List of Famous people who died at 91

Vera Brühne became famous throughout Germany as a victim of miscarriage of justice. In 1961/62, she was convicted, together with Johann Ferbach, of having murdered the physician Otto Praun and his lover. Ulrich Sonnemann considered the case as a new Dreyfus affair. In 1979, she was pardoned by Bavarian governor Franz Josef Strauss.

Ion Lazarevich Degen was a Soviet and Israeli writer, doctor and medical scientist in the field of orthopedics and traumatology. During World War II he served in the armoured troops of the Red Army. He obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1973.

Neslişah Sultan, later Neslişah Osmanoğlu was an Ottoman princess, the paternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdulmejid II and his first wife, Şehsuvar Hanım and maternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI and his first wife, Nazikeda Kadın. She was the daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk and his first wife and cousin Sabiha Sultan.

Sir Timothy James Alan Colman was a British businessman and a Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.

Bertrand Herz was a French engineer and university teacher of Jewish origin. He performed forced labor as a teenager at the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. Since 2001, he has been general secretary of the French Association française Buchenwald Dora et Kommandos and he was president of the international committee Buchenwald-Dora and Kommandos between 2001 and 2016.

Julia Rosa Capristán García, better known by stage name Carmencita Lara, was a Peruvian singer of waltzes, huaynos, marineras, polkas and pasillo. She is considered by many Peruvians referring to the perfect music to "drown the sorrows". Obituaries recognized the sharp tone of her voice, her particular interpretation and the accompaniment of the accordion of Víctor Lara.

Enrique González Pedrero was a Mexican politician, diplomat, and writer. After a long-time militancy in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in 1995.

Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabinet minister in Quebec, the first woman appointed acting premier, and the first woman judge to serve in the Quebec Provincial Court.

Herbert Martin was a Saarland and German footballer.

Asako Kishi was a Japanese journalist and culinary critic, best known for her role as a guest judge on Iron Chef Japan.