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• Alfred Daniel Sixt, 22 Glendale St. (now 2170 East 65th St.), Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1948)
• Alida HbertaPtrnl van Biezen, Wassenaar († 1974)
• Albert Dagobert Jules Ureel, Wormhout (F) († 1969)
• Albert Willem de Vries, Vledder (Westerveld), Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus Thijssen, Haaksbergen († 1953)
• , Hellebecq, Silly, Hainaut, Belgique († 1954)
• Aart Noordzij, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1904)
• Alida Huberta Petronella van Biezen, Wassenaar († 1974)
• Adriana Maria Hendrika Martens, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Elizabeth Sharpe, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England († 1966)

• Catharina Wilhelmina Boom (66), Zevenaar
• Cornelia Agatha Lindenhof (7), Rotterdam
• Alida Rotgans (71), Terschelling
• van Leeuwen (0), Deil West Betuwe (GL)
• Catharina de Jong (21), Gouda
• Camillus VANLERBERGHE (0), Klerken, 32009, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique, St Laurentius
• Adrianus Stokman (0), Haarlem
• Aaltjen Lunneker (79), Lemperhoek (Borculo)
• Carolus Baptista Laureys (23), Herentals, Antwerpen, België
• Barta de Jong (62)

• 1879 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Harry McClintock, American singer-songwriter and poet († 1957)
• 1883 » Dick Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1977)
• 1883 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1884 » Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal († 1942)
• 1887 » Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner († 1972)
• 1887 » Ping Bodie, American baseball player († 1961)
• 1888 » Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author († 1964)
• 1889 » Collett E. Woolman, American businessman, co-founded Delta Air Lines († 1966)
• 1889 » R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian engineer († 1983)

• 1834 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 » John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1936 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 » Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)

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.
• April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on October 8, 1884 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.