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 )

Shimizu S-Pulse was formed in early 1991 as Shimizu FC from the backing of local businesses and people.

* 1991 Tango at the end of winter ( Tango, fuyu no owari ni )（ タンゴ ・ 冬の終わりに ）-by Kunio Shimizu, in an English adaptation by Peter Barnes which starred Alan Rickman and played at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Festival before transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in London

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

* 1991 – Lin Lin, Chinese-born Japanese singer ( Morning Musume and Shin Minimoni )

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

* 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 )