1991 in music

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Deaths

• January 8 - Steve Clark, guitarist of Def Leppard
• February 6 - Danny Thomas, singer and actor
• March 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer and songwriter
• March 14 - Jerome Doc Pomus (65), songwriter, cancer
• March 14 - Howard Ashman, lyricist
• March 21 - Leo Fender, inventor of the electric guitar
• April 20 - Steve Marriott, the Small Faces
• April 21 - Willi Boskovsky, conductor
• April 23 - Johnny Thunders, rock guitarist and singer
• May 8 - Jean Langlais, composer
• May 19 - Odia Coates, singer
• May 23 - Wilhelm Kempff, pianist and composer
• May 27 - Leopold Nowak, musicologist
• June 6 - Stan Getz, US saxophonist
• June 9 - Claudio Arrau, pianist
• June 14 - Joy Finzi, founder of the Finzi Trust
• September 4 - Charlie Barnet, US bandleader
• September 8 - Alex North, composer
• September 17 - Zino Francescatti, violinist
• September 28 - Miles Davis, musician
• September 28 - Eugène Bozza, composer
• October 6 - Igor Talkov, Russian singer/songwriter
• October 17 - Tennessee Ernie Ford
• October 31 - Joseph Papp, Broadway producer
• November 2 - Mort Shuman, songwriter
• November 15 - Jacques Morali, disco composer
• November 24 - Freddie Mercury, singer
• November 24 - Eric Carr, drummer