1991 facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

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
Births
Deaths
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
Movies released
Hit songs
New books
Images for kids
See also

Events

Communism in U.S.S.R. ends; the Cold War ends.
Daya Bay Nuclear power 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, Pakistani 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, 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 11 – Thiago Alcántara, Italian footballer
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, Scottish 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 10 – 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

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 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

Serge Gainsbourg

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 movie 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

H. John Heinz III

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 movie 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 movie 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 movie 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

Mohammed Abdel Wahab

May 1 – Cesare Merzagora, Italian politician (b. 1898)
May 1 – Richard Thorpe, American movie 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 movie 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

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

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

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 movie-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

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 movie 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 movie composer (b. 1910)
September 10 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis champion (b. 1908)
September 13 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born movie director (b. 1901)
September 14 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, writer (b. 1910)
September 15 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1905)
September 17 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
September 24 – Dr. Seuss, American writer (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

Freddie Mercury

November 2 – Irwin Allen, American movie 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 movie and theater director (b. 1928)
November 18 – Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovakian president (b. 1913)
November 21 – Daniel Mann, American movie 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

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)