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• Aaltje Jans Tabak, Oostermeer, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1955)
• Albert Derk Mensink, Zutphen,Gemeente Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1974)
• Aaffien van Dijken, Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland († 1918)
• Aagje van der Vlist, Benschop, Utrecht, Nederland († 1884)
• Adriaan Nieuwenhuijse, Kruiningen († 1962)
• Adriaan Hoeks, Bergeijk
• (Stillborn) Eerden, Millingen aan de Rijn, Nederland († 1884)
• Albertus Hendrikus Derks, Olst († 1885)
• Alida Christina van der Leeuw, Den Haag († 1961)
• Adriana Maria Robben, Tilburg († 1976)

• Adolphe Dreyfus (72), Paris
• Baaije van Brakel (45), Zuilichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Cornelia Leeuwendal (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Carel Louis Mallon (3), Assen
• Bartha Durand (43), Epe
• Abraham Egidius Veele (2), St. Maartensdijk
• Wessels, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Amelia Rosalia Crombez (64), Staden,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Bastiana Antje de Man (0), Strijen, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Bartha Brouwer Durand (43), Epe

• 1872 » Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik Parliament († 1957)
• 1872 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic († 1946)
• 1876 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1878 » Rutland Boughton, English composer († 1960)
• 1880 » Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Mexican politician († 1967)
• 1889 » Claribel Kendall, American mathematician (d.1965)
• 1894 » Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author († 1988)
• 1896 » Alf Blair, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1944)
• 1896 » Alf Hall, English-South African cricketer († 1964)
• 1897 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician († 1945)

• 1837 » John Field, Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1866 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)

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.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• 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.
• July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

The temperature on January 23, 1884 was about 7.3 °C. There was 18 mm of rain. The air pressure was 37 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.