Famous Deaths Happened In 1891

Jan 04 Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies in the year 1891.  

Jan 05 On this day in history guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89  

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

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

Jan 11 Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jan 16 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1891.  

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

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

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

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 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850) died on this day in history.  

Feb 13 David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77 in the year 1891.  

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

Mar 15 On this day in history death of théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)  

Mar 17 In the year 1891 napoleon JKP Bonaparte, Fren prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68  

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 Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88 in the year 1891.  

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

Apr 17 In the year 1891 jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77  

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 A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) died on this day in history.  

May 16 On this day in history 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 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 in the year 1891.  

Jun 14 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

Jun 23 In the year 1891 francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73  

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Jan 01 Frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03 In the year 1891 birth of osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]  

Jan 04 In the year 1891 birth of edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)  

Jan 05 Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893] was born in the year 1891.  

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

Jan 07 In the year 1891 birth of zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)  

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

Jan 08 Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954) was born on this day in history.