* Henry Austin ( architect ) ( 1804 – 1891 ), American architect

Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

* 1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1891 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1841 – Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricketer ( d. 1891 )

The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.

* 1891 – Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor ( d. 1975 )

* 1891 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist ( d. 1971 )

* 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

* 1976 – Max Ernst, German artist ( b. 1891 )

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

* 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician ( d. 1968 )

* 1855 – Joe Hunter, English cricketer ( d. 1891 )

* 1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer ( d. 1952 )

* 1813 – Jules Grévy, French politician, 3rd President of the French Republic ( d. 1891 )

* 1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.

* 1831 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian scholar and theosophist ( d. 1891 )

* 1891 – C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster ( d. 1953 )

* 1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

* 1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist ( d. 1891 )

* 1891 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rician super-centenarian ( d. 2007 )

* 1891 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and writer ( d. 1956 )

* 1891 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor, singer, producer and director ( d. 1957 )

* 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter ( d. 1976 )

#* Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte ( 1822 – 1891 ), called Plon-Plon married Princess Marie Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

It is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick ( 1851 – 1924 ), a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague.

Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 – 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.

* 1823 – Charles I of Württemberg, King of Württemberg from 1864 ( d. 1891 )

* Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte ( 1822 – 1891 ), son of Napoleon I's brother Jerome

The 1891 founding professors included Robert Allardice in mathematics, Douglas Houghton Campbell in botany, Charles Henry Gilbert in zoology, George Elliott Howard in history, Oliver Peebles Jenkins in physiology and histology, Charles David Marx in civil engineering, Fernando Sanford in physics and John Maxson Stillman in chemistry.

Title page of the Ward, Lock & Co. edition of 1891 with decorative lettering designed by Charles Ricketts

* November 23 – Charles Ray, American actor ( b. 1891 )

* November 6 – Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist ( b. 1891 )

* December 13 – John Charles Thomas, American opera singer ( b. 1891 )

* November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor ( b. 1891 )

* October 27 – Charles Coughlin, radio host and Catholic Priest, ( b. 1891 )

* June 27 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader ( d. 1891 )

* The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General Sherman and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, edited by Rachel Sherman Thorndike ( New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1894 ) – edited letters to his brother, Senator John Sherman, from 1837 to 1891.

In 1719, it was made a free port within the Habsburg Empire by Emperor Charles VI, and remained a free port until 1 July 1891.

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

They had a son, Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte ( 1822 – 1891 ), also known as " Prince Napoleon " or " Plon-Plon.

Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Français, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort ( commonly known as Prince Napoléon and occasionally as Prince Jerome Napoléon ; 9 September 1822 – 17 March 1891 ) was the second son of Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, by his wife Catherine, princess of Württemberg.

* Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte ( 1822 – 1891 ); was a close advisor to his cousin, Napoleon III of France ; and, in particular, was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy and of the Italian nationalists.

* Frederick Banting ( 1891 – 1941 ) & Charles Best ( 1899 – 1978 ), co-discoverers of insulin

Born in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France to Jean Charles Bartholdi ( 1791 – 1836 ) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi Beysser ( 1801 – 1891 ), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.

His Parisian debut as composer was a performance of his overture Polyeucte, written in 1891 and premiered by Charles Lamoureux and his Orchestre Lamoureux in January 1892.