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• Adrianus de Wit, Hekendorp († 1889)
• Andrijs van der Laan, Exloerveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Koen, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1942)
• Agnes Gluvers, Rotterdam († 1961)
• Adriaan Guiljam, Sint Philipsland, Zeeland (Nederland)
• Anna Maria Mestrom, Zelzate, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgi√´
• ALBERTA WOUTERA TOP, Barneveld
• Anna Maria Ebbenhorst, Soest
• Anna Koen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriana LIBREGTS, Best,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1952)

• Anna Maria Schnieders (27), Hebel, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Anna Maria Schniders (27), Hebel, Haren
• Adriana Opdam (1), Zegwaart
• Albertus Hermanus van der Voorden (64), Leiden
• Angelina Helsen (47), Itegem,, Antwerpen, België
• *Theodorus Janse Jansz van der Lubbe (82), Scheveningen, Z.H
• Alexandre "Alfred" de la Barre d'Erqueline (75), Bruxelles, 1000, Bruxelles-Capitale | Brussel-Hoofdstad, Belgique
• Aleida Veelers (54), Weerselo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aart Cornelisz Verwaard (88), Lekkerkerk, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Christiaandr Pineda (1)

• 1882 » Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist († 1968)
• 1883 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil († 1974)
• 1883 » Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building († 1969)
• 1886 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1889 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer († 1944)
• 1891 » Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and academic († 1970)
• 1892 » Ezio Pinza, Italian-American actor and singer († 1957)
• 1895 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader († 1934)
• 1896 » Eric Backman, Swedish runner († 1965)
• 1897 » Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)

• 1867 » Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

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.
• 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.
• 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 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
• November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

The temperature on May 18, 1889 was about 14.8 °C. There was 20 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.