List of Famous people who died in 1991

Narciso Horácio Doval was an Argentine football player.

Giuseppe "Joey" LaMotta was the younger brother and one time manager of former world middleweight boxing champion, Jake LaMotta.

Yuri Abramovich Veksler was a Soviet and Russian cinematographer. Winner of the USSR State Prize (1985).

Laudelina de Campos Melo was an Afro-Brazilian activist, rich organizer and community worker. A domestic worker for most of her life, she recognized early in life the discrimination against and undervaluation of working women. Throughout her life, she strove to change public perception and policy vis-à-vis domestic workers, and was successful in establishing organizations for domestic workers to lobby for being recognized as a class of workers entitled to labor rights.

Kamal Bamadhaj was a political science student and human rights activist, who was killed in the Dili Massacre in East Timor on November 12, 1991.

Viviane Romance was a French actress.

Boris Karlovich Pugo, OAN was a Soviet Communist politician of Latvian origin.

Louis Seigner was a French actor.

Jacques Morali was a French disco and dance music record producer and songwriter, known for creating acts like The Ritchie Family and Village People.

Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender was an American inventor, who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short. In January 1965, he sold the company to CBS and later founded two other musical instrument companies, Music Man and G&L Musical Instruments.