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 )

* 1889 – Camillien Houde, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal ( d. 1958 )

* 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.

* Pitirim Sorokin ( 1889 – 1968 ), Russian-American macrosociology ; Social and Cultural Dynamics ( 4 vol., 1937 – 41 )

* Igor Sikorsky ( 1889 – 1972 ), Russian-American inventor and founder of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

During the 19th century, other instrumentalists and singers won international recognition, for example, the violinist Franjo Krežma ( 1862 – 1881 ), singers, among which Ilma Murska ( 1834 – 1889 ), Matilda Mallinger ( 1847 – 1920 ) who sang at the opening night of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1868, Milka Trnina ( 1863 – 1941 ) and Josip Kašman ( 1850 – 1925 ), the first Croatian singer to appear at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

" In 1928, the distinguished Italian violinist / composer Remy Principe ( 1889 – 1977 ) gave a recital in Bolzano, and auditioned Giulini ; he invited Giulini to study with him at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

From 1887 to 1889, he studies at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik working with Joseph Joachim's former student, violinist Heinrich Jacobson ; Jacobson served as Chairman of the Orchestral Instruments Department.

Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu (; April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949 August 5, 1948 ) was a Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso.

* Giovanni Bottesini ( 1821 – 1889 ) Virtuoso, composer, conductor

In 1889, one Theo Wangemann, a representative of American inventor Thomas Edison, visited the composer in Vienna and invited him to make an experimental recording.

* 1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German composer and pianist ( d. 1889 )

* March 28 – Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer ( b. 1889 )

** Gilardo Gilardi, Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor ( b. 1889 )

* Giovanni Bottesini ( 1821 – 1889 ) composer, conductor

* October 16-Felix Arndt, pianist & composer ( b. 1889 )

* 1889 – 20 November, World premiere: Budapest, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer.

In 1860 it became the childhood home of Bohemian-Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, who retained his ties to the town until the death of both of his parents in 1889.

* May 12 – Adolf von Henselt, pianist and composer ( d. 1889 )

* December 22 – Giovanni Bottesini, composer ( d. 1889 )

* April 8 – Giuseppe Apolloni, opera composer ( d. 1889 )

* August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer ( d. 1889 )

* January 23 – Ivan Larionov, Russian composer ( d. 1889 )

* August 13 – Gustav Lange, German composer ( d. 1889 )

* Edward Elgar ( 1857 – 1934 ), the composer, and his wife lived at Oaklands, Fountain Road in 1889, soon after they were married, so they could be near the Crystal Palace concerts.

Frank Crumit ( September 26, 1889 – September 7, 1943 ) was an American singer, composer.

Giuseppe Apolloni ( April 8, 1822 – December 31, 1889 ) was an Italian composer born in Vicenza, Italy.

Safonov was never a particularly successful composer in his own right, but was a master music educator, becoming Director of the Moscow Conservatory in 1889.

Giovanni Bottesini ( 22 December 1821 – 7 July 1889 ), was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso.

The first notable Montenegrin composer was Jovan Ivanišević ( 1860 – 1889 ).

Ben Black ( 11 December 1889 – 26 December 1950 ) was an English composer of popular song and an impresario.