* John Frederick Kiley outfielder for the Washington Nationals ( 1884 ) and Boston Beaneaters ( 1891 )

* February 21 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 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 ).

Peary was unable to enjoy the fruits of his labors to the full extent when, upon returning to civilization, he learned that Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who had been a surgeon on an 1891 – 1892 Peary expedition, claimed to have reached the pole the year before.

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

Frederick Banting was born on 14 November 1891, in a farm house near Alliston, Ontario.

It is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin ( 1891 – 1937 ), who was killed in a crash of his Northrop A-17 pursuit aircraft on a flight from Langley to Maxwell Field, Alabama.

That ranch passed intact to Frederick Hastings Rindge in 1891.

) so that it is called for in, for example, Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde ( 1889 ), Visions ( 1891 ) and Suite parnassienne ( 1912 ); Maurice Ravel's Shéhérazade overture ( 1898 ), Rapsodie espagnole ( 1907 ) and L ' heure espagnole ( 1907 – 09 ); Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Symphony in B minor " Polonia " ( 1903-08 ; 3 sarrusophones are called for ); Frederick Delius's Requiem ( 1913-16 ); and Arrigo Boito's Nerone ( 1924 ).

William Frederick Friedman ( September 24, 1891 – November 12, 1969 ) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signals Intelligence Service ( SIS ) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s.

The last ( paced ) hour record ever achieved on a penny-farthing bicycle was 23. 72 miles ( 38. 17 km ) by Frederick J. Osmond ( England ) in 1891.

In 1891, Frederick James Grant's History of Seattle, Washington reprinted Smith's version.

In 1858, Prof. Frederick McCoy ( Sir Frederick from 1891 ), who was Professor of Natural History at the University of Melbourne, was appointed Director of the National Museum.

In 1891 he began working for his brother-in-law, David Frederick Green, a land surveyor and architect in Bolton.

* Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward ( 1891 – 1978 ), South African Victoria Cross recipient

The College Chapel in Walnut Tree Court was designed by George Frederick Bodley and consecrated in 1891.

His statue appears just inside the Grand Army Plaza entrance, sculpted by Frederick MacMonnies and presented to Stranahan in June, 1891.

The core part of the current vice-regal structure began life as a double-gabled Victorian-era house, erected in 1891 by grazier Frederick Campbell at what was then the hub of a working sheep station.

The couple had four children, Emily Caroline ( 1820 – 1891 ), Lucius Lee ( 1821 – 1898 ), Woodville ( 1823 – 1840 ) and Frederick Jr. ( 1826 – 1862 ).

Later on, in 1891, James Dewar and Frederick Augustus Abel also managed to transform gelatinized guncotton into a safe mixture, called cordite because it could be extruded into long thin cords before being dried.

* Ignatius Frederick Horstmann ( 1865 – 1891 )

Soldiers such as Field Marshal Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ( 1911 ) and Field Marshal Sir Frederick Haines ( 1891 ); two Indian maharajahs, including the Maharajah of Nepal ( 1910 ); and scientists including Charles Darwin ( 1882 ), the artist's father-in-law Professor Huxley ( 1891 ), William Kingdom Clifford, James Prescott Joule and Sir Michael Foster ( 1907 ).

A roller flour mill, later known as the Premier Flour Mill, was constructed close to the centre of the town in 1891 by brothers, Frederick Henry Piesse and Charles Austin Piesse ; this in turn encouraged the local farmers to grow wheat which was at the heart of the town's early economic success.

In 1891, Peirce resigned from the Coast Survey at Superintendent Thomas Corwin Mendenhall's request.

Eastman Kodak made celluloid film commercially available in 1889 ; Thomas Henry Blair, in 1891, was its first competitor.

* 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

* 1891 – William Thomas Walsh, American author ( d. 1949 )

In 1891, Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer.

Thomas Hare ( born in England, 28 March 1806 ; died 6 May 1891 ) was a British proponent of electoral reform.

Thomas Brackett Reed, ( October 18, 1839 – December 7, 1902 ), occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U. S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1889 – 1891 and from 1895 – 1899.

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

* Thomas Hardy published Tess of the d ' Urbervilles in 1891.

His father, Richard Carte ( 1808 – 1891 ), was a flautist, and his mother was the former Eliza Jones ( 1814 – 1885 ); they had eloped, to the disappointment of her father, Thomas Jones, a clergyman.

The power of the Speaker was greatly augmented during the tenure of the Republican Thomas Brackett Reed ( 1889 – 1891, 1895 – 1899 ).

* 1891 – William Kennedy Laurie Dickson develops the " kinetoscopic camera " ( motion pictures ) while working for Thomas Edison.

Tess of the d ' Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d ' Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d ' Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891.

* George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle ( 1799 – 1891 )

* Thomas Ball, My Threescore Years And Ten: An Autobiography ( Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891 )

In 1891 Charles Norman Fay, a Chicago businessman, invited Theodore Thomas to establish an orchestra in Chicago.

Conducted by Theodore Thomas under the name " Chicago Orchestra ", the Orchestra played its first concert on October 16, 1891 at the Auditorium Theatre.

* 1891 – 1905 Theodore Thomas

* Thomas Starr King monument San Francisco, California, ( 1891 )

* Fuller, Thomas ( 1891 ) Collected Sermons ; edited by J. E. Bailey ; completed by W. E. A. Axon.

* Thomas Babington Macaulay " Lord Clive " Essays ( London: Longman's, Green & Co .) 1891 pp. 502 – 547.

A distinctive engraved portrait of Thomas appeared on U. S. paper money in 1890 and 1891.

Histories of photography usually credit Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer with the invention of the photographic telephoto lens in 1891, though it was independently invented by others about the same time ; some credit his father John Henry Dallmeyer in 1860.

* John Charles Thomas ( 1891 – 1960 ), American baritone opera singer

On 11 September 1891, Thomas Joseph Crean, while swimming with fellow students near Blackrock, helped rescue a 21-year-old art student named William Ahern.