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• Aleida Keetman, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adrianus Martinus Schoenmakers, Breda († 1947)
• Albertus Bernardus Paalman, Twello († 1916)
• Alba Bloodsworth, Arkansas († 1975)
• Anna Hermanna Rolina Jonker, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje van Harn, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL († 1945)
• (2) Geert Sap, Muntendam (Gn) Nederland († 1959)
• Andreas Hubertus SILLEN, Swalmen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1963)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Giersbergen, Loon op Zand († 1890)
• Rikkers, Hardinxveld, Nederland († 1889)

• Cornelis Beekman (0), Schiedam
• Alfred Augustus Newhall (80)
• Anne Therese Masschaele (76), Varsenare
• Ben Jaspers (16), Iowa
• Casimir Stanislau Michael Graaf Wodzicky (73), Olejow, Ternopil, N.W.-Oekraine
• Alexander Mac Donald (1)
• Catherine Eash (90), Holmes, Ohio, United States
• Cornelia Geertruida Kleinhout (0), Ellecom (Rheden)
• Anna Maria Hau (59), Ensch, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Carel Van Osenbruggen (80), Weimar, Germany

• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)
• 1893 » Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1940)
• 1894 » Olive Thomas, American model and actress († 1920)
• 1895 » Morrie Ryskind, American writer/director († 1985)
• 1895 » Rex Ingram, American actor († 1969)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

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.
• January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
• March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
• May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
• 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.
• August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.

The temperature on October 20, 1889 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.