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• Aafje Ooms, Wognum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Molijn, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Elizabeth van Lier, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1898)
• Aletta SCHOP, Ridderkerk, Gemeente Ridderkerk, South Holland, Netherlands († 1894)
• Reints, Willemsstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphoncius Convens, Oostham, Limburg, België († 1979)
• Adriaan Andries Poppelier, Oosterhout, Nederland († 1891)
• Alida Catharina van Zuijlen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1891)
• Abraham Haas, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Aard van Maurik, Vuren

• Aaltje Hendriks Hollebeek (2), Oostzaan Noord Holland Nederland
• Aaltje Sjoerds van der Wouden (74), Schoterland,, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje (Sjoerds) van der Woude (74), Schoterland,, Friesland, Nederland
• "Johannes" Marinus BETTINGER (74), Dordrecht
• Aaltje Sjoerds van Wouden (74), Heerenveen, Schoterland
• Aaltje Vierhoven (67), Leeuwarden
• Aaltjen Jebbink, Zutphen
• "Cornelis" Kornelis Kornelis (60), Ransdorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnieta Hollebeek (0), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella Tange (36), Middelburg

• 1885 » Sacha Guitry, Russian-French actor, director, and playwright († 1957)
• 1887 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of War († 1945)
• 1888 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright († 1965)
• 1892 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1949)
• 1893 » Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist († 1987)
• 1893 » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress († 1979)
• 1894 » Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic († 1955)
• 1895 » Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1896 » Nirala, Indian poet and author († 1961)
• 1900 » Jeanne Aubert, French singer and actress († 1988)

• 1846 » Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800)
• 1862 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)
• 1888 » William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804)
• 1891 » James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
• 1919 » Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)
• 1938 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
• April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
• August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
• August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

The temperature on February 21, 1891 was about -3.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.