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• - Tilly, Sint-Pieter, Limburg, Nederland († 1889)
• Cornelia Gabriëlla Baten, Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Aart Veldhuizen, Leersum
• Albert Seubers, Sleen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Den Hool († 1970)
• Anna Cornelia BROERE, Lekkerkerk, Nederlek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Koppenol, Uitgeest, Nederland († 1964)
• Aart Veldhuizen, Leersum, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1967)
• Alfredo Batista, Joinvile, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1889)
• Agatha M Bradley, Ireland († 1960)
• Anna Maria Plevier, amsterdam, Nederland

• van Nierop, rotterdam
• Amandus Henricus Munters (0), Kuringen, België
• Adeline Marie Cornelia DUPONCELLE (1), Beveren-Aan-Den-Ijzer, 8691, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Antje Brouwer (70), Den Helder
• Adriana de Blonde (70), Nieuw-Helvoet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Douwes van Dijk (70), Echten, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna CONRADI (1), Bolsward(Friesland)
• Anna Maria Stickling (81), Naperville-Ill (US)
• Anna Carolina Happee (0), Middelburg
• Adriaan van Antwerpen (25), 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)
• 1886 » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright († 1967)
• 1888 » Dennis Chávez, American journalist and politician († 1962)
• 1889 » Adrian Boult, English conductor († 1983)
• 1892 » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists († 1979)
• 1892 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records († 1970)
• 1896 » Yip Harburg, American composer († 1981)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
• August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
• November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 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 April 8, 1889 was about 13.2 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.