In the year 1991, Gulf War’s Operation Desert Storm begins in Iraq (Jan 16), Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union (Mar 3), Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Soviet republic Russia (Jun 12), Berlin becomes the capital of the unified Germany (Jun 20), the Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved (Jul 1), The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic States (Sep 6), the Soviet Union is dissolved (Dec 26), and officially ceases to exist (Dec 31) - and all these fine people were born:
1991-xxxx Miikka Friman* entomologist (dragonflies)/ environmental specialist/cinematocrapher - Finland
1991-0102 Ben Hardy* actor - Bournemouth, Dorset, England
1991-0102 Danny Miller* actor (Emmerdale) - Stockport, England
1991-0103 Ryan Ellis* hockey player - Freelton, ON Canada
1991-0103 Joonas Nättinen* hockey player/OG - Jämsä, Finland
1991-0105
1991-0107 Eden Hazard* football player - La Louvière, Wallonia, Belgium
1991-0107 Caster Semenya* middle distance runner/OG/ football player - Pietersburg, South Africa
1991-0109 Amel Tuka* middle-distance runner - Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
1991-0110 Finnegan Oldfield* French-British actor - Lewes, East Sussex, England
1991-0111
1991-0113 Kelly McCormack* actress/ writer/producer - Vancouver, BC Canada
1991-0115 Adam Klein* homeless shelter manager/Survivor S33 Contestant - Burlingame, CA USA
1991-0116 Sun Pengxiang* Paralympic athlete (javelin)/OG - China
1991-0120
1991-0121 Nayel Nassar* Egyptian American equestrian/m to Jennifer Gates - Chicago, IL USA
1992-0122 Natara Nopparatayapon* Thai-Chinese model/actor - Bangkok, Thailand - IMDb
1991-0124 Avi Nash* actor - Honolulu, Hawaii
1991-0128 Kai Kazmirek* athlete (decathlon/WB) - Torgau, Germany
1991-0131
1991-0201 Kyle Palmieri* hockey player - Smithtown, NY USA
1991-0202 Olli Hiidensalo* biathlete - Nummi-Pusula, Finland
1991-0202 Najeeb Tarakai* cricket player - Afghanistan (2020/29)
1991-0208 Genzebe Dibaba* long-distance runner/OS - Bekoji, Ethiopia
1991-0209 Helena Kmieć* Roman Catholic beautified missionary/homicide victim - Kraków, Poland (2017/25)
1991-0210 Emma Roberts* actress/ producer/daughter of Eric Roberts - Rhinebeck, NY USA
1991-0211 Isabel “Isi” Glück* singer - Elmshorn, Germany
1991-0214 Anna Kiesenhofer* cyclist/OG - Niederkreuzstetten, Austria
1991-0214 Chris Mason* actor - Liverpool, England
1991-0217 Ed Sheeran* singer/songwriter/ record producer - Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
1991-0221 Joe Alwyn* actor - North London, England
1991-0221 Brian Ortega* mixed martial artist - Los Angeles, CA USA
1991-0221 Shira Rishony* judoka - Holon, Israel
1991-0222 Robin Stjernberg* singer - Hässleholm, Sweden
1991-0224 Henrik Ingebrigtsen* middle-distance runner - Sandnes, Norway
1991-0224 Ilmari Nurminen* politician/ mayor - Vammala, Finland
1991-0225
1991-0226 Björn Sigurdarson* football player - Akranes, Iceland
1991-0227 Brianna Henries* esthetician/ politician - Providence, RI USA
1991-0228
1991-0301
1991-0311 Olivia Schough* football player/daughter of Bertil Schough - Vanered, Sweden
1991-0317 Daisy Head* actress - Fulham, London, England
1991-0320
1991-0321 Antoine Griezmann* football player - Macon, France
1991-0326 Hamed Heidari* Azerbaijan Paralympic athlete (javelin/OG) - Kolowr, Ardabil, Iran
