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• Aaldrik VAN DER LAAN, Vlagtwedde Groningen Netherlands
• Aaldrik Frederiks van der Laan, Weerdingermond (Vlagtwedde)
• Agatha Brabantine Clemence Smit, Semarang, Indonesie
• Adriaan Willem Stroo, Vlissingen († 1914)
• Agnieta Jeannette Hoeufft, Ommen,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1973)
• SCHRAM, Kediri Dutch East Indies (Kediri East Java Indonesia)
• ? ? († 1891)
• Adrianus Daniel van der Wulp († 1891)
• Adrianus Leendert Hensepeter, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Witteman, Hillegom († 1891)

• Arentje Klok (70), Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ANTONIA VAN COEVERDEN (0), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Arnts (0), Ooij, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Antje Bloem (80), Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland
• Aagtje Franzen (80), Wormer
• Adriana Dorothea Bertens (14), Tilburg
• Arend Hilbink (53), Olterterp, Nederland
• Adriaan Sleutjes (77), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Sleutjes (77), Schijndel
• Anna Catharina WOERTGEN (56), Ridderkerk

• 1884 » Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States († 1972)
• 1885 » Thomas B. Costain, Canadian journalist and author († 1965)
• 1892 » Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat († 1981)
• 1893 » Edd Roush, American baseball player and coach († 1988)
• 1893 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer († 1967)
• 1893 » Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster († 1963)
• 1895 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor († 1972)
• 1895 » Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop († 1979)
• 1895 » James H. Kindelberger, American businessman († 1962)
• 1898 » Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal († 1960)

• 1842 » Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer (b. 1790)
• 1853 » Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1785)
• 1880 » Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
• 1891 » Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
• 1891 » John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816)
• 1893 » Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (b. 1833)
• 1903 » Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1848)
• 1907 » Edmund G. Ross, American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1826)
• 1925 » John Beresford, Irish polo player (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)

• 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 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
• March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
• May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
• August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
• August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

The temperature on May 8, 1891 was about 17.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.