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the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
the National Art Museum of Ukraine's (pictured) collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?
when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991?
Zentropa is the name of both Lars von Trier's production company and his third theatrical feature film, released in 1991?
Klarälven, Sweden's longest river, was the last Swedish river where log driving was practiced, ending in 1991?
Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991?
Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon and was murdered on 4 July 1991, following an extortion attempt on his family?
"Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?

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1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year that started on a Tuesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1991st year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 991st year of the 2nd millennium; the 91st year of the 20th century; and the 2nd of the 1990s.

The year number was a palindrome, the following being in 2002.

Contents:
Events of 1991 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel prizes Ship events See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1991

January

January 4 – The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
January 11 – Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
January 12 – Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.
January 13 – Soviet troops assault the Vilnius TV tower in Lithuania and kill 14 unarmed civilians; about 160 more are injured.
January 13 – A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead.
January 15 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
January 16 – U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
January 16 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
January 17 – Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel.
January 17 – Harald V of Norway becomes king on the death of his father, Olav V.
January 18 – Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years, citing financial problems.
January 19 – A SCUD attack on Tel Aviv injures 15 people.
January 19 – The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola.
January 22 – Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people; 3 elderly people die of heart attacks.
January 22 – British Army SAS patrol, Bravo Two Zero is deployed in Iraq during the Gulf War.
^ CBS Evening News -- Mar 14, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / United States War Dead .
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^ Adaptation: eastern midwestern United States.
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All but one of eight members are killed or captured.
January 29 – Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.

February

February 1 – A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.
February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
February 7 – Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
February 7 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
February 7 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
February 9 – Voters in Lithuania support independence.
February 11 – UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
February 13 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. .United States military intelligence claims it was a military facility but Iraqi officials identify it as a bomb shelter.
February 15 – The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
February 18 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning, at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
February 22 – Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement.
^ NBC Evening News -- Mar 12, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / United Nations .
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^ U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq .
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^ U.S. and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire .
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.The U.S. rejects the agreement, but says that retreating Iraqi forces will not be attacked if they leave Kuwait within 24 hours.
February 23 – The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
February 23 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état.
February 25 – Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers.
^ CBS Evening News -- Mar 05, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / Kuwait City Zoo .
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^ CBS Evening News -- Mar 03, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / United States Military / Marines .
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^ CBS Evening News -- Mar 02, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / Iraq / Kuwait / Palestinians .
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.It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.
February 26 – Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
^ Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated .
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^ CBS Evening News -- Mar 05, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / Kuwait City Zoo .
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^ ABC Evening News -- Mar 02, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / Kuwait / Amphibious Threat .
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Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.

March

March–April – Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.
March 1 – The ballistic missile submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 is deactivated.
March 1 – Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
March 3 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers.
March 3 – Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
March 3 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing all 25 people on board.
March 9 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
March 10 – Gulf War – Operation Phase Echo: 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
March 11 – A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa, after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
March 13 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
March 14 – After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a public house in a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
March 15 – Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
March 15 – Germany formally regains complete independence after the 4 post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
March 26 – In Mali, military officers led by Amadou Toumani Touré arrest President Moussa Traore and suspend the constitution.
March 26 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay signed the Treaty of Asunción, establishing South Common Market (Mercosur its acronym in Spanish)
March 30 – Northern Michigan University wins the NCAA Division I title in hockey, 8–7 in the third overtime against Boston University.
March 31 – Albania has its first multi-party elections.
March 31 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Georgia votes for independence from the Soviet Union.

April

April 1 – Comedy Central is launched in its current format.
April 3 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The Resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism.
^ U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq .
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^ U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration .
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^ U.S. and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire .
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.Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6.
April 4 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and 6 others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
April 4 – William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.
April 5 – Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.
April 9 – The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
April 10 – A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites).
April 10 – The Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
April 14 – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
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^ NBC Evening News -- Mar 14, 1991 : Commentary (Israel, United States and Negotiations) .
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^ ABC Evening News -- Mar 25, 1991 : Iraq / Rebellion / United States Role .
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Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
April 15 – Inauguration of the EBRD.
April 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, at 3,004.46.
April 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.
April 22 – The Social Democratic Party of Albania is founded.
April 22 – A 7.6 earthquake kills 82 in Costa Rica and Panama.
April 26 – 70 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas.
April 29 – A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.

May

May 4 – Sweden wins the 36th Eurovision Song Contest.
May 15 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
May 16 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
May 21 – In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated.
May 21 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
May 24 – Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Operation Solomon commences.
May 25 – The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8–0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
May 26 – In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on-board.
May 29 – In Bari, Red Star Belgrade wins the European Cup in football.

June

June 3 – Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
June 5 – STS 40: Space Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab into orbit.
June 9 – A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface. .The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted.
June 12 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the 15 Soviet republics.
June 12 – The Chicago Bulls win their 1st NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 1.
June 13 – A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open.
June 15 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in what will be the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 800.
June 17 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
June 17 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
June 23 – Mesut Yılmaz, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (48th government)
June 23 – The first Sonic the Hedgehog game published by Sega.
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^ Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts .
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^ President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died .
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It's also the starting point of the Sonic the Hedgehog series ever since.
June 23–28 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment. Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles.
June 25 – Collapse of Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
June 28 – COMECON dissolved.

July

July 1 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
July 7 – The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day war in Slovenia.
July 10 – Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
July 11 – A solar Eclipse of record totality occurs, seen first in Hawaii then enters Mexico with the path directly crosses Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City seen by 20 million inhabitants, and finally ends in Colombia in South America.
July 22 – Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
July 22 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment.
^ Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep .
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^ Sharmell Sullivan (Gary, Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America .
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^ Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant .
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Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
July 24 – The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
July 31 – Warsaw Treaty Organization officially dissolved in accordance with a protocol calling for a “transition to all-European structures”.

August

August 4 – The Cruise Liner MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa and all 571 passengers onboard are safely evacuated.
August 6 – Tim Berners-Lee announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.
August 7 – Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated.
August 8 – The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
August 13 – The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or "Super Nintendo") is released in the United States.
August 17 – Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
August 19 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup.
^ Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev .
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^ Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States .
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^ Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa .
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The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
August 20 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
August 21 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
August 24 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
August 25 – Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
August 25 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
August 27 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
August 29 – Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile.
August 30 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
August 31 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.

September

September 2 – The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
September 5–7 – At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and seven men are assaulted.
September 6 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states.
September 6 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
September 8 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
September 9 – Tajikistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
September 17 – North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
September 19 – Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.
September 20–21 – In Sandy, Utah, several patients are held hostage and a nurse is killed in the Alta View Hospital hostage incident.
September 21 – Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
September 21–30 – Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program.
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^ Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence .
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^ North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists .
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Iraqi officials confiscate documents from UN weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. A 4-day standoff ensues. Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions.
September 21 – The Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of German tongue (Orden der Schwestern der Perpetuellen Indulgenz deutscher Zunge, "O.S.P.I.") is founded in Heidelberg by Erzmutter (Archmother) Johanna Indulgentia Tara Maria Benedicta O.S.P.I.
September 21 – AFL Grand Final: Hawthorn Hawks defeat West Coast Eagles by 53 points at Waverley Park, the final score 20.19.139 – 13.8.86.
September 22 – The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
September 30 – Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed from power.
September 30 – A twister destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.

