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• Alida Gosewehr, Amsterdam († 1968)
• Alida Gosewehr, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1968)
• Abraham van der Weijden, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Meulmeester, Arnemuiden († 1892)
• Albertus Theodorus van Loenen, Haarlem († 1964)
• Almeda Jane Roundy, Escalante, Garfield, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1975)
• Alena Alles Swart, Beetgum
• Eulink, Stad Doetinchem († 1889)
• Adriana Helena de Groot, Gilze en Rijen († 1969)
• Adriana Bogaard van den, Made en Drimmelen († 1889)

• Anna Maria Schaap (0), Schiedam
• Adriana Kivit (78), Hedel
• Adriana Kivits (78), Hedel
• Aaltje van den Berg (43), Kallenkote
• Andries Pieters van Velden (78), Naaldwijk
• Andries Van Velden (78), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries van Velden (78), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Tummers (68), Geleen
• Andries Pietersz van Velden (78), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Eulink (0), Stad Doetinchem

• 1886 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician († 1935)
• 1888 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1888 » Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, founded the Black Army († 1934)
• 1890 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator († 1972)
• 1891 » Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD († 1938)
• 1893 » Leatrice Joy, American actress († 1985)
• 1893 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author († 1974)
• 1896 » Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist († 1975)
• 1897 » Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator († 1976)
• 1897 » Herman J. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1953)

• 1862 » Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (b. 1775)
• 1872 » Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1833)
• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 1856)

• 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.
• March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
• 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.
• June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
• June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
• November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

The temperature on November 7, 1889 was about 6.9 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.