1991
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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 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.
Contents |
[change] 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.
[change] Deaths
[change] January-March
- January 17 - King Olav V of Norway
- January 18 - Leo Hurwitz, documentary film producer
- January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
- January 30 - John Bardeen, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics twice
- January 30 - John McIntire, actor
- February 5 - Dean Jagger, actor
- February 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, comedian, actor
- February 11 - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect
- February 21 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer
- February 24 - George Gobel, comedian
- February 24 - John Daly, journalist, game show host
- March 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer
- March 3 - Arthur Murray, dancer, dance instructor
- March 14 - Doc Pomus, composer
- March 14 - Howard Ashman, lyricist
- March 29 - Lee Atwater, Republican advisor
[change] April-December
- April 1 - Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer
- April 3 - Graham Greene, writer
- April 4 - H. John Heinz III, member U.S. Senate in a plane crash
- April 4 - Forrest Towns, American hurdler
- April 26 - Carmine Coppola, composer, conductor
- April 26 - William Andrew Paton, accountant and economist
- May 22 - Derrick Henry Lehmer, mathematician
- May 27 - Leopold Nowak, musicologist
- May 29 - Shreekanth Subramanian, Successful phone conversationalist
- July 1 - Michael Landon, actor (b. 1936)
- July 16 - Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter
- August 13 - James Roosevelt, American businessman, politician
- August 30 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist
- September 26 - Miles Davis, musician (b. 1926)
- November 15 - Alger Hiss, former U.S. State Department official
- November 24 - Freddie Mercury, singer, Queen frontman
- December 16 - Horatio Luro, Hall of Fame racehorse trainer
[change] 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
[change] 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
[change] 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
