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• Adriaan Melse, Middelburg
• Aleida Smit, Weststellingwerf († 1970)
• Alijda Constantia Maria Schilte, assen († 1957)
• Adolf Wilhelm Beul, 39619 Ardensee, Germany († 1958)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Leeuwen, Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Roemeling, Oostwold, Midwolda († 1972)
• Alexander von Quadt zu Wickrath († 1936)
• Adrianus Duijts († 1924)
• Aagje Verdoes, Katwijk aan Zee
• Alexander Joseph Aloys Anton Maria QUADT VAN WICKRATH-ISNY, Isny Baden-Württemberg Germany († 1936)

• Aafje Klaasd Tijmes (73), Avereest, OVE, Nederland
• Aafje Beets (60), Graft
• Adriana Thijsen (5), Woensdrecht
• Adriana Alida Hartingsveld (69), Hellevoetsluis
• Anna Catharina Wouters (20), Eindhoven
• Adriana Alida van Hartingsveld (69), Hellevoetsluis
• "Pietro" Prospero Maria Camillo Leonardo Francesco Giuseppe Giovan Battista Sebastiano Aldobrandini (39), Anzio, Italie
• Adriana Thijsen (5), Woensdrecht
• Antonie Johanna Maria Bruijnzeels (0)
• Adrianus Anthonius Dominicus Weerdesteijn (0), Rotterdam

• 1875 » Dave Hall, American runner († 1972)
• 1881 » Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, palaeontologist, and philosopher († 1955)
• 1884 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician († 1964)
• 1885 » Clément Pansaers, Belgian poet († 1922)
• 1885 » Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor and painter († 1973)
• 1887 » Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan († 1983)
• 1890 » Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (d. 1963 or 1964)
• 1891 » Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America († 1988)
• 1895 » May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director († 1968)
• 1895 » Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet secret police official, head of the NKVD († 1940)

• 1838 » Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (b. 1797)
• 1856 » John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (b. 1774)
• 1873 » David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 » Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (b. 1841)
• 1913 » John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)

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

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

• 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 23 » Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
• March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
• May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
• May 12 » North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on May 1, 1885 was about 15.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.