* 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 )

* 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal ( b. 1891 )

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist ( d. 1969 )

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.

* 1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist ( d. 1967 )

* 1891 – August Froehlich, German Roman Catholic priest, member of the resistance against Nazism and martyr ( d. 1942 )

* 1966 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor ( b. 1891 )

* 1891 – Walter Model, German field marshal ( d. 1945 )

* 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate ( d. 1957 )

* 1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician ( d. 1970 )

Karl Dönitz (; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980 ) was a German naval commander during World War II.

* Walter Model ( 1891 – 1945 ), German Field Marshal of World War II

* 1891 – Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher ( d. 1970 )

Other contributions include his early work on the economic history of Roman agrarian society ( 1891 ) and on the labour relations in Eastern Germany ( 1892 ), his analysis of the history of commercial partnerships in the Middle Ages ( 1889 ), his critique of Marxism, the discussion of the roles of idealism and materialism in the history of capitalism in his Economy and Society ( 1922 ) and his General Economic History ( 1923 ), a notable example of the kind of empirical work associated with the German Historical School.

* 1970 – Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1891 )

* Wolfgang Martini ( 1891 – 1963 ), German Air Force Officer largely responsible for promoting early radar development

* 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist ( d. 1891 )

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969 ) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war.

* 1891 – Karl Dönitz, German navy officer ( d. 1980 )

A German pharmacologist, Arthur Heffter, isolated the alkaloids in the peyote cactus in 1891.

In 1891, the German government took over direct administration of the territory from the German East Africa Company and appointed a governor with headquarters at Dar es Salaam.