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• Afina Margaretha Sterk, Den Helder
• Aaltje Hendriks Kramer, Haskerland
• Albert Bottinga
• Aldonse Bianca Van Der Kamp, Mr. Cornelis, Batavia, Java, Ned. Indie
• Afina Margaretha Sterk, Den Helder, Nederland
• Adriana Jacobsd Zwart, EaZ
• Abraham Keijzer, Stad aan 't Haringvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Jepp, Pogrodzie, Powiat elblƒÖski, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Polen († 1961)
• Adriana Zwart, Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Aal Kramer, Joure († 1980)

• Bernardus Beijer (56), Olst
• Aaltje Klok (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Agatha Theodora Janmaat (22), Zevenhoven en Noorden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Jansen (61), Bergen op Zoom
• Adam Jansen (59), Rilland Bath, Zld, NL
• Adriana Neeltje van den Berg (50), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Walburgis Gesina Strotmann (37), Stroen, Melstrup
• Adriana Neeltje van den Berg (50), Zevenbergen
• Albert de Goede (5), Buitenpost, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Baukje Veenstra (2), Augustinusga, Achtkarspelen,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland

• 1875 » Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower († 1941)
• 1878 » Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union († 1953)
• 1879 » Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator († 1940)
• 1882 » Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway († 1950)
• 1884 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology († 1942)
• 1886 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager († 1961)
• 1887 » Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright († 1971)
• 1888 » Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer († 1971)
• 1888 » Robert Moses, American urban planner († 1981)
• 1890 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio († 1954)

• 1843 » Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
• 1848 » Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)

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.
• March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
• March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• May 1 » The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
• June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

The temperature on December 18, 1885 was about 6.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.