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• Andries de Gast, Klundert, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1902)
• Agatha Maria Modder, Amsterdam († 1912)
• Alexander Renaat Pauwels, Bornem († 1965)
• adriaantje BEZEMER, charlois
• "Marie-Thérèse" Stéphanie Gondallier de Tugny, Oeuilly, Aisne, France († 1973)
• Abraham Herdes, Renkum († 1979)
• Aloïse Willaert, Koekelare, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1972)
• Aloysius Willaert, Koekelare, België († 1972)
• Aaltje Snoeijer, Stegeren († 1936)
• Alice Bertha Mallet, Queensland, Australia († 1954)

• Aaltien Alberts Drijver (78), Nieuw-Amsterdam
• Angela Maria Covers (80), Sneek
• Amelia Laar, van (72), Doorn, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Steiger (0), Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FRI, Nederland
• Ambrose Andrew Baldwin (84), Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
• Anske Hettema (47), Passaic New Jersey V.S., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Ankje Jans Dijkstra (80), Burum
• Amelia van Laar (73), Doorn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonia Bolderdijk (68), Rotterdam
• Amelia van LAAR (72), Doorn,Utrecht,Nederland

• 1882 » Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricketer († 1971)
• 1882 » Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany († 1934)
• 1883 » Gino Severini, Italian-French painter and author († 1966)
• 1884 » Clement Smoot, American golfer († 1963)
• 1886 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier († 1971)
• 1889 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1890 » Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist († 1998)
• 1890 » Paul Berth, Danish footballer († 1969)
• 1891 » Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group († 1958)
• 1893 » Allen Dulles, American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence († 1969)

• 1858 » Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (b. 1781)
• 1868 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Begum Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (b. 1804)
• 1889 » Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876 (b. 1823)
• 1889 » Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese soldier and politician (b. 1823)
• 1891 » P. T. Barnum, American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1810)
• 1917 » Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1918 » David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1885)
• 1918 » George E. Ohr, American potter (b. 1857)

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 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.
• 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 April 7, 1888 was about 4.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.