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• Albina Pigeon
• Amalric Lombard de Buffières de Rambuteau († 1944)
• Anna Maria Goedendorp, Vlaardingen
• Akke Visser, Hieslum († 1926)
• Alphonsus Maria Wilhelmus Hendrikse, Uithoorn († 1942)
• Adriana Hantje Gunst, Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1950)
• Alphonsus Marie Wilhelmus Hendrikse, Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Alice Marie DEWULF, Klemskerke
• Adriaan Remijn, Hoedekenskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Abele Gerrits PLoegh, Gerkesklooster († 1969)

• Antje Blokker (57), Opperdoes
• Adriana Diepstraten (46), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Willems Fortuin (65)
• Adriana Diepstraten (46), Terheijden
• Antje Blokker (57), Opperdoes, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Van HAM (6), Dubbeldam
• Agatha Baars (0)
• Alida Slagmeulen (0), Zuilichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Joannes Cluydts (0), Antwerpen (2000, Antwerpen)
• Anna Catharina van Gestel (70), haarlem

• 1875 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator († 1962)
• 1876 » Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics († 1958)
• 1876 » Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea († 1949)
• 1887 » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat († 1978)
• 1888 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician († 1964)
• 1890 » Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d.1975)
• 1891 » Marquis James, American journalist and author († 1955)
• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)

• 1856 » Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)

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.
• April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
• August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
• August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
• 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 August 29, 1890 was about 15.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.