Aged 91
Famous people who died at 91
154 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 91, including Pablo Picasso, Mikhail Gorbachev and Frank Lloyd Wright. Here are the 100 best known.
- Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor · 1881–1973
- Mikhail GorbachevLeader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 · 1931–2022
- Frank Lloyd WrightAmerican architect · 1867–1959
- Thomas HobbesEnglish philosopher · 1588–1679
- Konrad AdenauerGerman politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU · 1876–1967
- Hosni MubarakPresident of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 · 1928–2020
- Jane GoodallEnglish primatologist and anthropologist · 1934–2025
- Augusto PinochetChilean military officer and politician · 1915–2006
- Kuan Yew Lee1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore · 1923–2015
- Ray BradburyAmerican author and screenwriter · 1920–2012
- J. D. SalingerAmerican author · 1919–2010
- William Somerset MaughamEnglish playwright and author · 1874–1965
- Jean SibeliusFinnish composer · 1865–1957
- Christopher PlummerCanadian actor · 1929–2021
- Gustave EiffelFrench chemical engineer and architect · 1832–1923
- Jean-Luc GodardFrench and Swiss film director · 1930–2022
- Ennio MorriconeItalian composer, orchestrator and conductor · 1928–2020
- Claude SimonFrench writer · 1913–2005
- E. M. ForsterEnglish novelist · 1879–1970
- Jerry LewisAmerican comedian, actor and film director · 1926–2017
- Nicolas AppertFrench inventor of airtight food preservation · 1749–1841
- Ernest WaltonIrish physicist and Nobel laureate · 1903–1995
- Hugh HefnerAmerican businessman and magazine publisher · 1926–2017
- Manne SiegbahnSwedish physicist · 1886–1978
- Ed AsnerAmerican actor · 1929–2021
- Giorgio ArmaniItalian fashion designer · 1934–2025
- Ingvar KampradSwedish business magnate · 1926–2018
- Quincy JonesAmerican record producer and composer · 1933–2024
- Adolf ButenandtGerman biochemist · 1903–1995
- Erik EriksonAmerican German-born psychoanalyst & essayist · 1902–1994
- Jan TinbergenDutch economist · 1903–1994
- Julia ChildAmerican chef · 1912–2004
- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-SabahEmir of Kuwait · 1929–2020
- Zygmunt BaumanPolish philosopher and sociologist · 1925–2017
- Manfred EigenGerman biophysical chemist · 1927–2019
- Alain Resnais ↗French film director · 1922–2014
- Kenzō Tange ↗Japanese architect · 1913–2005
- Raymond Davis Jr. ↗American scientist · 1914–2006
- Val Logsdon Fitch ↗American physicist · 1923–2015
- Vladimir Prelog ↗Bosnian-Swiss chemist · 1906–1998
- Lajos Kossuth ↗Hungarian politician · 1802–1894
- Fernando Botero ↗Colombian painter and sculptor · 1932–2023
- William Lipscomb ↗Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist · 1919–2011
- Greer Garson ↗British-American actress · 1904–1996
- Hiroo Onoda ↗Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer · 1922–2014
- Jean-Louis Trintignant ↗French actor · 1930–2022
- Dave Brubeck ↗American jazz pianist and composer · 1920–2012
- Elihu Root ↗American politician · 1845–1937
- Hans von Euler-Chelpin ↗Swedish scientist · 1873–1964
- Carlos Saura ↗Spanish photographer and film director · 1932–2023
- Amintore Fanfani ↗Italian politician statesman · 1908–1999
- Joseph Erlanger ↗American doctor · 1874–1965
- Robert Wise ↗American film director, film producer and film editor · 1914–2005
- George Kennedy ↗American actor · 1925–2016
- John VI Kantakouzenos ↗Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354 · c. 1292–1383
- Mary Somerville ↗Scottish scientist, writer and polymath · 1780–1872
- Oliver Smithies ↗Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 · 1925–2017
- Giovanni Gronchi ↗3rd President of Italy · 1887–1978
- Nnamdi Azikiwe ↗First President of Nigeria · 1904–1996
- Yaşar Kemal ↗Kurdish writer and human rights activist · 1923–2015
- Hans Kelsen ↗Austrian lawyer · 1881–1973
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ↗Indian spiritual master · 1917–2008
- Piper Laurie ↗American actress · 1932–2023
- Samuel Goldwyn ↗Polish-American film producer · 1882–1974
- Irene Dunne ↗American actress and singer · 1898–1990
- Jean-Henri Fabre ↗French entomologist and author · 1823–1915
- Konstantinos Karamanlis ↗Greek politician and lawyer (1907–1998), Prime Minister of Greece intermittently between 1955–80, President from 1980–85, 1990–95 · 1907–1998
- Axel Munthe ↗Swedish physician · 1857–1949
- Samuel Smiles ↗Scottish writer and journalist · 1812–1904
- Toshiki Kaifu ↗Japanese politician · 1931–2022
- Eleanor Parker ↗American actress · 1922–2013
- Francesco Hayez ↗Italian painter · 1791–1882
- Harry Dean Stanton ↗American actor · 1926–2017
- James A. Van Allen ↗American astrophysicist · 1914–2006
- Philip Zimbardo ↗American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment · 1933–2024
- Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt ↗Queen consort of Iran from 1941 to 1948 · 1921–2013
- Rudolf Bultmann ↗German theologian · 1884–1976
- Viktor Shklovsky ↗Soviet Jewish writer · 1893–1984
- Dino Risi ↗Italian film director · 1916–2008
- Esther Williams ↗American swimmer, actress and singer · 1921–2013
- Joseph Radetzky von Radetz ↗Czech nobleman and Austrian general · 1766–1858
- Kees van Dongen ↗Dutch painter · 1877–1968
- Edwin G. Krebs ↗American biochemist · 1918–2009
- Ne Win ↗Military leader and head of state of Burma from 1962 to 1988 · 1911–2002
- William Powell ↗American actor · 1892–1984
- Abdul Rahman Arif ↗President of Iraq from 1966 to 1968 · 1916–2007
- Brendan the Navigator ↗Irish monastic saint · c. AD 486–577
- Dino De Laurentiis ↗Italian film producer · 1919–2010
- Fouad Mebazaa ↗Tunisian politician · 1933–2025
- John Turner ↗17th Prime Minister of Canada · 1929–2020
- Joost van den Vondel ↗Dutch poet and writer · 1587–1679
- Margherita Hack ↗Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer · 1922–2013
- Neil Simon ↗American playwright, writer, and academic · 1927–2018
- Osamu Yamaji ↗Japanese association football player · 1929–2021
- Quett Masire ↗President of Botswana · 1925–2017
- Ghulam Ishaq Khan ↗7th President of Pakistan · 1915–2006
- Hubert de Givenchy ↗French fashion designer · 1927–2018
- John Vincent Atanasoff ↗American computer pioneer · 1903–1995
- Michel Tournier ↗French writer · 1924–2016
- René Girard ↗French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science · 1923–2015
"c." means only the years are known, so the age could be a year out. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.
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