List of Famous people who died in 1991

Andreas Floer was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to symplectic topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology. Floer's first pivotal contribution was a solution of a special case of Arnold's conjecture on fixed points of a symplectomorphism. Because of his work on Arnold's conjecture and his development of instanton homology, he achieved wide recognition and was invited as a plenary speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Kyoto in August 1990. He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1989.

Werner Fuetterer was a German film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1925 and 1967.

Salvatore "Salvo" Randone was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor.

Avinash Chandra was an Indian painter, who lived and worked in the United Kingdom.

Aniela Jaffé was a Swiss analyst who for many years was a co-worker of Carl Gustav Jung. She was the recorder and editor of Jung's semi-autobiographical book Memories, Dreams, Reflections.