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• Andries Soubice, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Tramper, Krabbendijke († 1884)
• Adriaan Keur, Sint Annaland
• Adriana van 't Geijn, IJsselstein († 1896)
• Alida Susanna Smit, Zuid-Afrika, R.S.A.
• Anna Louise ROSEMEIER, Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois († 1961)
• Agnes van den Heuvel, Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1965)
• Andrew Camfield Teed, Livingston, Essex, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1934)
• Ada Ann HODGETTS, Westbury, Tasmania, Australia
• Agatha Theodora Frederika Elisabeth Beijer, Kota Radja, Atjeh, Sumatra Ned. Indie († 1943)

• Adriana Geertruida Fens (0), Oosterhout,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• ADRIANUS DE BLOOIJS (68), VLAARDINGEN
• Adrianus van Manen (0), Bergen op Zoom
• Adrianus de Blois \ de Bloois (68), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angelina Eraerts (57), Wilderen, België
• Arie Verhoef (65), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Vloeimans (79), Borgerhout (B)
• Arend Jan Berenpas (3), Borculo gem. Berkelland Gld. Nederland
• Adriana van Geel (0), Roosendaal/Nispen
• Anna Maria van Enckevort (4), Sevenum, Horst, Limburg, Niederlande

• 1879 » Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia († 1939)
• 1881 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti († 1947)
• 1883 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer († 1950)
• 1886 » Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist († 1971)
• 1887 » Carlos Dávila, Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile († 1955)
• 1888 » Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver († 1925)
• 1889 » Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author († 1948)
• 1889 » Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor († 1945)
• 1890 » Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer († 1979)
• 1890 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer († 1981)

• 1842 » Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (b. 1792)
• 1842 » Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• 1852 » Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)

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.
• January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
• 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.
• May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• 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 September 15, 1884 was about 17.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.