1991-0328 Marie-Philip Poulin* hockey player - Beauceville, QC, Canada
1991-0329 N’Golo Kanté* football player - Paris, France
1991-0329 Toni Rajala* hockey player/OG - Parkano, Finland
1991-0331 Juliana Gaviria* track cyclist - La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia
1991-0401 Dounia Batma* singer - Casablanca, Morocco
1991-0404 Jamie Lynn Spears* singer/actress/sister of Britney Spears - McComb, MS USA
1991-0406 Alexandra Popp* football player - Witten, Germany
1991-0410 Brandon Pirri* hockey player - Toronto, ON Canada
1991-0415 Ristomatti Hakola* cross-country skier - Kankaanpää, Finland
1991-0419 Jesse Blacker* hockey player - Toronto, ON Canada
1991-0421 Frank Dillane* actor - London, England
1991-0430 Chris Kreider* hockey player - Boxford, MA USA
1991-0430 Elisa Lam* student/ homicide victim - Vancouver, BC Canada (2013/21)
1991-0430 Jeron Robinson* athlete (high jump) - Angleton, TX US
1991-0501
1991-0502
1991-0507 Elisa Bartoli* football player - Rome, Italy
1991-0509 Ben Chiarot* hockey player - Hamilton, ON Canada
1991-0509 Calvin de Haan* hockey player - Carp, ON Canada
1991-0512 Jakub Jerábek* hockey player/SC - Plzen, Czechoslovakia
1991-0516 Matthias Plachta* hockey player - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
1991-0516 Susannah Scaroni* Paralympic athlete (wheelchair racer)/OG - USA
1991-0517 Johanna Konta* British tennis player - Sydney, NSW, Australia
1991-0520
1991-0524 Sinem Kurtbay* sport sailor/WB/of Turkish descent - Savonlinna, Finland
1991-0524 Viktor Svedberg* hockey player - Gothenburg, Sweden
1991-0524 Erika Umeda* 梅田 えりか singer/model - Yokohama, Japan
1991-0529 Yaime Pérez* discus thrower/OB - Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
1991-0603 Sara Sieppi* makeup artist/beauty queen - Tornio, Finland
1991-0603 Sami Vatanen* hockey player/OG - Jyväskylä, Finland
1991-0604 José Gregorio Lemos* Paralympic athlete (javelin)/OG - Pradera, Colombia
1991-0604 Ben Stokes* British cricket player - Christchurch, New Zealand
1991-0605 Martin Braithwaite* football player - Esbjerg, Denmark
1991-0605 Perttu Hyvärinen* cross-country skier - Kuopio, Finland
1991-0606 Ashley Park* actress/ singer/dancer - Glendale, CA USA
1991-0607
1991-0608 Joel Hanley* hockey player - Keswick, ON Canada
1991-0610 Pol Espargaró* motorcycle racer - Granollers, Spain
1991-0612 Louisa Jacobson Gummer* model/ actress/daughter of Meryl Streep – Los Angeles, CA USA
1991-0613 Barbara Bonansea* football player - Pinerolo, Italy - soccerway
1991-0613 Will Claye* athlete (triple jump)/OS - Tucson, AZ USA
1991-0613 Iryna Kindzerska* judoka/OB - Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
1991-0613 Katie Nageotte* athlete (pole vault)/OG - Olmsted Falls, OH USA
1991-0616 Tameka Yallop* (b Butt) football player - Orange, NSW Australia
1991-0618 Rasmus Schüller* football player - Espoo, Finland
1991-0620 Marcus K.** Finnish computer programmer - Stockholm, Sweden
1991-0620 Kalidou Koulibaly* Senegalese football player - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France
1991-0620 Alexis Neiers* burgler/rehabilitation counselor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1991-0620 Rick ten Voorde* football player - Emmen, Netherlands
1991-0621
1991-0622 Valentina Cernoia* football player - Manerbio, Italy
1991-0624 Mutaz Essa Barshim* athlete (high jump)/OG - Doha, Qatar
