page_title: 1991
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1991 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: King Olaf V of Norway, 1957
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: January 2 – Renato Rascel, Italian actor and singer (b. 1912)
  January 4
  Poon Lim, Chinese sailor (b. 1918)
  Richard Maibaum, American film producer, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1909)
  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)
  Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (b. 1913)
  January 14 – Salah Khalaf, Palestinian officer (b. 1933)
  January 17 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
  January 19 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
  January 22 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
  January 25
  Lilian Bond, English actress (b. 1908)
  Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
  January 28 – Red Grange, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
  January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
  January 30
  John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
  John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
caption: Olav V of Norway
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