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Celebrities and Notable People Who Died in the Year 1991
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January
Buck Ram
(songwriter/manager) -- Dead. Died January 1, 1991. Born November 21, 1907. Wrote songs including "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "The Great Pretender", managed The Platters.
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Keye Luke (actor) -- Dead. Stroke. Died January 12, 1991.
Born June 18, 1904. #1 son in Charlie Chan movies IMDb
John Russell
(actor) -- Dead. Emphysema. Died January 19, 1991. Born January 3, 1921. Starred in The Lawman in the '50s, appeared in a number of Westerns, including Rio Bravo and
Pale Rider.
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John McIntire (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died January 30, 1991. Born June 27, 1907. Wagon Train, married to Jeanette Nolan IMDb
February
Harry Ackerman (producer) -- Dead. Died February 3, 1991. Born November 17, 1912. Produced '60s TV comedies like Hazel, Bewitched, and The Flying Nun IMDb
Nancy Kulp (actress/politician) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 3, 1991. Born August 28, 1921. Best-known as Miss Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies IMDb
Danny Thomas (actor/producer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died February 6, 1991. Born January 6, 1912. Make Room for Daddy. Make memorial contributions to: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital IMDb
Charles Daly (game show host) -- Dead. Cardiac arrest. Died February 24, 1991. Born February 20, 1914. An early What's My Line? MC IMDb
George Gobel (comedian) -- Dead. Complications after surgery.. Died February 24, 1991. Born May 20, 1919. IMDb
March
Jimmy McPartland
(cornetist, singer) -- Dead. Died March 12, 1991. Born March 15, 1907. Jazz musician and a survivor of the invasion of Normandy.
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Howard Ashman (Lyricist) -- Dead. AIDS. Died March 14, 1991. Born May 1950. With Howard Menken, wrote the songs for Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin IMDb
Dave Guard
(teacher, singer) -- Dead. Died March 22, 1991. Born October 19, 1934. Kingston Trio - "Tom Dooley", first one to leave the group.
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Aldo Ray (actor) -- Dead. Died March 27, 1991. Born September 25, 1926. IMDb
April
John Heinz
(politician, philanthropist) -- Dead. Airplane accident. Died April 4, 1991.
Born October 23, 1938. Republican (but independent) Pennsylvania senator who helped oversee his family foundations; led renovation of Heinz Hall in the '70s; the Heinz History Museum in Pittsburgh is named in his honor
Kevin Peter Hall (actor) -- Dead. AIDS. Died April 10, 1991. Born May 9, 1955. The Predator and Harry of Harry and the Hendersons, married to Alaina Reed Hall. IMDb
Natalie Schafer (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 10, 1991. Born November 5, 1900. Lovey on Gilligan's Island IMDb
David Lean
(director) -- Dead. . Died April 16, 1991.
Born March 25, 1908. British director who
shot some of the most beautifully photographed (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago) movies ever made IMDb
Carmine Coppola (composer/musician) -- Dead. Died April 26, 1991. Born June 11, 1910. Scored many of his son's movies IMDb
Emily McLaughlin (actress) -- Dead. Died April 26, 1991. Born December 1, 1930. Nurse Jessie on General Hospital IMDb
Ken Curtis (actor) -- Dead. Died April 28, 1991. Born July 2, 1916. Festus on Gunsmoke IMDb
May
Jerzy Kosinski (novelist) -- Dead. Suicide by suffocation. Died May 3, 1991. Born June 14, 1933.
Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died May 6, 1991. Born May 12, 1903. Col. Pickering in My Fair Lady IMDb
Ronald Lacey (actor) -- Dead. Died May 15, 1991. Born June 18, 1935. Probably best-known as the ugly little Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark IMDb
Rajiv Gandhi (Indian president) -- Dead. Murdered. Died May 21, 1991. Born August 20, 1944.
