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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 Dnitz, President of Germany
- September 26 - Charles Munch), French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
- October 24 - Rafael Lenidas 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 Lavalle, composer
- March 3 ? Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur, grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill
- March 15 Sir Joseph Bazalgette, British engineer
- April 7 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, circus impresario
- May 8 - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, author and theosophist
- July 4 - Hannibal Hamlin, US politician.
- August 12 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist.
- August 14 - Sarah Childress Polk, former First Lady of the United States.
- September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author of Oblomov.
- 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, poet
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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