About the day » Sunday August 24, 1890Calender converter

• Alphons Jacobs, Nederhasselt
• Alida Maria van Deventer, Leiden
• Albert Dokter, Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1985)
• Adrianus Verburgt, Halsteren, N-Br, NL († 1890)
• Adrianus Voordouw, Waarder {ZH}
• Abraham de Vrind, Zoeterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Adriana Boers, 's Gravenzande
• Abraham Gaston NAKACHE, Tebessa, Algérie († 1961)
• Alpha May Gore O Neal, Mississippi († 1932)
• Aart Hunink, Noordeloos, South Holland, Netherlands († 1892)

• Anna Catharina Josepha (Hubertina) Hermans (55), Hoensbroek
• "Leonardus" Corneliszn Heemskerk (84), Warmond Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Muskens (0), Oudheusden en Elshout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Van Waardenburgh (71), Alem, Maren en Kessel, Nederland
• Hofman (0), Numansdorp
• Anna Ziel* (80), Dalerveen, gem. Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aimé Helie DAVID (56), Saint Claude,39200,Jura,Franche-Comté,FRANCE
• Alexander Thomson (24), Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Albert Doornbos (83), Groningen
• Anna Margaretha Peerboom (75), Mechelen

• 1884 » Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright († 1933)
• 1887 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player († 1974)
• 1888 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company († 1942)
• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)

• 1838 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1841 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)
• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)

• 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.
• April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
• July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
• September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
• October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
• December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

The temperature on August 24, 1890 was about 15.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.