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• Banning, Gemeente Wonseradeel, Nederland († 1884)
• Aalbert Van Den Hazel, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1967)
• Amelia Adriana CARPENTIER, Zandvliet, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1886)
• Adriana van Erp, Dussen († 1974)
• Adriana van Erp, Dussen, Nederland († 1974)
• Alice Lucretia Hales, Spanish Fork, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1973)
• Adriana Vuurens, Meerkerk, Nederland
• Adriana Hoogendoorn, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfons Frans Verboven, Rijkevorsel († 1971)
• Adriana den Outer, Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1973)

• Alberta Anna Kromhout (1), Rijnsburg
• ARIS ZIJDEWIND (59), SCHAGERWAARD
• Banning (0), Gemeente Wonseradeel, Nederland
• Absolom Elkins (103), Logan, West Virginia
• Bastiaan van Driel (90), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Albertus Reinders Strijker (60), Hoogeveen
• SCHOONE (0), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Belt (4), Alphen
• Annigje de Weerd (74), weststellingwerf
• Arendtje Kruijs (0), Herwijnen, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1881 » Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician († 1959)
• 1882 » Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician († 1967)
• 1883 » Edwin August, American actor and director († 1964)
• 1883 » Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer († 1951)
• 1884 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » George Holley, English footballer († 1942)
• 1885 » Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast († 1926)
• 1886 » Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler († 1934)
• 1886 » Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1886 » Robert Hunter, American golfer († 1971)

• 1864 » Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
• 1866 » Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1880 » Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1882 » Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
• 1886 » William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1894 » Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829)
• 1898 » Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
• 1903 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867)
• 1903 » Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier
• 1908 » Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (b. 1829)

• 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.
• May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day 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.
• 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 November 20, 1884 was about 5.9 °C. There was 10 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.