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• Alda Maria Elisabet Ståhl, Locknevi, Kalmar, Sweden († 1955)
• Abraham Brandon, Amsterdam († 1954)
• Alexander Robert Ramsay, Londen († 1972)
• Aartje Koetsier, Arnhem († 1884)
• Anna van Houting, Oss († 1978)
• Adriaan Est van der, Krabbendijke († 1973)
• Aaltje Bouwman, Amersfoort
• Andries Jacobus Onderstal, Wageningen († 1944)
• Albert Vredeveld, Anloo, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aalbertus van den Bor, in 't Veen, gem. Nijkerk († 1886)

• Agatha QUINTIJN (86), Tielt,, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Bernardus Franciscus Lansink (50), Reutum (Tubbergen)
• arie brugman (0), charlois
• Arie Niessen (76), IJsselstein
• Aaltje Kanes Kogel (0), Amsterdam
• Bernard Mccart DNA991 (47), Victoria, Australia
• Adriana Catharina van Beek (2), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ardina (Geerts) Gerrits (79), Uden
• Alfred Albertus Josephus Wackens (0), Melle, Oost Vlaanderen
• Benne Alberts VENEMA (57), Hoogkerk Groningen Netherlands

• 1871 » Clark Voorhees, American painter († 1933)
• 1873 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer († 1918)
• 1874 » G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright († 1936)
• 1880 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher († 1936)
• 1892 » Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author († 1938)
• 1893 » Max Brand, American journalist and author († 1944)
• 1894 » Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer († 1989)
• 1894 » Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1897 » Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1957)
• 1899 » Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Defence († 1987)

• 1862 » Franz Mirecki, Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (b. 1791)
• 1866 » Winfield Scott, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1786)
• 1873 » Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
• 1892 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 » Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)

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 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
• July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

The temperature on May 29, 1884 was about 13.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.