About the day » Wednesday July 1, 1891Calender converter

• Alphonse Auguste Lagast, Brugge-St Michiels († 1963)
• Albert Garrelts, Oudezijl, Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands
• Abraham Jochem de Kieviet, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika van GENDEREN, Arkel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha Maria Waterham, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alida Mulder, Zaandam († 1891)
• Alida Jacoba Maria Westdijk, Hillegersberg († 1907)
• Alphonsus Jacobus Gillis, Baarle-Nassau
• Abraham Jochem de Kieviet, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Niederlande († 1969)
• Aagje Honkoop, Giessendam

• Aart Dubbeldam (65), Sliedrecht
• Albertina Rutten (1), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barbara Corneillie (76), Woumen
• Anna Maria Bouwens (45), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Klazes Wielinga (45), Dantumadeel
• Guyt Guijt (0), Volendam
• Antonius Vinken (38), Someren
• Adrianus Kraal (0), Abcoude-Baambrugge, U, The Netherlands
• Anna Prins (65), Bennekom, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kraal (0), Abcoude-Baambrugge, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1881 » Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist († 1965)
• 1882 » Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal († 1962)
• 1883 » Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient († 1933)
• 1885 » Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet († 1968)
• 1887 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar († 1981)
• 1892 » James M. Cain, American author and journalist († 1977)
• 1892 » László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor († 1963)
• 1899 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director († 1962)
• 1899 » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece († 1987)
• 1899 » Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer († 1993)

• 1839 » Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1863 » John F. Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)
• 1884 » Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (b. 1811)
• 1905 » John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)
• 1912 » Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1925 » Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander (b. 1887)
• 1942 » Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer (b. 1857)

• 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.
• February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
• 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 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
• October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.

The temperature on July 1, 1891 was about 20.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.