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 )

* 1991 – Lin Yue, Chinese diver

In the 1991 Pamela Dean novel Tam Lin, one of the major characters is Robert Armin ( better known as Robin ), a Classics and Theater student at a small college in the Midwestern U. S. during the early 1970s who has a surprisingly detailed knowledge of William Shakespeare's life and work.

Among them are: the notable frequent full-frontal nudity of Hong Kong Chinese females and the brief but particularly notable full-frontal adult male nudity of a Hong Kong Chinese male actor, Chung Lin, who plays the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto, in the 1991 science fiction / comedy film Robotrix ( perhaps the first time in Hong Kong cinema that a Chinese adult male's genitals have been fully revealed on camera in a film on general release ), the full-frontal appearance of Hong Kong Chinese actor Michael Lam, who was the lead in Bugis Street ( 1995 ), as his clothes and underwear are torn off by his lover, fully exposing his genitals ; a variety of East Asian actors in The Pillow Book ( 1996 ); of Hong Kong Chinese lead actor Sunny Chan in a bathroom scene as he enters a shower, fully revealing his genitals for a few moments, in Hold You Tight ( 1997 ); of mainland China lead actor Liu Ye in Lan Yu ( 2001 ), whose genitals are shown as he lies naked on a bed ; a variety of East Asian actors in Under One Roof ( 2002 ); of French Vietnamese actor Steve Tran whose genitals are shown as he walks naked in a high school locker room in Cold Showers ( 2005 ); of Singapore Chinese actor / director Zihan Loo, who removes all his clothes, uncovering his genitals, and while waiting to meet a prostitute, masturbates on camera, eventually revealing his fully erect penis, in Pleasure Factory ( 2007 ); a variety of Taiwanese Chinese actors who dare each other to skinnydip in Winds of September ( 2008 ), and of lead actor Ron Heung and the Hong Kong National Baseball Team, who are shown naked in City Without Baseball ( 2008 ), with their genitals fully revealed on camera.

Keye Luke (, Cantonese: Luk Shek Lun ; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991 ) was a Chinese-born American actor.

* October 10-Min Chueh Chang ( died 1991 ), Chinese-born embryologist.

The company was founded in 1991 by Hongliang Lu, a Chinese-born, American-educated entrepreneur, as Unitech Telecom.

Li Choh-ming, KBE, ( 李卓敏, 1912 – 1991 ) was a Chinese-born U. S. economist and educator.

He co-authored the 1991 book The Japan That Can Say No with politician Shintaro Ishihara, where they criticized American business practices and encouraged Japanese to take a more independent role in business and foreign affairs.

The Japan That Can Say No ( Simon & Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0-671-75853-5, ISBN 4-334-05158-8 in Japanese )

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

This laserdisc transfer has been the basis for all home video editions of the uncut Japanese version since 1991.

, is a 1991 Japanese Science Fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho.

* 1991 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese actress and singer ( AKB48 )

* 1991 – Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer ( AKB48 )

* 1991 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian ( b. 1907 )

* 1991 – Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress

* 1991 – Tomomi Itano, Japanese actress and singer ( AKB48 )

* 1991 – Rena Matsui, Japanese actress and singer ( SKE48 )

* 1991 – Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer ( Hinoi Team )

is a Japanese politician who was the 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.

* 1991 – Narita Brian, Japanese racehorse ( d. 1998 )

* 1991 – Saori Hayami, Japanese voice actress and singer

In 1991, he competed in one race in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, finishing second.

* 1991 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer ( Berryz Kobo )

* 1991 – Tomomi Kasai, Japanese actress and singer ( AKB48 )

* 1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer ( d. 1991 )

* Ring ( Suzuki novel ), a 1991 Japanese horror novel by Koji Suzuki

Japan War dead figure of 415 is from a 1991 history of the Japanese Army However, Michael Clodfelter reported the official toll was put at 300 KIA and noted that " A more reliable count of total Japanese military deaths from all causes lists 1, 344 fatalities.

* September 27 – Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse ( b. 1991 )