About the day » Thursday October 2, 1884Calender converter

• Andries Bakker, Hoorn († 1884)
• , Terhagen († 1884)
• Adriaan Midavaine, Middelburg, Zeeland, NL († 1886)
• Aalt Klok, Harderwijk
• Adriana Cornelia Dingenouts, Ooltgensplaat, Oostflakkee († 1967)
• Anna Catharina Philomena Andrieu, Schinveld, Niederlande († 1884)
• Adriana Theodora Wilhelmina Schmidt, N.I. Semarang († 1885)
• Agnes Hubertina Houben, Stein,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aalt Klok, Harderwijk
• Anna Catharina Philomena Andrieu, Schinveld, Niederlande († 1884)

• Antje Warmenhoven (78), Rotterdam
• Antje Boswinkel (66), Goor
• Anna Catharina Stijnen (65), Neerbeek, Beek
• Alphonse Constant François Baudry (60), Saint Martin au Laert, 62500, Pas de Calais, FRANCE
• Arend Jans (Pauwels) Pouwels (68), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriaantje de Raadt (66), Abbenbroek
• Anna Catharina Stijnen (65), Beek, gemeente Beek, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Maria BROUWER (6), Weesperkarspel
• Berend Bartelds Nipperus (63), Veendam
• Aart Joode (68), Herwijnen

• 1873 » Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager († 1963)
• 1873 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician († 1924)
• 1875 » Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist († 1935)
• 1879 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator († 1955)
• 1882 » Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel († 1945)
• 1883 » Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer († 1963)
• 1883 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler († 1950)
• 1890 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor († 1977)
• 1893 » Leroy Shield, American composer and conductor († 1962)
• 1895 » Ruth Cheney Streeter, American colonel († 1990)

• 1850 » Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (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.
• January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on October 2, 1884 was about 11.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.