About the day » Monday December 6, 1886Calender converter

• Albert Kattouw, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Krakeel) († 1887)
• Anthonij Massar, Nieuw Vossemeer, N-Br, NL
• Albert Stoffers Kattouw, Krakeel (Hoogeveen) († 1887)
• Aartje Timmermans, Arnhem († 1959)
• Albertus van der Meer, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annechien Klootsema, Groningen († 1950)
• Adriana de Jong, Lexmond († 1936)
• Adriana Cornélia MOMERENCY, Poperinge,8970,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1886)
• Adrianus Martinus van Wingerden, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Amodeus Verstraeten, Dikkele

• Albert Jans Lok (40), Paaslo
• Angela Helena Antonia Hilling (15), Niederlangen, Lathen
• Albert Lok (40), Paasloo
• Dielemans (0), Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ana Ricardina de Andrade (40), Formoso, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Aart van der Walle (0), Weststellingwerf, Boijl
• van der Pluijm (0), Rotterdam
• Antonie Anthonie van Steenwijk (39), Leiden, Nederland
• Aldegonda Stevens (77), Stramproy, Nederland
• Adriana Liebregts (32), Diessen

• 1882 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer († 1954)
• 1884 » Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic († 1973)
• 1886 » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet († 1918)
• 1887 » Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer († 1960)
• 1887 » Lynn Fontanne, British actress († 1983)
• 1888 » Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1890 » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author († 1946)
• 1890 » Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator († 1955)
• 1890 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1892 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author († 1969)

• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)

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.
• January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
• October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

The temperature on December 6, 1886 was about 4.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 35 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.