List of Famous people who died at 91
Michel Eddé
Michel Eddé was a Lebanese politician.
Eliyahu Winograd
Eliyahu Winograd was an Israeli acting Supreme Court judge and former president of the Tel Aviv District Court. Between September 11, 2006 and April 30, 2007 he chaired the Winograd Commission to investigate the failures experienced by Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Lucienne Bogaert
Lucienne Bogaert was a French actress. She started her career in theatre, but later also worked in film. After she divorced her husband Robert Bogaert, she retained his name for professional purposes.
Gérard Corboud
Gérard J. Corboud was a Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist.
Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg, born Harry John Salem, was a French-Algerian journalist, director of the Alger républicain newspaper, and a member of the French Communist Party. After Editions de Minuit, a French publishing house, released his memoir La Question in 1958, Alleg gained international recognition for his stance against torture, specifically within the context of the Algerian War (1954–1962).
Zenzo Matsuyama
Zenzō Matsuyama was a Japanese screenwriter and film director. He was born in Kobe and grew up in Yokohama. After leaving school, he began training to become a doctor but dropped out of medical school to take up a career in films. In 1948 he became an assistant director at Shochiku studios. With the support of Keisuke Kinoshita, he also began writing film scripts. His first filmed script was Kojo no tsuki, based on the song "Kōjō no Tsuki", filmed in 1954. In 1955 he married actress Hideko Takamine. He made his debut as a director with a film called Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku in 1961. He continued to work as a scriptwriter for films like Proof of the Man as well as a director. He also wrote the lyrics for a song "Ippon no enpitsu" for Hibari Misora.
Camilla Spira
Camilla Spira was a German film actress. She appeared in 68 films between 1924 and 1986. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, of Jewish ancestry on her father's side, and died in Berlin, Germany. Her father was the Austrian actor Fritz Spira who died in the Ruma concentration camp in 1943. Her mother was actress Lotte Spira and her sister was the East German actress Steffie Spira.
András Kovács
András Kovács may refer to:
- András Kovács (1925–2017), Hungarian film director and screenwriter
- András Kovács (1947), Hungarian sociologist
David Gordon Wilson
David Gordon Wilson was a British-born engineer who served as a professor of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
Karl Schirdewan
Karl Schirdewan was a German communist activist who after 1945 became a top East German politician.