June
Dame Peggy Ashcroft (actress) -- Dead. Stroke. Died June 14, 1991. Born December 22, 1907. A Shakespearean stage actress who won an Oscar for A Passage to India IMDb
Jean Arthur (actress) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died June 19, 1991. Born October 17, 1900. Actress in major comedies of the '30s such as You Can't Take It With You IMDb
July
Michael Landon (actor) -- Dead. Pancreatic and liver cancer. Died July 1, 1991. Born October 31, 1936. An appropriate birth date, seeing as he went on to star in I Was a Teenage Werewolf IMDb
Lee Remick (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died July 2, 1991. Born December 14, 1935. IMDb
James Franciscus (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died July 8, 1991. Born January 31, 1934. Longstreet and many, many so-so movies IMDb
Bert Convy (actor/game show host) -- Dead. Brain cancer. Died July 15, 1991. Born June 23, 1933. IMDb
August
Julie Bovasso (actress/writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 14, 1991. Born August 1, 1930. John Travolta's mother in Saturday Night Fever. IMDb
Harry Reasoner (journalist) -- Dead. Died August 6, 1991. Born April 17, 1923. 60 Minutes IMDb
Brad Davis (actor) -- Dead. AIDS. Died August 8, 1991. Born November 6, 1949. Midnight Express IMDb
Colleen Dewhurst (actress) -- Dead. Died August 22, 1991. Born June 3, 1926. Many TV shows (Murphy Brown), movies (Annie Hall), and plays (Long Day's Journey Into Night), twice married to George C. Scott, Campbell's Scott's mother. IBDB IMDb FindAGrave
September
Frank Capra (director) -- Dead. Natural causes. Died September 3, 1991. Born May 18, 1897. IMDb
Thomas Tryon (writer/author) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 4, 1991. Born January 14, 1926. Starred in The Cardinal, then retired from acting to write books like The Other IMDb
Dottie West (country singer) -- Dead. Car accident. Died September 4, 1991. Born October 4, 1932. Dottie West - Greatest Hits IMDb
Theodore
"Dr. Seuss" Geisel (author) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 24, 1991.
Born March 2, 1904. Wacky kids' books IMDb
Miles Davis (musician) -- Dead. Pneumonia and stroke. Died September 28, 1991. Born May 25, 1926.
October
Redd Foxx (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died October 11, 1991. Born December 9, 1922. Sanford and Son, "Elizabeth! I'm coming..." IMDb
Tennessee Ernie Ford (singer) -- Dead. Liver disease. Died October 17, 1991. Born February 13, 1919. IMDb
Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek creator) -- Spaced. Blood clot. Died October 24, 1991. Born August 19, 1921. Producer and writer best known for "Wagon Train in Space" IMDb
November
Irwin Allen (producer) -- Dead. Died November 2, 1991. Born June 12, 1916. TV sci-fi and theatrical disaster flicks like the Poseidon Adventure IMDb
Fred MacMurray (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died November 5, 1991. Born August 30, 1908. My Three Sons, married to June Haver IMDb
Gene Tierney (actress) -- Dead. Emphysema. Died November 6, 1991.
Born November 20, 1920. Leave Her to Heaven IMDb
Tony Richardson (director) -- Dead. AIDS. Died November 14, 1991. Born June 5, 1928. Directed Tom Jones and many other movies, ex-husband of Vanessa Redgrave, father of Natasha and Joely Richardson IMDb
Klaus Kinski (actor) -- Dead. Died November 23, 1991. Born October 18, 1926. IMDb
Freddie Mercury (singer) -- Dead. AIDS. Died November 24, 1991. Born September 5, 1946. Queen IMDb
Eleanor Audley (actress/voice) -- Dead. Respiratory failure. Died November 25, 1991. Born November 19, 1905. While she may have been "best seen" as Oliver's mother in Green Acres, she was probably best-heard as the stepmother in Disney's Cinderella IMDb
Ralph Bellamy (actor) -- Dead. Died November 29, 1991. Born June 17, 1904. FDR in Sunrise at Campobello IMDb