Events in the year 1889 in India.
Incumbents
Events
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Births
- 30 January — Jaishankar Prasad, writer and dramatist (d. 1937)
- 28 February — Babu Chotelal Shrivastava, independence fighter (d. 1976)
- 1 March — Gopi Chand Bhargava, first Chief Minister of Punjab (d. 1966)
- 1 April — Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, founder of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) (f. 1925), social reformer and political activist (d. 1940)
- 4 April — Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Chhayavad writer (d. 1968)
- 1 July — Benegal Rama Rau, fourth governor of the Reserve Bank of India (d. 1968)
- 5 August — Muzaffar Ahmad, communist politician and journalist (d. 1973)
- 16 August — Prabhu Dayal Himatsingka, Indian National Congress politician (d. 1991)
- 3 September — Sadhu Sundar Singh, Christian missionary (d. 1929)
- 6 September — Sarat Chandra Bose, barrister and independence activist (d. 1950)
- 4 November — Jamnalal Bajaj, politician and industrialist (d. 1942)
- 14 November — Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
- 3 December — khudiram Bose, independence fighter and martyr (d. 1908)
- 7 December — Radhakamal Mukerjee, social scientist (d. 1968)
- 23 December — Mehr Chand Mahajan, third Chief Justice of India (d. 1967)
- 25 December — Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, leader of the All-India Muslim League (d. 1973)
Full date unknown
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