About the day » Wednesday December 24, 1884Calender converter

• Aatami Piela, Saarenpää, Karelië, Finland († 1940)
• Adriana Martina Mol, Duivendijke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albertine Pictet, Genève, Suisse († 1946)
• Adrianus Meijboom, Pernis († 1982)
• Schreurs, Heythuysen († 1884)
• Aaltjen ten Hoopen, Neede, Gld, The Netherlands
• Alexander Eduard Victor Hoogenraad, Polsbroek, Utrecht, Nederland († 1942)
• Albert Wijkstra, Doezum gemeente Grootegast († 1894)
• Aaltje Hoogervorst, Lisse († 1945)
• Alphonsus de Dijcker, Boschkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland

• Brinkman, Leeuwarderadeel
• Angel VERNAL VICENTE (33), Retortillo,Salamanca,Castilla y León,Spain
• Aaltje Hemke (69), Purmerend,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Marie Riga (74), Thirimont, Waimes, 4950, Liège, Wallonie, Belgique
• Aagje Bregman (22), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pothof (0), Heino, Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Hemke (69), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Post (23), IJlst
• Apolonia Charlotte Raaff (79), Vianen
• Albertus Johannes de NEEF (32), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1877 » Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter and critic († 1979)
• 1879 » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet († 1941)
• 1879 » Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin († 1952)
• 1880 » Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator († 1939)
• 1881 » Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer and critic († 1946)
• 1882 » Hans Rebane, Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1961)
• 1883 » Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and producer († 1945)
• 1885 » Paul Manship, American sculptor († 1966)
• 1886 » Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American actor, director, and producer († 1962)
• 1887 » Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer († 1951)

• 1863 » William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811)
• 1865 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)
• 1867 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)
• 1868 » Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
• 1872 » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
• 1873 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch pastor and poet (b. 1819)
• 1893 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (b. 1807)
• 1898 » Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese priest and saint (b. 1828)

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.
• 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.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• 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 December 24, 1884 was about -0.7 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.