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• Ada V. Edge Barker [Bu], Nixonville,Horry County,South Carolina († 1961)
• Alida Guldemond, Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1971)
• Anna Elizabeth Henriette Jurgens Jurgens, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleidinus Jean Koomans, Batavia, Java, Indonesië
• Albert Bouwers, Ermelo († 1912)
• Aart van Boeschoten, Hilversum († 1890)
• Agnes Ameila DAHL, Chicago(Cook) Illinois († 1944)
• Amalia Rosina Dorothea JANSEN, Nieuweschans Groningen Netherlands († 1969)
• Angelita do Nascimento de Mello Rego, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
• Adriana Antonia Petronilla Buster, Tilburg († 1954)

• Antonie van DOOREN (50), Bergeijk, 3314, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Augustin Joseph Hardy (89), Florennes, Namur, Belgium
• Alice SARAZIN-de-MARAISE (51)
• Annigje Cornelia Both (0), gouda (zuid holland)
• Adrianus Lucas Braams (73), Rotterdam
• Anna de Kuiper (83)
• Arent Muller (0), Nieuwe Pekela
• Adriana Strijd (65), Leeuwarden
• Ann BOWERS (45), Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England
• Albertus Overmars (79), Zwolle

• 1880 » Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic († 1968)
• 1882 » Dora Marsden, English author and activist († 1960)
• 1883 » Pauline Sperry, American mathematician († 1967)
• 1885 » Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic († 1969)
• 1886 » Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China († 1975)
• 1886 » Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer († 1927)
• 1887 » Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer († 1959)
• 1894 » Henry Daniell, English-American actor († 1963)
• 1898 » Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1898 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1976)

• 1849 » David Scott, Scottish historical painter (b. 1806)
• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)

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.
• June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
• June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
• July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
• October 24 » Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.

The temperature on March 5, 1889 was about -2.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.