Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1891
January - March
April - June
May: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claims to be the Promised Messiah
July - September
this is all true
October - December
Undated
Oct.1: Stanford
Births
January - June
- January 1 - Charles Bickford, American actor (d. 1967)
- January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston, Harlem Renaissance writer (d. 1960)
- January 8 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1957)
- January 22 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (d. 1937)
- January 27 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967)
- February 9 - Ronald Colman, English actor (d. 1958)
- February 11 - J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1965)
- February 21 - Sean Heuston, Irish rebel (d. 1916)
- February 27 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcasting pioneer (d. 1971)
- March 10 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)
- March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
- March 29 - Yvan Goll, French lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950)
- April 2 - Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976)
- April 7 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Founder of the Lego group (d. 1958)
- April 13 - Nella Larsen, American novelist (d. 1964)
- April 15 - Wallace Reid, American actor (d. 1923)
- April 17 - George Adamski, Polish-born UFO traveler (d. 1965)
- April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
- May 7 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988)
- May 15
- May 16 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)
- May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
- May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
- May 22 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
- May 23 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- May 24 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971)
- June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
- June 20 - John A. Costello, second President of Ireland (d. 1976)
- June 21 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (d. 1966)
- June 30 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
July - December
- July 5 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- August 2 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
- August 21 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian, World War I veteran (d. 2007)
- September 3 - Bessie Delany, African American physician and author (d. 1995)
- September 12 - Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate of Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
- September 14 - William F. Friedman, American cryptographer (d. 1969)
- September 16 - Karl Dönitz, President of Germany (d. 1980)
- September 16
- September 26 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
- September 28 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (d. 1918)
- October 12 - Fumimaro Konoe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1945)
- October 20 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- October 24 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
- November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
- November 15
- November 28 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
- December 9 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
- December 10 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- December 26 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
- See also Category: 1891 births.
Deaths
January - June
- January 5 - Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849)
- January 16 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
- January 21 - Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
- February 14 - William Tecumseh Sherman, American Civil War General (b. 1820)
- March 15 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
- March 15 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
- March 29 - Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
- April 2 - Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Turkish statesman (b. 1823)
- April 7 - P. T. Barnum, American showman (b. 1810)
- April 24 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
- April 25 - Nathaniel Woodard, educationalist (b. 1811)
- May 8 - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (b. 1831)
July - December
- July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
- August 12 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
- August 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
- August 29 - Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843?)
- September 7 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
- September 11 - Antero de Quental, Portuguese poet (b. 1842)
- September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
- September 28 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
- October 6
- October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
- October 23 - Ambrosius of Optina, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1812)
- November 6 - J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor (b. 1818)
- November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
- December 5 - Pedro II, Brazilian deposed emperor (b. 1826)
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