About the day » Tuesday January 15, 1991Calender converter

• Joshua Davis, Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland († 1991)
• Jesse Van den Oetelaar
• Joe Samuel Crompton #0193**-1gn, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England († 1992)
• Danny Hoesen, Heerlen

• André Théophile RONGÉ (54), Vorst,1190,Brussel,Hoofdstedelijk Gewest,BELGIË
• Adrianus Theodorus Stolwijk (81), Vaals
• Anna Cornelia Buijs (89), Oudenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Bakker (88), Zwanenburg,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Bakker (88), Zwanenburg, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus [Arie] Stolwijk (81), Vaals, Limburg, Nederland
• Carolina Karremans (91), Oosterhout, Noord Brabant
• Aukje Louise de Boer (59), Franeker
• Anna Wilhelmina van Marum (80)
• Christoffel de Rooij (69), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1988 » Daniel Caligiuri, German footballer
• 1989 » Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player († 2008)
• 1990 » Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Paul Blake, English sprinter
• 1990 » Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer
• 1991 » Darya Klishina, Russian long jumper
• 1991 » James Mitchell, Australian basketball player
• 1991 » Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer
• 1991 » Nicolai Jørgensen, Danish footballer
• 1992 » Joël Veltman, Dutch footballer

• 1987 » Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Seán MacBride, Irish republican activist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Gordon Jackson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1923)
• 1990 » Peggy van Praagh, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Harilal Upadhyay, Indian author, poet, and astrologist (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1996 » Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1996 » Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)

• 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.
• January 17 » Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
• February 9 » Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
• February 28 » The first Gulf War ends.
• March 15 » Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
• August 8 » The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• August 20 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The temperature on January 15, 1991 was between -1.9 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (96%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.