About the day » Tuesday November 26, 1889Calender converter

• Alphonsus Verhoeven, Westerlo, België
• Aaltje VAN DEN BROEKE, Wierden, Friesland, Nederland († 1979)
• Aagje Korver, Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Utrecht, Nederland (Gem De Ronde Venen) Nederland († 1957)
• Comello, Daarlerveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1889)
• Aaltje Wiesemuller, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Anna Cornelia de Jong, Amsterdam († 1957)
• Alvin Earl Stewart, Monroe County, Iowa († 1952)
• Alida Baks, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1889)
• Alida Elisabeth Schultz, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Abraham Adriaan Aurelius Gerard Camper Titsingh, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anthonetta Schreurs (68), s Heer Arendskerke
• Anne Christinne Vermeulen (65), Horn
• Arjen Jurjens van der Rol (55), Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina ter Haak (1), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Comello (0), Daarlerveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alexander King (70)
• Amelia Willemkens (51), Sluis,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Tresang (54), Susteren, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Elisabeth Simphorose Goyens (79), Wilderen, België
• Antonij van Gaal(en) (82), Berlicum, Nederland

• 1878 » Major Taylor, American cyclist († 1932)
• 1885 » Heinrich Brüning, German lieutenant, economist, and politician, Chancellor of Germany († 1970)
• 1888 » Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter († 1978)
• 1889 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1891 » Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1977)
• 1894 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal († 1974)
• 1894 » Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher († 1964)
• 1895 » Bill W., American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous († 1971)
• 1898 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1899 » Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer († 1936)

• 1860 » Benjamin Greene, English brewer, founded Greene King (b. 1780)
• 1872 » Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician, Minister President of Prussia (b. 1805)
• 1883 » Sojourner Truth, American activist (b. 1797)
• 1885 » Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813)
• 1892 » Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal and academic (b. 1825)
• 1895 » George Edward Dobson, Irish zoologist, photographer, and surgeon (b. 1848)
• 1896 » Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic (b. 1823)
• 1912 » Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and suffragette (b. 1864)

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 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.
• 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.
• May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
• 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.
• August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
• November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.

The temperature on November 26, 1889 was about 6.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.