77, Belgian football referee.
 * Đorđe Božović, 35, Serbian mobster and war commander, shot.
 * Otto Buggisch, 81, German mathematician.
 * Petronella Burgerhof, 82, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1928).
 * Smoky Burgess, 64, American baseball player.
 * John Hoyt, 85, American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Julius Caesar, When Worlds Collide), lung cancer.
 * Luis Miró, 78, Spanish footballer.
 * Charles E. Osgood, 74, American psychologist and academic.
 * K. H. Scheer, 63, German science fiction writer.
 * Sulkhan Tsintsadze, 66, Georgian composer.

16

 * Ernest Davies, 89, British journalist, author and politician.
 * Ronald DeWolf, 57, American writer and critic of scientology, diabetes.
 * Murilo Rubião, 75, Brazilian writer.
 * Olga Spessivtseva, 96, Russian ballerina.
 * Carol White, 48, English actress (Poor Cow, I'll Never Forget What's'isname, The Fixer).

17

 * Bernhard Bischoff, 84, German historian, paleographer, and philologist.
 * Zino Francescatti, 89, French violinist.
 * Frank H. Netter, 85, American surgeon.
 * Song Shi-Lun, 84, Chinese general.
 * John Tocher, 65, British trade unionist and communist activist.

18

 * Leland Bell, 68, American painter, leukemia.
 * John Anthony Donovan, 80, Canadian-American Roman Catholic bishop, heart ailment.
 * Harry Sandbach, 88, British academic.
 * Rob Tyner, 46, American singer (MC5), heart attack.

19

 * Lydia Cabrera, 92, Cuban-American ethnographer.
 * Eurico de Freitas, 89, Brazilian athlete and Olympian.
 * LeRoy Lemke, 55, American politician and lawyer.
 * Theodore McEvoy, 86, British Royal Air Force officer.

20

 * Ricardo Arredondo, 42, Mexican boxer.
 * Anton Besold, 87, German politician.
 * Richard Holt, 60, British politician.
 * Chet Morgan, 81, American baseball player and manager.
 * Steve Peek, 77, American baseball player.
 * Louis Clyde Stoumen, 74, American photographer, film director and producer, cancer.
 * Seiichirō Tsuda, 85, Japanese long-distance runner and Olympian.

21

 * Gordon Bashford, 75, British automotive designer.
 * Paul Henry Lang, 90, Hungarian-American musicologist and music critic.
 * Henri Lemoine, 82, French cyclist.
 * Mirza Masood, 82, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Ante Paradžik, 48, Croatian politician, assassinated.
 * Angelo Rossitto, 83, American actor (Freaks).
 * Álvaro, 59, Brazilian football player and manager.

22

 * Tino Casal, 41, Spanish singer, songwriter and producer, traffic collision.
 * Ray Cillien, 52, Luxembourgish Olympic boxer (1960).
 * Louis Dugauguez, 73, French football player and football manager.
 * Yevgeni Ivanovski, 73, Soviet general.
 * Durga Khote, 86, Indian actress.

23

 * Charles V. Dingley, 51, American pornographic film and B movie producer, screenwriter, and director.
 * Harriet Hammond, 91, American silent film actress.
 * Yue-Kong Pao, 72, Hong Kong businessman.
 * Harold Phelps, 88, American long-distance runner.
 * Keith Robertson, 77, American writer, cancer.
 * Philippus Vethaak, 76, Dutch cyclist.

24

 * Yusif Aliyev, 21, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Bolesław Banaś, 79, Polish Olympic fencer (1948).
 * Peter Bellamy, 47, English singer, suicide.
 * Mary Lawrence, 73, American actress, pneumonia.
 * Dom Orejudos, 58, American choreographer, AIDS.
 * Dr. Seuss, 87, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham), cancer.
 * Joyce Steele, 82, Australian politician.

25

 * LeRoy H. Anderson, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1961).
 * Viviane Romance, 79, French actress.
 * Anita Traversi, 54, Swiss singer.
 * Stanley Waters, 71, Canadian politician.
 * Ted A. Wells, 84, American aircraft engineer.

26

 * Leonard J. Chabert, 58, American politician.
 * Helmut Kohl, 48, Austrian football referee and butcher, cancer.
 * Benjamin A. Smith II, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1960–1962).
 * Billy Vaughn, 72, American singer, peritoneal carcinoma.

27

 * Roy Fuller, 79, English writer.
 * Garry Glenn, 36, American songwriter, kidney failure.
 * Richard Goldner, 83, Romanian-Australian violist, pedagogue and inventor.
 * Floyd Huddleston, 73, American songwriter, screenwriter, and television producer.
 * Joe Hulme, 87, English football player and cricket player.
 * Stefan Kisielewski, 80, Polish writer, composer and politician.
 * Eryk Lipiński, 83, Polish artist.
 * Oona O'Neill, 66, American socialite, widow of Charlie Chaplin, pancreatic cancer.
 * Roberto Rojas, 35, Peruvian football player, traffic collision.
 * Alois Vansteenkiste, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Øyvind Vennerød, 72, Norwegian filmmaker.

28

 * Eugène Bozza, 86, French composer and violinist.
 * Sir Clifford Campbell, 99, Jamaican politician, governor-general (1962–1973).
 * Olin Hatfield Chilson, 87, American district judge of the American District Court for the District of Colorado.
 * Miles Davis, 65, American jazz musician, intracerebral hemorrhage.
 * Ellic Howe, 81, British author.
 * Barbara Rose Johns, 56, American civil rights activist, bone cancer.
 * Peter McKennan, 73, Scottish football player.
 * Shankar Guha Niyogi, 48, Indian labor leader, murdered.
 * Dilgo Khyentse Tashi Peljor, 81, Bhutanese Buddhist spiritual teacher and poet.
 * A. L. Philpott, 72, American politician.

29

 * Zelimir Bakša, 34, Yugoslav People's Army officer, killed in action.
 * Henry Joseph Kelliher, 95, New Zealand businessman.
 * Roger Lafontant, 60, Haitian military leader and politician.
 * Ed Moriarty, 78, American baseball player.
 * Lou Nova, 78, American boxer and actor, cancer.
 * Grace Zaring Stone, 100, American novelist and short-story writer.
 * Yury Veksler, 51, Soviet and Russian cinematographer.

30

 * Osman Alyanak, 79-80, Turkish actor and footballer.
 * Sven Barthel, 88, Swedish writer, journalist, theatre critic and translator.
 * Shmuel Gonen, 61, Israeli general.
 * William Albert Hiltner, 77, American astronomer.
 * King Levinsky, 81, American heavyweight boxer.
 * Nancy Welford, 87, British-American actress.
 * Toma Zdravković, 52, Yugoslav singer, prostate cancer.
 * Claire Zeisler, 88, American fiber artist.