October

October 2 – Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
October 8 – The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia.
October 11 – In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR.
October 11 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful".
October 11–13 – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
October 12 – Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by its Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
October 14 – The Bulgarian right wing opposition celebrates the end of the rule of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
October 15 – United States Senate votes 52–48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.
October 16 – George Hennard guns down 24 people in Killeen, Texas before killing himself.
October 20 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
October 20 – The Harare Declaration lays down the membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations.
October 27 – The first free parliamentary elections are held in Poland.
October 27 – Turkmenistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
October 27 – The Minnesota Twins win the World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
October 29 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

November

November 2 – Australia beats England 12–6 at Twickenham Stadium to win the Rugby World Cup.
November 5 – The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
November 5 – David Duke, a white separatist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin despite winning the majority of the white vote.
November 6 – The KGB officially stops operations.
November 6 – CPSU, and its republic-level division, Communist Party of the Russian SFSR, banned in the Russian SFSR by Presidential decree N 169.
November 7 – Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
November 7 – The last oil well fire in Kuwait is extinguished.
November 7 – The first report on Carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature.
November 9 – The British JET fusion reactor generates 1.5 MW output power.
November 14 – American and British authorities announce indictments against 2 Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
November 14 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.
November 14 – Kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
November 18 – Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.
November 20 – Süleyman Demirel of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (49th government, coalition partner CHP).
November 23 – Freddie Mercury, the flamboyant lead singer, frontman and co-founder of British rock group Queen announced in a public statement that he had AIDS.
November 24 – Freddie Mercury, the lead singer and frontman of British rock group Queen dies.
^ Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup .
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^ Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Los Angeles Lakers .
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^ All American Bowl ends after 14 years .
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The official cause of death is bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
November 27 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
November 28 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

December

December 1 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum.
December 4 – Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
December 4 – Pan American World Airways ends operations.
December 8 – Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Białowieża Forest Nature Reserve in Belarus.
December 8 – A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid.
December 12 – Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR denounced Union Treaty of 1922 and ratified Belavezha Accords instead.
December 15 – The Egyptian ferry Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450.
December 19 – Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the new prime minister of Australia.
December 20 – A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
December 21 – The North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NAC-C) meets for the first time, the day on which the Soviet Union ceases to exist.
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^ Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty .
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^ Pan American World Airways ceased operations .
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December 22 – One month after Freddie Mercury's death, Queen's re-release of Bohemian Rhapsody returns to the top of the British singles charts, 16 years after the original version.
December 24 – Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin send a letter to UN Secretary-General, stating that Russian Federation (RSFSR) should be a successor to collapsing Soviet Union.
December 25 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already disbanded; the 73-year-old state is now expected to dissolve completely.
December 25 – Russian SFSR officially changed its name to Russian Federation (Russia)
December 26 – The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.

Undated

The University of South Australia is founded.
Impostor James Hogue is exposed at Princeton University.
The Ely Petrol Riots occur.

Ongoing

**1991 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1991 MCMXCI
Ab urbe condita	2744
Armenian calendar	1440 ԹՎ ՌՆԽ
Bahá'í calendar	147 – 148
Bengali calendar	1398
Berber calendar	2941
Buddhist calendar	2535
Burmese calendar	1353
Byzantine calendar	7499 – 7500
Chinese calendar	庚午年十一月十六日 (4627/4687-11-16) — to — 辛未年十一月廿六日 (4628/4688-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1707 – 1708
Ethiopian calendar	1983 – 1984
Hebrew calendar	5751 – 5752
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2046 – 2047
- Shaka Samvat	1913 – 1914
- Kali Yuga	5092 – 5093
Holocene calendar	11991
Iranian calendar	1369 – 1370
Islamic calendar	1411 – 1412
Japanese calendar	Heisei 3 (平成3年)
Korean calendar	4324
Thai solar calendar	2534
Unix time	662688000 – 694223999

Births

January–March

January 2 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian Rules footballer
January 4 – Pascal Bodmer, German Ski Jumper
January 8 – Hinoi Asuka, Japanese singer
January 12 – Pixie Lott, British singer
January 15 – Rubab Raza, Pakistan swimmer
January 16 – Julie Dubela, American singer
January 19 – Erin Sanders, American actress
January 21 – Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
January 28 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
February 10 – Emma Roberts, American actress
February 10 – Ceng De Ping, Taiwanese singer
February 16 – Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
February 17 – Bonnie Wright, English actress
February 18 – Malese Jow, American actress
February 18 – Henry Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2009)
February 25 – Gerran Howell, Welsh actor
February 28 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
March 4 – Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and model
March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor
March 11 – Qian Lin, Chinese singer
March 15 – Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
March 23 – George William Carnegie, British noble
March 26 – Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress
March 26 – Jack Watts, Australian rules footballer
March 28 – Amy Bruckner, American actress

April–June

April 4 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
April 10 – Amanda Michalka, American singer and actress
April 10 – Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
April 15 – Daiki Arioka, Japanese singer (Hey! Say! JUMP)
April 18 – Joey Gaydos, American actor and guitarist
April 20 – Thomas Curtis, American actor
April 27 – Rebecca Ryan, British actress
April 28 – Aleisha Allen, American actress
May 17 – Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
May 19 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer
May 21 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
May 24 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
May 26 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American stage actress
May 29 – Kristen Alderson, American actress
June 4 – Jordan Hinson, American actress
June 18 – Willa Holland, American model and actress
June 19 – Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
June 27 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress
June 30 – Kaho, Japanese actress

July–September

July 5 – Jason Dolley, American actor
July 6 – Victoire Thivisol, French actress
July 7 – Devon Alan, American actor
July 9 – Mitchel Musso, American actor
July 10 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese singer
July 12 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
July 14 – Lewis McGibbon, British actor
July 20 – William Tomlin, British actor
July 28 – Rina Aizawa, Japanese actress
July 29 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer
July 30 – Diana Vickers, British singer
August 6 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
August 16 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
August 16 – Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
August 17 – Qory Sandioriva, Putri Indonesia 2009
August 21 – Tess Gaerthé, Dutch singer and actress
August 28 – Kyle Massey, American actor
September 4 – Carter Jenkins, American actor
September 5 – Skandar Keynes, British actor
September 6 – Ashli Adams, American actress
September 12 – Kristin Klabunde, American actress
September 17 – Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
September 20 – Spencer Locke, American Actress
September 21 – Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress
September 23 – Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
September 25 – Emmy Clarke, American actress

October–December

October 2 – Emma Maree Urquhart, Scottish Novelist and Artist
October 4 – Nicolai Kielstrup, Danish singer
October 14 – Shona McGarty, English Actress
October 15 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter
October 19 – Christopher Gerse, American actor
October 23 – Sophie Tamiko Oda, Japanese American actress
October 31 – Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
November 6 – Camila Finn, Brazilian model
November 11 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
November 22 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer
December 3 – Masahiro Usui, Japanese actor
December 9 – Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian prince
December 12 – Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
December 13 – Jay Greenberg, American music composer
December 19 – Declan Galbraith, British singer

Deaths

January

Olav V of Norway

January 2 – Renato Rascel, Italian actor and singer (b. 1927)
January 3 – Luke Appling, American baseball player (b. 1907)
January 5 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
January 8 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (b. 1960)
January 11 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
January 12 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (b. 1904)
January 12 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (b. 1913)
January 14 – Salah Khalaf (aka Abu Iyad), Palestinian officer (b. 1933)
January 17 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
January 22 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
January 28 – Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)
January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
January 29 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
January 30 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
January 30 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)

February

February 1 – Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
February 2 – Pete Axthelm, sportswriter (b. 1943)
February 3 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
February 5 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
February 5 – Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Catholic priest, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1907)
February 6 – María Zambrano, Spanish essayist and philosopher (b. 1904)
February 6 – Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
February 6 – Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
February 7 – Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
February 13 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
February 14 – John McCone, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1902)
February 16 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contras leader (b. 1932)
February 21 – John Sherman Cooper, a U.S. Republican senator
February 21 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
February 24 – John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist and game show host (b. 1914)
February 24 – Héctor Rial, Argentinian footballer (b. 1928)
February 24 – George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
February 24 – Jean Rogers, American actress (b. 1916)

March

H. John Heinz III

March 1 – Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid instant camera (b. 1909)
March 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
March 3 – Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
March 3 – William Penney, Baron Penney, British nuclear physicist (b. 1909)
March 7 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
March 12 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900)
March 13 – Jimmy McPartland, American jazz musician (b. 1907)
March 14 – Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)
March 14 – Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
March 15 – George Sherman, American film director (b. 1908)
March 18 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1898)
March 21 – Leo Fender, Greek-American instrument maker (b. 1909)
March 25 – Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic bishop who fought for Catholic Tradition (b. 1905)
March 27 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
March 29 – Lee Atwater, American Presidential advisor (b. 1951)

