Famous People Who Died in 1891

• Barnum, P. T.

  19th century American huckster

• Blavatsky, Helena

  The psychic who co-founded The Theosophical Society

• Comanche

  The famous horse who survived Custer's Last Stand

• Hearst, George

  19th century American mining and publishing tycoon

• Macdonald, John A.

  Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 and 1878-91

• Melville, Herman

  The author of Moby-Dick

• Polk, Sarah Childress

  President James K. Polk's wife

• Sherman, William Tecumseh

  Union general who said, "War is hell."

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