About the day » Wednesday May 21, 1890Calender converter

• Alice Jansegers, Temse († 1892)
• Abraham Hendrik Geerdink, Steenwijk
• Albert Jacobus Brugman, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Anna Barbara Hamers, Bocholtz, Limburg, Nederland († 1891)
• Adèle Céline Detournay, Virginal-Samme, Brabant-wallon, Belgique
• Alice Bell Van Brunt, Langford, Marshall, South Dakota, United States († 1975)
• Anna Maria Minkels, Sint Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1956)
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van van Steijn, Aarlanderveen († 1890)
• Anna Maria Wegen van der, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Angela Manuela, Bonaire († 1891)

• Aukje Alberts Bos (2), Surhústerfean, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Dering (0), Haarlem
• Albert Jochems Van Der Laan (81), Exloerveen
• Aafke van Warners (1), Oostermeer, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Clementin Vrijenhoek (1), Schiedam
• Aafke Hillebrands van Warners (1), Oostermeer, Friesland, Nederland
• Barteld de Vries (6), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Vos (92), Geffen
• Albert Jochems VAN DER LAAN (81), Exloërveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Mol (0), Oudenbosch (Halderberge) (Noord-Brabant)

• 1880 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author, and poet († 1967)
• 1884 » Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher († 1920)
• 1885 » Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) († 1936)
• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)
• 1893 » Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant († 1969)
• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)

• 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)

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.
• June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
• July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
• July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
• November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
• December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

The temperature on May 21, 1890 was about 15.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.