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• Adrianus Pieter Kalkman, Rotterdam
• Aalbert de Jong, Ophemert († 1888)
• Alberta Hendrika Wolf, Lonneker, Nederland († 1959)
• Alberdina HOEKSTRA, Hollum, Friesland, Nederland († 1972)
• Adriana Johanna Leijten, Klundert (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Alida Bouwes Dijkstra, Leeuwarden († 1958)
• Adriana Isabella van de Klundert, Gilze en Rijen († 1969)
• Adrianus van Loon, Weelde Antwerpen (B) († 1968)
• Alida van Duijvenbode, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Maria van Blitterswijk, Delft († 1955)

• 'Léopold' Alexandre PICALAUSA (43), Virginal-Samme, 1460, Brabant Wallon, Belgique
• Smit (0)
• Aaltje Jans Groeneboer (82), Nijeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Annigje Schakel (80), Peursum
• Arie Pietersz Blaauboer (39), Zijpe
• Arie Blaauboer (39), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• "Achille" Ferdinand Gabriel de Solages (83), Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
• Bertha van Glaubitz-Altengabel (85), Oldenburg, Nedersaksen
• Antonia Maria Gremmen (51), Arnhem
• Arrien Berends Dikken (1), Leeuwte, Ambt Vollenhove

• 1879 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor († 1954)
• 1883 » Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist († 1979)
• 1888 » Thea von Harbou, German actress, director, and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1892 » Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot († 1917)
• 1896 » Carl Zuckmayer, German author and playwright († 1977)
• 1896 » Louis Bromfield, American author and theorist († 1956)
• 1896 » Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist († 1952)
• 1898 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician († 1960)
• 1900 » Hans Stuck, German race car driver († 1978)
• 1901 » Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer († 1992)

• 1836 » Stephen F. Austin, American soldier and politician (b. 1793)
• 1858 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (b. 1785)
• 1896 » John Brown, English businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1900 » William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810)
• 1914 » Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (b. 1846)
• 1923 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse and healthcare activist (b. 1866)
• 1936 » Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (b. 1873)
• 1938 » Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Geertruida
15. Antje
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 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

The temperature on December 27, 1887 was about -1.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.