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 on this day in history.  

Jan 08 Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 20 David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies on this day in history.  

Jan 21 On this day in history 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 In the year 1891 ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75  

Feb 09 Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Feb 10 In the year 1891 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 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 In the year 1891 georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31  

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

Apr 15 In the year 1891 stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49  

Apr 17 On this day in history 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 On this day in history death of nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)  

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

May 08 In the year 1891 helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies  

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

May 16 Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821) died on this day in history.  

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

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 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 on this day in history.  

Jan 04 In the year 1891 birth of edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)  

Jan 05 Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893] was born on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1891.