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1891
1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
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January 8 - Walther Bothe, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (d. 1957)
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February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)
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February 11 - J.W. Hearne Middlesex and England all-rounder (d. 1965).
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February 27 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971)
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March 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor (d. 1984)
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March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
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March 24 - John Knittel , dramatist (d. 1970)
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March 29 - Yvan Goll, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950)
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April 2 - Max Ernst, painter (d. 1976)
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April 13 - Nella Larsen, African American novelist (d. 1964)
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April 17 - George Adamski, UFO traveler (d. 1965)
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April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
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May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, writer (d. 1940)
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May 16 - Richard Tauber, tenor (d. 1948)
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May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
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May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1916)
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May 22 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (d. 1963)
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May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar
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June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
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June 20 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976)
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June 21 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
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June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (d. 1953)
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September 12 - Don Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
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September 14 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst
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September 16 - Karl Dönitz, President of Germany
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September 26 - Charles Munch), French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
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October 24 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic
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November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923
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November 15 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (d. 1959)
- November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
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December 26 - Henry Miller, writer
Deaths
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January 5 - Emma Abbott, American opera singer
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January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, composer
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March 15 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
- March 15 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, British engineer
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April 7 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, American circus impresario
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May 8 - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, author and theosophist
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July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. politician
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August 12 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist
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August 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States
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September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author
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September 28 - Herman Melville, American novelist
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October 6 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader
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October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer
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November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
Fictional events of the year
Sherlock Holmes is believed to have died in the Reichenbach fall with the "Napoleon of crime", Professor James Moriarty.
Last updated: 10-22-2005 07:52:21
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