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• Alida Apolonia Arnolda van Santen, Den Haag,- († 1971)
• Aart van de REST, Dordrecht
• Anna Oosterdijk, Westellingwerf Friesland Nederland
• Adrianus van den Ham, Culemborg
• Anna Hermina HEERINGS, Den Haag (NL/ZH) († 1975)
• Aloysia Maria Josephina van RIEL, Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia de Moor, Woensdrecht, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1951)
• Albertus Leopold Messchaert, Martapoera († 1921)
• Alida Elisabeth Linschoten, Utrecht
• Alexander S Glass

• Adriana Catharina Domen (73), Schoten, België
• Akke Meyer (21), Heerenveen, gem. Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthonie Marree (58), Utrecht
• Arie Hoogendijk (74), Scheveningen
• Alexander Joseph Courbet (59), Waterloo, Belgie
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• Albertus Jacobus Joseph van LOON (0), Alphen en Riel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Akke Franses Meyer (21), Heerenveen, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Isabella VAN WELL (0), Arcen, 5944, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Allert Hofman (72), Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1874 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1876 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician († 1958)
• 1878 » William Merz, American gymnast and triathlete († 1946)
• 1882 » Fred McLeod, Scottish golfer († 1976)
• 1887 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and critic († 1936)
• 1892 » Maud Hart Lovelace, American author († 1980)
• 1896 » Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1977)
• 1897 » Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood († 1965)
• 1900 » Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations († 1996)
• 1900 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)

• 1873 » Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1783)
• 1875 » 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
• 1878 » Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
• 1890 » Crowfoot, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1830)
• 1891 » Nathaniel Woodard, English priest and educator (b. 1811)
• 1892 » Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Karl von Ditmar, Estonian-German geologist and explorer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » John Knowles Paine, American composer and educator (b. 1839)
• 1911 » Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Joseph-Alfred Archambeault, Canadian bishop (b. 1859)

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 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
• June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
• August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
• September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

The temperature on April 25, 1888 was about 5.7 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.