Editing 1991 in music (section)

== Deaths ==
*[[1 January]] – [[Buck Ram]], American singer and songwriter ([[The Platters]]), 83
*[[6 January]] – [[Ahmed Adnan Saygun]], Turkish composer and musicologist, 83
*[[8 January]] – [[Steve Clark]], guitarist of [[Def Leppard]], 30 (overdose of codeine)
*[[14 January]] – [[Chitragupta (composer)|Chitragupta]], film composer, 73
*[[20 January]] – [[Stan Szelest]], keyboard player ([[The Band]]), 47
*[[6 February]] – [[Danny Thomas]], singer and actor, 79
*[[9 February]] – [[James Cleveland]], gospel singer, 59
*[[13 February]] – [[Flaviano Labò]], operatic tenor, 64
*[[17 February]] – [[Gitta Alpár]], operatic soprano, 88
*[[20 February]] – [[Isabelle Delorme]], pianist, composer and music teacher, 90
*[[21 February]] – [[Margot Fonteyn]], ballerina, 71
*[[26 February]] – [[Slim Gaillard]], jazz musician, 75
*[[2 March]] – [[Serge Gainsbourg]], singer and songwriter, 62 (heart attack)
*[[6 March]] – Sir [[Joseph Lockwood]], record company executive, 86
*[[13 March]] – [[Jimmy McPartland]], 83, jazz musician
*[[14 March]]
**Jerome [[Doc Pomus]], songwriter, 65
**[[Howard Ashman]], lyricist, 40 (AIDS-related)
*[[15 March]] – [[Bud Freeman]], jazz musician, 84
*[[18 March]] – [[Dezider Kardoš]], Slovak composer, 76
*[[21 March]] – [[Leo Fender]], inventor of the electric guitar, 81
*[[25 March]] – [[Eileen Joyce]], pianist, 83
*[[1 April]] – [[Martha Graham]], 96, American dancer and choreographer
*[[4 April]] – [[Louis Guglielmi]], 75, French composer
*[[7 April]]
**[[Henry Glover]], American songwriter, producer and trumpet player, 69
**[[Ruth Page (ballerina)|Ruth Page]], American dancer and choreographer, 92
*[[8 April]] – [[Per Yngve Ohlin]], aka 'Dead', vocalist of [[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]], 22 (suicide)
*[[13 April]] – [[Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto]], horn virtuoso, 82
*[[17 April]] – [[Jack Yellen]], 98, American lyricist
*[[18 April]] – [[Barry Rogers]], 55, American jazz and salsa trombonist
*[[20 April]] – [[Steve Marriott]], singer, songwriter and guitarist ([[Small Faces]] and [[Humble Pie]]), 44 (killed in house fire)
*[[21 April]] – [[Willi Boskovsky]], conductor, 81
*[[23 April]] – [[Johnny Thunders]], rock guitarist and singer, 38 (drug-related)
*[[26 April]]
**[[Leo Arnaud]], composer, 86
**[[Carmine Coppola]], flautist and composer, 80
*[[28 April]]  – [[Ken Curtis]], American singer and actor, 74
*[[29 April]] – [[Gonzaguinha]], Brazilian singer and composer, 45 (car accident)
*[[3 May]] – [[Mohammed Abdel Wahab]], Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
*[[8 May]]
**[[Jean Langlais]], composer, 84
**[[Rudolf Serkin]], pianist, 88
*[[9 May]]? – [[Yanka Dyagileva]], poet and singer, 24 (drowned)
*[[19 May]] – [[Odia Coates]], singer, 49 (breast cancer)
*[[23 May]] – [[Wilhelm Kempff]], pianist and composer, 95
*[[24 May]]
** Dirk Schoufs, a member of Belgian Band [[Vaya Con Dios (band)|Vaya Con Dios]] (AIDS-related)
**[[Gene Clark]], singer-songwriter ([[The Byrds]]), 46 (heart attack)
*[[27 May]] – [[Leopold Nowak]], musicologist, 86
*[[1 June]] – [[David Ruffin]], singer ([[The Temptations]]), 50 (overdose of cocaine)
*[[4 June]] – [[MC Trouble]], rapper, 20 (epileptic seizure)
*[[6 June]] – [[Stan Getz]], US saxophonist, 64
*[[9 June]] – [[Claudio Arrau]], pianist, 88
*[[14 June]] – [[Joy Finzi]], founder of the Finzi Trust, 84
*[[6 July]]  – [[Herminio Giménez]], composer, 86
*[[11 July]]  – [[Honorata de la Rama]], singer, 89
*[[15 July]] – [[Bert Convy]], American game show host, actor and singer, 57 (brain tumor)
*[[28 August]] – [[Vince Taylor]], rock and roll singer, 52 (cancer)
*[[4 September]]
**[[Charlie Barnet]], American bandleader, 77
**[[Dottie West]], American country singer, 58 (car accident)
*[[8 September]] – [[Alex North]], composer, 80
*[[17 September]]
**[[Zino Francescatti]], violinist, 89
**[[Rob Tyner]], lead singer of [[MC5]], 46 (heart attack)
*[[20 September]] – [[Tom Anderson (fiddler)|Tom Anderson]], Shetland fiddler
*[[25 September]] – [[Sydney MacEwan]], singer of traditional Scottish and Irish songs, 82
*[[28 September]]
**[[Miles Davis]], jazz trumpeter and composer, 65 (stroke)
**[[Eugène Bozza]], composer, 86
*[[6 October]] – [[Igor Talkov]], Russian singer/songwriter, 34 (murdered)
*[[9 October]] – [[Roy Black (singer)|Roy Black]], 48, singer and actor (heart failure)
*[[16 October]] – [[Ole Beich]], guitarist and bassist, 36 (drowned)
*[[17 October]] – [[Tennessee Ernie Ford]], country musician, 72
*[[25 October]] – [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], rock concert promoter, 60 (helicopter crash)
*[[27 October]] – Sir [[Andrzej Panufnik]], Polish composer, 75
*[[31 October]] 
**[[Joseph Papp]], Broadway producer, 70
**[[Garvin Bushell]], multi-instrumentalist
*[[2 November]] – [[Mort Shuman]], songwriter, 54 (complications following a liver operation)
*[[3 November]] – [[Chris Bender (singer)|Chris Bender]], R&B singer, 19 (murdered)
*[[8 November]] – [[Frances Faye]], singer, 79
*[[11 November]] – [[Morton Stevens]], film composer, 62
*[[15 November]] – [[Jacques Morali]], disco composer, 44 (AIDS)
*[[24 November]]
**[[Freddie Mercury]], singer, 45 (AIDS)<ref>{{cite web |title=Freddie Mercury {{!}} Biography, Parents, Songs, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Freddie-Mercury |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
**[[Eric Carr]], drummer, 41 (cancer)
*[[10 December]] – [[Headman Shabalala]], member of [[Ladysmith Black Mambazo]], 46 (shot)
*[[13 December]] – [[Stuart Challender]], conductor, 44 (AIDS-related)
*[[20 December]] 
** [[Lal Chand Yamla Jatt]], Indian folk singer, 77<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/the-lost-legend/|title=The lost legend|date=14 September 2009|author=Jaskiran Kapoor|website=Indian Express|access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref>
** [[Waldemar Kazanecki]], Polish pianist, conductor and composer, 62<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.metason.net/artistinfo?name=Waldemar%20Kazanecki|title=Artist Info|website=Music Metason|access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref>
*[[22 December]] – [[Édouard Woolley]], tenor, actor, composer and music educator