List of Famous people who died in 1991

Mario Panzeri was an Italian lyricist and composer.

Harriet Claiborne Bland was an American sprinter. She competed at the 1936 Olympics in the individual 100 m and 4×100 m relay and won a gold medal in the relay.

Luigi Infantino was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric Italian and French repertories.

Lina Volonghi was an Italian stage, television and film actress.

Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin, Russian: Наум Яковлевич Виленкин, was a Soviet mathematician, an expert in representation theory, the theory of special functions, functional analysis, and combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students.

Joaquim Gomis Serdañons was a Catalan photographer, collector, entrepreneur, and promoter of the arts.

Henry Franklin "Buster" Smith, also known as Professor Smith, was an American jazz alto saxophonist and mentor to Charlie Parker. Smith was instrumental in instituting the Texas Sax Sound with Count Basie and Lester Young in the 1930s.