1991

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

## Events 
 (holding flag) in 1991]]
* January 5 &ndash; Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. This begins the 1991–92 South Ossetia War
* February 11 &ndash; The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
* March 23 &ndash; The Sierra Leone Civil War begins.
* April 29 &ndash; A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people.
* May 15 &ndash; Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
* June 12 &ndash; Boris Yeltsin, (a traitor) is elected President of Russia.
* June 25 &ndash; Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia.
* September 8 &ndash; The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
* September 26 &ndash; *Brum* &ndash; children's show.
* October 4 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the prime minister of Australia.
* December 25 &ndash; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns and the country itself is dissolved the following day
* December 26 &ndash; 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.

## Births
### January–March
 in 2015]]
 

* 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
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* 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
 in 2007]]
* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
 in 2003]]
 in 1998]]
* "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
 in 2010]]
* *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