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Famous People Who Died in June 1991

  • Jun 1 David Ruffin, American soul musician and early lead singer for The Temptations (My Girl; Ain't Too Proud to Beg), dies of a drug overdose at 50
  • Jun 3 Andy Milligan, American director and screenwriter (Sweeney Todd), dies of AIDS at 62
  • Jun 3 Brian Bevan, Australian Rugby League HOF winger (Warrington 620 games, 740 tries), dies at 67
  • Jun 3 Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress and director (Resurrection), dies at 92
  • Jun 3 Harry Glicken, American volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan at 33
  • Jun 3 Katia Krafft (née Conrad), French volcanologist who pioneered filming volcanic eruptions, dies with her husband in a volcanic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan at 49
  • Jun 3 Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist who pioneered filming volcanic eruptions, dies with his wife in a volcanic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan at 45
  • Jun 3 Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist, dies at 78
  • Jun 3 Thomas C. "Spunky" Lasorda, American artist and son of Los Angeles Dodgers manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
  • Jun 6 Larry Kert, American actor (West Side Story - "Tony"), dies of AIDS at 60
  • Jun 6 Stan Getz [Stanley Gayetski], American big band, bebop, cool jazz, and bossa nova tenor saxophonist (Woody Herman; Getz/Gilberto), dies of liver cancer at 64
  • Jun 6 Sylvia Porter, American economist and financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book), dies at 77
  • Jun 7 Antoine Blondin, French writer (L'Europe buissonnière), dies at 69
  • Jun 7 Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
  • Jun 8 Bertice Reading, American stage and screen actress and singer (The Jazz Train; Requiem For A Nun; Moon In The Gutter), dies at 57
  • Jun 9 Bob Irwin, Comedian, dies of Alzheimer's related illness at 88
  • Jun 9 Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies
  • Jun 9 Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra), dies following surgery at 88
  • Jun 10 Max van Praag, Dutch popular music singer (Glück Auf!), dies at 77
  • Jun 10 Vercors [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la mer), dies at 89
  • Jun 11 Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
  • Jun 14 Bernard Miles, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Great Expectations, In Which We Serve), dies at 83
  • Jun 14 Joy Finzi, British painter (Finzi Trust), dies at 84
  • Jun 14 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
  • Jun 15 A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American Baseball HOF executive (MLB Commissioner 1945-51) and politician (44th & 49th Governor Kentucky), dies at 92
  • Jun 15 William Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist (1979 Nobel Prize in Economics for economic development research), dies at 76 [1]
  • Jun 16 Vicki Brown, British pop, rock session vocalist, and contemporary classical singer, dies of breast cancer at 51
  • Jun 17 Leo Koury, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List - never caught), dies under an assumed name in hospital at 56
  • Jun 18 Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69
  • Jun 19 Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], American stage, silent and sound screen actress (Shane; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), dies of heart failure at 90
  • Jun 20 Malcolm Frager, American concert pianist, dies at 56
  • Jun 22 Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82
  • Jun 22 Kevin O'Connor, American actor (Bogie, Special Effects), dies of cancer at 56
  • Jun 23 Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
  • Jun 23 Bill Buysman, Dutch guitarist/singer (Kilima Hawaiians), dies
  • Jun 24 Martin Rosenblatt, American actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories), dies at 74
  • Jun 24 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, dies at 91
  • Jun 24 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (b. 1917)
  • Jun 26 Paul Andor [Wolfgang Zilzer], American-German actor (Mad Lover; Enemy of Women), dies at 90
  • Jun 27 Jason Christmas, American actor (That's Adequate), dies of a gunshot wound during robbery in NYC at 49
  • Jun 27 Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered
  • Jun 27 Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • Jun 28 Ernie McCormick, Australian cricket fast bowler (12 Tests, 36 wickets, BB 4/101; Victoria), dies at 85
  • Jun 28 Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
  • Jun 29 Richard "Groove" Holmes, American jazz organist (Misty), dies of cancer at 60