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• Aaltje van de Stouwe, Zwartsluis († 1885)
• Allegonda Nonnekes, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus (James) van der Lugt, Hof van Delft (Delft), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1968)
• Adriana Magdalena van de Staak, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleid Kamp, Kamperveen, Nederland († 1973)
• Abraham Adriaan Jacobus Haman, Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Adriana Ariens van Egmond│dsluis, Rotterdam
• Adriana Wilhelmina Groenewoud, Rotterdam
• Adriana Cornelia Anemaat, Made († 1885)
• Alexander den Breejen, Hardinxveld († 1885)

• Adrianus Krielaars (65), Vlijmen
• Ann R Haislip (65), Fairfax, VA
• Adrianus Krielaars (65), Vlijmen
• Agatha Bakker (1), Warmenhuizen, Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Korver (30), Ruwiel, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Andries van der Made (66), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje Jansd STERK (81), Nieuwland
• Andries van Oosterum (48), Haaften, Gelderland, Nederland
• ANDRIES VAN OOSTERUM (49), HAAFTEN
• Adriana Talmon, Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1874 » Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon († 1937)
• 1877 » Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author († 1967)
• 1878 » Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. († 1966)
• 1878 » Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright († 1937)
• 1880 » Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach († 1957)
• 1880 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1881 » Max Pechstein, German painter and academic († 1955)
• 1884 » Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player († 1964)
• 1884 » Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director († 1960)
• 1885 » Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein († 1970)

• 1872 » Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)
• 1876 » Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806)
• 1877 » Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819)
• 1888 » Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)
• 1889 » George Kerferd, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Victoria (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1909 » Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)

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.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

The temperature on December 31, 1884 was about -1.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.