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• Alagonda Jacoba van Beusekom, Appeltern, Gelderland, The Netherlands († 1891)
• Aaldert Roelofs Smit, Hollandsche Veldt (Hoogeveen)
• Adrianus Joannes Dominicus van Diessen, Tilburg, Nederland
• Van Mourik, Deil
• Huiberdina Johanna Vissers, Raamsdonkveer
• Anko Ploegh, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Andries Mollema
• Aart (Art) van Veldhuizen, Wekerom († 1949)
• Anna Krabbenbos, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1951)
• Aaltje Buur, Hensbroek († 1941)

• Allegonda van der Zanden (30), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abram Van Den DOEL (14), Oude-Tonge
• (57), Heerde
• Adrianus Huijgen (66), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Barbara Mulders (65), Nieuwenhagen, Landgraaf, Limburg, Nederland
• Aartje Gits (3), Ede
• Anna Maria van Hoorn (68), Nistelrode
• Anneken Wesselink (77), Brummen
• Anna Maria Elisa Speelman (0), Temse
• Adriana Van Den Burg (64), Kralingen

• 1886 » Gustave Mesny, French general († 1945)
• 1890 » Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader († 1967)
• 1892 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1892 » Tom Maguire, Irish general († 1993)
• 1893 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman († 1971)
• 1894 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain († 1941)
• 1895 » Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, pioneer of the electronic book († 1975)
• 1895 » Christian Herter, American politician, 53rd United States Secretary of State († 1966)
• 1895 » Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian († 1960)
• 1895 » Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1985)

• 1865 » Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)
• 1866 » Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 » James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)
• 1870 » George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795)
• 1881 » Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1893 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (b. 1824)
• 1900 » Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (b. 1831 or 1834)
• 1910 » Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1917 » Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)

• 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.
• January 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• May 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
• May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
• August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

The temperature on March 28, 1891 was about 4.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.