On This Day

Famous People Who Died in September 1891

  • Sep 2 Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, 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 18 William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
  • Sep 27 Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)

Person of interestHerman Melville

Sep 28 Herman Melville, American writer (Billy Budd, Moby-Dick), dies at 72

Moby Dick Author Herman Melville
Moby Dick Author
Herman Melville
  • Sep 30 Georges Boulanger, French general and politician, dies at 54

Search the largest, most accurate site for today in history.