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• * Frederik van Straten, Zuijlen († 1966)
• Andries de Jong, Schoterland († 1977)
• Anne Gorter, Muntendam, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1920)
• Annigje Bruinewoud, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands(Hollandscheveld)
• Anna Cornelia WITHOFS, Martenslinde,3742,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Albert Otter, Urk († 1896)
• Aise Abes Hofstra, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1891)
• Adriana Johanna van Schaik, Valburg, Nederland († 1969)
• Amalie Marie Dorothea Freyer, South Africa
• Anna Maria Catharina Florentia Diels, Weelde, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1969)

• Abel Markus Meelker (56), Roden
• Areke van Mourik (68), Tiel
• Bauke van Reenen (2), Holwerd
• Allegondis Hendrix (67), Haelen
• Andries Wijnand (2), Nijehaske Haskerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Catharina Siemerink (Ziegerink) (42), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• anoniem Poppelier (0), Kallo, België
• ""PETRUS"" JOSEPHUS STRYBOL (0), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Christiaan SLOT (2), Enschede
• Alphonsus Hendricus Hubertus Leenders (0), Maastricht (L

• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)

• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)

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 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
• March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
• July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
• August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
• September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
• November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.

The temperature on August 12, 1890 was about 17.3 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.