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• Adriaan Versluijs, Oudewater
• Alma A. Gilreath, Mentone, DeKalb, Alabama, Verenigde Staten († 1974)
• Aleida Wilhelmina Hendrika Egging, 's-Heerenberg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aldert VAN Dam, Langezwaag († 1947)
• Abraham Leijenaar, Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Vuren, Charlois, Nederland († 1978)
• Alle Gjalt Roorda, Kollum (gem. Noardeast-Fryslân, Friesland) († 1967)
• Alexander Ebing, Tiel
• Abraham I. Isaacson, Radoshkovichi († 1986)
• Adriana Josephina van Nunen, Tilburg († 1884)

• Albertus Aloisius Muhlmann (44), Didam, Nederland
• Aaltje Swier (38), Enkhuizen
• Abraham van der Slikke (60), Sint Annaland
• Eekelen, van (64)
• Aaltjen Steenblik (24), Ruurlo
• Alexander Ferguson Brown (30), Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey
• Adriana Noordermeer (69), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolphus Ernest SCHIETTECATTE (1), Huise,9750,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Adrianus van der Meer (0), Spijkenisse
• Abraham van der Slikke (60), St. Annaland

• 1874 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1951)
• 1874 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1952)
• 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)

• 1832 » Otto Wilhelm Masing, Estonian linguist and clergyman (b. 1763)
• 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)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Trijntje
15. Neeltje
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.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

The temperature on March 15, 1884 was about 17.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.