1991-0626 Eric Nelsen* actor/ producer - West Palm Beach, FL USA
1991-0627 Oliver Stark* (b Jones) actor - London, England
1991-0628 Kevin de Bruyne* football player - Ghent, Belgium
1991-0628 Anzhelika Sidorova* athlete (pole vault)/OS - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1991-0701
1991-0703 Eero Markkanen* football player - Jyväskylä, Finland
1991-0703 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova* tennis player - Samara, Russia, Soviet Union
1991-0704 Irene Paredes* football player - Legazpi, Spain
1991-0706 Beatrice Chepkoech* steeple chase runner/WG - Bomet, Kenya
1991-0707 Eve Hewson* actress/ daughter of Bono - Dublin, Ireland
1991-0711 Samuel Arnold* actor - Montereau-Fault-Yonne, France
1991-0712 James Rodriquez* football player - Cúcuta, Colombia
1991-0713 Jean-François Bérubé* hockey goalie - Repentigny, QC Canada
1991-0715 Nuria Párrizas Díaz* tennis player - Granada, Spain
1991-0716 Daniel Pembroke* British Paralympic athlete (javelin)/OG - England
1991-0718 Sebastian Eubank* boxer - Hove, East Sussex, England (2021/29)
1991-0720
1991-0723 Dmitry Orlov* hockey player/SC - Novokuznetsk, Russia, Soviet Union
1991-0724 Robin Lehner* hockey goalie - Göteborg, Sweden
1991-0726 Tyson Barrie* hockey player/WG - Victoria, BC Canada
1991-0727 Erin Caffey* convicted of familicide - USA
1991-0729 Orlando Ortega* Cuban-Spanish hurdler - Havana, Cuba
1991-0730 Jesper B. Jensen* hockey player - Rødovre, Denmark
1991-0731 Kenza Dali* football player/of Algerian descent - Sainte-Colombe, France
1991-0802 Skyler Day* actress/ singer - Cumming, GA USA
1991-0803 Mayra Aguiar* judoka/OB - Porto Alegre, Brazil
1991-0810 Marcus Foligno* Canadian hockey player/son of Mike Foligno - Buffalo, NY USA
1991-0817 Sara Lappalainen* (b Kuivisto) middle-distance runner - Porvoo, Finland
1991-0818 Richard Harmon* actor - Mississauga, ON Canada
1991-0819 Frans Tuohimaa* hockey goalie/OG - Helsinki, Finland
1991-0820
1991-0822 Brayden Schenn* hockey player - Saskatoon, SK Canada
1991-0825 Iiro Pakarinen* hockey player/OG - Suonenjoki, Finland
1991-0826 Jessica Diggins* cross-country skier/OG - Woodbury, MN USA
1991-0826 Dylan O’Brien* actor - New York City, NY USA
1991-0828 Amanda Kessel* hockey player/sister of Phil Kessel - Madison, WI USA
1991-0830 Gaia Weiss* model/actress - Paris, France
1991-0831 Anton Kuliatin* Paralympic athlete (runner)/OG - Biysk, Russia, Soviet Union
1991-0901
1991-0904 Carter Jenkins* actor - Tampa, FL USA
1991-0905 Samu Torsti* alpine skier - Vaasa, Finland
1991-0906 Brian Dumoulin* hockey player/SC - Biddeford, ME USA
1991-0908 Blair Adams* football player - South Shields, England
1991-0910
1991-0913 Krista Haynes* (b Ford) Am. football player/conspiracy theorist - Etobicoke, ON Canada
1991-0916 Douwe Amels* athlete (high jump) - Drachten, Netherlands
1991-0920 Kelsey-Lee Barber* (b Roberts) Australian athlete (javelin)/OB - East London, South Africa
1991-0921 Yeltsin Jacques* Paralympic athlete (runner)/OG - Campo Grande, Brazil
1991-0921 Elena Vallortigara* athlete (high jump) - Schio, Italy
1991-0922 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde* athlete (hurdles) - Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
1991-0925 Jéssica Andrade* mixed martial artist - Umuarama, Paraná, Brazil
1991-0926 Charlotte Spencer* actress - Harlow, Essex, England
