About the day » Thursday October 29, 1891Calender converter

• Albert van Leeuwen, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Adrianus Vrijvogel, Princenhage († 1893)
• Aaltje Junte, Oldebroek, Nederland
• Anna van der Weele, Zonnemaire († 1920)
• "Jean" Adolphe Jacques Marie Bouchaud, Saint-Herblain, Loire-Atlantique, France († 1977)
• Abraham Jochums Faber, Sexbierum († 1956)
• Albertus Henricus Antonius van Vliet, Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aafje Geerts Booy, Hoogeveen nederland
• Andreas Hubertus Gout, Venlo († 1911)
• Anna Maria Peukens, Heerlen (Heerlen) (Limburg)

• (63), Gemeente Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ardina van Delft (74), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Carl Ossian Kjellberg (65), Göteborg, Göteborg o Bohus län, Västergötland, Sweden
• Anthonius Johannes de Nijs (58), arnhem
• Christian Brenneman (81), Paint Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States
• Barend Bouman (63), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltjen Middelbrink (66), Wapse, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Mooldijk (37), oudenhoorn
• Bernardus Buysse (72), Waarschoot
• Antonius Johannes de Nijs (58), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1879 » Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician († 1941)
• 1880 » Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic († 1960)
• 1881 » John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower († 1930)
• 1882 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright († 1944)
• 1883 » Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player († 1966)
• 1891 » Fanny Brice, American actress and singer († 1951)
• 1897 » Billy Walker, English footballer († 1964)
• 1897 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany († 1945)
• 1898 » Alan Barker, English soldier († 1984)
• 1899 » Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor († 1972)

• 1877 » Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (b. 1821)
• 1885 » George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1826)
• 1892 » William Harnett, American painter (b. 1848)
• 1897 » Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1839)
• 1901 » Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873)
• 1905 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
• 1911 » Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
• 1916 » John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
• 1918 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
• 1919 » Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Hendrika
7. Catharina
8. Wilhelmina
9. Adriana
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Petronella

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
• March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
• May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

The temperature on October 29, 1891 was about 2.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.