April

April 1 – Paulo Muwanga, Ugandese military officer and statesman, former head of State and Prime Minister (b. 1924)
April 1 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
April 1 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean right-wing politician (b. 1946)
April 3 – Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
April 3 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
April 4 – H. John Heinz III, U.S. Senator (b. 1938)
April 4 – Louis Guglielmi, French composer (b. 1916)
April 4 – Forrest Towns, American runner (b. 1914)
April 4 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
April 5 – Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
April 5 – John Tower, former Republican Senator from Texas (b. 1929)
April 7 – Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1899)
April 8 – Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin, Swedish singer (b. 1969)
April 10 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
April 10 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
April 16 – David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
April 17 – Jack Yellen, American lyricist (b. 1892)
April 18 – Barry Rogers, American jazz and salsa trombonist (b. 1935)
April 19 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
April 20 – Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian Communist leader, former Party General Secretary, Prime Minister and Head of State (b. 1916)
April 20 – Steve Marriott, English musician (b. 1947)
April 20 – Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
April 26 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist (b. 1909)
April 28 – Ken Curtis, American actor (b. 1916)
April 28 – Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer (b. 1911)
April 29 – Gonzaguinha, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1945)
April 29 – Claude Gallimard, French editor

May–June

May 1 – Richard Thorpe, American film director (b. 1896)
May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American writer (b. 1933)
May 3 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
May 6 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (b. 1903)
May 7 – Dennis Crosby, American singer (b. 1934)
May 8 – Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (b. 1907)
May 8 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary (b. 1914)
May 15 – Shintaro Abe, Japanese Politician (b. 1924)
May 15 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
May 18 – Edwina Booth, American actress (b. 1904)
May 21 – Lino Brocka, Filipino film director (b. 1939)
May 21 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
May 22 – Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905)
May 23 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895)
May 27 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
May 29 – Coral Browne, Australian actress (b. 1913)
June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
June 3 – Maurice Krafft, (b. 1946) and Katia Krafft (b. 1942), French volcanologists
June 3 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-born actress (b. 1899)
June 5 – Larry Kert, American actor (b. 1930)
June 5 – Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (b. 1913)
June 6 – Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
June 9 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
June 11 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
June 14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
June 15 – Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
June 18 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (b. 1922)
June 19 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
June 28 – Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910)

July–August

Michael Landon

July 1 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
July 2 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
July 4 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
July 5 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (b. 1901)
July 8 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
July 15 – Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (b. 1933)
July 16 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
July 18 – André Cools, Belgian politician (b. 1927)
July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
August 1 – Chris Short, American baseball pitcher (b. 1937)
August 3 – Ali Sabri, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
August 4 – Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
August 5 – Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
August 5 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist (b. 1917)
August 6 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist and newscaster (b. 1923)
August 8 – James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930)
August 11 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
August 13 – James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
August 22 – Colleen Dewhurst, American actress (b. 1924)
August 25 – Niven Busch, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1903)
August 30 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
August 30 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)

September–October

Frank Capra

Gene Roddenberry

September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
September 3 – Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
September 3 – Frank Capra, Italian-born film director (b. 1897)
September 4 – Charles Barnet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1913)
September 4 – Tom Tryon, American actor (b. 1926)
September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
September 8 – Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949)
September 8 – Alex North, American film composer (b. 1910)
September 10 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis champion (b. 1908)
September 13 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1901)
September 14– Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author (b. 1910)
September 15 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1905)
September 17 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
September 24 – Dr. Seuss, American author (b. 1904)
September 25 – Klaus Barbie, German Gestapo leader in Lyon (b. 1913)
September 25 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
September 28 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
October 6 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet and composer (b. 1956)
October 11 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
October 12 – Aline MacMahon, American actress (b. 1899)
October 12 – Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
October 17 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer (b. 1919)
October 24 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
October 28 – Sylvia Fine, American lyricist (b. 1913)
October 31 – Joseph Papp, American theater producer (b. 1921)

November–December

Freddie Mercury

November 2 – Irwin Allen, American film and television producer (b. 1941)
November 5 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
November 5 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
November 6 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
November 9 – Yves Montand, French actor and singer (b. 1921)
November 14 – Tony Richardson, English film and theater director (b. 1928)
November 18 – Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovakian president (b. 1913)
November 21 – Daniel Mann, American film director (b. 1912)
November 23 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
November 24 – Eric Carr, American drummer (b. 1950)
November 24 – Anton Furst, American art director (b. 1944)
November 24 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (b. 1946)
November 29 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
December 1 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
December 9 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
December 10 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
December 11 – Robert Q. Lewis, American radio and television personality (b. 1920)
December 12 – Eleanor Boardman, American actress (b. 1898)
December 15 – Vasily Zaitsev, Russian World War II hero (b. 1915)
December 15 – Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
December 18 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
December 28 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1941)

Ship events

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Chemistry – Richard R. Ernst
Medicine – Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
Literature – Nadine Gordimer
Peace – Aung San Suu Kyi
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Ronald Coase

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Games released in 1991.

Year:

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Subcategories

This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.

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R

S

T

The 3DO Company

Pages in category "1991"

The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.

2

2-Hot 2-Handle

A

B

Battletoads
Bells & Whistles
Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
Blaster Master
Boku Dracula-Kun
Boxxle II
A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia
Bubble Bobble
Burai Fighter
Burning Fight

C

Castelian
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
Chuck Rock
Civilization
Crackout
Cruise for a Corpse

D

Detana!! TwinBee
Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki da yo Zenin Shūgō!
Dragon's Curse

F

F cont.

G

Golden Axe II

H

I

The Immortal

K

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters
The King of Dragons

L

L'Empereur
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Lemmings
Loom

M

Mega Man 4
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

N

P

R

S

The Secret of Monkey Island
Sengoku
Sid Meier's Pirates!
SimAnt
SimCity
The Simpsons
Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship

S cont.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (8-bit)
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
Steel Gunner 2
Street Fighter Zero
Street Gangs
Streets of Rage
Sunset Riders
Super Baseball 2020
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario World
Super Pang (Sachen)
Super Sega
Super Soccer
Super Tennis
Super World Stadium

T

Tank Force
Tecmo Bowl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
ToeJam & Earl
Total Recall
Treasure Master

W

Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
Wolverine
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
Wonder Boy in Monster World

Y

Yoshi

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Decades

1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s - 2010s

Years

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

A timeline of events that took place in 1991.

Console hardware releases

Nintendo

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- United States - August 13

While Nintendo initially dominated the market with its' 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, released in 1985, Sega gained momentum when its' 16-bit Genesis machine hit the market in 1988. Facing loss of marketshare and an aging console, Nintendo reluctantly designed a new machine. Ten months after the Super Famicom was released in Japan, Nintendo replaced the Nintendo Entertainment System with the SNES in America. The system, which would go on to sell over 49 million units worldwide, included Super Mario World and retailed for US$199.

Notable software releases

Unknown dates:

Street Fighter II (Arcade)

The mega-popular fighting series receives an overhaul.

March:

March 4 - Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (PC)

The fourth Space Quest adventure sees Roger Wilco travel in time, both back to a prior game in the series and forward to a fictional future game.

June:

June 23 - Sonic the Hedgehog (game) (Genesis)

A fast-paced side-scrolling platformer, Sonic was designed as Sega's new mascot to steal thunder from rival Nintendo's Mario character.

July:

July 19 - Final Fantasy IV (SNES)

This Japanese RPG finds Cecil Harvey uncovering a plot to steal the Crystals of the world.

August:

Unknown day - SimCity (SNES)

The wildly-popular city-building simulation receives a release for the new home console.

August 13 - Super Mario World (SNES)

New to the classic Mario series were Yoshi and the Super Feather, a Raccoon Suit-like powerup giving Mario a cape and allowing him to fly.

August 15 - Ninja Gaiden (as Shadow Warriors, NES)

Shadow Warriors was the European release of Ninja Gaiden.

August 29 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

The final chapter of the Super Mario Bros. saga to grace the NES is released in Europe.

