Famous Deaths In 1891

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

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

Jan 07 On this day in history carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79

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

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

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 David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies in the year 1891.

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 On this day in history nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies

Jan 31 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75 in the year 1891.

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

Feb 10 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850) died on this day in history.

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

Feb 14 In the year 1891 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 in the year 1891.

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

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

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

Apr 15 On this day in history stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49

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 on this day in history.

Apr 25 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811) died in the year 1891.

May 04 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls on this day in history.

May 08 In the year 1891 helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies

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

May 16 Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821) died in the year 1891.

May 23 On this day in history ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73

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

Jun 06 On this day in history death of john A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)

Jun 14 In the year 1891 nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77

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

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

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

Jan 08 In the year 1891 birth of walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)