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• Aafke Elles Koopmans, Oosterwolde
• Alida Corneleia Francisca Opdam, Amsterdam
• Adrianus van Dis, Oud en Nieuw Gastel (N.B.)
• Anna Ket
• Aagje Diroë, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Helena Schulte, Nieuw-Schoonebeek, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1960)
• Alberta Christina Jacoba van Doorn, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Aline Vrand, Quiévrain, Hainaut, Belgique
• Adrianus Johannes Zijlmans, Raamsdonkveer († 1893)
• AALTJE MOSTERT, SLIGTENHORST (GEMEENTE NIJKERK) († 1893)

• Adriana Hoorn (43), Arnhem
• Christianus Johannes Sanders (69), Leiden
• Annigje Boon (53), Hazerswoude
• Anna Maria Margaretha van Van Elswijk (20), Blerick
• Alfred John Budden (20), Quesnelle Forks, British Columbia, Canada
• Bernardus HARMSEN (HERMSEN) (80), Gaanderen, Doetinchem (NL)
• August S. Schmidt (28), Wright County
• ADRIANUS VOSTERS (24), Bladel, Nederland
• Benjamin Aaron de LIEME (4), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Charles Amand Van Roose (85), Ichtegem

• 1877 » Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist († 1955)
• 1884 » Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress († 1957)
• 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
• 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
• 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
• 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
• 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)
• 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)
• 1898 » Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor († 1960)
• 1900 » Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer († 1973)

• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 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.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
• February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
• March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
• April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
• September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
• November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

The temperature on October 21, 1889 was about 8.6 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.