November:

November 1 - Ninja Gaiden (Game Gear)

Beat 'em up action on the go was the focus of this Sega release.

November 11 - Ax Battler (Game Gear)

A spin-off of Golden Axe, this hybrid adventure/action RPG was seen as a refined clone of Zelda II, featuring random battles with a side-scrolling perspective.

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1988 1989 1990 - 1991 - 1992 1993 1994

1991 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Home video - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country, Metal) Rail transport - Radio - Science
Sports - Television - Video gaming
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Marriages - Deaths - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

.Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar).^ The year 1991 (MCMXCI) of the Gregorian Calendar began and ended on a Tuesday .

1991 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.mahalo.com [Source type: General]

.The year 1991 is also significant because it was a palindrome year: the number is the same read forwards or backwards.^ Children under 15 years of age have had a 60% reduction in the number of all traffic deaths between 1991 and 2006!!

California Traffic Fatalities 1991-2008 SWITRS 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC cacrash.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The massing of the same 4 planets in Leo that the Magi had seen almost 2000 years earlier was soon to appear in the late summer sky of 1991!

The Year of His Coming: 1991 - Part I 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.theopenscroll.com [Source type: Original source]

^ For the first time in a number of years, the MSL returned the same teams for the new season.

The Year in American Soccer, 1991 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.sover.net [Source type: News]

The next palindrome year was 2002. 1991 and 2002 are the closest palindromic years to each other, because there will not be another one until 2112.

The year 1991 is designated in the Chinese calendar the Year of the Sheep (Ram or Goat).

Events of 1991

January

January 1 - The Colorado Buffaloes claim college football's national championship with a 10-9 win over Notre Dame in the 1991 Orange Bowl.
^ January 27: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills to win Super Bowl XXV. .
1991@Everything2.com 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.everything2.com [Source type: General]
^ Football: The New York Giants win Super Bowl XXV, defeating the Buffalo Bills in a 20-19 nail-biter.
The History of Microsoft - 1991 | The History of Microsoft | Channel 9 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC channel9.msdn.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Thursday, 10/31/1991 Armstrong Hall, Colorado College , Colorado Springs, CO .
Setlists 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC phish.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.Controversy reigns as Colorado wins the AP poll, but Georgia Tech, the nation's only unbeaten team (with one tie), edges Colorado to win the UPI national championship by one point.
January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
January 9 - A major collapse of ground traps 26 miners 65m below the surface at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland.
^ Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll .
1991 in History 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.brainyhistory.com [Source type: General]
^ Apartheid was abolished in South Africa and the United Nations officially condemed the actions of Israel against Palestine .
1991 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.mahalo.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1943 the ANC's first attempt at such a document, African Claims, is modelled on this charter In 1948 the National Party wins the election (without gaining a majority of votes) and the policy of apartheid is officially born.
Constitutional Court of South Africa - The Constitution 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.constitutionalcourt.org.za [Source type: Original source]
.The 26 men have access to a safe refuge chamber, and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted.
January 11 - Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
January 12 - Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.
January 13
- Soviet troops assault the Vilnius TV tower in Lithuania and kill 14 unarmed civilians; many more are injured.
- A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Chiefs and Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead.
January 14 - Three PLO guerilla chiefs are assassinated in Tunis.
January 15 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
January 16
- U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
- Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.
January 17
- Gulf War: Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel.
- Harald V of Norway becomes King on the death of his father, Olav V.
January 18 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years, citing financial problems.
January 19 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth is founded in Luanda, Angola.
January 25 - The dynasty of the San Francisco 49ers comes to an end as the New York Giants defeat the 49ers, 15-13, in San Francisco.
^ ABC Evening News -- Feb 17, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / Iraq / Civilian Casualties .
Vanderbilt Television News Archive: Programs broadcast in February 1991 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC tvnews.vanderbilt.edu [Source type: News]
^ NBC Evening News -- Mar 12, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / United Nations .
Vanderbilt Television News Archive: Programs broadcast in March 1991 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC tvnews.vanderbilt.edu [Source type: News]
^ Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War (April 3); UN forces are victorious.
Information Please: 1991 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.infoplease.com [Source type: General]
The Giants win despite not scoring a touchdown, prevailing on five field goals by Matt Bahr.
January 26 - Somalia President Siad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
January 27 - The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
January 29 - Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.

February

February 1 - A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a Skywest Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport killing 34.
February 5 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
February 7
- Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
February 9 - Voters in Lithuania support independence.
February 11 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in the Hague, Netherlands.
February 13 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. .United States military intelligence claimed it was a military facility but Iraqi officials identified it as a bomb shelter.
February 15 - The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
February 18 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement.
^ January 18 : Gulf War : In an attempt to force Israel into the war, Saddam Hussein launches scud missiles into the cities of Tel Aviv , and Haifa .
1991 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.mahalo.com [Source type: General]
^ Security Council Resolution 687, which established the Gulf War cease-fire, provides, in the language of a U.S. State Department summary, for the lifting of all sanctions on Iraqi exports "when Iraq agrees to the destruction of its weapons of mass destruction and missiles, provides their locations to the Special Commission, and agrees not to acquire or develop them in the future, and when the Security Council approves the Secretary General's plan for the compensation fund."
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^ Fitzwater characterized those discussions as outside the written agreement governing the provisional cease-fire and said the reason that U.S. officials concerned themselves at all with Iraqi aircraft was to protect U.S. troops.
MEW1 10 February 2010 10:32 UTC www.hrw.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.The U.S. rejects the agreement, but said that retreating Iraqi forces would not be attacked if they left Kuwait within 24 hours.
February 23
- The One Meridian Plaza fire kills three firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
- Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
February 23 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état.

February 25 - Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers.
^ For instance, King Khalid Military City was attacked in the northern part of Saudi Arabia."
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^ February 23: General Sunthorn Kongsompong takes power in Thailand by military coup .
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^ September 3: A Grease fire kills 25 at a food processing plant in Hamlet , North Carolina .
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.It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.

February 26 - Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
^ Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated .
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^ The most highly publicized abuse by anti-government forces during the year was the October 7 summary execution by Kurdish rebels in Suleimaniyya of at least sixty captured, unarmed Iraqi soldiers.
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^ CBS Evening News -- Mar 05, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / Kuwait City Zoo .
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Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.

March

March-April - Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran.
March 1
- The ballistic missile submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 is deactivated.
- Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
March 3
- An investigative journalism piece airs on 60 Minutes about Werner Erhard, in which family members alleged physical and sexual abuse.
  ^ March-April: Iraqi forces suppress Kurdish and Shi'ite rebellions in the north and south, respectively.
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  ^ March 13: The United States Department of Justice orders Exxon to pay $1 billion in restitution for the Exxon-Valdez oil spill .
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  ^ As allied forces assumed responsibility for hundred of thousands of Kurds fleeing northern Iraq to Turkey, Secretary Baker was stronger in indicating that interference by Iraqi forces with international humanitarian assistance in any part of the country would not be tolerated.
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  Erhard had left the United States prior to the broadcast.
- An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
March 9 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
March 10 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
March 11 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
March 13 - The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
March 14 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
March 15
- Four Los Angeles police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
- Germany formally regains complete independence after the 4 post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
March 30 - Northern Michigan University wins the NCAA Division I title in hockey, 8-7 in the third overtime against Boston University.
March 31 - Albania has its first multi-party elections.

