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• Adriana Cornelia Wagemakers, Hooge en lage zwaluwe († 1941)
• Adrianus de Jong, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1886)
• Aalt Brouwer, Nunspeet († 1967)
• Smit, Rijssen († 1884)
• Albert Hendriks Heddema († 1968)
• van der Waard, Den Haag
• Ada Muijsken, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1970)
• Sietse Hofma, Opsterland († 1961)
• Adrianus Schonis, Loon op Zand († 1921)
• Adriaantje Evertje de Vries, Baambrugge, Utrecht, Nederland

• Berend Bouwhuis (35), Het Schut (Hoogeveen)
• Andries van Santen (54), Buurmalsen
• Albertus Willem GOMPERTZ (54), Pannerden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Willemse (0), Leersum, Nederland
• (0), Roosendaal, NL
• Auguste Joseph Nicolas DAMANET (45), Yvoir, 91141, Namur, Belgique
• Bastiaan de Wit (81), Maurik
• Antonius Pisano (35), Vriezenveen
• Berend Bouwhuis (35), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Smit (0), Rijssen

• 1875 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor († 1964)
• 1875 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and coach († 1945)
• 1875 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian-Swiss poet and author († 1926)
• 1881 » Erwin von Witzleben, Polish-German field marshal († 1944)
• 1882 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright († 1969)
• 1884 » R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian († 1980)
• 1892 » Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain († 1975)
• 1892 » Liu Bocheng, Chinese commander and politician († 1986)
• 1893 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic († 1968)

• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)
• 1893 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
• 1902 » Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)
• 1926 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868)
• 1935 » Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864)

• 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 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• 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 4, 1884 was about 8.5 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 32 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.