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

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

* 1956 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer ( b. 1891 )

* Kalākaua ( 1836 – 1891 ), born David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua, the penultimate Hawaiian monarch

* 1891 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer ( d. 1971 )

In 1891, David Lindsey's expedition traveled across this area from north to south.

* 1891 – David Townsend, Art Director ( d. 1935 )

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

In Spring 1891 the Stanfords offered the presidency of their new university to the president of Cornell University, Andrew White, but he declined and recommended David Starr Jordan, the 40-year-old president of Indiana University Bloomington.

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.

* September 19 – David Low, New Zealand cartoonist ( b. 1891 )

* December 10 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer ( b. 1891 )

** David Sarnoff, Radio and television pioneer ( b. 1891 )

* June 8 – David Dixon Porter, American admiral ( d. 1891 )

* August 5 – David Townsend, American art director ( b. 1891 )

* David H. Moffat, 1887 – 1891

* Carnegie, David W. Spinifex and Sand: A Narrative of Five Years ' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia, C. Arthur Pearson, London, 1891 Spinifex and Sand: Project Gutenberg EBook, 2004

The Quaker baritone David Bispham, who sang in London and New York between 1891 and 1903, was the leading American male singer of this generation.

In 1891, North Kankakee was established when the David Bradley Plow Works established a factory, and in recognition of this, in 1895, the town changed its name to Bradley City ( later Bradley ).

Harry Koch, grandfather of oil magnates, philanthropists and conservative political activists Charles Koch and David Koch, was an early settler in Quanah, arriving in 1891, and founder of the Quanah Tribune-Chief, which he ran until his death in 1942.

* David James Jenkins ( 1824 – 1891 ), British MP for Penryn and Falmouth, 1874 – 1885

Sir David Alexander Cecil Low ( 7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963 ) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years.

The son of chemist David Brown Low and Jane Caroline Flanagan, David Low was born in Dunedin on 7 April 1891, and attended primary school there.

David Sarnoff (,, February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971 ) was a Russian-born American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television.

Lipscomb University was founded in 1891 by David Lipscomb and James A. Harding.