Famous People Who Died in 1891

George Bancroft (1800-1891)

Jan 17 American historian (History of the United States), dies at 90

Jan 17 Johannes Verhulst, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 74
Jan 20 David Kalākaua, King of the Hawaiian Islands (1874-91), dies at 54
Jan 21 Calixa Lavallee, Canadian composer (O Canada), dies at 48
Jan 23 Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Count of Flanders, dies at 21
Jan 26 Nikolaus Otto, German auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. (b. 1833)
Jan 31 Ernest Meissonier, French painter, etcher and sculptor (Depictions of Napoleon), dies at 75
Feb 9 Johan Jongkind, Dutch-French painter and printer (Marine Scenes), dies at 71
Feb 10 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
Feb 13 David Dixon Porter, United States Navy admiral, dies at 77
Feb 14 Giulio Roberti, Italian composer, dies at 61

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)

Feb 14 American Major General in the Union Army, dies at 71

Feb 15 Claudius W. Sears, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 74
Feb 22 Charles Brockden Brown 'Father of American novel', American pioneering writer and editor (Wieland), dies of tuberculosis at 39
Feb 26 Ted Barratt, English cricket spin bowler (10-43 in tour match vs Australia 1878; MCC, Surrey CCC), dies from consumption at 46
Feb 28 George Hearst, American businessman and politician (U.S. Senator from California), dies at 70
Mar 15 Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
Mar 15 Théodore de Banville, French writer, dies at 67
Mar 17 Napoléon JKP Bonaparte, French prince and member of National Convention, dies at 68

Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891)

Mar 21 American military officer (senior officer in Confederate Army and United States Army), dies at 84

Mar 24 Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City, dies at 76
Mar 28 Dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Mar 29 French post-impressionist painter (Pointillism), dies at 31

Apr 3 Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian politician and literary figure, dies at 73

P. T. Barnum (1810-1891)

Apr 7 American circus promoter and showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80

Apr 15 Stephen Albert Emery, American pianist, composer, and pedagogue (Elements of Harmony), dies at 49
Apr 17 Guildo Alary, Italian-born French composer, dies at 77
Apr 24 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian general and fieldmarshal, dies at 90
Apr 25 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
Apr 29 Armistead Lindsay Long, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 65
May 4 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
May 6 Thomas Hare, English barrister and political reformer, dies at 85
May 8 Helena Blavatsky, Russian occultist, philosopher, and author (co-founded Theosophical Society), dies at 59
May 10 Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist (famous for his work on plant cells), dies at 74
May 11 Edmond Becquerel, French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity and optics (photovoltaic effect), dies at 71
May 16 Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (Premier of Romania 1876-88), dies at 69
May 23 Ignace Leybach, French pianist and composer, dies at 73
May 26 Frederick Bowen Jewson, Scottish composer, dies at 67
May 28 Winfield Scott Featherston "Old Swet", American politician and Army Brigadier General (Confederate), dies at 70
May 31 Antoine-Aimé Dorion, Canadian politician and jurist (joint premier of Canada 1858, 1863-64), dies at 73

John A. Macdonald (1815-1891)

Jun 6 Canadian politician and businessman (1st Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73, 1878-91), dies of a stroke at 76

Jun 14 Nicolò Gabrielli, Italian opera composer, dies at 77
Jun 23 Francis Henry Brown, American teacher and composer (popular pre civil war composer), dies at 73
Jun 23 George Parr, English cricket batsman (captain first England touring team [North America 1859], second tour [Australia & NZ 1864]), dies at 65
Jun 23 Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist, dies at 86
Jun 24 Ann Mounsey, English organist and composer, dies at 80
Jun 28 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
Jul 3 Stefano Golinelli, Italian composer, dies at 72
Jul 4 Frédérick Louis Ritter, French composer, add eductator (Vassar, 1867-91), dies at 67
Jul 4 Hannibal Hamlin, American attorney and 15th Vice President of U.S. (1861-65), dies at 81
Jul 21 Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51
Jul 29 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita), dies at 70
Jul 31 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French-Belgian glass painter, dies at 77
Aug 2 George Washington Williams, American historian (History of the Negro Race in America), dies from tuberculosis and pleurisy at 41
Aug 5 Henry Litolff, French composer and pianist, dies at 73
Aug 12 James Russell Lowell, American poet, critic and diplomat (Biglow Papers), dies at 72
Aug 14 Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricket all-rounder (Aboriginal tour of England 1868), dies at 50
Aug 14 Sarah Childress Polk, Wife of the 11th President of the United States, James K. Polk (1845-1849), dies at 87
Aug 22 Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
Aug 29 Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
Sep 2 Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, Dutch-British pianist, composer, composer, and writer (Wagner As I Knew Him), dies at 76
Sep 7 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, dies at 71
Sep 9 Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic, dies at 84
Sep 11 Antero Tarquínio de Quental, Portuguese poet (Beatrice), dies at 49
Sep 11 Théodule-Augustin Ribot, French realist painter (Breton Fishermen and Their Families), dies at 68
Sep 18 William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
Sep 27 Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist (Oblomov), dies at 79

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Sep 28 American author (Moby-Dick, Billy Budd), dies at 72

Sep 30 Georges Boulanger, French general and politician, dies at 54
Oct 3 Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (Lucas sequences), dies at 49
Oct 6 Charles Stewart Parnell, English-Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
Oct 9 Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
Oct 11 Charles Stewart Parnells remains buried in Ireland
Oct 15 Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English writer (Punch), dies at 54
Oct 15 William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 54
Oct 16 Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
Oct 21 Alpheus Baker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 63
Oct 22 Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
Nov 3 Louis Lucien Bonaparte, British-French philologist, politician and nephew of Napoleon, dies at 78

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)

Nov 10 French poet and adventurer (The Drunken Boat, Illuminations), dies of a bone cancer at 37

Nov 24 Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880), dies at 60
Dec 5 Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89), dies at 66
Dec 6 Émile Bayard, French artist and illustrator, dies at 54
Dec 11 Johan C. J. van Schagen, Dutch poet and writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
Dec 17 Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition
Dec 17 Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the Congo
Dec 23 Holger Simon Paulli, Danish conductor and composer, dies at 81
Dec 28 Alfred Cellier, British conductor (Glibert and Sullivan) and composer (Dorothy), dies at 47
Dec 29 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker), dies at 68