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• Anastasia SMEYERS, Schaffen (Belgie) († 1967)
• adriana DIEPENHORST, stad aan het haringvliet († 1963)
• Anna Maria Koenen, Utrecht († 1900)
• Aaltje Eenink, Brummen
• Anna Visser, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1884)
• Alida Wilhelmina Pieternella Wiersma, Scheveningen
• Aline MERCIER, Denain... Hauts de France († 1916)
• Antonetta Maria Janssen, Stratum (Eindhoven)
• Anna Poort, Godlinze, Groningen, Nederland († 1968)
• Anna Maria Catharina Nuyts, Deurne (Antwerpen) († 1950)

• Antonie KOK (60), 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Barend Reinier Maassen (62), Arnhem, Netherlands
• Antonius SCHREURS (82), Beegden
• Andries Krot (1), Leeuwarden
• Adriaan Paauwe (68), Nisse
• Arigje Haak (0), Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Hempel (75), Oud Beijerland
• Hartsuiker (0), Hasselt
• Abram Kommissaris (72), sommelsdijk (goeree overflakkee)
• Abraham Barugh Benavente, Amsterdam

• 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)

• 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 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.
• May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• 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 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

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%.