Famous people and celebrities who died in January 1991

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in January 1991. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Jan. 1 Elfie Mayerhofer

  Elfie Mayerhofer was a renowned Austrian actress known for her performances on stage and screen.

• Jan. 1 Charles B Timmer

  Dutch writer (russian black on white) dies at 83

• Jan. 1 Yvonne Waegemans

  Flemish author (gnome patjoepelke), is killed at 81

• Jan. 4 Harry Krimer

  Actor (napoleon), committed murder at 94

• Jan. 5 Vasko Popa

  Renowned Serbian poet and World War II partisan who was a significant figure in post-war Yugoslav literature, known for his modernist poetry and unique style.

• Jan. 5 John Eckhardt

  Actor born without legs (freaks), is killed at 82

• Jan. 5 Marie Madeline Sullivan

  Actress (elvira mistresse of dark), dies aged 80

• Jan. 6 Alan Wiggins

  American baseball player (b. 1958)

• Jan. 7 Joe Hicks

  At 64, a baseball coach dies from cancer

• Jan. 8 Steve Clark

  Steve Clark was an English musician, guitarist of the legendary rock band Def Leppard, who tragically died at the young age of 30.

• Jan. 11 Carl David Anderson

  Nobel Prize laureate for his discovery of the positron

• Jan. 12 Vasco Pratolini

  Vasco Pratolini was a prominent Italian novelist, short story writer, and poet, considered the most significant representative of Italian neorealism in literature.

• Jan. 12 Robert Jackson

  American politician and lawyer, 57th united states attorney general (d. 1954).

• Jan. 14 Gordon Bryant

  Australian educator and politician (b. 1914)

• Jan. 14 Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad]

  Co-founder (al-fatah), assassinated

• Jan. 18 Hamilton Fish

  Long-serving Republican congressman from New York who represented his district from 1969 to 1995.

• Jan. 19 Don Beddoe

  Actor (bullwhip loophole, texas), is killed at 87

• Jan. 20 Bill Riordon

  Us tennis promoter (jimmy connors), dies.

• Jan. 22 Kenas Aroi

  Nauruan politician (born 1942)

• Jan. 23 Northrop Frye

  A renowned Canadian literary critic and theorist who revolutionized literary analysis through his groundbreaking work on archetypes and mythological patterns in literature, significantly influencing modern literary criticism.

• Jan. 24 Jack Schaefer

  Jack Schaefer was a renowned American novelist best known for his Western novel 'Shane', which became a classic of the genre and was adapted into an iconic film in 1953.

• Jan. 25 Frank Soo

  English footballer and manager (b. 1914)

• Jan. 29 Yasushi Inoue

  Japanese author and poet (b. 1907)

• Jan. 30 John McIntire

  American character actor known for prominent roles in classic Western television series like 'Wagon Train' and 'The Virginian', as well as the police drama 'Naked City'.

• Jan. 30 John Bardeen

  Groundbreaking American physicist who co-invented the transistor and developed the theory of superconductivity. He was a two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics, making significant contributions to solid-state physics and electronics.

• Jan. 30 Clifton C. Edom

  American photographer and educator (b. 1907)