List of Famous people who died at 91
Hans Holt
Hans Holt was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1935 and 1990.
Mietek Pemper
Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper was a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor. Pemper helped compile and type Oskar Schindler's now-famous list, which saved 1,200 people from being killed in the Holocaust during World War II.
Karl-Heinz Adler
Karl-Heinz Adler was a German abstract painter, graphic artist and conceptual artist and has been described as "one of Germany’s foremost representatives of Concrete Art." He produced many public monuments and developed, with Friedrich Kracht, modular concrete decoration for hundreds of buildings across East, now eastern, Germany.
Michael Gielen
Michael Andreas Gielen was an Austrian conductor and composer known for promoting contemporary music in opera and concert. Principally active in Europe, his performances are characterized by precision and vivacity, aiding his ability to interpret the complex contemporary music he specialized in.
Carlos Heitor Cony
Carlos Heitor Cony was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Ivan Maisky
Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky was a Soviet diplomat, historian and politician, notable as the Soviet Union's Ambassador to the United Kingdom during much of the Second World War.
Xavier Dor
Xavier Dor was a French embryologist, well known for his activism against abortions.
George Alan Thomas
Sir George Alan Thomas, 7th Baronet was a British badminton, tennis and chess player. He was twice British Chess Champion and a 21-time All-England Badminton champion. He also reached the quarterfinals of the singles and the semifinals of the men's tennis doubles at Wimbledon in 1911. Badminton's world men's team championships cup, equivalent to tennis' Davis Cup, is named Thomas Cup after him. Thomas lived most of his life in London and Godalming. He never married, so the hereditary Thomas baronetcy ended on his death.
Paul Niedermann
Paul Niedermann was a German-Jewish journalist and photographer.
Garry Davis
Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis was an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars. His actions gained international attention, including support from intellectuals such as Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, but ridicule from Eleanor Roosevelt.