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 – 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 )

* America Tonight ( Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Lesley Stahl, Robert Krulwich, Edie Magnus ) ( October 1, 1990 – 1991 )

Magnus won the title of World's Strongest Man four times ( 1991, 1994, 1995, and 1996 ).

* Magnus Malan: Former Minister of Defence in 1980 – 1991

His first Valiant work appeared in Magnus, Robot Fighter # 1 ( May, 1991 ), in which he inked Art Nichols ' artwork from Jim Shooter's script.

The following year she had an affair with the author Alexander Fadeyev ; from this union was born a daughter Maria, who married Hans Magnus Enzensberger and lived abroad for twenty years, killing herself shortly after a brief return to Russia in 1991.

* Magnus Malan ( 1930 – 2011 ), general, Chief of the South African Army, Chief of the South African Defence Force and Minister of Defence, 1980 – 1991

He was married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997.

* 1991 – Alice Svensson, Swedish singer

* 1969 – Per " Dead " Ohlin, Swedish black metal vocalist ( Mayhem and Morbid ) ( d. 1991 )

Kult was originally published by the company Target Games in 1991 as a Swedish role-playing game, and has later been translated into several other languages.

* 1991 – Tom Ljungman, Swedish actor

On September 7, 1991, the German research vessel Polarstern and the Swedish icebreaker Oden reached the North Pole as the first conventional powered vessels.

In 1991, at the age of twelve, Robyn recorded the theme song for the Swedish television show Lilla Sportspegeln, named Du kan alltid bli nummer ett (" You can always be number one ").

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt KCMG ( born 15 July 1949 ) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999.

Aho was the prime minister of the centre-right coalition government ( Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats and Swedish People's Party ) from 1991 to 1995.

* 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.

Gösta Ingvar Carlsson ( born 9 November 1934 ) is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996.

For the 1991 Swedish TV series, see Rosenholm ( TV series ).

The next year, Swedish corporation Incentive AB bought 58. 1 % of Hasselblad, and in 1991, they acquired the remainder of the shares, taking VHAB back to being a private corporation.

Tad Morose is a Swedish progressive / power metal band formed in 1991 and led by guitarist Christer ' Krunt ' Andersson.

The genre rapidly lost mainstream interest from 1991 to 1993 with the rise of grunge and the release of albums such as Nirvana's Nevermind, but it has enjoyed revivals since the beginning of the new millennium with the Swedish sleaze metal movement and the retro styling of bands including The Darkness and Steel Panther.

Like an Ever Flowing Stream is the debut album by Swedish death metal band Dismember, released in May 1991.

Teddybears ( formerly Teddybears STHLM ) is a Swedish band formed in 1991, known for mixing pop, rock, hip-hop, electronica, reggae, punk and many other genres.

* Sweden: Swedish state-owned telephone company Televerket tried to introduce a similar service in 1991.

The release of Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem ( Il Capitano, 1991 ) became controversial since the film is based upon a true story ; the brutal murder of a Swedish family just a few years earlier ( see Juha Valjakkala ).

Triplex Iron Foundry then took the site over, but their ownership was short lived and it was then sold to Swedish home products company IKEA in 1988, being demolished almost immediately to make way for the superstore which opened in January 1991.

Was replaced by the Swedish National Agency for Education in 1991 when the responsibility for schools was transferred from the state to the municipalities.

She was Environment Commissioner from 1999 – 2004 and in the Swedish government she was Minister for Consumer Affairs, Women and Youth in 1988 – 1991, Minister for Culture in 1994 – 1996 and Minister for Social Affairs in 1996 – 1998.