About the day » Thursday May 1, 1890Calender converter

• Alida Johanna Vlasveld, Leiden († 1893)
• Adrianus Johannes van Aalst, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana SCHOTEL, Dordrecht
• Worm, Angerlo († 1890)
• Abraham Peper, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Agatha de Groot, Amsterdam
• Andries de Vries, Amsterdam († 1942)
• Albert NIJSTAD, Armweide, gemeente Ruinen († 1983)
• Janssen, Asten
• Adrianus Cornelis Joosten, Arnhem († 1890)

• Arnoldus Hersmis (81), Tilburg, Nederland
• Barendina Teunissen (43), Renkum
• Anna Maria Hüsers (0), Haar, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adriana Compier (0), Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arend Blanken (78), Hoogeveen nederland
• Antonie Dirk Methorst (55), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Arend(t) Blanken (78), Hoogeveen,Gemeente Hoogeveen,Drente
• Adriana Biekens (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonij Dirk Methorst (55), Amsterdam
• Iesberts, 's Gravenhage

• 1884 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician († 1964)
• 1885 » Clément Pansaers, Belgian poet († 1922)
• 1885 » Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor and painter († 1973)
• 1887 » Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan († 1983)
• 1890 » Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (d. 1963 or 1964)
• 1891 » Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America († 1988)
• 1895 » May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director († 1968)
• 1895 » Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet secret police official, head of the NKVD († 1940)
• 1896 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician († 1947)
• 1896 » Mark W. Clark, American general († 1984)

• 1838 » Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (b. 1797)
• 1856 » John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (b. 1774)
• 1873 » David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 » Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (b. 1841)
• 1913 » John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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.
• April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
• June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
• July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
• August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
• December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

The temperature on May 1, 1890 was about 13.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%.