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• Anna Maria de Beer, Tilburg
• Adrianus Oosterbos van, Roosendaal († 1887)
• Abraham Coltof, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Anje Smit, Oude-Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Boot, Zierikzee († 1972)
• Anna Julia de Bree, Amsterdam
• Aleida Könning, Babberich, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 1973)
• Andrea Jager, Oterdum (gem. Eemsdelta) († 1980)
• Adrianus Franciscus Wilhelmus Roël, Amsterdam († 1970)
• Adrianus Marinus Cornelis Schellekens, Wijk bij Duurstede,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1934)

• Agnes Maria Hubertina van Appeven (29), Posterholt, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Willems Brinkman (53)
• Anna Catharina van Dijk (84), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus STADS (53), Tilburg (Noord Brabant) (NL)
• Antje Pieters de Vries
• Alida Margaretha Tietzel (0), amsterdam, Nederland
• Alida Drop (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Wilbers (0), Enter, gemeente Wierden
• Agatha Gerarda van der Drift (0), Delft
• Adriana Hendrika Looijen (0), Apeldoorn (GL)

• 1874 » Tan Kah Kee, Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (d.1961)
• 1877 » Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist († 1955)
• 1884 » Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress († 1957)
• 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
• 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
• 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
• 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
• 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)
• 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)
• 1898 » Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor († 1960)

• 1835 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)

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. Grietje
12. Neeltje
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.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

The temperature on October 21, 1886 was about 10.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.