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Deaths in August 1991

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ22988829 ↗
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1991.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

August 1991

1

Helen Page Camp, 60, American actress (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), stroke.

Carmine Fatico, 81, American mobster and caporegime in the Gambino crime family.

John Gilchrist, 51, Scottish football player.

Yusuf Idris, 64, Egyptian playwright and novelist, heart attack.

Chris Short, 53, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers), complications from a brain aneurysm.

Vlado Šegrt, 83, Yugoslav and Bosnian partisan, politician and political commissar.

2

Marcel Blistène, 80, French film director.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Deaths in August 1991” as wikimedia list article. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Deaths, August and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia list article. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22988829. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in August 1991” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.