Famous Deaths In 1891

Jan 04 On this day in history joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies  

Jan 05 Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89 in the year 1891.  

Jan 07 In the year 1891 carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79  

Jan 08 On this day in history fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81  

Jan 11 In the year 1891 georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81  

Jan 16 In the year 1891 clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54  

Jan 17 In the year 1891 johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74  

Jan 20 David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies on this day in history.  

Jan 21 Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48 in the year 1891.  

Jan 23 On this day in history boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21  

Jan 26 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies in the year 1891.  

Jan 31 On this day in history ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75  

Feb 09 In the year 1891 johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71  

Feb 10 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850) died in the year 1891.  

Feb 13 On this day in history david Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77  

Feb 14 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71 in the year 1891.  

Mar 15 Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) died on this day in history.  

Mar 17 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, Fren prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68 in the year 1891.  

Mar 28 Dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies in the year 1891.  

Mar 29 On this day in history georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31  

Apr 07 Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88 on this day in history.  

Apr 15 In the year 1891 stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49  

Apr 17 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1891.  

Apr 24 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies on this day in history.  

Apr 25 On this day in history death of nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)  

May 04 In the year 1891 sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls  

May 08 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies on this day in history.  

May 11 On this day in history death of a. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)  

May 16 In the year 1891 death of ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)  

May 23 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

May 26 Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Jun 06 John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) died in the year 1891.  

Jun 14 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1891.  

Jun 23 On this day in history francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73  

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Jan 01 Frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out) was born in the year 1891.  

Jan 03 On this day in history birth of osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]  

Jan 04 Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948) was born in the year 1891.  

Jan 05 Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893] was born on this day in history.  

Jan 06 Ted McDonald, cricketer (great Australian quick of 20's) was born in the year 1891.  

Jan 07 On this day in history birth of zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)  

Jan 08 On this day in history birth of bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer  

Jan 08 On this day in history birth of walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)