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Who Was Alive in 1891

104 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1891

Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 78
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 76
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 73
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 72
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 72
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 72
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 71
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 71
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 71
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 69
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 69
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 63
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 63
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 63
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 58
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 57
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 56
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 56
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 52
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 51
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 51
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 51
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 50
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 47
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 47
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 44
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 44
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 43
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 39
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 37
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 35
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 35
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 35
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 35
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 33
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 33
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 33
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 32
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 31
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 30
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 29
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 29
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 29
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 28
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 28
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 27
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 26
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 25
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 25
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 24
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 24
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 23
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 23
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 22
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 22
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 22
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 21
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 20
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 20
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 20
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 20
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 19
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 19
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 17
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 17
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 17
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 17
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 16
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 16
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 16
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 13
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 13
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 13
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 12
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 12
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 11
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 10
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 10
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 10
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 9
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 9
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 9
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 9
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 8
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 8
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 8
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 8
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 7
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 7
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 6
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 5
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 4
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 4
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 4
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 4
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 3
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 2
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 2
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 2
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 2
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 1
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 1
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 1
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 1
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President

Also Born in 1891

1891–1956 · born April 14
Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer (1891–1956)
1891–1937 · born January 22
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
1891–1940 · born May 15
Russian and Soviet author (1891–1940)
1891–1944 · born November 15
German field marshal (1891–1944)
1891–1970 · born December 10
Jewish German-Swedish writer, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate (1891–1970)
1891–1974 · born October 20
British physicist (1891–1974)
1891–1974 · born May 23
Swedish writer (1891-1974)
1891–1953 · born April 27
Russian composer and pianist (1891–1953)
1891–1980 · born December 26
American novelist (1891–1980)
1891–1980 · born September 16
German grand admiral (1891–1980)
1891–1957 · born January 8
German physicist (1891–1957)
1891–1941 · born November 14
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891–1941)

Died in 1891

Herman Melville
Herman Melville
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick

Also Died in 1891

1854–1891 · died November 10
French poet (1854–1891)
1810–1891 · died April 7
American showman and politician (1810–1891)
1812–1891 · died September 27
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
1825–1891 · died December 5
Emperor of Brazil from 1831 to 1889
1859–1891 · died March 29
French painter (1859–1891)
1831–1891 · died May 8
Russian-American mystic and writer (1831–1891)
1800–1891 · died April 24
German field marshal (1800–1891)
1804–1891 · died June 23
German physicist (1804–1891)
1820–1891 · died February 14
United States Army general (1820–1891)
1834–1891 · died August 22
Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer
1823–1891 · died December 29
German mathematician (1823–1891)
1832–1891 · died January 26
Inventor of the internal combustion engine

Sources

  1. 1891 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  3. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  4. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  5. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  6. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  7. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  8. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  9. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  10. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  11. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  12. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  13. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  14. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  15. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  16. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  17. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  18. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  19. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  20. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  21. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  22. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  23. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  24. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  25. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  26. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  27. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  28. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  29. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  30. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  31. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  32. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  33. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  34. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  35. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  36. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  37. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  38. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  39. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  40. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  41. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  42. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  43. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  44. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  45. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  46. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  47. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  48. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  49. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  50. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  51. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  52. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  53. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  54. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  55. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  56. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  57. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  58. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  59. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  60. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  61. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  62. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  63. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  64. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  65. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  66. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  67. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  68. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  69. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  70. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  71. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  72. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  73. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  74. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  75. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  76. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  77. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  78. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  79. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  80. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  81. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  82. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  83. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  84. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  85. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  86. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  87. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  88. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  89. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  90. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  91. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  92. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  93. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  94. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  95. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  96. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  97. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  98. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  99. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  100. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  101. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  102. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  103. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  104. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  105. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
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