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• Aaltje van Willigen, Vuren († 1885)
• Adriana Johanna van der Werf, 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus Boogers, Halsteren († 1885)
• Amanda Jane Mobley, Girard, Burke, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 1971)
• Adelia Jane Peart, Calhoun, Sherman County, Iowa
• Aleida Gezina ter Riet, Enschede († 1884)
• Alfred Theodore Poltock, West Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey, United States († 1963)
• Adolf Von Schmidt Auf Altenstadt, Tebing Tinggie († 1888)
• Adriana Lena Markestijn, Culemborg († 1974)
• Aaltje Hendriks Bloem

• Annegien Hendriks Stoter (73), Het Schut (Hoogeveen) 344
• Adolf Louis Armin Bartenstein, Padang, Sumatra, Indonesië
• Aaltje Oosterbaan (17), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) VEEN (0), Tytsjerksteradiel Friesland Netherlands
• Annigje van den Berg (87), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Belitje (Beligje) Hakkert (25), Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arijaantje Schoon (83), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annegien Hendriks Stoter (73), Schut, gemeente Hoogeveen
• Adriana (Ariaantje) SCHOON(E) (83), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Vermolen (0), Ter Aar

• 1876 » Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer († 1944)
• 1878 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper († 1925)
• 1883 » Edgard Varèse, French-American composer († 1965)
• 1883 » Marcus Hurley, American cyclist († 1941)
• 1884 » St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator († 1966)
• 1885 » Deems Taylor, American conductor and critic († 1966)
• 1887 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist († 1920)
• 1888 » J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation († 1972)
• 1889 » George Hutson, English runner and soldier († 1914)
• 1892 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer († 1929)

• 1853 » Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)

• 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.
• April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
• 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.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

The temperature on December 22, 1884 was about 3.0 °C. The air pressure was 30 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.