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• Afina Martha Botter, Amsterdam († 1954)
• Willemke Slim, Vrouwenparochie
• Anna Catharina PRETORIUS
• Aartje Koetsier, Epe († 1967)
• Alberdina Henderika Dekker, Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• * Pieter Witkamp, Rotterdam († 1921)
• Adriana Johanna Stokx, Ovezande
• Andre Poppers, Amsterdam
• Booy, Hoogeveen nederland († 1890)
• Adrianus Lockhorst, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1927)

• Arthur Charles LEGGE (89)
• Alida van der Voet (0), Voorhout
• Barendina Maria Scholten (54), Voorst
• Antoinette Hendriette Jeanne Gijsberti Hodenpijl (85), 's-Gravenhage
• Booy (0), Hoogeveen nederland
• Anthonetta Oeffelt van (31), Deurne en Liessel
• Alberta Johanna Hissink (64), Deventer
• Arnoldus Johannes Rooijmans (70), Someren, Netherlands
• Arnoldus BEUGELINK (30), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bauke van Veen (0), Rotterdam

• 1882 » Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist († 1968)
• 1883 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil († 1974)
• 1883 » Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building († 1969)
• 1886 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1889 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer († 1944)
• 1891 » Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and academic († 1970)
• 1892 » Ezio Pinza, Italian-American actor and singer († 1957)
• 1895 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader († 1934)
• 1896 » Eric Backman, Swedish runner († 1965)
• 1897 » Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)

• 1867 » Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

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.
• July 26 » In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
• October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 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.
• November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.

The temperature on May 18, 1890 was about 17.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.