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• Aaltje Eenink († 1961)
• Aaltje Eenink, Brummen
• Arendina Geerdink, Gelselaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antoon Joseph Hubert Sorée, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1968)
• Anna Maria Koenen, Utrecht († 1900)
• Alida Wilhelmina Pieternella Wiersma, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Anna Visser, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1884)
• Antonia van Hoogdalem, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1890)
• Adriana van Berkel, Hedel,Brabant-septentrional,Pays-Bas
• Anna Jacoba Heinsdijk, Hoek

• Arie (1) de Graaff (0), Den Haag, Netherlands
• Bastiaan de GAAY FORTMAN (0), Vlissingen
• Abraham Barugh Benavente, Amsterdam
• August Fouchier (34), Amsterdam
• Antonius SCHREURS (82), Beegden
• "Théodore" Bénoit Jean Népomucèn d'Yve de Bavay (86), Bruxelles
• Bernardus van Meurs (61), Nijmegen
• Annetje Hempel (75), Oud-Beijerland
• Antje Hempel (75), Oud Beijerland
• Carel Franciscus Romsee (46), Arnhem

• 1868 » Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer († 1894)
• 1874 » W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer († 1965)
• 1878 » Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer († 1975)
• 1882 » Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic († 1941)
• 1885 » Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author († 1942)
• 1886 » Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer († 1954)
• 1895 » Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress († 1927)
• 1899 » Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian lawyer and politician, 46th Prime Minister of Belgium († 1972)
• 1899 » Sleepy John Estes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1977)
• 1900 » István Fekete, Hungarian author († 1970)

• 1872 » Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817)
• 1881 » Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
• 1884 » Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
• 1891 » Theo van Gogh, Art dealer, the brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857)
• 1900 » Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)
• 1907 » René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
• 1908 » Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
• 1910 » W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860)
• 1912 » Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)

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.
• January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
• February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

The temperature on January 25, 1884 was about 3.4 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.