About the day » Monday October 6, 1884Calender converter

• van den Aker, Esch, Nederland († 1884)
• Arendina Lowijs, Hoogeveen,Drenthe, Netherlands(Noord)
• Aaltje Bakker, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands († 1893)
• Adele-Laure Hegoburu IHIDOÏPÉ, Mendive, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Francia († 1957)
• Abraham Komkommer, London, South East England, Groot Brittanië
• Achiel Jean Baptiste Marie Kips, Sint-Niklaas, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1964)
• Ana Aires, Sarapuí, São Paulo, Brasil († 1905)
• Abraham MEZRAHI, Alger, Algérie
• Antoinetta Maria Johanna Rieff, Doesburg, Gld, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Godfroij, Rotterdam

• Arie (kind) van Baak (4), Erve ... Oosterhuizen
• Adrianus van Doorn (0), Someren
• Amanda Swartz (54), Iowa City, Wright, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Segers (65), Roosendaal
• Anna Maria Landsbergen (0), Schiedam
• Carolina van Mensel (66), Noorderwijk 2200, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Arie Pronk (2), Den Helder, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Zintel (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna J von Brethorst (6), Ford County, Illinois
• Aris ZONDERVAN (27), Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1874 » Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts († 1950)
• 1876 » Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice († 1941)
• 1882 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer († 1937)
• 1886 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy († 1965)
• 1888 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot († 1918)
• 1891 » Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator († 1946)
• 1893 » Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1956)
• 1895 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic († 1981)
• 1896 » David Howard, American film director († 1941)

• 1829 » Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 » Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)

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.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• 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.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.

The temperature on October 6, 1884 was about 13.4 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.