List of Famous people who died in 1991

Zhang Wenjin was a Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States and Canada.

Hermann Pohlmann was a German aerospace engineer.

Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra was a prominent figure in Portuguese philology and linguistics. A prolific writer with over 80 published works, he was a keen student of the historical differentiation during the 14th and 15th centuries between literary Portuguese and Castilian Spanish (1958). Another special interest was the relationship between Galician and Portuguese, as evinced by his study of the dialects of Madeira (1990) and his plan, together with Manuel de Paiva Boléo and José G. Herculano de Carvalho, for a linguistic-ethnographic atlas of Portugal and Galicia (1960). He is also co-author, with Celso Ferreira da Cunha, of a major work on Portuguese grammar, the Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo.

Yoshio Hattori was a Japanese businessman.

Stanley Ellis Leighton was a construction entrepreneur. He was the founder of Leighton Contractors, later known as CIMIC Group, which is Australia's largest contracting business.

Han Ying-chieh was a Hong Kong Chinese actor. He started acting from 1966 and acted in movies such as Come Drink with Me and others. He acted in some films with Bruce Lee such as The Big Boss and Fist of Fury and with Jackie Chan in New Fist of Fury. Ying-chieh has acted 60 movies from 1946-1991. His final performance was in The Swordsman as Huashan Sect elder Feng QingYang.

Salatyn Aziz qizi Asgarova is a National Hero of Azerbaijan. She was one of the Azerbaijani journalists killed in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.