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• Albertus Visser, Grieth Zevenaar († 1886)
• Albertus Visser, Zevenaar, Gelderland, The Netherlands († 1886)
• adriana VISSER, oud-beijerland
• Roelof Eerenstein, Odoorn Drenthe
• Annie Emma Rubley, Fulham, Middlesex, England († 1963)
• Adriana van Aken, Rotterdam, Kralingen († 1885)
• Brokken, Tilburg († 1885)
• Adrianus Nieulant, Echteld (Gelderland) († 1946)
• Anneke Wilhelmina Rentrop, Nijmegen, Nederland († 1886)
• Anna Welp, IN, Verenigde Staten († 1960)

• Adelpha Holroyd Argyle (0), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
• Adriaan Schoondermark (59), Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• August Westrus (19), Fjand, Denemarken
• Adriaantje Bulsing (74), Arnhem
• Hagedoorn (39)
• Agnes ATKINSON (75), Saratoga, Frederick, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Patje (2), Harkstede (Slochteren-Gr)
• Antje Gerdes Willms Flesner (72), fortasse, Riepe, Ostfriesland, Hannover
• Haars (0), Jaarsveld, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriana Miltenburg (8), Utrecht, Nederland

• 1875 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor († 1964)
• 1875 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and coach († 1945)
• 1875 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian-Swiss poet and author († 1926)
• 1881 » Erwin von Witzleben, Polish-German field marshal († 1944)
• 1882 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright († 1969)
• 1884 » R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian († 1980)
• 1892 » Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain († 1975)
• 1892 » Liu Bocheng, Chinese commander and politician († 1986)
• 1893 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic († 1968)

• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)
• 1893 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
• 1902 » Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)
• 1926 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868)
• 1935 » Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacobus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
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 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
• 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.
• April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
• 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.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.

The temperature on December 4, 1885 was about 3.0 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.