April

April 3 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism.
^ Applauding the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 687, which established the formal cease-fire with Iraq, the president said: .
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^ U.N. Security Council Resolution 688 of April 5, condemned "the repression of the Iraqi civilian population in many parts of Iraq," demanded that it cease, and insisted "that Iraq allow immediate access by international humanitarian organizations to all those in need of assistance in all parts of Iraq."
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^ Security Council Resolution 687, which established the Gulf War cease-fire, provides, in the language of a U.S. State Department summary, for the lifting of all sanctions on Iraqi exports "when Iraq agrees to the destruction of its weapons of mass destruction and missiles, provides their locations to the Special Commission, and agrees not to acquire or develop them in the future, and when the Security Council approves the Secretary General's plan for the compensation fund."
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.Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6.
April 4
- Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion.
- William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach sexual assault.
April 5 - Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, United States.
April 9 - The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence.
April 10
- A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites).
- Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
April 14 - In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
^ William Drozdiak, "Devastation in Southern Iraq," April 30, 1991.
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^ April 10: A ferry collides with an oil tanker off of Livorno , Italy , killing 140.
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^ Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 .
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.Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
April 17 - After approaching 3,000 in July 1990, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, at 3,004.46.
April 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.
April 26 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover.
^ Adaptation: most parts of the United States.
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^ April 26: Dozens of Tornados in Kansas and Oklahoma kill 26.
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^ With the approach of the first Women's World Championships (later retitled the Women's World Cup), being held in China, the USA for the first time established a 12 month full-time program for their national squad, much like that launched in 1988 for the men.
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(see Andover)
April 29 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.

May

May 15 - Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
May 16 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives a speech to the U.S. Congress.
May 21 - In Madras, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated.
May 24 - Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Operation Solomon commences.
May 26 - In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on-board.
May 28 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
May 29 - In Bari, Red Star Belgrade, Beograd wins Champions Cup in football.

June

June 3 - Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow (the victims are all either volcanologists or journalists).
June 9 - A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65m below the surface. .The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit was first alerted.
June 12 - Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the fifteen Soviet republics.
June 12 - The Chicago Bulls win their 1st NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 1.
June 13 - A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open.
June 15 - Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines.
June 17 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
June 17 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
June 23-June 28 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment.
^ President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died .
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^ The Aquarium Rescue Unit was the opening act.
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^ Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years .
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Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles.
June 25 -Collapse of Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
June 30 - Portugal wins the FIFA U-20 World Cup defeating Brazil on the final by 4-2, after penalty shoot out, in Lisbon, Portugal.

July

July 1 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
July 7 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day war in Slovenia.
July 10 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
July 22 - Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington, 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
July 23 - James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession.
July 22 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.
^ The Washington Post reported that from August 1990 until the end of the Gulf war, "the CIA reported periodically that it had not found substantial or unified opposition to receive such assistance."
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^ CBS Evening News -- Mar 11, 1991 : Persian Gulf War / Allied Remains .
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^ Yom Teruah, however, is always a transitional day, marking the beginning of not only a new month but also the new year on the annual civil calendar.
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They soon found out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
July 24 - The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
July 26 - Actor Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) is arrested in a Sarasota theater for publicly masturbating.

August

August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web."
August 7 - Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated.
August 8 - The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
August 13 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the United States.
August 17 - Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
August 19 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup.
^ The twenty-four to twenty-six million Kurds form a significant ethnic group in six regional states: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and the former Soviet Union.
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^ CBS Evening News -- Feb 13, 1991 : Germany / United States Embassy / Terrorist Attack .
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^ Pinay, Antoine, former Prime Minister, France.
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The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
August 24 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
August 25
- Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to a Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
- Michael Schumacher makes his Formula 1 debut in the Belgian Grand Prix.
August 27 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
August 29 - Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile.
August 31 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.

September

September 2 - The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
September 3 - In Hamlet, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
September 5-September 7 - At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and 7 men are assaulted.
September 6
- The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic States.
- The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
September 8 - The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
September 20-September 21 - In Sandy several patients are held hostage and a nurse is killed in the Alta View Hospital hostage incident.
September 21 - Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
September 21-September 30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program.
^ Basra: Iraq's second-largest city was the first to erupt.
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^ U.S. officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania .
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^ Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence .
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Iraqi officials confiscate documents from UN weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. A 4-day standoff ensues. Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions.
September 22 - The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
September 29 - Josh Layton, Son of Roger Layton, Co-founder of GoFetch Media and creator of the Mbrwiz is born.
September 30 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed from power.
September 30 - A twister destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.

October

October 2 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
October 8 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia.
October 11
- In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR.
- Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful".
October 11-October 13 - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
October 12 - Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by its Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
October 14 - Bulgarians celebrate the end of the rule of the Communist Party.
October 15 - After a bitter confirmation hearing, including sexual misconduct allegations by former aide Anita Hill, the United States Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.
October 16 - George Hennard guns down 24 people in Killeen before killing himself.
October 20
- The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
- The Harare Declaration lays down the membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations.
October 27
- The first free parliamentary elections are held in Poland.
- Turkmenistan declares its independence from the USSR.
- The Minnesota Twins win the World Series.
October 29 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

November

November 2 - Australia beats England 12-6 at Twickenham Stadium to lift the Rugby World Cup.
November 5
- The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean (he had fallen off his yacht near the Canary Islands).
- David Duke, a white supremacist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin.
November 6 - The KGB officially stops operations.
November 7
- Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his career in the NBA.
- The last oil well fire is put out in Kuwait.
- The first report on Carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature.
November 9 - JET fusion reactor generated 1.5 MW output power.

November 14
- American and British authorities announce indictments against 2 Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
- Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.
November 18
- Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
- Yugoslavian War-Serb troops take Vukovar after a 87-day siege and commit the worst massacre in Croatia.
Yugoslavian War-November 27 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavian War-November 29 - The Federal Yugoslavian Army begins to withdraw from Zagreb.

December

December 1 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum.
December 4
- Journalist Terry Anderson is released after 7 years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (he was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
- Pan American World Airways ends operations.
December 8
- Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus.
- A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid.
December 12 - The Russian SFSR ceases to be a part of the Soviet Union.
December 15 - The Egyptian ferry Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450.
December 19 - Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the new prime minister of Australia.
December 20 - A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
December 22 - One month after Freddie Mercury's death, Queen's re-release of Bohemian Rhapsody returns to the top of the British singles charts, 16 years after the original version.
December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already disbanded; the 73-year-old state is now expected to dissolve completely.
December 26 - The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
December 31 - The Soviet Union officially ceases to exist.

Undated

University of South Australia is founded.
Impostor James Hogue exposed in Princeton University
Winter - Centennial of Basketball.
Ely Petrol Riots.
International Year of Tibet.

Ongoing

Cold War.
Soviet Union.

**1991 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1991 MCMXCI
Ab urbe condita	2744
Armenian calendar	1440 ԹՎ ՌՆԽ
Bahá'í calendar	147 – 148
Buddhist calendar	2535
Coptic calendar	1707 – 1708
Ethiopian calendar	1983 – 1984
Hebrew calendar	5751 – 5752
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2046 – 2047
- Shaka Samvat	1913 – 1914
- Kali Yuga	5092 – 5093
Holocene calendar	11991
Iranian calendar	1369 – 1370
Islamic calendar	1411 – 1412
Japanese calendar	Heisei 3 (平成 3年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2651 (皇紀2651年)
Julian calendar	2036
Korean calendar	4324
Thai solar calendar	2534

Births

January-April

January 15 - Rubab Raza, Pakistan swimmer
January 16 - Julie Dubela, American singer
January 19 - Erin Sanders, American actress
January 21 - Paige and Ryanne Kettner, American actresses
January 21 - Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
February 10 - Emma Roberts, American actress
February 16 - Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
February 17 - Bonnie Wright, English actress
February 18 - Malese Jow, American actress
February 28 - Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
March 3 - * March 4 - Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and model
March 8 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor
March 16 - Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician
March 18 - Gage Guinn, American actor
March 23 - George William Carnegie, British noble
March 26 - Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress
March 28 - Amy Bruckner, American actress
April 4 - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
April 10 - Amanda Michalka, American singer and actress
April 10 - Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
April 20 - Thomas Curtis, American actor
April 27 - Rebecca Ryan, British actress

May - August

May 17 - Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
May 19 - Jordan Pruitt, American singer
May 21 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
May 24 - Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
May 26 - Julianna Rose Mauriello, American stage actress
May 29 - Kristen Alderson, American actress
June 4 - Jordan Hinson, American actress
June 18 - Willa Holland, American model and actress
June 27 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress
July 5 - Jason Dolley, American actor
July 6 - Victoire Thivisol, French actress
July 7 - Devon Alan, American actor
July 9 - Mitchel Musso, American actor
July 10- Maeda Atsuko, Japanese singer
July 12 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
July 14 - Lewis McGibbon, British actor
July 20 - William Tomlin, British actor
July 29 - Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer
August 15 - Abdus Ibrahim, American footballer
August 16 - Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
August 16 - Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
August 21 - Tess Gaerthé, Dutch singer and actress
August 28 - Kyle Massey, American actor

September - December

September 4 - Carter Jenkins, American actor
September 5 - Skandar Keynes, British actor
September 12 - Kristin Klabunde, American actress
September 21 - Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress
September 25 - Emmy Clarke, American actress
October 4 - Nicolai Kielstrup, Danish singer
October 19 - Christopher Gerse, American actor
October 31 - Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
November 6 - Camila Finn, Brazilian model
November 11 - Christa B. Allen, American actress
November 30 - Carnell Breeding, American singer
December 9 - Prince Joachim, Belgian prince
December 12 - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
December 13 - Jay Greenberg, American music composer
December 19 - Declan Galbraith, British singer

.For more musicians born in 1991, see 1991 in music.^ For more on the Iraqi missile attacks, see Middle East Watch, Needless Deaths in the Gulf War , November 1991.

