1991

**1991** (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## 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, (a traitor) 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.
- November 24 – Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies from AIDS at the age of 45.
- December 19 – Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the prime minister of Australia.
- December 25 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns and the country itself is dissolved the following day
- December 26 – Soviet Union collapsed after 74 years of existance and is succeeded by Russian Federation , ending 74 years of Communist rule in Russia as well as Russia's superpower status.
- Persian Gulf War – America goes to war with Iraq after Iraq invades Kuwait.

### January–March

- January 1 – Ayat Al-Qurmezi, Bahraini poet and activist
- January 2 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian Rules footballer
- January 4 – Pascal Bodmer, German ski jumper
- January 8 – Hinoi Asuka, Japanese singer
- January 8 – Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer
- 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 13 – Kim Yu-jin, South Korean taekwondo practitioner
- 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 24 – Hiba Abu Nada, Palestinian poet and novelist
- 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 18 - Adriana Espinosa, Ecuadorian archer
- July 20 – William Tomlin, British actor
- July 28 – Rina Aizawa, Japanese actress
- July 29 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer
- July 30 – Diana Vickers, English 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

### January

- January 2 – Renato Rascel, Italian actor (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 (b. 1905)
- January 12 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (b. 1904)
- January 12 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (b. 1913)
- January 14 – Salah Khalaf, 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 (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, American sportswriter (b. 1943)
- February 3 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
- February 5 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
- February 5 – Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1907)
- February 6 – María Zambrano, Spanish essayist (b. 1904)
- February 6 – Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist (b. 1912)
- February 6 – Danny Thomas, American singer (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, American scientist (b. 1909)
- March 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
- March 3 – Arthur Murray, American dancer (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 (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 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1905)
- March 27 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
- March 29 – Lee Atwater, American presidential advisor (b. 1951)

### April

- April 1 – Paulo Muwanga, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
- April 1 – Martha Graham, American dancer (b. 1894)
- April 1 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean right-wing politician (b. 1946)
- April 3 – Charles Goren, American bridge player (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 (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 musician (b. 1935)
- April 19 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian movie producer (b. 1905)
- April 20 – Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia (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 (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 (b. 1945)
- April 29 – Claude Gallimard, Son of Gaston Gallimard (b. 1914)

### 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 (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 (b. 1907)
- May 8 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
- May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary (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, Prime Minister of Belgium (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, Acting Prime Minister of Ethiopia
- 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 (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 (b. 1918)
- June 28 – Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910)
- June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist (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 Politician (b. 1904)
- July 8 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
- July 15 – Bert Convy, American game show host (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 (b. 1904)
- July 25 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (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 (b. 1917)
- August 6 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923)
- August 6 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Prime Minister of Iran (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 (b. 1937)
- August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Russian marshall (b. 1923)
- August 25 – Niven Busch, American novelist (b. 1903)
- August 30 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter (b. 1925)
- August 30 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer (b. 1944)

### September

- September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat (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 (b. 1933)
- September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist (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 (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 (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 (b. 1956)
- October 11 – Redd Foxx, American comedian (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 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 7 – Tom of Finland, Finnish artist (b. 1920)
- November 9 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
- November 14 – Tony Richardson, English theater director (b. 1928)
- November 18 – Gustáv Husák, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (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 (b. 1911)
- December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist (b. 1913)
- December 9 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
- December 10 – Franco Maria Malfatti, 3rd President of the European Commission (b. 1927)
- December 10 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
- December 11 – Robert Q. Lewis, American radio (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 25 - Soviet Union, Country (b. 1917)
- 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_
- _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
- _What About Bob?_, another 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