1991 in Portugal

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Events in the year 1991 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• President: Mário Soares
• Prime Minister: Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Events

• 13 January - Presidential election.^[1]
• 6 October - Legislative election

Arts and entertainment

Portugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with Dulce Pontes and the song "Lusitana paixão".

Sports

In association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1990–91 Primeira Divisão and 1991–92 Primeira Divisão; for the cup seasons, see 1990–91 Taça de Portugal and 1991–92 Taça de Portugal

• 2 June - Taça de Portugal Final
• 14–30 June - FIFA World Youth Championship
• 22 September - Portuguese Grand Prix
• 1–4 November - European Acrobatics Championships

Births

• 29 January - Rafaël Dias, footballer
• 5 February - Irina Rodrigues, discus thrower
• 22 February - Joana Vasconcelos, sprint canoer
• 20 April - Rui Caetano, footballer
• 7 May - Evandro Brandão, footballer (born in Angola)
• 16 May - Amido Baldé, footballer
• 27 May - Mário Rui, footballer
• 28 June - Tijane Reis, footballer (born in Guinea-Bissau)
• 29 June - Júlio Regufe Alves, footballer
• 1 July - Diogo Figueiras, footballer
• 7 July - César André Costa Dias, futsal player
• 21 July - Sara Sampaio, model
• 31 July - Filipa Azevedo, singer
• 7 August - Dolores Silva, footballer
• 8 August - Nélson Oliveira, footballer
• 31 August - António Félix da Costa, auto racing driver
• 9 September - Danilo Pereira, footballer
• 29 September - Pelé, footballer
• 5 October - Renato Santos, footballer
• 19 October - Flávio Ferreira, footballer
• 11 November - Salvador Agra, footballer
• 29 December - Lassana Camará, footballer

Deaths

• 18 August - Luís Lindley Cintra, linguist
• 10 September - António Reis, filmmaker, poet, sculptor, ethnographer

References