* 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 – 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 )

* 1971 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist ( b. 1891 )

* January 31 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist ( b. 1891 )

For example, the Russian Model 1891 rifle with an 800 mm ( 31. 5 inch ) barrel was shortened to 730 mm ( 28. 75 in.

* 1956 – Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer ( b. 1891 )

Already during czarist Russian rule, two editions appeared of the Latvian Konversācijas vārdnīca ( 2 volumes, 1891 – 1893 ; 4 volumes, 1906 – 1921 ).

* 1850 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician ( d. 1891 )

* 1891 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet ( d. 1938 )

* 1812 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author ( d. 1891 )

* 1977 – Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician ( b. 1891 )

* 1891 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer ( d. 1967 )

* 1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer ( d. 1972 )

The third figure was the Russian Helena Blavatsky ( 1831 – 1891 ), one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, through which she propagated her religious movement of Theosophy, which itself combined a number of elements from Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism with Western elements.

In the period from February 1888 and until 1891, a detailed analysis of photoeffect was performed by Aleksandr Stoletov with results published in 6 works ; four of them in Comptes Rendus, one review in Physikalische Revue ( translated from Russian ), and the last work in Journal de Physique.

Many modern sniper rifles can trace their ancestry back for well over a century, and the Russian 7. 62 x 54 mm cartridge, as used in the front-line Dragunov Sniper Rifle ( SVD ), dates from 1891.

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 ) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

Prokofiev was born in 1891 in Sontsovka ( now Krasne in the Donetsk Oblast province of eastern Ukraine, an isolated rural estate in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate ) of the Russian Empire.

* 1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1983 )

* March 5 – Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Russian royal ( b. 1891 )

* March 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer ( b. 1891 )

* August 31 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer ( b. 1891 )

** Michael Chekov, Russian actor and writer ( b. 1891 )

** Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician ( d. 1891 )

* 7. 62 × 54mmR, another Russian cartridge that was first used in the Mosin-Nagant rifle since 1891.