Famous Deaths Happened In 1891

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

Jan 05 On this day in history 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 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 On this day in history johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 13 David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77 on this day in history.  

Feb 14 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Mar 15 Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) died in the year 1891.  

Mar 17 On this day in history 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 In the year 1891 georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31  

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 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 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 in the year 1891.  

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

Jun 23 Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1891.  

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

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

Jan 06 On this day in history 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 Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer was born on this day in history.  

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