1991-0927 Simona Halep* tennis player - Constanta, Romania
1991-0927 Thomas Mann* actor - Portland, OR USA
1991-0930 Thomas Röhler* athlete (javelin)/OG - Jena, Germany
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1991-1005
1991-1010 Lali Espósito* singer/ actress - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1991-1010 Xherdan Shaqiri* Swiss football player - Gjilan, Yugoslavia
1991-1015 Josefin Asplund* actress - Stockholm, Sweden
1991-1015 Brock Nelson* hockey player - Minneapolis, MN USA
1991-1016 Tiffany Cameron* Canadian-Jamaican football player - Toronto, ON Canada
1991-1020
1991-1023 Emil Forsberg* football player - Sundsvall, Sweden
1991-1026 Beulah Koale* actor/ of Samoan descent - Auckland, New Zeeland
1991-1028 Lucy Bronze* football player/EC - Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
1991-1028 Liu Cuiqing* 刘翠青 Paralympic athlete (sprinter/OG) - China
1991-1028 Aku Partanen* racewalker - Lappeenranta, Finland
1991-1029
1991-1030
1991-1101 Brianna Beahan* athlete (hurdles) - Joondalup, Perth, WA, Australia
1991-1102 Holly Bradshaw* athlete (pole vault)/OB- Preston, Lancashire, England
1991-1114 Taylor Hall* hockey player - Calgary, AB Canada
1991-1115 Shailene Woodley* actress - San Bernardino, CA USA
1991-1125 Rome Flynn* model/musician/actor - Springfield, IL USA
1991-1125 Philipp Grubauer* hockey goalie/SC - Rosenheim, Germany
1991-1126 Omara Durand* Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG - Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
1991-1129 Terunofuji Haruo* 照ノ富士 春雄 (b Gantulgyn Gan-Erdene) sumo wrestler - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
1991-1202 Jesper Fast* hockey player - Nässjö, Sweden
1991-1203 Arttu Vattulainen* long-distance runner - Joensuu, Finland
1991-1204 Max Holloway* mixed martial artist - Honolulu, HI USA
1991-1205 Cam Fowler* American hockey player - Windsor, ON Canada
1991-1205 Carolin Schäfer* athlete (heptathlon/WS) - Bad Wildungen, Germany
1991-1206 Rachel Daly* football player/EC - Harrogate, England
1991-1210 Elisa Longo Borghini* cyclist/OB - Omavasso, Italy
1991-1212 Elliot Brown* actor - Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England
1991-1212 Jaime Lorente* actor (La casa de papel) - Murcia, Spain
1991-1213 Sara McManus* curler/OG - Gothenburg, Sweden
1991-1213 Vladimir Tarasenko* hockey player - Yaroslavl, Russia, Soviet Union
1991-1216 Andreas Hofmann* athlete (javelin) - Heidelberg, Germany
1991-1216 Valtteri Kemiläinen* hockey player/OG - Jyväskylä, Finland
1991-1218
1991-1220 Jorge “Jorginho” Luiz Frello Filho* Brazilian-Italian football player/to Italy at age 15 - Imbituba, Brazil
1991-1220 Colin Woodell* actor - San Francisco, CA USA
1991-1222
1991-1224 Louis Tomlinson* singer - Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England
1991-1226 Andritany Ardhiyasa* football goalie - Jakarta, Indonesia
1991-1226 Eden Sher* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1991-1226 Mai Villadsen* politician - Kibæk, Denmark
1991-1230 Jessica Springsteen* equestrian/daughter of Bruce Springsteen - Los Angeles, USA
1991-1231 Bojana Jovanovski Petrović* (b Jovanovski) Serbian tennis player - Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
1991-1231 Brandon Tanev* hockey player - Toronto, ON Canada
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