List of Famous people who died in 1991
Jean Bellette
Jean Bellette was an Australian artist. Born in Tasmania, she was educated in Hobart and at Julian Ashton's art school in Sydney, where one of her teachers was Thea Proctor. In London she studied under painters Bernard Meninsky and Mark Gertler.
Dottie West
Dorothy Marie Marsh West, better known by her stage name Dottie West, was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and fellow recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists. West's career started in the 1960s, with her top-10 hit, "Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965, the first woman in country music to receive a Grammy.
Dean Jagger
Dean Jeffries Jagger was an American film, stage and television actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High (1949).
Robert McCall
Robert "Rob" McCall, CM was a Canadian ice dancer. With partner Tracy Wilson, he was the 1988 Olympic bronze medallist.
Ron Pickering
Ronald James Pickering was an athletics coach and BBC sports commentator.
Brad Davis
Robert Creel Davis, known professionally as Brad Davis, was an American actor, known for starring in the 1978 film Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire and the 1982 film Querelle.
Hans Gerling
Hans Gerling was a German businessman who headed the Gerling Konzern, one of Europe's largest insurance groups, from 1949 until his death.
Johnny Thunders
John Anthony Genzale, better known by his stage name Johnny Thunders, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls. He later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist.
Ken Uehara
Ken Uehara was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1990. He starred in Entotsu no mieru basho, which was entered in the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival. His son is the singer and actor Yūzō Kayama.
Norah Schuster
Norah Henriette Schuster FRCPath was a British pathologist and the first woman to take the pre-clinical medical course at the University of Cambridge. She was the first woman to be appointed as a doctor at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and, in 1950, the first female president of the Association of Clinical Pathologists.