page_title: 1891
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1891 / Deaths / January–June
context_page_description: 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1891st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 891st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1891, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 4 –  Charles Keene, English artist and illustrator (b. 1823)
  January 5 – Emma Abbott, American opera singer (b. 1849)
  January 11 – Carl Johan Thyselius, Swedish politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1811)
  January 15 – John Wellborn Root, American architect (b. 1850)
  January 16 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
  January 20 – Kalākaua, last reigning King of Hawaii (b. 1836)
  January 21
  Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
  James Timberlake, American lawman (b. 1846)
  January 26 – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (b. 1832)
  February 4 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire, 1863-1864 (d. 1816)
  February 7 – Marie Louise Andrews, American editor (b. 1849)
  February 10 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
  February 13
  David Dixon Porter, American admiral (b. 1813)
  Mary Spear Nicholas Tiernan, American writer (b. 1835)
  February 14 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (b. 1820)
  March 13 – Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
  March 15 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
  March 17 – Eduard Clam-Gallas, Austrian general (b. 1805)
  March 27 - James A. Ekin, Union Army general (b. 1819)
  March 29 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
  April 2 – Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Turkish statesman (b. 1823)
  April 7 – P. T. Barnum, American showman (b. 1810)
  April 9 – George Cavendish-Bentinck, British Conservative politician (b. 1821)
  April 24 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
  April 25 – Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
  April 27 – Joachim Oppenheim, Czech rabbi, author (b. 1832)
  May 2 – Albany James Christie, British Jesuit priest and academic (b. 1817)
  May 8
  Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author, theosophist (b. 1831)
  Sir John Robertson, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816)
  May 16 – Ion C. Brătianu, 2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
  June 6 – Sir John Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Father of Confederation (b. 1815)
  June 19 – David Settle Reid, American politician (b. 1813)
  June 23 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American politician (b. 1825)
  June 24 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist  (b. 1804)
caption: Carl Johan Thyselius
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