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• Hendrina Cornelia Maria Zijlmans, Loon op Zand († 1894)
• Adriana Helena Bollen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen KOOPMAN, Holten, Gemeente Rijssen-Holten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1890)
• Anna Koenders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Antje Veenstra, Stroobos, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Hooren, Maastricht († 1970)
• Aaltjen Brender, Bathmen († 1961)
• Amelia Zimmerman ****, Saint Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1950)
• Anne Jacobs Schaper, Koudum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland († 1945)
• Anton Martinus ter Borg, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1889)

• ANDRE LOUIS JOSEPH DESIRE FIVE (72), LIEGE
• Anna Catharina Slootmans (1), Halsteren
• Antonio Gutierrez (0), Porfirio Díaz, Coahuila, México
• Anna Mechtildis Belemans (60), Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België
• Allegonda van den Aardweg (70), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Bastiaan (Bastiaan Abrahams) Noordzij (85), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Catherine Sas
• Hommes, Vlagtwedde
• Baukje Eelzes Kingma (0), Marrum
• Adrianus Johannes Jozephus Maria Tetteroo (0), Vrijenban

• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)
• 1894 » Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland († 1972)
• 1895 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author († 1964)

• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
• 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.
• 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."
• November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

The temperature on May 13, 1889 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.