About the day » Friday December 19, 1884Calender converter

• Abraham "Albert" Benoliel, Oran, Oranie, ALGÉRIE
• Alberdina Maria Tijhuis, Apeldoorn († 1963)
• Abraham Jacob Wortman, Rotterdam
• Adrianus van Noortwijk, Schiedam († 1886)
• , ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Jacob Wortman, Rotterdam
• Adrianus HAGENDIJK, Puttershoek
• Adriana Jacoba Leurs, Abcoude-Proostdij († 1889)
• Aaltina de Jonge, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands(Slood) († 1915)
• Adriana Michels, Oisterwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)

• Adriana Krommenhoek (57), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Hopker Kruse (42)
• Abraham Salomon Koster (75)
• Anna Elisabeth Buttiens (74), Wellen
• Adrianus van den Oever (69), Veghel, Meierijstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Wilhelmina Stroeve (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Catharina Dopheide (73), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Jonker (1), Muiden
• Amelie Devriese (82), Aarsele
• Carl Bahra (40), Pustnick, Sorquitten

• 1873 » Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer († 1913)
• 1875 » Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month († 1950)
• 1875 » Grace Marie Bareis, American mathematician († 1962)
• 1875 » Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist († 1948)
• 1876 » Bernard Friedberg, Austrian-Israeli scholar and author († 1961)
• 1884 » Antonín Zápotocký, Czech politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic († 1957)
• 1888 » Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor († 1963)
• 1891 » Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish politician and diplomat, 4th President-in-exile of Poland († 1993)
• 1894 » Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman († 1978)
• 1895 » Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and educator († 1989)

• 1848 » Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1818)
• 1851 » Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (b. 1775)
• 1878 » Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)
• 1915 » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)

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.
• February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

The temperature on December 19, 1884 was about 6.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.