Famous People Who Died in 1991

• Capra, Frank

  The director of It's a Wonderful Life

• Davis, Miles

  Composer/performer of Kind of Blue

• Getz, Stan

  The jazz saxophonist who did "The Girl From Ipanema"

• Graham, Martha

  The modern dance choreographer who did Appalachian Spring

• Greene, Graham

  Author of The Honorary Consul and The Third Man

• Jiang Qing

  Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four

• Kinski, Klaus

  Star of Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God

• Land, Edwin

  The inventor of the Polaroid camera

• Lean, David

  The director of Lawrence of Arabia

• Maxwell, Robert

  Disgraced publisher of the Daily Mirror

• Montand, Yves

  The French actor who starred in The Wages of Fear

• Roddenberry, Gene

  Creator of TV's Star Trek

• Sanmao

  The Chinese author of 'Stories of the Sahara'

• Seuss, Dr.

  Author of The Cat In the Hat

• Thomas, Danny

  Star of TV's Make Room For Daddy

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