About the day » Thursday December 24, 1891Calender converter

• N.N. Matthijssen, Huissen († 1891)
• Adam Visscher, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 1962)
• Anna Cornelia Elizabeth van den Hout, Tilburg († 1977)
• Adele SEE, Morris Stevens Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1906)
• Anna Margaretha Maria Westhof, Sneek († 1931)
• annigje van der LINDEN, maasdam
• Anna Margaretha Maria Westhof, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1931)
• Anna Aurelia Maria Hofstede, Leeuwarden,Gemeente Leeuwarden,Friesland,Netherlands († 1948)
• Adriaantje Pieternella Everaers, St. Philipsland, Tholen, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1892)
• Andries Piet, Nieuwer Amstel († 1966)

• Alida Maria HEMERIK (1), Leiden
• Aaltje Hector, Groningen
• Amélia Augusta Villela da Silva (50), Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Adam de Keijser (50), Goedereede
• Amelia Leydens (78), Hansbeke (Oost-Vlaanderen, BEL)
• Anna (Nancy) Fretz Moyer (80)
• Adriaan GOMMERS (57), Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• ANTJE TEN KATE (71), ZAANDAM
• Albert Kolkman (2), Olst (Hengforden), O., NL
• Albertus Kunneman (82), Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1886 » Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American actor, director, and producer († 1962)
• 1887 » Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer († 1951)
• 1891 » Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian illustrator and painter († 1970)
• 1892 » Ruth Chatterton, American actress († 1961)
• 1893 » Harry Warren, American pianist and composer († 1981)
• 1894 » Georges Guynemer, French captain and pilot († 1917)
• 1894 » Jack Thayer, American businessman († 1945)
• 1895 » E. Roland Harriman, American financier and philanthropist († 1978)
• 1895 » Marguerite Williams, American geologist († 1991)
• 1895 » Noel Streatfeild, English author († 1986)

• 1865 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)
• 1867 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)
• 1868 » Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
• 1872 » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
• 1873 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch pastor and poet (b. 1819)
• 1893 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (b. 1807)
• 1898 » Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese priest and saint (b. 1828)
• 1914 » John Muir, Scottish-American geologist, botanist, and author, founded Sierra Club (b. 1838)

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 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• 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.
• July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.

The temperature on December 24, 1891 was about -4.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.