Famous Deaths Happened In 1891

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

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

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

Jan 08 On this day in history fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81  

Jan 11 Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81 in the year 1891.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 21 In the year 1891 calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48  

Jan 23 On this day in history boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21  

Jan 26 In the year 1891 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 in the year 1891.  

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

Mar 17 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, Fren prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

May 04 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls in the year 1891.  

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

May 23 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1891.  

May 26 Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1891.  

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 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 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 In the year 1891 birth of johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893]  

Jan 06 Ted McDonald, cricketer (great Australian quick of 20's) was born on this day in history.  

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