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 In the year 1891 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 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 On this day in history david Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies  

Jan 21 On this day in history calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48  

Jan 23 In the year 1891 boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21  

Jan 26 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies on this day in history.  

Jan 31 In the year 1891 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 In the year 1891 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 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 On this day in history napoleon JKP Bonaparte, Fren prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68  

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 In the year 1891 phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88  

Apr 15 Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

Apr 17 On this day in history jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77  

Apr 24 On this day in history count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies  

Apr 25 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811) died in the year 1891.  

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

May 08 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies on this day in history.  

May 11 A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) died on this day in history.  

May 16 In the year 1891 death of ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)  

May 23 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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

Jun 06 In the year 1891 death of john A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)  

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 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 Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05 In the year 1891 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 On this day in history birth of walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)