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• Anna Maria Hellemans, Rumst († 1959)
• Adrien de Gramont († 1915)
• Aaltje Meun, Urk, Nederland
• Albert Jan van Osnabrugge, Scherpenzeel († 1957)
• Alagonda Gezina Gerhardina Carolina Ninteman, Onstwedde, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hellemans, Rumst, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1959)
• Albertus Hahn, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1945)
• Anthonie Jacobus Verstraaten, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Anna Maria Zinken, Wehr, Selfkant, Kreis Heinsberg (D) († 1957)
• Aaltje Meun († 1966)

• Anna Elisabeth - Maria Elisabeth Dik (48), Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adrianus Reijnders (2), Fijnaart en Heiningen
• Anna Maria ZEGERS (35), Meerle,2328,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Adriana Werken, van de (88), Gameren (Zaltbommel)
• Adriana Peters van de Werken (89), Gameren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonius Johannes Stolk (42), Schiedam,-
• Antje Doekes Meintema (27), Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna WILLEKENS (47), Retie,2470,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Catharina Willekens‏ (47), Retie, België
• Anna Maria Gertrudis BARTHELS (76), Maastricht, Gemeente Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland

• 1874 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian pediatrician and immunologist († 1929)
• 1875 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library († 1960)
• 1880 » Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer († 1951)
• 1885 » Paltiel Daykan, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist († 1969)
• 1885 » Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Japanese author († 1976)
• 1886 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot († 1937)
• 1889 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank († 1980)
• 1892 » Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director († 1970)
• 1895 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author († 1986)
• 1895 » William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)

• 1856 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (b. 1791)
• 1860 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (b. 1795)
• 1864 » J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
• 1867 » Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)

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 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
• April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• August 14 » Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

The temperature on May 12, 1885 was about 11.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.