page_title: 1991
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 1991 / Deaths / June
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Jean Arthur.
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: June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
  June 2 – Hailu Yimenu, Ethiopian politician, acting Prime Minister of Ethiopia
  June 3 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-born actress (b. 1899)
  June 6 – Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
  June 9 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
  June 14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
  June 15
  Happy Chandler, 2nd commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1898)
  W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
  June 18 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (b. 1922)
  June 19 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
  June 24 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
  June 28 – Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910)
  June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1901)
caption: Jean Arthur
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