Famous Deaths Happened In 1891

Jan 04 In the year 1891 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 on this day in history.  

Jan 07 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Jan 08 Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jan 11 Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81 in the year 1891.  

Jan 16 On this day in history clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54  

Jan 17 On this day in history johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74  

Jan 20 On this day in history david Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies  

Jan 21 On this day in history calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48  

Jan 23 Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 31 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Feb 09 Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Feb 10 On this day in history death of sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)  

Feb 13 In the year 1891 david Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77  

Feb 14 On this day in history william Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71  

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 on this day in history.  

Mar 28 On this day in history dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies  

Mar 29 Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31 on this day in history.  

Apr 07 In the year 1891 phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88  

Apr 15 Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49 in the year 1891.  

Apr 17 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

Apr 24 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies in the year 1891.  

Apr 25 In the year 1891 death of nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)  

May 04 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls in the year 1891.  

May 08 On this day in history helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies  

May 11 In the year 1891 death of a. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)  

May 16 Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821) died on this day in history.  

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

May 26 On this day in history frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67  

Jun 06 John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) died on this day in history.  

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 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15] was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)  

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893]  

Jan 06 In the year 1891 birth of ted McDonald, cricketer (great Australian quick of 20's)  

Jan 07 Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 08 In the year 1891 birth of bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer  

Jan 08 Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954) was born in the year 1891.