* 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 )

* 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 )

In his professorial doctoral dissertation, On the Concept of Number ( 1886 ) and in his Philosophy of Arithmetic ( 1891 ), Husserl sought, by employing Brentano's descriptive psychology, to define the natural numbers in a way that advanced the methods and techniques of Karl Weierstrass, Richard Dedekind, Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, and other contemporary mathematicians.

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

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

* June 5 – Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1891 )

In 1855, he succeeded the position of the well-known botanist Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli ( 1818 – 1891 ) at Freiburg, where he established the most advanced botanical laboratory at the time and directed many students.

In 1891 Grove Karl Gilbert, chief geologist for the U. S. Geological Survey, investigated the crater and concluded that it was the result of a volcanic steam explosion.

* Karl L. King ( 1891 – 1971 ) " Iowa's Own Music Man ," " The Circus Music King "

* Karl Dönitz ( 1891 – 1980 ), German admiral

John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, and Karl Klauser ( 1891 ).

* Karl Meissner ( 1891 – 1959 ), physics

Originating in Ibach, Switzerland, the Swiss Army knife was first produced in 1891 after the company Karl Elsener, which later became Victorinox, won the contract to produce the Swiss Army's Modell 1890 knife from the previous German manufacturer.

In 1891, Karl Elsener, then owner of a company that made surgical equipment, set out to manufacture the knives in Switzerland itself.

Karl L. King ( 21 February 1891 – 31 March 1971 ) was a United States march music bandmaster and composer.

Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke ( 7 July 1825 – 15 October 1891 ), German philologist, was born at Zahrensdorf, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of a country pastor.

* in Tanganyika, the area acquired on 17 February 1885 by Carl Peters for the Deutsche Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft ( DOAG, ' German East African Company ', that was initially under an Administrator: 27 May 1885-8 February 1888 Karl Peters ), since the proclamation of the German East African protectorate ( 7 May 1885-1 July 1890 ) over Witu in Kenya ; contested by Britain ; on 28 April 1888 Germany obtains a lease of the coastal strip from the Sultan of Zanzibar ), a single Reichskommissar is appointed ( 8 February 1888-21 February 1891: Hermann von Wissmann ( b. 1853-d. 1905 ), after him Governors of 1 January 1891 when proclaimed German East Africa colony ( Deutsch Ostafrika ), ending the ' private ' DOAG rule.

In 1891, Kollwitz married Karl, by this time a doctor, who tended to the poor in Berlin, where the couple moved into the large apartment that would be Kollwitz ' home until it was destroyed in World War II.

Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke ( 26 October 1800, Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 24 April 1891 ) was a German Field Marshal.

* 1891 – 1896 — Karl Adolf von Baumbach

The crater, known as Coon Mountain, had previously been studied by the geologist Grove Karl Gilbert in 1891.

Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee ( 8 April 1832, Potsdam – 5 March 1904, Hanover ) was a German Generalfeldmarschall who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1888 to 1891 and as Allied Supreme Commander in China in 1900-1901.

* DÖNITZ, Karl ( 1891 – 1980 ) Admiral and successor to Hitler.

* GÜNTHER, Hans Friedrich Karl ( 1891 – 1968 ) Eugenicist.

Both buildings were built between 1872 and 1891 according to plans drawn up by Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer.