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• Albertina Susanna Koolen, Bergen op Zoom
• Adrianus Vervest, Riethoven (gemeente Bergeijk)
• Alexander Zachariah Sherrig, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois († 1947)
• Albertus Theodorus Reuling, Didam, Nederland († 1920)
• Dekkers, Stevensweert
• Adrianus Schepers, Lieshout
• Adriana Hoevenaars, Cromvoirt
• Leendert Bol, Zandvoort
• Aaltje Derksen, Valburg(Herveld)
• Albert Netterts Smit, Heilige Geeststeeg, Vollenhove († 1891)

• Anna Beeker, Heusden,5725,Asten,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Albert Harms Kromkamp (56), Ooststellingwerf, Fr, The Netherlangs
• Albertus Boerlage (80), Bloemendaal
• Albertus Boerlagen (81), Bloemendaal, Vogelenzang, Nederland
• Albert Westbroek (0), Krimpen aan den IJssel
• Abraham Gans (8), Leiden
• Agathe de Vries (78), Rotterdam
• Albert Jan ter Meul (61), Hengelo, Gemeente Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aafje * Maaijen (60), Benschop
• Adrianus Struijk (0), Pernis, Nederland

• 1884 » María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist († 1951)
• 1885 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1960)
• 1888 » Jean Bouin, French runner and rugby player († 1914)
• 1889 » Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist († 1988)
• 1890 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1891 » John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1980)
• 1892 » Rebecca West, English journalist and author († 1983)
• 1892 » Walter Hagen, American golfer († 1969)
• 1896 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II († 1968)
• 1900 » Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president († 1965)

• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

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.
• January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
• April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
• July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
• November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
• December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

The temperature on December 21, 1890 was about -2.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.