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Deaths

January - June

January 5 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
January 8 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
January 11 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
January 17 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
January 29
- Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
- John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
January 30 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
February 2 - Pete Axthelm, sportswriter (b. 1943)
February 5 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
February 6
- Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
- Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
February 7 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. .1920)
February 14 - John McCone, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b.
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1902)
February 21
- John Sherman Cooper, a U.S. Republican senator
- Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. .1919)
February 24
- John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist and game show host (b.
  ^ Host of Tattletales TV game show .
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  ^ John Charles Daly .
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  1914)
- George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
March 1 - Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid™ instant camera (b. 1909)
March 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. .1928)
March 3 - Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b.
^ Founded Arthur Murray dance studios .
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.1895)
March 12 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
^ Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient .
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1900)
March 14
- Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)
- Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
March 21 - Leo Fender, instrument maker (b. 1909)
March 25 - Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic bishop who fought for Catholic Tradition (b. 1905)
March 29 - Lee Atwater, American Presidential advisor (b. 1951)
April 1 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
April 3
- Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
- Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
April 4
- Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
- H. John Heinz III, U.S. Senator (plane crash) (b. 1938)
- Forrest Towns, American runner (b. 1914)
- Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
April 5 - John Tower, former Republican Senator from Texas (b. 1929)
April 8 - Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin, vocalist for Mayhem/Morbid (suicide) (b. 1969)
April 10 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
April 19 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
April 20 - Steve Marriott, English musician (house fire) (b. 1947)
April 26 - Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
April 28
- Ken Curtis, American actor (b. 1916)
- Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer (b. 1911)
May 8
- Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (b. 1907)
- Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
May 14 - Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary (b. 1914)
May 15 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. .1956)
May 21 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b.
^ ABC Evening News -- Mar 06, 1991 : India / Prime Minister Resignation .
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1944)
May 22 - Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905)
May 24 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895)
May 27 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
June 1 - David Ruffin, American singer, The Temptations
June 3 - Maurice Krafft, (b. 1946) and Katia Krafft (b. 1942), volcanologists
June 5 - Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (b. 1913)
June 9 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
June 11 - Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
June 14 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
June 15 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

July - December

July 1 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
July 4 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (murdered) (b. 1936)
July 15 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (brain tumor) (b. 1933)
July 16 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
July 18 - André Cools, Belgian politician (assassinated) (b. .1927)
July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
July 31 - Baudouin I, King of the Belgians (b.
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1930)
August 1 - Chris Short, American baseball pitcher (b. 1937)
August 3 - Ali Sabri, Prime Minister of Egypt
August 4 - Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
August 5 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
August 8 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
August 11 - J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
August 13 - James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
August 14 - Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
August 30 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
August 30 - Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
September 2 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
September 3 - Dottie West, famous country music singer (b. 1932)
September 3 - Frank Capra, Italian-born film director (b. 1897)
September 7 - Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
September 8 - Brad Davis, American actor (AIDS) (b. 1949)
September 17 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
September 24 - Dr. Seuss, American children's author (b. 1904)
September 28 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
October 6 - Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet and composer, author of many anti-soviet songs (b. 1956)
October 11 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and star of the television show Sanford and Son (b. 1922)
October 17 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer (b. 1919)
October 22 - Leonora Knatchbull, daughter of Lord Romsey (b. 1986)
October 24 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer, creator of Star Trek (b. 1921)
November 5 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
November 18 - Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovakian president (b. 1913)
November 24 - Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (b. 1950)
November 24 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
December 1 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
December 6 - Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
December 10 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. .1901)
December 15 - Vasily Zaitsev, Russian World War II hero (b.
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1915)
December 16 - Horatio Luro, Argentine-born racehorse trainer (b. 1901)
December 18 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)

Ship events

Nobel prizes

People of the year 1991 at Familypedia

0 people were born in 1991

0 children were born to the 0 women born in 1991

14 people died in 1991

	Father	Mother	Age at death
Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)	Carl David Anderson (1878)	Emma Adolfina Ajaxson (1878)	8686
Ruby Apps (1906-1991)	William Apps (1861-1941)	Olive Mary Hannah Crouch (1877-1926)	8585
Geertje Beentjes (1907-1991)	Johannes Beentjes (?-?)	Maria Catharine de Boer (?-?)	8484
Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991)	Theodor Robert Geisel (1879-1968)	Henrietta Seuss (c1878-?)	8787
Ethel May Greenhalgh (1898-1991)	Thomas Howard Greenhalgh (1877-1921)	Maria Louise Reinke (1877-1955)	9393
Mabel Gertrude Lisenby (1900-1991)	William Alfred Lisenby (1876-1942)	Addie May Yearwood (1882-1958)	9191
Orville Henry Mitchell (1906-1991)	Asa Henry Mitchell (1878-1924)	Lulu Eva Jones (1887-1953)	8585
Fraser C. Robinson III (1935-1991)	Fraser Robinson, Jr. (1912-1996)	LaVaughn D Johnson (1915-2002)	5656
Eileen Margerite Talty (1897-1991)	Michael Edward Talty (1872-1954)	Mary Ellen McMahon	9494
John Denham Timberlake (1910-1991)	Charles Mitchell Timberlake (1867-1929)	Pricy Jennie Bartley (1886-1970)	8181
Jane Marie Trump (1920-1991)	Andrew John Trump (1888-1972)	Ruth Frederick (1893-1970)	7171
Alice Marian Washburg (1895-1991)	Elmer John Washburg (1875-1925)	Nellie Anderson (1873-1950)	9696
Carl Raney Woolsey (1904-1991)	Joseph Gilbert Woolsey (1876-1966)	Mertice May Chandler (1881-1943)	8787
Olav V of Norway (1903-1991)	Haakon VII of Norway (1872-1957)	Maud of Wales (1869-1938)

169 people lived in 1991

	Father	Mother
Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)	Carl David Anderson (1878)	Emma Adolfina Ajaxson (1878)
Ruby Apps (1906-1991)	William Apps (1861-1941)	Olive Mary Hannah Crouch (1877-1926)
Grace Enid Baglin (1933-2006)	Edward William Burgess Baglin (1906-1969)	Florence Eveline Jenner (1901-1994)
Marion Zena Baker (1908-1996)	William Josiah Baker (1875-1957)	Lydia Jessie Tracey (1877-1964)
Arthur Allan Bang (1922-2004)	Hans Bang (1897-1972)	Clara Anna Bertha Andersen (1897-1968)
Geertje Beentjes (1907-1991)	Johannes Beentjes (?-?)	Maria Catharine de Boer (?-?)
Donald E. Beers (1923-1998)	Pearl A. Beers (1888-1962)	Mary B. Nichols (1895-1960)
Eleanor C. Beers (1916-2004)	Pearl A. Beers (1888-1962)	Mary B. Nichols (1895-1960)
Ingrid of Sweden (1910-2000)	Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973)	Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920)
Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911-2004)	Bernhard zur Lippe (1872-1934)	Armgard von Sierstorpff-Cramm (1883-1971)
May Harriet Bowden (1906-1994)	George Bowden (1859-1943)	Emma Jane May (1861-1947)
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002)	Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855-1944)	Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862-1938)
Alice Edith Brand (c1905-1992)	George James Brand (c1862-c1935)	Augusta Christina Griffiths (c1863-c1942)
Ernest Brogden (1884-1939)	Ernest Brogden	Linda L. Lacey
William Ellis Buckingham	Claude Phillip Buckingham	Jessie Bell Locke
… further results

Events of the year 1991 at Familypedia

8 people were married in 1991.

