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.

Caving was pioneered by Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859 – 1938 ) who first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France as early as 1889 and the first complete descent of a 110 metre wet vertical shaft at Gaping Gill, in Yorkshire, England in 1895.

* 1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France ( d. 1952 )

In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as Le Talisman ( 1889 ), Le Réveil de Flore ( 1894 ) and Les Millions d ' Arlequin ( 1900 ).

* 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( d. 1889 )

From 1880 to 1889, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had successfully built the Suez Canal, attempted to construct a sea-level canal in the same general area as the present Panama Canal.

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* November 7 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( d. 1889 )

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

* Eça de Queiroz — The Relic ( A Relíquia ) ( 1887 ) and The Mandarin ( O Mandarim ) ( 1889 )

On 6 October 1889, the Moulin Rouge opened in the Jardin de Paris, at the foot of the Montmartre hill.

Athletics became codified and standardised via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union ( founded in the US in 1888 ) and the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques ( founded in France in 1889 ).

With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise in values, and, at the Secretan sale in 1889, the portrait of Pieter van de Broecke Danvers was bid up to 4, 420, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid 25, 000 for the large group from the collection of Lord Talbot de Malahide.

Much as Miles Joseph Berkeley ( 1803 – 1889 ) had insisted in 1841 that the fungus found in potato blight was the cause of the disease, de Bary declared that the rust and smut fungi were the causes of the pathological changes in diseased plants.

In 1889, Sir William Fraser conflated this uncorroborated remark with the one attributed to him by Count Charles de Montalembert's “ C ' est ici qu ' a été gagné la bataille de Waterloo ” (“ It is here that the Battle of Waterloo was won.

Peugeot also produced bicycles starting in 1882 in Beaulieu, France ( with ten Tour de France wins between 1903 and 1983 ) followed by motorcycles and cars in 1889.

* Edward Osy de Zegwaart ( 1889 – 1900 )

Detail from Circus Sideshow ( or Parade de Cirque ) ( 1889 ) showing pointillism

* Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ( 1889 – 1952 ), Marshal of France, commander of the French First Army during World War II and later commander in the First Indochina War.

Pedro III el Grande en el collado de las Panizas by: es: Mariano Barbasán | Mariano Barbasán ( 1889 )

Pedro Lira's 1889 painting of the founding of Santiago by Pedro de Valdivia at Santa Lucía Hill | Huelén Hill.