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• Alexander Westhoff, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Alphonsine Regina Groulx, Pointe-Gatineau, Québec († 1887)
• Abraham van der Schalk, Schiedam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Adriaantje Nettenbreijers, Hedel
• "Siegfried" Eduard Stanislaus Konrad von Brauchitsch, Wroclaw, Pologne († 1957)
• Adrianus Jacobus de Lange, Rotterdam († 1886)
• Cornelius (Kees) Baten, Steenbergen († 1953)
• Alice Annie Small († 1933)
• Aaltje Hendriks Zeilstra, ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Krijger, Haamstede

• Antje (Anna) Rorijs (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Afke de Boer (27), Nijehaske, 8466, Nederland
• Adriana Oostdijk (73), Oude-Tonge
• Aaltje Gerritdientje Veldhuis (1), Almelo, Ambt
• Adrianus Bentvelsen (70), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Rekelhof (11), Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Schuremans (53), Zevenbergen
• Annigje Greven (73), Steenwijk
• Annigje Greven (73), Steenwijk
• Adriaan Karelse (53), Borssele

• 1878 » Abraham Walkowitz, Russian-American painter († 1965)
• 1879 » Terence MacSwiney, Irish republican politician and hunger striker; Lord Mayor of Cork († 1920)
• 1881 » Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper († 1918)
• 1884 » Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright († 1951)
• 1886 » Gustave Mesny, French general († 1945)
• 1890 » Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader († 1967)
• 1892 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1892 » Tom Maguire, Irish general († 1993)
• 1893 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman († 1971)
• 1894 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain († 1941)

• 1865 » Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)
• 1866 » Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 » James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)
• 1870 » George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795)
• 1881 » Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1893 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (b. 1824)
• 1900 » Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (b. 1831 or 1834)
• 1910 » Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1917 » Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Hendrika
8. Wilhelmina
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Grietje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
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.
• February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
• May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
• June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

The temperature on March 28, 1886 was about 10.7 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.