	Joined with
Jennifer Louise Brayman (1969)	Benjamin Victor Lhotka (1968)
Benjamin Victor Lhotka (1968)	Jennifer Louise Brayman (1969)
Gillian M. McKay (1965-2000)	Eric Peter Tol (1963-)
Jodi Shinner (1970-)	James Andrew Tol (1970-)
Adri Tol (1961-)	Ellen de Wit (1965-)
Eric Peter Tol (1963-)	Gillian M. McKay (1965-2000)
James Andrew Tol (1970-)	Jodi Shinner (1970-)
Ellen de Wit (1965-)	Adri Tol (1961-)

There were 0 military battles in 1991.

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Simple English

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1988 1989 1990 - 1991 - 1992 1993 1994

1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

Communism in U.S.S.R. ends; the Cold War ends.
Daya Bay Nuclear Plant built in China.
Persian Gulf War – America goes to war with Iraq after Iraq invades Kuwait.

Births

January–March

January 2 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian Rules footballer
January 4 – Pascal Bodmer, German ski jumper
January 8 – Hinoi Asuka, Japanese singer
January 12 – Pixie Lott, British singer
January 15 – Rubab Raza, Pakistan swimmer
January 16 – Julie Dubela, American singer
January 19 – Erin Sanders, American actress
January 21 – Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
January 28 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
February 10 – Emma Roberts, American actress
February 10 – Ceng De Ping, Taiwanese singer
February 16 – Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
February 17 – Bonnie Wright, English actress
February 18 – Malese Jow, American actress
February 18 – Henry Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2009)
February 25 – Gerran Howell, Welsh actor
February 28 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
March 4 – Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and model
March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor
March 11 – Qian Lin, Chinese singer
March 15 – Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
March 23 – George William Carnegie, British noble
March 24 – Nate Vanderveen, Swedish-American musician
March 26 – Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress
March 26 – Jack Watts, Australian rules footballer
March 28 – Amy Bruckner, American actress

April–June

April 4 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
April 10 – Amanda Michalka, American singer and actress
April 10 – Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
April 15 – Daiki Arioka, Japanese singer (Hey! Say! JUMP)
April 18 – Joey Gaydos, American actor and guitarist
April 20 – Thomas Curtis, American actor
April 27 – Rebecca Ryan, British actress
April 28 – Aleisha Allen, American actress
May 17 – Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
May 19 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer
May 21 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
May 23 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
May 24 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
May 26 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American stage actress
May 29 – Kristen Alderson, American actress
June 4 – Jordan Hinson, American actress
June 4 – Megan Prescott and Kathryn Prescott, British actresses
June 18 – Willa Holland, American model and actress
June 19 – Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
June 27 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress
June 30 – Kaho, Japanese actress

July–September

July 5 – Jason Dolley, American actor
July 6 – Victoire Thivisol, French actress
July 7 – Devon Alan, American actor
July 9 – Mitchel Musso, American actor
July 10 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese singer
July 12 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
July 14 – Lewis McGibbon, British actor
July 20 – William Tomlin, British actor
July 28 – Rina Aizawa, Japanese actress
July 29 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer
July 30 – Diana Vickers, British singer
August 6 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
August 16 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
August 16 – Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
August 17 – Qory Sandioriva, Putri Indonesia 2009
August 21 – Tess Gaerthé, Dutch singer and actress
August 28 – Kyle Massey, American actor
September 4 – Carter Jenkins, American actor
September 5 – Skandar Keynes, British actor
September 6 – Ashli Adams, American actress
September 12 – Kristin Klabunde, American actress
September 17 – Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
September 20 – Spencer Locke, American Actress
September 21 – Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress
September 23 – Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
September 25 – Emmy Clarke, American actress

October–December

October 2 – Emma Maree Urquhart, Scottish Novelist and Artist
October 4 – Nicolai Kielstrup, Danish singer
October 14 – Shona McGarty, English Actress
October 15 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter
October 19 – Christopher Gerse, American actor
October 23 – Sophie Tamiko Oda, Japanese American actress
October 31 – Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
November 6 – Camila Finn, Brazilian model
November 11 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
November 15 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
November 22 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer
December 3 – Masahiro Usui, Japanese actor
December 9 – Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian prince
December 12 – Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
December 13 – Jay Greenberg, American music composer
December 19 – Declan Galbraith, British singer

Deaths

January

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Olav V of Norway

January 2 – Renato Rascel, Italian actor and singer (b. 1927)
January 3 – Luke Appling, American baseball player (b. 1907)
January 5 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
January 8 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (b. 1960)
January 11 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
January 12 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (b. 1904)
January 12 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (b. 1913)
January 14 – Salah Khalaf (aka Abu Iyad), Palestinian officer (b. 1933)
January 17 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
January 22 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
January 28 – Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)
January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
January 29 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
January 30 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
January 30 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)

February

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Margot Fonteyn

February 1 – Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
February 2 – Pete Axthelm, sportswriter (b. 1943)
February 3 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
February 5 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
February 5 – Pedro Arrupe, Spanish Catholic priest, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1907)
February 6 – María Zambrano, Spanish essayist and philosopher (b. 1904)
February 6 – Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
February 6 – Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
February 7 – Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
February 13 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
February 14 – John A. McCone, American politician, 6th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1902)
February 16 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contras leader (b. 1932)
February 21 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician (b. 1901)
February 21 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
February 24 – John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist and game show host (b. 1914)
February 24 – Héctor Rial, Argentinian footballer (b. 1928)
February 24 – George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
February 24 – Jean Rogers, American actress (b. 1916)

March

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March 1 – Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid instant camera (b. 1909)
March 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
March 3 – Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
March 3 – William Penney, Baron Penney, British nuclear physicist (b. 1909)
March 7 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
March 12 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900)
March 13 – Jimmy McPartland, American jazz musician (b. 1907)
March 14 – Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)
March 14 – Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
March 15 – George Sherman, American film director (b. 1908)
March 18 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1898)
March 21 – Leo Fender, Greek-American instrument maker (b. 1909)
March 25 – Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic bishop who fought for Catholic Tradition (b. 1905)
March 27 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
March 29 – Lee Atwater, American Presidential advisor (b. 1951)

April

File:John

H. John Heinz III

File:Tsedenbal

Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

April 1 – Paulo Muwanga, Ugandese military officer and statesman, former head of State and Prime Minister (b. 1924)
April 1 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
April 1 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean right-wing politician (b. 1946)
April 3 – Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
April 3 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
April 4 – H. John Heinz III, American politician (b. 1938)
April 4 – Louis Guglielmi, French composer (b. 1916)
April 4 – Forrest Towns, American runner (b. 1914)
April 4 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
April 5 – Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
April 5 – John Tower, American politician (b. 1929)
April 7 – Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1899)
April 8 – Per Yngve Ohlin, Swedish singer (b. 1969)
April 10 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
April 10 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
April 16 – David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
April 17 – Jack Yellen, American lyricist (b. 1892)
April 18 – Barry Rogers, American jazz and salsa trombonist (b. 1935)
April 19 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
April 20 – Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian Communist leader, former Party General Secretary, Prime Minister and Head of State (b. 1916)
April 20 – Steve Marriott, English musician (b. 1947)
April 20 – Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
April 26 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist (b. 1909)
April 28 – Ken Curtis, American actor (b. 1916)
April 28 – Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer (b. 1911)
April 29 – Gonzaguinha, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1945)
April 29 – Claude Gallimard, French editor

May

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Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

