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.

June 1991

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.