page_title: 1991
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1991 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin.
context_page_description: 1991 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1991st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 991st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1990s decade.
  It was the final year of the Cold War that had begun in 1947. During the year, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fell, leaving fifteen sovereign republics and the CIS in its place. In July 1991, India abandoned its policies of socialism and autarky and began extensive neoliberal changes to its economy. This increased GDP, but also increased economic inequality over the next two decades. A U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations fought against Iraq, which had invaded and annexed Kuwait in the previous year, 1990. The conflict would be called the Gulf War and would mark the beginning of a since-constant American military presence in the Middle East. The clash between Serbia and the other Yugoslav republics would lead into the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars, which ran through the rest of the decade.
  The Japanese asset price bubble burst this year, leading to the Lost Years and a permanently stagnated Japanese economy.
context_section_description: August 3 – Ali Sabri, Egyptian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
  August 4 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
  August 5
  Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
  Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist (b. 1917)
  August 6
  Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
  Harry Reasoner, American journalist and newscaster (b. 1923)
  August 8
  James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930)
  Ivan Kozhedub, Soviet aviator (b. 1920)
  August 13 – James Roosevelt, American businessman, Marine, activist, and politician (b. 1907)
  August 16 – Luigi Zampa, Italian film-maker (b. 1905)
  August 22
  Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1924)
  Boris Pugo, Latvian communist politician, Soviet minister of the Interior (b. 1937)
  August 23 – Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist (b. 1897)
  August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Marshall of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (b. 1923)
  August 30
  Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
  Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
caption: James Irwin
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