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• Aaltje van de Kuilen, Barneveld († 1969)
• Alexander van den Heuvel, Gouda († 1965)
• Angela Kuhnen, Bekond, Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Adriaan DE VROOMEN, Bleskensgraaf en Hofwegen (NL/ZH) († 1961)
• Adriana van der Zon, Ter Aar (Aardam) († 1889)
• "levenloos" van der Wekken, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1889)
• Aaltje Blokker, Broek op L'dijk
• Alberdina Henriette Adolphina VAN DER VECHT, Amsterdam,Nederland
• Aalt van Beek, Nijkerk
• Adriana Ruinard, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Albertina Maria van Limburg Stirum (54), 's Gravenhage
• Alfred Wages (56), Banner, Fulton, Illinois, United States
• Anna Maria Platschart (72), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Antje Hayes Hylkema (71), Rottevalle
• Antje Weber (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Verstappen (77), Susteren, Netherlands
• Albertina Maria van Limburg Stirum (54), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Agathe Fauconnier (86), Lorient, Morbihan, France
• Anink Andreas Aloysius (38), Solok, Sumatera Barat, Indonesië
• Andries Jacobus Versteeg (0), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1882 » Sybil Thorndike, English actress († 1976)
• 1884 » Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor († 1944)
• 1885 » Alice Perry, Irish engineer and poet († 1969)
• 1887 » Octave Lapize, French cyclist and pilot († 1917)
• 1887 » Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg († 1969)
• 1891 » Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator († 1985)
• 1891 » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic († 1961)
• 1894 » Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright († 1987)
• 1895 » Jack Warner, English actor and singer († 1981)
• 1896 » Marjorie Joyner, American make-up artist and businesswoman († 1994)

• 1852 » Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
• 1875 » Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 » James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1922 » George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 » Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)

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.
• April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
• 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 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
• September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
• November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

The temperature on October 24, 1889 was about 8.4 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.