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• Anna Maria BEX, Maastricht (NL/LI) († 1884)
• Anna Mary Hilgenhold, St Marks, Perry, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1885)
• Petrus De Splentere, Loppem († 1960)
• Adriana van Es, Loon op Zand († 1955)
• Adrianus de BAKKER, Brielle († 1884)
• Anna Catharina Hendrika Clasina Gulliker, Amsterdam (Prov. Noord Holland) († 1884)
• Anna Cornelia van Es, Mijnsheerenland († 1884)
• Antje Roelofse, Opheusden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1954)
• Anna Carbasius, Arnhem († 1953)
• Anna Maria Suijkerbuijk, rucphen, Sprundel, vorenseinde

• Adrianus de BAKKER (0), Brielle
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Jeugmans (83), Nieuwerkerken, België
• Abraham Redert (19), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adrianus van der Loop (22), Zevenbergen
• August Ludwig von und zu Liechtenstein (74)
• Adam Stoop (0), Zevenbergen
• Anna Maria De Vriendt (66), Iddergem
• Anna Maria van den Berg (1), Rhenen
• Albert Reinjes Tuzee (32), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Blaauwwiekel- (1), Roderveld, Nederland

• 1876 » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author († 1945)
• 1878 » Anna Cervin, Swedish artist († 1972)
• 1879 » Hans Lammers, German judge and politician († 1962)
• 1879 » Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter († 1971)
• 1884 » Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer († 1968)
• 1887 » Frank Woolley, English cricketer († 1978)
• 1888 » Louis Durey, French composer († 1979)
• 1891 » Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer († 1965)
• 1891 » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author († 1958)

• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 » Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)

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.
• 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.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on May 27, 1884 was about 17.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 36%.