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• Aaltje Oldenhof, Wijhe
• Alida Maria Cornelisd Maliepaard, Willemstad, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1969)
• Aaltje Egging, Vroomshoop († 1959)
• Aleida van VOORST, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1885)
• Afke Klazes Bijl, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Netherlands († 1885)
• Anna Margaretha Wilming, Langenberg, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1905)
• Anna Catharina Elizabeth Folgering, Solwerd gem. Appingedam
• Anna Velzeboer, Akersloot († 1953)
• Magdalena Naantje Hilligien Bruins, Schoterland († 1885)
• Adriana Carolina Frederica Wilhelmina von Saher, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Bernadus Vink (51), Varsseveld
• Bernardus Musters (74), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albartus Schinkel (48), IJsselstein,Utrecht,Niederlande
• Anna Catharina Daems (88), Zandhoven
• Aaltjen Regterschot (69), Heerde
• August Pfisterer (3)
• Albertus Schinkel (48), IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arend Jan Enoch (72), Enterbroek, gemeente Wierden
• Antonius van Hersel (84), Oirschot
• Aaltje Meerstadt (0), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1874 » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and academic († 1965)
• 1883 » Maurice Utrillo, French painter († 1955)
• 1885 » Bazoline Estelle Usher, African-American educator († 1992)
• 1887 » Arthur Percival, English general († 1966)
• 1888 » Marius Canard, French orientalist and historian († 1982)
• 1890 » Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1973)
• 1890 » Percy Hodge, English runner († 1967)
• 1891 » Henry Miller, American author and painter († 1980)
• 1892 » Don Barclay, American actor and illustrator († 1975)
• 1893 » Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China († 1976)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

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.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

The temperature on December 26, 1884 was about -0.3 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.