1991 facts for kids

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 was a year that started on a Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was a time of big changes around the world!

Major Events

The system of Communism ended in the U.S.S.R.. This also marked the end of the Cold War, a long period of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
The Daya Bay Nuclear power plant was built in China.
The Persian Gulf War began. America and its allies went to war with Iraq after Iraq invaded its neighbor, Kuwait.

January 2 – Steele Sidebottom, an Australian Rules footballer.
January 8 – Hinoi Asuka, a Japanese singer.
January 12 – Pixie Lott, a British singer.
January 19 – Erin Sanders, an American actress.
January 28 – Calum Worthy, a Canadian actor and musician.
February 10 – Emma Roberts, an American actress.
February 17 – Bonnie Wright, an English actress, known for the Harry Potter movies.
February 18 – Malese Jow, an American actress.
February 28 – Sarah Bolger, an Irish actress.
March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, an American actor.
March 11 – Qian Lin, a Chinese singer.
March 26 – Jack Watts, an Australian rules footballer.

January 11 – Carl David Anderson, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the positron.
January 17 – King Olav V of Norway, the King of Norway.
January 30 – John Bardeen, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize twice for his work on transistors and superconductivity.

February 6 – Salvador Luria, an Italian-born biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on viruses.
February 6 – Danny Thomas, an American singer, comedian, and actor.
February 21 – Margot Fonteyn, a famous English ballet dancer.
February 24 – George Gobel, an American comedian.

March 1 – Edwin H. Land, the inventor of the Polaroid instant camera.
March 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, a famous French singer.
March 3 – Arthur Murray, an American dancer and dance instructor.
March 7 – Cool Papa Bell, an American baseball player.
March 12 – Ragnar Granit, a Finnish neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
March 14 – Howard Ashman, an American lyricist who wrote songs for Disney movies like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
March 21 – Leo Fender, who created Fender guitars and amplifiers.

April 1 – Martha Graham, a famous American dancer and choreographer.
April 3 – Graham Greene, a well-known English writer.
April 4 – Max Frisch, a Swiss writer.
April 4 – H. John Heinz III, an American politician.
April 16 – David Lean, a famous British movie director known for films like Lawrence of Arabia.
April 20 – Steve Marriott, an English musician.
April 20 – Don Siegel, an American movie director.

June 1 – David Ruffin, an American singer, known for being part of The Temptations.
June 3 – Maurice and Katia Krafft, a husband and wife team who were famous volcanologists (scientists who study volcanoes).
June 6 – Stan Getz, a famous American jazz saxophonist.
June 9 – Claudio Arrau, a world-famous Chilean pianist.
June 15 – Arthur Lewis, a British economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
June 19 – Jean Arthur, an American actress.

July 1 – Michael Landon, an American actor and director, known for TV shows like Little House on the Prairie.
July 2 – Lee Remick, an American actress.
July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Polish-born Yiddish writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

August 5 – Soichiro Honda, a Japanese engineer and industrialist who founded Honda Motor Company.
August 6 – Harry Reasoner, an American journalist and newscaster.
August 8 – James Irwin, an American astronaut who walked on the Moon.
August 22 – Colleen Dewhurst, an American actress.

September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, a Mexican diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
September 3 – Dottie West, an American country singer.
September 3 – Frank Capra, a famous Italian-born movie director, known for It's a Wonderful Life.
September 7 – Edwin McMillan, an American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
September 24 – Dr. Seuss, a beloved American writer and cartoonist, famous for children's books.
September 28 – Miles Davis, a legendary American jazz trumpeter.

October 11 – Redd Foxx, an American comedian and actor.
October 17 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, an American singer.
October 24 – Gene Roddenberry, an American television producer, creator of Star Trek.