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

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

Jan 08 Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81 in the year 1891.  

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

Jan 16 On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Jan 23 Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21 in the year 1891.  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 09 Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71 in the year 1891.  

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

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

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

Apr 24 In the year 1891 count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies  

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

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 In the year 1891 ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73  

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 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 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 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1891.  

Jan 08 Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer was born in the year 1891.  

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