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1991

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years: 1988 1989 199019911992 1993 1994
1991 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1991
MCMXCI
Ab urbe condita2744
Armenian calendar1440
ԹՎ ՌՆԽ
Assyrian calendar6741
Bahá'í calendar147–148
Balinese saka calendar1912–1913
Bengali calendar1398
Berber calendar2941
British Regnal year39 Eliz. 2 – 40 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2535
Burmese calendar1353
Byzantine calendar7499–7500
Chinese calendar庚午(Metal Horse)
4687 or 4627
    — to —
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4688 or 4628
Coptic calendar1707–1708
Discordian calendar3157
Ethiopian calendar1983–1984
Hebrew calendar5751–5752
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2047–2048
 - Shaka Samvat1912–1913
 - Kali Yuga5091–5092
Holocene calendar11991
Igbo calendar991–992
Iranian calendar1369–1370
Islamic calendar1411–1412
Japanese calendarHeisei 3
(平成3年)
Javanese calendar1923–1924
Juche calendar80
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4324
Minguo calendarROC 80
民國80年
Nanakshahi calendar523
Thai solar calendar2534
Tibetan calendar阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
2117 or 1736 or 964
    — to —
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
2118 or 1737 or 965
Unix time662688000 – 694223999

1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1991st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 991st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1990s decade

Boris Yeltsin (holding flag) in 1991

January–March

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Emma Roberts in 2015

April–June

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Lena Meyer-Landrut

July–September

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October–December

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Declan Galbraith in 2007
Carl David Anderson
Olav V of Norway
John Bardeen

February

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Salvador Luria
Edwin H. Land
Serge Gainsbourg
David Lean
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
Jiang Qing
Rajiv Gandhi
Jean Arthur
Michael Landon
Lee Remick
Isaac Bashevis Singer
James Irwin

September

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Alfonso García Robles
Frank Capra
Dr. Seuss
Miles Davis
Gene Roddenberry

November

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Gene Tierney
Gustáv Husák
Klaus Kinski
Freddie Mercury

December

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Nobel Prizes

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Movies released

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Hit songs

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Metallica in 2003
Amy Grant in 1998

New books

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Bret Easton Ellis in 2010
  • American PsychoBret 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 ConspiracySidney Sheldon
  • Druids – Morgan Llywelyn
  • The FirmJohn 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
  • HeartbeatDanielle Steel
  • ImajicaClive Barker
  • Jernigan – David Gates
  • The Kitchen God's WifeAmy Tan
  • A Life of Picasso – John Richardson
  • Loves Music, Loves to DanceMary Higgins Clark
  • The Man from Barbarossa – John Gardner
  • Mao IIDon DeLillo
  • MexicoJames A. Michener
  • Possession: A Romance – A. S. Byatt
  • Reaper ManTerry Pratchett
  • Say It With Poison – Ann Granger
  • Scarlett – Alexandra Ripley
  • The Secret PilgrimJohn le Carré
  • SEXMadonna
  • Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
  • Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry
  • The Sum of All FearsTom Clancy
  • A Thousand AcresJane Smiley
  • Through the Vast Halls of Memory – Haifa Zangana
  • Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the OffenseMartin Amis
  • The VanRoddy Doyle
  • The Werewolf and the Wormlord – Hugh Cook
  • Wicca Craft – Gerina Dunwich
  • Witches AbroadTerry Pratchett
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