About the day » Sunday November 23, 1884Calender converter

• Aagje Naaktgeboren, 's-gravendeel (zuid holland) († 1885)
• "Marten" Jan Meijer, Weesp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1884)
• Adriana Johanna van Holsteijn, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1885)
• "Jeanne" Constance Henriette Marguerite Welter, Heemstede, Pays-Bas († 1960)
• Abraham Abrahams, Jamaica
• Verhoeven, Baardwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Akke Harmens Wassenaar, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Reijers, Werkendam († 1885)
• Aaffien Dijken, van, Appingedam († 1918)
• Adriana Johanna van Holsteijn, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1885)

• arnold winkelmoolen (64), neer
• Antonius Gerardus Willems (0), Schalkwijk
• Begnina-Dorothea-Antoinette-Sophie von WERNICH (58), Santiago de Chile
• "Emerentiana" Emmerens Emmerens (87), Schijndel
• Antonie Van Iperen (15), Hoogblokland, Giessenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan van Leeuwen (0)
• Abel Harms Heijen (81), Ter Apel, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnoldus Winkelmolen (64), Neer
• Adrianus Cornelis Loomans (3), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bartha Wind (55), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Netherlands(Westerveld)

• 1876 » Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer († 1946)
• 1878 » Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman († 1941)
• 1883 » José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter († 1949)
• 1886 » Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director († 1966)
• 1887 » Boris Karloff, English actor († 1969)
• 1887 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist († 1915)
• 1888 » Harpo Marx, American comedian and musician († 1964)
• 1889 » Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman († 1964)
• 1890 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect († 1941)
• 1892 » Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer († 1990)

• 1833 » Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1762)
• 1890 » William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 » Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
• 1905 » John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
• 1910 » Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1927 » Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• 1934 » Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 » George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)

• 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.
• 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.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on November 23, 1884 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.