Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1991

Antonino Scopelliti was an Italian prosecuting magistrate, murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia.

Hermann Kopf was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Allan Charles Wilson FRS AAA&S was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies, and a revolutionary contributor to the study of human evolution. He was one of the most significant figures in post-war biology; his work attracted a great deal of attention both from within and outside the academic world. He is the only New Zealander to have won the MacArthur Fellowship.

Salah Khalaf Mesbah, también conocido como Abu Iyad fue subdirector y jefe de la inteligencia de la Organización de Liberación de Palestina, y el segundo funcionario de más alto rango de Fatah después de Yasser Arafat.

Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr. fue un químico estadounidense, médico, jugador de fútbol profesional, oficial naval y aviador, piloto de pruebas y astronauta de la NASA. quien voló en STS-33.

Mario Scelba fue un político italiano que ocupó el cargo de primer ministro desde febrero de 1954 a julio de 1955. Fue Presidente del Parlamento Europeo desde 1969 a 1971.

Thalmus Rasulala was an American actor with a long career in theater, television, and films. Noted for starring roles in blaxploitation films, he was also an original cast member of ABC's soap opera One Life to Live from its premiere in 1968 until he left the show in 1970.

Etheridge Knight was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960. By the time he left prison, Knight had prepared a second volume featuring his own writings and works of his fellow inmates. This second book, first published in Italy under the title Voce negre dal carcere, appeared in English in 1970 as Black Voices from Prison. These works established Knight as one of the major poets of the Black Arts Movement, which flourished from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. With roots in the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, and the Black Power Movement, Etheridge Knight and other American artists within the movement sought to create politically engaged work that explored the African-American cultural and historical experience.