About the day » Wednesday August 7, 1991Calender converter

• Savannah Jill van de Merwe, Salt Lake City
• Cornelia Kalisvaart, Zoetermeer

• Bertus Peters (78)
• Bernardus Johannes Tutert (84), Zwolle
• Carl David Robertson (63), Groton, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Glas (72), Amsterdam
• Berendina van Ginkel (66)
• Christina Hekkert (77)
• Bessie Mildred Kendrick (82), New Canton, Pike, Illinois, United States
• Clementine Clemence Sierens, Sluis
• Antonia Johanna Snijder (85), Voorburg
• Adriana Johanna van Gorp (81), Boxmeer

• 1989 » DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player
• 1990 » Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer († 2016)
• 1991 » Mike Trout, American baseball player
• 1991 » Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Adam Yates, English cyclist
• 1992 » E. J. Tackett, American bowler
• 1992 » Simon Yates, English cyclist
• 1993 » Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1993 » Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper

• 1978 » Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
• 1985 » Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
• 1989 » Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
• 1994 » Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
• 1995 » Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)
• 2001 » Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2003 » K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
• March 26 » Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
• May 19 » Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
• June 17 » Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
• August 24 » Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• August 25 » Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
• August 29 » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

The temperature on August 7, 1991 was between 15.9 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.