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• Adriana Maria Albers, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1968)
• Adalena Fink, Wolcottsville, NY St. Michael's Lutheran Cemetery († 1968)
• Adrianus Blankestijn, Rhenen († 1903)
• Abraham Janse, Zoutelande, Zeeland, NL († 1899)
• Alida Johanna van der Gaag, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland († 1896)
• Adrianus Jacobus Leget, Leiden († 1888)
• Hoogenboezem, Rotterdam († 1888)
• (stillborn daughter) HOOGENBOEZEM, Rotterdam (Z.-H.), Neth († 1888)
• Adriana Paulina Stokman, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Albert Snel, Leerdam († 1888)

• Adriana van Duijn (65), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Blinkhoff (0), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Willemina Zevenbergen (3), Rotterdam
• Adam Orth (73), Föhren, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Antonia Bax (15), Meeuwen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Albertje Schans (30), Westerbork,Drenthe,Niederlande,Nieuweroord
• Anna Dymphna Smolders (11), Wechelderzande (België)
• Anna Maria van den Heuvel (0), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius van Vilsteren (56), Zwolle
• Albertje Koops Schans (30), Nieuweroord (Westerbork)

• 1877 » Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator († 1953)
• 1879 » Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter († 1945)
• 1879 » Raymond Pearl, American biologist and botanist († 1940)
• 1879 » Vivian Woodward, English footballer and soldier († 1954)
• 1881 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter and set designer († 1964)
• 1890 » Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1897 » Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter († 1973)
• 1899 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic († 1932)
• 1900 » Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic († 1997)

• 1861 » Stephen A. Douglas, American lawyer and politician, 7th Secretary of State of Illinois (b. 1813)
• 1865 » Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
• 1875 » Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1877 » Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (b. 1800)
• 1882 » Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1894 » Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1825)
• 1900 » Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)
• 1902 » Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1829)
• 1906 » John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Jacoba
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
• May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
• June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
• June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
• August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

The temperature on June 3, 1888 was about 19.8 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.