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• Albertus Weerts, Dedemsvaart, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 1908)
• Adriana de Graaf, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• adriaantje herfst, amsterdam († 1940)
• Alphonsus Eekels, Vlijmen († 1891)
• *Jan van Wijck, Hoek, Zeeland, Nederland († 1892)
• "Ernest" Annibal Marie Charles Octave Roger Claret de Fleurieu, château de Laye, Saint-Georges-de-Reneins, Rhône, France († 1962)
• Aloysius Josephus Haentjens, Moerbeke-Waas († 1918)
• Aafke Wobbes de Vries, Oudega Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1972)
• Aaltje Snippen, Hollandscheveld
• Aafke de Vries, Oudega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland

• Alexandre Joseph Brocart (Brokart)(Brokard) (85), Trognée (Luik) (B)
• Amadeus Lodewijk Gaston Rousseau de Beauplan (40), Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon
• Luxema (0), Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Bruin (0), Warmenhuizen
• Adrianus Geenen (58), Turnhout, België
• Agnes Buytaert (83), Lokeren
• Anthonie Horeman (72), Haarlem Noord-Holland Nederland
• Augustus Van Duyse (0), Sint-Gillis-Waas, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Adriana Helena Kats, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Jilles Rovers (73), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1882 » Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress († 1967)
• 1882 » José Vasconcelos, Mexican philosopher, lawyer, and politician, Mexican Secretary of Public Education († 1959)
• 1883 » Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish rebel leader († 1916)
• 1884 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia († 1942)
• 1887 » William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1894 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1964)
• 1895 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director († 1974)
• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1898 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer († 1969)
• 1900 » Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth († 1959)

• 1857 » André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Hendrika
8. Wilhelmina
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Trijntje
14. Neeltje
15. Geertruida
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
• April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
• June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
• July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.

The temperature on February 28, 1890 was about -2.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.