Famous People in the 1891 UK Census
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Miller, an American, and Clarissa Miller. From the 1920s until the 1970s Agatha Christie was the world's most popular mystery author, reportedly selling more than one billion books worldwide. She died in 1976.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was Great Britain's greatest 20th-century statesman and is best known for his courageous leadership as prime minister during World War II. Churchill was born November 30, 1874, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and the American heiress Jennie Jerome.
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865, in the J. J. School of Arts, of which, his father, Lockwood Kipling, was head. Rudyard Kipling died on January 18, 1936 in London. He was buried in the Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim. These are his most well-known works.
Born: December 30, 1865, Bombay, India.
Died: January 18, 1936, London, England.
Awarded the Nobel prize in literature, 1907.
Alan Alexander Milne was born in London on January 18, 1882, the third and youngest of three sons born to John Vine Milne and Sarah Maria Heginbotham. His father was a schoolmaster at the Henley House where Alan did get his first education. He was the author of many books, but is best known for his Winnie the Pooh series.
Alfred Tennyson was born August 6th, 1809, at Somersby, Lincolnshire, fourth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth (Fytche) Tennyson. This English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.
H.G. Wells, born in the London suburb of Bromley in 1866, began his literary career in 1895 with the publication of his first novel, "The Time Machine."
Following "The Time Machine" was "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1896), "The Invisible Man" (1897), "The War of the Worlds" (1898), "When the Sleeper Wakes" (1899), and "The First Men in the Moon" (1901). He died in London in 1946
Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. Christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde, he was the second son of a distinguished Irish Protestant family. His father was an eye surgeon. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee (pseudonym “Speranza”), was a poet. Wilde wrote many published works, including The Importance of Being Earnest and died in France in 1900.
More famous people born in 1891 from around the world.
Born : 01/23/1891 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
Born : 02/02/1891 Antonio Segni, premier Italy
Born : 05/24/1891 Benedictus H Dancer, botanist
Born : 07/29/1891 Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynecologist
Born : 01/08/1891 Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer
Born : 03/24/1891 Charley Toorop, house painter
Born : 05/15/1891 David Bird, Ukraine author (Huwel˜ksleven)
Born : 02/27/1891 David Sarnoff, US, radio/tv pioneer/CEO (RCA)
Born : 11/01/1891 Dirk Vollenhoven, composer/philosopher
Born : 02/08/1891 Edgar Palm, Cura‡aian pianist/composer
Born : 10/12/1891 Edith Stein, German philospher
Born : 07/08/1891 Elisabeth Zernike, author (The Poor Part, Bruidstijd)
Born : 02/02/1891 Frank Foyston, NHL Hall of Famer (Seattle)
Born : 02/27/1891 Georges E Migot, French composer
Born : 09/12/1891 Hans Albers, German actor (Die Nacht Geh”rt Uns)
Born : 06/18/1891 Hans Ruin, Swedish/Finnish literature historian
Born : 01/26/1891 Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet/writer (Storm)
Born : 05/30/1891 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
Born : 03/31/1891 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
Born : 08/22/1891 Jacques Lipchitz. painter/cubist sculptor
Born : 05/04/1891 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet (...farmer's gang)
Born : 12/21/1891 John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of House (1962-70)
Born : 01/10/1891 Jos Speybrouck, Flemish painter
Born : 07/08/1891 Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day)
Born : 11/20/1891 Leon Cadore, pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game)
Born : 01/20/1891 Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist
Born : 02/03/1891 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
Born : 03/28/1891 Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (S Verlag)
Born : 04/22/1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer
Born : 01/17/1891 Walter Eucken, German economist
Born : 01/24/1891 Walter Model, German Field Marshall
Born : 01/25/1891 William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR
