About the day » Sunday July 21, 1991Calender converter

• Derek David Reininga, Desoto
• merle haenen, helden-beringe

• Alexander Balka (78), Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois
• Cornelis Loermans (87), Beuningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Francine Hoornick (53)
• Alois Dederichs (61)
• Eva Bella Zilber (59), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adrianus JACOBS (89), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dennis Edward Curnutt (34), Las Vegas, Nevada
• Franciscus Jacobus Hagen (76), Bussum
• Dina Scholtalbes (87), Stadskanaal rk, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Netherland
• Ben van den Heuvel (74)

• 1988 » DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
• 1988 » KB, American rapper
• 1989 » Juno Temple, English actress
• 1989 » Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Chris Martin, English footballer
• 1990 » Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
• 1990 » Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
• 1990 » Jason Roy, English cricketer
• 1991 » Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
• 1992 » Rachael Flatt, American figure skater

• 1982 » Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Paul Warwick, English race car driver (b. 1969)
• 1994 » Marijac, French author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
• 1998 » Robert Young, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 2000 » Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2003 » John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (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 1 » Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian.
• April 2 » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
• September 9 » Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• October 16 » George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
• December 5 » Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
• December 25 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

The temperature on July 21, 1991 was between 11.5 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.