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• Albertha Helena Stroeve, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• * Abraham Kleijwegt, Hilligersberg († 1951)
• Piet Nengerman, Eefde
• Alexander Wohlfarth, Homestead, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1886)
• Albert Leonard Anthonie van Unen, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1966)
• Adriana Theodora Wilhelmina van der SPEK, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Dam, Ede († 1952)
• Andries van der Meer, Oldeboorn (Utingeradeel) († 1961)
• Andries David PRETORIUS
• Alida Stam, Kockengen, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1937)

• Anno Koster (8), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alida Thoen 't Hoen (0)
• Alida Jacoba Verheul
• Alexander Wohlfarth (0), Homestead, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Bernardina Boumans (1), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Maria Crutzen (68), Vaals
• Antonetta Jacomina de Vries (2), Lekkerkerk
• Anna Maria Catharina Cloudt (46), Sint Odiliënberg
• Anthonie Zonneveld, Zaltbommel
• Aleida Oldekamp (79), Kleine Kerstraat (Hoogeveen)

• 1873 » Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer († 1913)
• 1875 » Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month († 1950)
• 1875 » Grace Marie Bareis, American mathematician († 1962)
• 1875 » Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist († 1948)
• 1876 » Bernard Friedberg, Austrian-Israeli scholar and author († 1961)
• 1884 » Antonín Zápotocký, Czech politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic († 1957)
• 1888 » Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor († 1963)
• 1891 » Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish politician and diplomat, 4th President-in-exile of Poland († 1993)
• 1894 » Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman († 1978)
• 1895 » Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and educator († 1989)

• 1848 » Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1818)
• 1851 » Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (b. 1775)
• 1878 » Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)
• 1915 » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)

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.
• March 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• 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.
• November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on December 19, 1886 was about -0.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.