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• Albertus Bernardus Antonius Boersema, Schiedam († 1884)
• Andries ten Wolde, Smilde
• Teuntje Margaritha Kastelein, Lange Ruige Weide († 1947)
• Alberta van Schalm, Nijkerkerveen
• Allegonda Maria van Grinsven, Boxtel († 1966)
• Adrianus van den Enden, Velsen
• Anna Adriana Christina Taljaard, South Africa
• Sonsma, Workum
• Agatha Cornelia van Zanten, Werkendam († 1966)
• Angela Coens, Rhede († 1921)

• Arie Coomans (74), Stavenisse
• Adrianus de Kruif (75), Odijk, Utr, Nederland
• Adrianus de Kruijf (75), Odijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida VAN BEELEN (41)
• Antonius Broekmans (0), Stratum (Eindhoven)
• Andreas Huvenaars (74), Zeeland
• Arend Kist (0), Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands(Hollandscheveld)
• Agnes Vissers (6), Groesbeek
• N.N. Zijlmans (0), Oosterhout
• Adrianus de Kruif, Odijk

• 1875 » Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and set designer († 1958)
• 1876 » Saya San, Burmese monk and activist († 1931)
• 1879 » B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer († 1956)
• 1882 » Sybil Thorndike, English actress († 1976)
• 1884 » Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor († 1944)
• 1885 » Alice Perry, Irish engineer and poet († 1969)
• 1887 » Octave Lapize, French cyclist and pilot († 1917)
• 1887 » Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg († 1969)
• 1891 » Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator († 1985)
• 1891 » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic († 1961)

• 1852 » Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
• 1875 » Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 » James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1922 » George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 » Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)

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.
• February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• 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.
• April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.

The temperature on October 24, 1884 was about 11.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.