Starostin's ( 1991 ) lexicostatistical research claimed that the proposed Altaic groups shared about 15 – 20 % of potential cognates within a 110-word Swadesh-Yakhontov list ( e. g. Turkic – Mongolic 20 %, Turkic – Tungusic 18 %, Turkic – Korean 17 %, Mongolic – Tungusic 22 %, Mongolic – Korean 16 %, Tungusic – Korean 21 %).

A mummified man, determined to be 5, 000 years old, was discovered on a glacier at the Austrian – Italian border in 1991.

* 1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Magnus Paajarvi, Swedish hockey player

* 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

* 1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.

* 1991 – Rikiya Otaka, Japanese actor

* 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

* 1991 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer

* 1902 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Hansika Motwani, Indian actress

* 1991 – Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress and singer

* 1898 – Regis Toomey, American actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Dave Days, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1991 – Skyler Day, American actress

* 1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

* Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1991 )

In 1991, in the wake of the cancellation of the G41 and G11 rifles, HK was bought by British Aerospace's Royal Ordnance division.

During the Gulf War of 1991, Sepecat Jaguar GR1A bombers of the Royal Air Force featured such Viz characters as Johnny Fartpants, the Fat Slags and Buster Gonad as nose art.

* MV Royal Iris, a ferry operating until 1991

Another concern, which raised its head during the 1991 Gulf War, was the loss of the protection provided by the Royal Navy, especially, to the large number of merchant vessels on Bermuda's shipping register.

* 1991 – Appointed as a Royal Society Research Professor.

Seven Royal Navy ships have been named after the town, including a Type 23 frigate launched in 1991 which is still in operation.

Since 1991 the couple's children are titled Archduke ( Archduchess ) of Austria-Este, Princes ( ss ) of Belgium, Prince ( ss ) Imperial of Austria, Prince ( ss ) Royal of Hungary and Bohemia.

Mulroney supported the United Nations coalition during the 1991 Gulf War and when the UN authorized full use of force in the operation, Canada sent a CF-18 squadron with support personnel and a field hospital to deal with casualties from the ground war as well as a company of The Royal Canadian Regiment to safeguard these ground elements.

On 17 January 1991, while residing in the Royal Lodge Kongsseteren in Oslo, he became ill and died in the evening of a myocardial infarction.

The musical has also been revived in London, running for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007.

Other events include the first SummerSlam in 1988 along with SummerSlam 1991 and 1998 ; three Survivor Series events in 1996, 2002 and 2011 ; and the Royal Rumble in 2000 and 2008.

* Famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman directed the Bacchae three times: as an opera ( 1991 ) for the Royal Swedish Opera, as a TV-film ( 1993 ) for Sveriges Television and as a staged play ( 1996 ) for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

* HMS Arethusa, nine ships of the Royal Navy, 1759 to 1991

In 1990, May received an Honorary DSc from University of Southampton, followed in 1991 by his election as a Fellow of The Royal Society and the award of the Patterson Medal of the Institute of Physics in 1992.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988 and received the ACM Turing Award in 1991.

* Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, since 1991 the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

* 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2001 various honours of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects ( RAIA )

The Duchess of York at the Royal Welsh Show, 1991

He had only one top-10 finish in a major in 1991: a tie for 9th place in the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

* The Sea: Willy Carson ( 1991 )-directed by Sam Mendes, ( Royal National Theatre )

( 1991 ) " On the relationship between Bayesian and Non-Bayesian interval estimates " Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 53 ( 3 ), 611 – 618