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• Aelse Pieter Sijbrands van der Meulen, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Petronella van Kessel, Delfshaven
• Adriana Maria Leijgraaff, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Akke Kingma, Wytgaard, Nederland († 1961)
• Abraham Israel Alfred Spreekmeester Abas, Amsterdam
• Catharina Ava Maria De Kleijn, Amsterdam
• Abraham FREEDMAN, Russia († 1953)
• Ada M. Lowell, Missouri († 1970)
• Adriana Johanna van Leeuwen, Poortugaal,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Aaltje Gerrits Kooistra, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• Aaltje Hadewij Bijl (21), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adelaide-Eloise FRECHETTE (72), St-Francois-du-Lac, Yamaska, Qc
• Anna Maria Jansen (1), Tilburg Nederland
• Antoon Driessen (80), Horst
• Albert van den Berg (80), Kampen
• Aleida Borkens (34), Silvolde (Oude Ijsselstreek), Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Middelhof (27), Blokzijl
• Anje Werkema (0), Groningen
• Albert Harmens van den Berg (80), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anje Bolhuis (17), Eenum gem. 't Zandt

• 1874 » Charles Ives, American composer († 1954)
• 1882 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Margaret Dumont, American actress († 1965)
• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)
• 1893 » Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1940)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Trijntje
15. Neeltje
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on October 20, 1884 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.