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• * Hendrika van Schijndel, St Michielsgestel († 1963)
• Frederik Josef Weber, Tilburg
• Albert Stoffer, Koekange, De Wijk, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham Klandermans, Baarn, Nederland
• Abraham Klandermans, Baarn
• Adriana Helena Bollen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Hooren, Maastricht
• * Mathias van Ophoven, Echt, Limburg, NL († 1889)
• Abraham Querido, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Anthonia Johanna Snijders, Vlissingen († 1971)

• Anthonius Tromp (6), Santpoort
• Aaltjen Tielen (75), Ane
• Baukje Eelzes Kingma (0), Marrum
• Auguste Theresia Ursula (Auguste) Schröder (59), Ibbenburen, Westfalen, Pruisen, Duitsland
• Barbara Vandommele, Westrozebeke
• Allegonda van den Aardweg (70), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Berend Lunenberg (66), Hattem
• KLOMP (0), Uffelte, gemeente Havelte
• Antonio Gutierrez (0), Porfirio Díaz, Coahuila, México
• Antonia de Hurtasum Olmos (44), Nuestra Senora De Los Dolores,Teocaltiche,Jalisco,Mexico

• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)
• 1894 » Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland († 1972)
• 1895 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author († 1964)

• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
• January 30 » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
• February 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
• April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
• April 22 » At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
• November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

The temperature on May 13, 1889 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.