1991

1991 (MCMXCI) was .

Events 

 January 5 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. This begins the 1991–92 South Ossetia War
 February 11 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
 March 23 – The Sierra Leone Civil War begins.
 April 29 – A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.
 May 15 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
 June 12 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
 June 25 – Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia.
 September 8 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
 September 26 – Brum – children's show.
 October 4 – Carl Bildt becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden, replacing Ingvar Carlsson.
 December 19 – Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the prime minister of Australia.
 Communism in U.S.S.R. ends; the Cold War ends.
 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 9 – Kelsey Chow, 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
 

 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
   

 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
   

 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
   

 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
   

 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
   

 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
   

 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
   

 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 6 - Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (executed by electrocution; b. 1933)
 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
   

 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)

Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physics won by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist
 Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Richard R. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann
 Nobel Prize in Literature won by Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
 Nobel Peace Prize won by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese diplomat
 Nobel Prize in Economics won by Ronald Coase, British economist

Movies released 
 The Addams Family
 Beauty and the Beast, an animated movie by Walt Disney Pictures
 Beethoven
 Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
 Bugsy, the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel
 Boyz n the Hood
 Cape Fear (1991 movie)
 City Slickers, winning Best Supporting Actor for Jack Palance
 Double Impact
 The Doors
 Father of the Bride
 Fried Green Tomatoes
 The Fisher King, nominated for 9 Academy Awards
 Hook
 JFK, directed by Oliver Stone
 New Jack City
 Out for Justice
 Oscar
 Point Break
 Thelma & Louise
 The Last Boy Scout
 The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, winning a BAFTA Award for Alan Rickman
 The Silence of the Lambs, based on the book by Thomas Harris
 Sleeping with the Enemy
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the highest-grossing movie of 1991

Hit songs

 "Black" - Pearl Jam
 "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 Something'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

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