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• Aloisius De Rouck, Oultre († 1974)
• André de Schall-Riaucour († 1958)
• Aagje de Haan, Haarlemmermeer, Nederland
• Alida Bruin, Oudorp
• Alta May Tuttle, Elliott, Montgomery, Iowa, United States († 1978)
• Adrianus Willem Hendrik Andriessen, Den Haag († 1962)
• Aaltje Bos, Zoetermeer
• Aaltje Bos, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Aaltje van Ooyen, Warga, gem. Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1974)
• Agath Dirkje de Weger, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1886)

• Barbertje Pieters van den Berg (50), Weststellingwerf
• Anthonia Theodora Cornelia H. Alting Siberg (58), Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
• Anthonia SERET (77), Heusden
• Augustus Van Fossen BEAN (45)
• Alida Middelweerd (28), Willeskop
• Camille Valéry de Renty (86), Nielles-lès-Ardres, Pas-de-Calais, France
• Bernardus van Bilderbeek (63), Utrecht
• Angelina Boone (80), Harrison, Kentucky, United States
• Antonius Josephus Creemers (38), Maaseik
• Blondina Verplancke (74), Zedelgem,8210,West-Vlaanderen,België

• 1875 » Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist († 1945)
• 1876 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia († 1953)
• 1878 » James O. Richardson, American admiral († 1974)
• 1883 » Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, English composer, painter, and author († 1950)
• 1885 » Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, conductor, and playwright († 1948)
• 1888 » Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author († 1938)
• 1888 » Toni Wolff, Swiss psychologist and author († 1953)
• 1889 » Doris Blackburn, Australian activist and politician († 1970)
• 1889 » Leslie Morshead, Australian general, businessman, and educator († 1959)
• 1891 » Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author († 1984)

• 1857 » Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805)
• 1872 » Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)
• 1890 » Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820)
• 1896 » Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1905 » George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (b. 1850)
• 1911 » Pyotr Stolypin, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1862)
• 1915 » Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree
• 1924 » F. H. Bradley, English philosopher and author (b. 1846)

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.
• February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

The temperature on September 18, 1884 was about 24.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.