May 1 – Cesare Merzagora, Italian politician (b. 1898)
May 1 – Richard Thorpe, American film director (b. 1896)
May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American writer (b. 1933)
May 3 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
May 6 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (b. 1903)
May 7 – Dennis Crosby, American singer (b. 1934)
May 8 – Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (b. 1907)
May 8 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary, widow of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
May 15 – Shintaro Abe, Japanese Politician (b. 1924)
May 15 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
May 18 – Edwina Booth, American actress (b. 1904)
May 21 – Lino Brocka, Filipino film director (b. 1939)
May 21 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
May 22 – Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905)
May 23 – Jean Van Houtte, Belgian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1907)
May 23 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895)
May 27 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
May 29 – Coral Browne, Australian actress (b. 1913)
May 30 – Manolo Gómez Bur, Spanish actor (b. 1917)

June

File:Claudio

Claudio Arrau

June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
June 2 – Hailu Yimenu, Ethiopian politician, former Prime Minister
June 3 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
June 3 – Katia Krafft French volcanologist (b. 1942)
June 3 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-born actress (b. 1899)
June 5 – Larry Kert, American actor (b. 1930)
June 5 – Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist (b. 1913)
June 6 – Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
June 9 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
June 11 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
June 14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
June 15 – Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
June 17 – Pierre Jamet, French harpist (b. 1893)
June 18 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (b. 1922)
June 19 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
June 27 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch liberal politician, former leader of the VVD party (b. 1918)
June 28 – Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910)
June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1901)

July

File:Michael

Michael Landon

July 1 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
July 2 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
July 4 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
July 5 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (b. 1901)
July 5 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
July 6 – Anton Yugov, Bulgarian Communist politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1904)
July 8 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
July 15 – Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (b. 1933)
July 16 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
July 18 – André Cools, Belgian Socialist politician (b. 1927)
July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
July 25 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician, former member of the CPSU Politburo and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1893)
July 29 – Christian de Castries, French general (b. 1902)

August

File:Jim Irwin Apollo 15

James Irwin

August 1 – Chris Short, American baseball pitcher (b. 1937)
August 3 – Ali Sabri, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
August 4 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
August 5 – Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
August 5 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist (b. 1917)
August 6 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist and newscaster (b. 1923)
August 6 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1915)
August 8 – James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930)
August 11 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
August 13 – James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
August 16 – Luigi Zampa, Italian film-maker (b. 1905)
August 22 – Colleen Dewhurst, American actress (b. 1924)
August 22 – Boris Pugo, Latvian communist politician, Soviet minister of the Interior (b. 1937)
August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Russian marshall, former Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b. 1923)
August 25 – Niven Busch, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1903)
August 30 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
August 30 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)

September

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Frank Capra

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Gene Roddenberry

September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
September 3 – Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
September 3 – Frank Capra, Italian-born film director (b. 1897)
September 4 – Charles Barnet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1913)
September 4 – Tom Tryon, American actor (b. 1926)
September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
September 8 – Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949)
September 8 – Alex North, American film composer (b. 1910)
September 10 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis champion (b. 1908)
September 13 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1901)
September 14– Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author (b. 1910)
September 15 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1905)
September 17 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
September 24 – Dr. Seuss, American author (b. 1904)
September 25 – Klaus Barbie, German Gestapo leader in Lyon (b. 1913)
September 25 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
September 28 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)

October

October 6 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet and composer (b. 1956)
October 11 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
October 12 – Aline MacMahon, American actress (b. 1899)
October 12 – Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
October 17 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer (b. 1919)
October 24 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
October 28 – Sylvia Fine, American lyricist (b. 1913)
October 31 – Joseph Papp, American theater producer (b. 1921)

November

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Freddie Mercury

November 2 – Irwin Allen, American film and television producer (b. 1941)
November 5 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
November 5 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
November 6 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
November 9 – Yves Montand, French actor and singer (b. 1921)
November 14 – Tony Richardson, English film and theater director (b. 1928)
November 18 – Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovakian president (b. 1913)
November 21 – Daniel Mann, American film director (b. 1912)
November 23 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
November 24 – Eric Carr, American drummer (b. 1950)
November 24 – Anton Furst, American art director (b. 1944)
November 24 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (b. 1946)
November 29 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)

December

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Vasily Zaytsev

December 1 – George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
December 9 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
December 10 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
December 11 – Robert Q. Lewis, American radio and television personality (b. 1920)
December 12 – Eleanor Boardman, American actress (b. 1898)
December 15 – Vasily Zaytsev, Russian World War II hero (b. 1915)
December 15 – Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
December 18 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
December 28 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1941)

Films released

The Addams Family
Beauty and the Beast
Beethoven
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
City Slickers
The Doors
Father of the Bride
The Fisher King
Hook
JFK
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Silence of the Lambs
Sleeping with the Enemy
Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Hit songs

"American Music" – The Violent Femmes
"Baby Baby" – Amy Grant
"Black Or White" – Michael Jackson
"Bring The Noise" – Public Enemy and Anthrax
"Can't Stop This Thing We Started" – Bryan Adams
"Close My Eyes" – Marillion
"Do You Remember" – Phil Collins
"Don't Cry" – Guns N' Roses
"Enter Sandman" – Metallica
"Every Heartbeat" – Amy Grant
"Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" – Bryan Adams
"Get The Funk Out" – Extreme
"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" – C&C Music Factory
"Good For Me" – Amy Grant
"Good Times" – INXS and Jimmy Barnes
"Higher + Higher" – Jimmy Barnes
"I Can't Make You Love Me" – Bonnie Raitt
"I Will Remember You" – Amy Grant
"Live And Let Die" – Guns N' Roses
"Live For Loving You" – Gloria Estefan
"Losing My Religion" – R.E.M.
"More Than Words" – Extreme
"Mysterious Ways" – U2
"One" – U2
"Poundcake" – Van Halen
"Right Here, Right Now" – Jesus Jones
"Rock The Casbah" – The Clash
"Rush Rush" – Paula Abdul
"Shameless" – Garth Brooks
"Shiny Happy People" – R.E.M.
"Sing Your Life" – Morrissey
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Nirvana
"Something To Talk About" – Bonnie Raitt
"That's What Love Is For" – Amy Grant
"Radio Song" – R.E.M.
"There'll Never Be Another Tonight" – Bryan Adams
"Top Of The World" – Van Halen
"Train In Vain(Stand By Me)" – The Clash
"Twist And Shout" – Deacon Blue
"Unbelievable" – EMF
"When Someting's Wrong With My Baby" – John Farnham + Jimmy Barnes
"Who Said I Would" – Phil Collins
"When A Man Loves A Woman" – Michael Bolton
"Wicked Game" – Chris Isaak
"Violent Blue"- Chagall Guevara
"You Could Be Mine" – Guns N' Roses

New books

American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
As the Crow Flies – Jeffrey Archer
Damage – Josephine Hart
Dead Certainties – Simon Schama
Den of Thieves – James B. Stewart
Dirty Weekend – Helen Zahavi
The Doomsday Conspiracy – Sidney Sheldon
Druids – Morgan Llywelyn
The Firm – John Grisham
For Love of the Game – Michael Shaara (posthumous)
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture – Douglas Coupland
Gojiro – Mark Jacobson
He, She and It – Marge Piercy
Heartbeat – Danielle Steel
Imajica – Clive Barker
Jernigan – David Gates
The Kitchen God's Wife – Amy Tan
A Life of Picasso – John Richardson
Loves Music, Loves to Dance – Mary Higgins Clark
The Man from Barbarossa – John Gardner
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Mexico – James A. Michener
Possession: A Romance – A. S. Byatt
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
Say It With Poison – Ann Granger
Scarlett – Alexandra Ripley
The Secret Pilgrim – John le Carré
SEX – Madonna
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry
The Sum of All Fears – Tom Clancy
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
Through the Vast Halls of Memory – Haifa Zangana
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense – Martin Amis
The Van – Roddy Doyle
The Werewolf and the Wormlord – Hugh Cook
Wicca Craft – Gerina Dunwich
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett

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