Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* Athene Seyler ( 1889 – 1990 ), English actress

* 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer ( d. 1889 )

* 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

* 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

* 1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer ( d. 1977 )

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

* Adrian Boult ( 1889 – 1983 ), English conductor

* 1889 – Zerna Sharp, American author and educator ( d. 1981 )

* 1889 – Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist ( d. 1966 )

* 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria ( d. 1889 )

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

* Alexander I of Serbia ( 1889 – 1903 ), King of Serbia

* 1889 – At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889.

* 1889 – Jessie Street, Australian suffragette and activist ( d. 1970 )

* 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian ( d. 1975 )

In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.

* September 11 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal ( b. 1889 )

Camillien Houde ( 13 August 1889 – 11 September 1958 ) was a Quebec politician, a Member of Parliament, and a four-time mayor of Montreal.

* Camillien Houde ( 1889 – 1958 ), statesman, Mayor of Montreal

Houde was born in Montreal on 13 August 1889 and died there on 11 September 1958.

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

* 1889 – The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.

* John Walker ( Canadian politician ) ( 1832 – 1889 ), industrialist and member of the Canadian House of Commons

* 1815 – William Buell Richards, Canadian judge ( d. 1889 )

* 1889 – Philip Noel-Baker, British-born Canadian diplomat and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1982 )

For Canadian historian Charles Norris Cochrane ( 1889 – 1945 ), Thucydides ' fastidious devotion to observable phenomena, focus on cause and effect, and strict exclusion of other factors anticipates twentieth century scientific positivism.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

Canadian County was formed in 1889 as an original county from former Indian land.

In 1889 the International Railway of Maine was constructed by its owner Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ), extending the CPR's transcontinental mainline east from Montreal, Quebec to Saint John, New Brunswick.

Jackman became connected to the international North American rail network upon completion the International of Maine Division of the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway in 1889.

In 1889, the MEC's rail line through Vanceboro became part of the transcontinental network of the Canadian Pacific Railway following construction of the International Railway of Maine.

* Silas Tertius Rand ( 1810 – 1889 ), Canadian clergyman, ethnologist, linguist and translator

:# Land Run of April 22, 1889: Land run of 1889 took place at high noon and involved the settlement of the Unassigned Lands ( most of modern day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties ).

Sir Casimir was instrumental in organizing the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, where he served as its president from 1889 until 1891, and founded Canada's first rifle association.

Andrew Archibald Macdonald, PC ( 14 February 1829 – 21 March 1912 ), was the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1 August 1884 to 2 September 1889, was one of the fathers of Canadian Confederation.

Douglass Dumbrille ( October 13, 1889 – April 2, 1974 ) was a Canadian actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.

* Samuel Bronfman ( 1889 – 1971 ), a Canadian entrepreneur, former owner of Seagram

Samuel Bronfman, ( February 27, 1889 – July 10, 1971 ) was a Canadian business magnate and philanthropist.

* John Henry Pope ( 1824 – 1889 ), Canadian farmer, lumberman, railway entrepreneur, and politician

Baseball continued to be played there as well, with three more incarnations of the Tecumsehs in the International Association ( 1888 – 1889 ), the International League ( 1890 ), and the Canadian League ( 1898 – 1900 ), with the London Alerts, also of the Canadian League, playing in 1897 and 1899.