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• Adriaan Willem Ruyssenaers, Rheden,Gemeente Rheden,Gelderland,Netherlands († 1966)
• Albertina Henrietta Maria Jospehina Geubbels, Duiven († 1939)
• Albert BUNYAN, Pirton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire († 1891)
• Adriaan Willem RUYSSENAERS, De Steeg (Rheden) († 1966)
• Aaltje Prins, Grafhorst, Ov. Nederland
• "Brigitte" Agnes Mabella Dorothea Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Stuttgart, Allemagne († 1972)
• Albert Streuper, Kleinemeer gem. Sappemeer († 1888)
• Albertus Jonker, Oldebroek
• Adelaïda Margaretha Van der Vekens, Dendermonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen
• Agnes Cornelia de Bijl, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1888)

• Adriana van Dongen (0), Sprang
• Anna Slingerlant (Slingerland) (79), Tienhoven
• Andries Johannes de Bruyn, b5c3d4 (83), Cape Colony, South Africa
• Arend van Loenen (52), Ekamp
• Antonius Johannes Geelen (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Bernadus ten Brinke (65), Heelweg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Wijman (0), Wijk bij Duurstede
• Christiaan Maria (Christ) Boelens (56), 's-Hertogenbosch Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ammey Elizabeth Moon (82), Harmony, Blount Co. Al
• Adrianus Bertus Koolhaas (0), Waardenburg

• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)

• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)

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.
• 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.
• October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.

The temperature on August 12, 1888 was about 17.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.