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• Anna Hulscher, Wijk aan Zee,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloysius J.M. EGGBROUWER, Amsterdam
• pijl, sliedrecht († 1890)
• Alida Huijsman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Abraham Paulus Hakkenberg, Leiden († 1891)
• Agnes Johanna Wilhelmina Schollen, Braunschweig, Dld
• Adrianus van Giessen, poederoijen (gelderland) († 1947)
• doede visser, liossens († 1951)
• Althea Wickel, Elba, Cassia County, Idaho, United States of America († 1893)
• Albertus Rosbag (Rosberg), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1951)

• Cornelia de Kok (69), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Kranenburg (46), Oegstgeest
• Catharina Clementine van Son (1), Dreumel
• Anna Maria Wermeling (32), Nijmegen
• Adriaantje Croese (1), Rijsenburg, Nederland
• Adriaantje Gerrits Croese (1), Rijsenburg
• Antonie Adriaan Verkooijen (18), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus de Meijer (50), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Antonia Blom (63), Raamsdonk, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland
• Arnoldus Dominicus (62), Overasselt

• 1879 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 1960)
• 1882 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset († 1949)
• 1888 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1889 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author († 1970)
• 1894 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist († 1966)
• 1896 » Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer († 1919)
• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)

• 1878 » Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)
• 1881 » Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (b. 1804)
• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)

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.
• March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
• April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
• July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
• December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
• December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

The temperature on July 17, 1890 was about 17.3 °C. There was 16 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.