1991

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1991 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.

Contents 1 Events 2 Deaths 2.1 January-March 2.2 April-December 3 Films released 4 Hit songs 5 New books

[edit] 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.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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