About the day » Friday December 5, 1884Calender converter

• Adriaan Willem Zonnevijlle, Rotterdam
• Alidor CASTELEIN, Handzame († 1967)
• Adriana Koolen, Woensdrecht, NL († 1886)
• Adriana Kluit, Rotterdam († 1922)
• Anna Albertina Lindroth († 1971)
• Adriana Johanna Hooijkaas, Rotterdam
• Agatha Cornelia Petronella Noest, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Abraham Provoost, Domburg, ZL, Nederland
• Anna A. Richter, Winona, Winona, Minnesota
• Andries Okkes Posthuma, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland († 1885)

• Alardus Cornelis Boonzajer (67), Helder, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Wiers (62), Roermond, Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
• (Stillborn) Batenburg (0)
• Andries Johannes van der Walt (24), "Klein Rietpoort", dist. Middelburg Kp
• Adolphine Charlotte Wilhelmine Pallandt, van (78), Arnhem
• Adolphine Charlotte Wilhelmina van Pallandt (78), Arnhem
• Adolfine Charlotte Wilhelmina van Pallandt (78), Huize Rennenenk, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aagje Johanna Bezemer (0), Puttershoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Nicolaas Sebastiaan Nieuwlaat (0), Breda
• Anna Christina van Ham (0), Valkenswaard

• 1875 » Arthur Currie, Canadian general († 1933)
• 1879 » Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and businessman, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation († 1954)
• 1881 » René Cresté, French actor and director († 1922)
• 1886 » Nikolai Uglanov, Soviet politician († 1937)
• 1886 » Pieter Oud, Dutch historian, academic, and politician, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands († 1968)
• 1886 » Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author († 1968)
• 1890 » David Bomberg, English painter, illustrator, and academic († 1957)
• 1890 » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1891 » Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and academic († 1951)
• 1894 » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa († 1982)

• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)

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 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

The temperature on December 5, 1884 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.