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• Albartus Burgerhout, Apeldoorn
• Abram Hanses (Abraham) de Jong, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Catharina Josephina van Deukeren, Harderwijk
• Albert van Dijk, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1941)
• Alberta van Wegel, Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland († 1967)
• Adrianus Gerardus Nagel, Eemnes
• Anna Vogel, Kralingen († 1934)
• Adriana Meulmeester, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland († 1924)
• Adriana Meulmeester, Arnemuiden
• Alida Maria Drost, Amsterdam († 1920)

• Elisabeth Gerdina van Mourik (22), Buren
• Barend Johannes Glasius (62), Havelte, Drenthe, Nederland, Uffelte
• Annigje van Dijk (0), Utrecht {UT}
• Abner Lewis (92), Gordon County, Georgia, United States of America
• Caroline ARNEY (60)
• Dirk de Gilde (59), Zuidveen (Steenwijkerwold)
• Aiko Ebels (0), Peize, Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Berend Kleine (23), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elisabeth Ambuul (43), Wieringerwaard
• Baya DOUKHAN (22), Constantine, Algérie

• 1884 » Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright († 1933)
• 1887 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player († 1974)
• 1888 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company († 1942)
• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)

• 1838 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1841 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)
• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)

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.
• February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
• March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
• June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
• September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
• November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

The temperature on August 24, 1889 was about 15.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.