1891
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1888 1889 1890 – 1891 – 1892 1893 1894 |
Births
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)
- Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
- 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 writer and theosophist (b. 1831)
- June 6 – John A. MacDonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
Deaths
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 writer (b. 1812)
- September 28 – Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
- October 6
- Charles I of Württemberg (b. 1823)
- Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (b. 1846)
- 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)