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• Albertus Sonsma, Workum († 1885)
• Alida Christina van Loon, Rotterdam
• N.N. Zijlmans, Oosterhout († 1884)
• (Adèle) Gertrudis Anna Hubertina Cox, Roermond, Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands († 1961)
• Alida Haasbroek, Katwijk aan den Rijn
• Adrianus Pieter Leeflang, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Bernardus Antonius Boersema, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Teuntje Margaritha Kastelein, Lange Ruige Weide († 1947)
• Adrianus Somers, Erp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1969)
• Anna Adriana Christina Taljaard, South Africa

• Antonius Broekmans (0), Stratum (Eindhoven)
• Alida VAN BEELEN (41)
• Arend Jan Freriks (59), (GL) Westendorp
• Adrianus de Kruijf (75), Odijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alexander Peter Baron van Stieglitz (70), St. Petersburg
• "Henri" Maximilien Joseph Amaury de Bethune Hesdigneul (72)
• Anna Gertrudis Ramakers (68), Maasbracht
• Agnes Vissers (6), Groesbeek
• N.N. Zijlmans (0), Oosterhout
• Alexander Jameson (55), Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States

• 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)

• 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.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

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%.