Year (''' MCMXCI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian Calendar ).
The year 1991 is also significant because it was a .
The year 1991 is designated in the Chinese calendar the Year Of The Sheep (Ram or Goat).
- January 1 - The Colorado Buffaloes claim college football's national championship with a 10-9 win over Notre Dame in the 1991 Orange Bowl . 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. 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.
- 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.
- --- begins with air strikes against Iraq .
- January 17
- --- 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, Workers And Farmers Of Angola 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 . 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 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 Suicide s.
- 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 .
- s" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad , killing hundreds of Iraq is. 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. 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 Firefighter s and destroys 8 floors of the building.
- ---Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia n 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 .
- i Scud Missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran , Saudi Arabia killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war.
- radio, Iraq i leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait . Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.
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- April 4
- ---Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania .
- --- 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.
- 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 Satellite s).
- --- 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 . 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.
- 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, Kansas . (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak )
- April 29 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh , killing an estimated 138,000 people.
- 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.
- , Australia , taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
- President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under House Arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The Attempted Coup , led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
- 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 .
- declares its independence from the Soviet Union .
- 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 .
- declares independence from the Soviet Union .
- August 29 - Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile.
- and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union .
- October 2 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President Of The United States .
- October 8 - The Croatia n 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 - Bulgaria ns 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, Texas 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 .
- 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
- , Spaniard actor and singer
- 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 17 - Daniel Curtis Lee , American actor
- May 19 - Jordan Pruitt , American singer
- May 21 - Sarah Ramos , American actress
- May 26 - Julianna Rose Mauriello , American stage actress
- May 29 - Kristen Alderson , American actress
- June 4 - Jordan Hinson , American actress
- June 7 - Chris Sawyer , English footballer
- 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 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 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 , Netherlandian 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, 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
For more musicians born in 1991, see 1991 In Music .
- 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 Israel i soldier (b. 1920 )
- February 14 - John McCone , American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1902 )
- February 21
- --- John Sherman Cooper , a U.S. Republican senator
- --- Margot Fonteyn , English ballet dancer (b. 1919 )
- February 24
- --- John Charles Daly , South Africa n-born journalist and game show host (b. 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. 1895 )
- March 12 - Ragnar Granit , Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 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. 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 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 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. 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. 1915 )
- December 16 - Horatio Luro , Argentine-born racehorse trainer (b. 1901 )
- December 18 - George Abecassis , English race car driver (b. 1913 )
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