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• Adriana Verkade, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Aleida Johanna DIrks Wiersma, Arnhem
• Agatha Wallaart, Leiden († 1889)
• Agnes Cornelia Cuenen, Grote Spouwen († 1947)
• Agatha Verkade, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1890)
• Adam Adriaan Mies, Arrecifes, Buenos Aires, Argentinie († 1947)
• Adriana Blonk, Schiedam
• Alfredo TENORIO DE ALBUQUERQUE, Palmeira dos Índios, Alagoas, Brésil († 1890)
• Abraham Jagt, Yerseke
• Aafje de Boer, Hollum, Ameland († 1955)

• Anna Maria Borgmann (42), Dankern (D.)
• Aafje Klitsie (0), Zaandam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Hunsberger GOTTSHALL (75), (age 75)
• Antje Hofstede (0)
• Mahalia (67)
• August Marie Beelenkamp (21), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• August Ferdinand Johan VONK ROBBERS (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arent van Prooijen (41), Haarlemmermeer
• Anna Maria - Anna Borgmann (40), Dankern, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albertha van Mourik (7), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1879 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet († 1944)
• 1879 » Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician († 1976)
• 1880 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1884 » Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor († 1920)
• 1884 » Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer († 1957)
• 1886 » Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director († 1956)
• 1892 » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter († 1942)
• 1895 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère († 1983)
• 1895 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano († 1962)
• 1895 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter († 1960)

• 1845 » Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian linguist, poet, and playwright (b. 1808)
• 1850 » Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer (b. 1772)
• 1855 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

• 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.
• February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
• May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
• November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

The temperature on July 12, 1889 was about 19.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.