Famous Deaths Happened In 1891

Jan 04 In the year 1891 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 On this day in history fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81  

Jan 11 On this day in history georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81  

Jan 16 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1891.  

Jan 17 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Jan 20 In the year 1891 david Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies  

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 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies in the year 1891.  

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 In the year 1891 william Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71  

Mar 15 In the year 1891 death of théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)  

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 in the year 1891.  

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 in the year 1891.  

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

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 in the year 1891.  

Apr 25 In the year 1891 death of nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)  

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

May 08 On this day in history 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 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1891.  

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

Jun 06 John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) died in the year 1891.  

Jun 14 On this day in history nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77  

Jun 23 Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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Jan 01 Frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out) was born on this day in history.  

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 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 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.