About the day » Tuesday February 3, 1891Calender converter

• Allan Edward Black, St. Andrew, Mavis Bank, Jamaica († 1898)
• Adrianus Haakman, Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida~Willems Smink, Utrecht († 1967)
• * Jantje Koning, Weststellingwerf
• Adrianus de Bruin, Zevenbergen († 1892)
• Abraham Basting, Groede/Sluis Zeeuws-Vlaanderen Zeeland Nederland († 1897)
• Alphonsus Augustinus Peeters, Herenthout, België
• Aielt Lupkes, Ackley, Butler County, Iowa († 1946)
• van Lochem, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1891)
• Aindt Gnodde

• Albert Eilander (Eijlander,Eylander) (19), Heerde, Nederland
• Albert Eylander (19), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Allert Eijlander (19), Heerde
• Oomen (0), Etten-Leur
• Alexander M. McMullen [Bu] (56), Chester County, South Carolina
• Tiben (0), Munsterscheveld, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aegidius Heijmans (0), Hank, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Keller (32), Soerabaja, Java, Ned. Indie
• Johannes Waalboer (52), Nieuwenhoorn
• Alfred C. Owen (42), Gainesville Tx

• 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)
• 1889 » Artur Adson, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic († 1977)
• 1889 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1892 » Juan Negrín, Spanish physician and politician, 67th Prime Minister of Spain († 1956)
• 1893 » Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician and academic († 1978)
• 1894 » Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator († 1978)
• 1898 » Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre († 1976)
• 1899 » Café Filho, Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th President of Brazil († 1970)
• 1900 » Mabel Mercer, English-American singer († 1984)
• 1903 » Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier, pilot, and politician († 1973)

• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)

• 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.
• January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
• May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

The temperature on February 3, 1891 was about 4.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.