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• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Zwirs, Aalsmeer († 1888)
• Aartje Barendrecht, Heinenoord, Nederland († 1888)
• Aaltje Smit, Odoorn,Drenthe,Netherlands
• Alman Elder Stanley, North Carolina
• Adrianus Josephus Coppens, Veghel, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1888)
• Alida Hulspas, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1962)
• Albertus Harmanus Willemsen
• Aartje Teunissen, Harmelen
• Aaltje Smit, Exloermond († 1977)
• Adrianus van Rooij, Berkel-Enschot († 1963)

• Aafje Zwier (35), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Augustus Porter (50), Niagara Falls, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Geertruij Henrietta Assum (58), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Zwier (35), Enkhuizen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Beker (71), Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alberta Clasina Oskam (29), 's Heeraartsberg en Bergambacht
• Alberto Giuseppe Antonio Guerra (0), Craveggia, 28852, Italia
• Angelus Laurentius Wullebrouck (73), Brugge
• Agnes Johanna Tutert (0), Raalte
• Andreas Berendsz. (Andries) Vroklage (71)

• 1874 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1951)
• 1878 » Reza Shah, Iranian king († 1944)
• 1879 » Benjamin R. Jacobs, American biochemist († 1963)
• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian-Greek painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health († 1961)
• 1887 » Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods († 1973)
• 1890 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer († 1980)
• 1892 » James Basevi Ord, Mexican-American colonel († 1938)
• 1897 » Jackson Scholz, American runner († 1986)
• 1900 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian and writer († 1987)

• 1842 » Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1849 » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1891 » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
• 1897 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
• 1921 » Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
• 1927 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)
• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)

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.
• March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
• 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.
• September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
• September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.

The temperature on March 15, 1888 was about 0.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.