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• Adrianus Stuijts, Essen (B)
• Achille Pauwels, Woumen
• Smith, Manchester, Jamaica, Caribbean
• Adrianus van der Raad, Noordwijkerhout
• Adrianus van Dalen, Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1885)
• * Antonie Philippus van Hulten, Drunen († 1944)
• Abraham Bouter, Alblasserdam († 1885)
• Aalbert Pater, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1956)
• Aartje van 't Land, Putten († 1907)
• Aalbertha Plug, Nijkerk

• Aagje Graman (Graaman) (5), Sloten
• Aagje van der Maal (76), Utrecht
• Antonie Donkers (68), 's-Gravenhage
• ANNE JOSEPH BONHOMME (77), SPRIMONT
• Anna Maria Francisca Borsboom (36), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Joannes Baptista Hubertus Verreijt (0), Tilburg
• Adriana Zuijen, van (67), Ouwerkerk gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Antje Wind (17), Holthone
• Adriana Catharina Cornelia Kersbergen (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Brinkman (69), Amersfoort

• 1879 » Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor († 1959)
• 1879 » S. O. Davies, Welsh union leader and politician († 1972)
• 1880 » Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the red telephone box († 1960)
• 1883 » Edna May Oliver, American actress († 1942)
• 1885 » Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator († 1952)
• 1885 » Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher († 1955)
• 1885 » Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist († 1954)
• 1885 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright († 1922)
• 1886 » Ed Wynn, American actor († 1966)
• 1888 » Jean Monnet, French economist and diplomat († 1979)

• 1848 » Robert Blum, German poet and politician (b. 1810)
• 1854 » Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (b. 1757)
• 1880 » Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1911 » Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1918 » Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
• 1919 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
• 1924 » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
• 1937 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)

• 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 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on November 9, 1884 was about 11.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.