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.

** Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher ( b. 1889 )

Tetsuro Watsuji ( 和辻 哲郎 Watsuji Tetsurō ) ( March 1, 1889 – December 26, 1960 ) was a Japanese moral philosopher, cultural historian, and intellectual historian.

French military missions were sent to Japan in 1872 – 1880, in 1884 – 1889 and the last one much later in 1918 – 1919 to help modernize the Japanese army.

* Chūichi Hara ( 原 忠一, 1889 – 1964 ), an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

Image: Paul Gauguin 121. jpg | Still-Life with Japanese Woodcut, ( 1889 )

In Japan, beginning in 1889, K. Okamura not only provided detailed descriptions of Japanese coastal algae, he also provided comprehensive analysis of their distribution.

* In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, an early 1990s Japanese anime television series based on Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea and set in 1889, there is a submarine called the Nautilus, which is also captained by a Captain Nemo.

The Emperor of Japan who was defined as both Head of State and the Generalissimo of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces according to the Meiji Constitution of 1889 to 1945, was the head of the Imperial General Headquarters, and was assisted by staff appointed from the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy.

Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan, was defined as the Head of State and the Generalissimo of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces according to the constitution of 1889.

He attended the 15th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, graduating 7th out of a class of 80 cadets in 1889.

Meanwhile, he also attempted to revitalize modern Japanese literature and published his own literary journal ( Shigarami sōshi, 1889 – 1894 ) and his own book of poetry ( Omokage, 1889 ).

Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman ( April 23, 1889 – February 28, 1942 ) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack.

In 1888 or 1889 he began coughing up blood and soon adopted the pen-name Shiki from the Japanese hototogisu, which is a word usually translated as cuckoo.

The islands were uninhabited until 1889, when the two northern islands were settled by Japanese settlers from the Izu Islands.

The early Imperial Japanese Army was essentially developed with the assistance of French advisors, through the second French military mission to Japan ( 1872 – 1880 ), and the third French military mission to Japan ( 1884 – 1889 ).

In 1889, Amherst College honored him with an honorary doctorate, the first ever awarded to a Japanese person.

Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan de Soler ( August 31, 1889 – May 29, 2004 ) was a Puerto Rican supercentenarian, and, according to documents compiled in March 2004, the oldest documented person in the world after the death of Japanese woman Mitoyo Kawate, although German American woman Charlotte Benkner, who was about 3½ months younger, had been given recognition in the meantime.

* 1889: Worked at the Army Surgeon General ’ s Library in Washington D. C translating Chinese and Japanese medical books into English.

Gubbins was appointed a student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service in 1871 ; English Secretary to the Conference at Tokyo for the Revision of the Treaties, after Ernest Satow left Japan in 1883 ; and on June 1, 1889, became Japanese Secretary at Tokyo.

* 1889 — Early Japanese history

He was recruited by the Meiji period Japanese government as a foreign advisor from 1887 to 1889.