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 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79 in the year 1891.  

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

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

Jan 16 In the year 1891 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 On this day in history boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 13 On this day in history 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 in the year 1891.  

Mar 28 In the year 1891 dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies  

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

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

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

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

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

Apr 25 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811) died on this day in history.  

May 04 On this day in history sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls  

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 On this day in history death of ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)  

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 In the year 1891 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 In the year 1891 birth of frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out)  

Jan 03 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15] was born in the year 1891.  

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 On this day in history birth of zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)  

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

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