About the day » Monday April 29, 1889Calender converter

• Agnes Johanna petronella Maria Asselbergs, Grubbenvorst († 1940)
• Anna Maria Maas, Tilburg († 1954)
• Andreas de Boer, Makkum († 1973)
• Alijda ter Beest, Utrecht
• adriaantje VERSCHOOR, pernis († 1930)
• Andrew Bokma, Montana, Verenigde Staten
• Agnes Johanna Petronella Maria Asselbergs, Grubbenvorst, Limburg, Netherlands († 1940)
• de Boer
• Adriana Theodora de Bruin, Utrecht († 1936)
• Anna Maria Kuijpers, Monster

• Anna Petronella van Schie (24), Schoten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Dijks (73), Brunsting (Beilen) 42
• Bernardus Scholten (70), Haaksbergen
• Carel Deloddere (77), Waardamme
• Bernardus Anthonie Budde (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van den Brink (0), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonij Franciscus Meijer (56), 's-Heerenberg
• Catharina Kaal (19), Groesbeek
• Carolus (Carel) DELODDERE (77), Waardamme
• Albertje Steen (0), Kibbelgaarn, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland

• 1880 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish military officer, diplomat and politician († 1943)
• 1882 » Auguste Herbin, French painter († 1960)
• 1882 » Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer, typographer, and Nazi resister († 1945)
• 1885 » Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author († 1948)
• 1887 » Raymond Thorne, American swimmer († 1921)
• 1891 » Bharathidasan, Indian poet and activist († 1964)
• 1893 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1894 » Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor († 1967)
• 1895 » Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic († 1970)

• 1833 » William Babington, Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (b. 1756)
• 1854 » Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)

• 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.
• February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
• March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
• May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
• November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

The temperature on April 29, 1889 was about 12.6 °C. There was 3 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 84%.