About the day » Sunday July 28, 1889Calender converter

• Adeline Amelia Matilda Augusta {Trina} Dier, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States of America († 1963)
• Aldegonda Maria Roeken, Roosendaal († 1957)
• Albert Hidding, Dalen, Nederland († 1973)
• Adela Josepha Van der Auwera, Lier, België
• Anna Sluis, Haarlem († 1941)
• Anna Catharina Steps, Elsloo (L) († 1974)
• Adriana Overvliet, Nieuw Helvoet
• Albert Klaassen Hidding, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1952)
• Adriaantje Margaretha de Rijke, Oosterland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1955)
• Aaltje Tjeerdsd de Vries, Leeuwarderadeel =Leeuwarden, fr.nld

• Charlott Welliver (74)
• Christiaan Willem Ramaker (1), Gendringen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antonie Steenoven van der (van de) (53), Wijk en Aalburg Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barta Hissink (48), Voorst
• Antonij Groters (18), Wilp (gem.Voorst)
• andries kleuskens (72), sevenum
• Eddie Alfred Nichols [OS Bu] (4), Drew County, Arkansas
• Bernardus Verbeek (27), Utrecht
• Aldegondis Creemers (45), Baarlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Catharina Margaretha Blokpoel (50), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1879 » Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party († 1966)
• 1879 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter († 1944)
• 1887 » Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor († 1968)
• 1887 » Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author († 1983)
• 1893 » Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter († 1926)
• 1898 » Lawrence Gray, American actor († 1970)
• 1901 » Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1901 » Rudy Vallée, American actor, singer, and saxophonist († 1986)
• 1902 » Albert Namatjira, Australian painter († 1959)

• 1844 » Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
• 1869 » Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
• 1878 » George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
• 1895 » Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 » Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1930 » John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
• 1933 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
• 1934 » Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)

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.
• 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 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
• July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
• September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
• November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United 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 July 28, 1889 was about 19.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.