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Deaths in June 1991

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ22988826 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1991

1

Charlie Brackins, 59, American football player (Green Bay Packers).

Gordon Jackson, 67, Australian businessman.

David Ruffin, 50, American singer (The Temptations), crack cocaine overdose.

Árpád Soós, 78, Hungarian zoologist, entomologist and museologist.

Toshio Usami, 83, Japanese Olympic field hockey player (1932).

2

Ahmed Arif, 64, Turkish-Kurdish poet, heart attack.

John Coughlan, 56, Australian politician.

Editorial summary

“Deaths in June 1991” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deaths, June and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deaths, June and Wikimedia.
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“Deaths in June 1991” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Deaths, June and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22988826. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in June 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.