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