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• Adrianus Gasparus Wintermans, Duizel en Steensel
• ? van Maurik, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolf Frederik Alexander Brohet, Batavia
• Agatha Maaijen, Den Haag († 1977)
• Adrianus Boselie, Berlicum († 1935)
• Neeley, Omaha, New Zealand († 1963)
• Aleida Johanna Bekkink, Oosseld
• Alagonda Jakomiena Wessels-, Nieuw-Buinen, Nederland († 1890)
• Adrianus Petrus van der Meijden, Sint-Oedenrode († 1954)
• Afonsina Miller Caillot

• Anna Maria Mandeville (59), New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
• Aafke Woudenberg (76), Ameide
• Carolus Wauters (2), Aalst
• Carolina Nijhove (67), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Adriana Antonetta Rossen (0), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Kraaije (0), Koudekerke
• célénie louise RICHARD (65), Warquignies (Belgium)
• Antonius van Hooijdonk (0), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Aalbertsz BOS (82), Numansdorp
• Anne Catherine Van Doninck (76), Geel, België

• 1880 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr († 1936)
• 1881 » Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal († 1964)
• 1881 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria († 1938)
• 1883 » Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar († 1967)
• 1888 » Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India († 1975)
• 1892 » Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator († 1973)
• 1897 » Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen († 1980)
• 1897 » Morris Carnovsky, American actor († 1992)
• 1899 » Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator († 1989)
• 1899 » Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter († 1944)

• 1876 » Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1877 » Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (b. 1849)
• 1894 » George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (b. 1822)
• 1898 » Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 » Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1902 » Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1909 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist (b. 1864)
• 1912 » Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American general (b. 1845)
• 1917 » Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)

• 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 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
• 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.
• June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
• September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
• November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
• November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.

The temperature on September 5, 1889 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.