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• Abraham Zaal, Zwammerdam († 1884)
• * Maria Petronella van den Bosch, Den Dungen († 1932)
• Amelie, Clothilde Kielbaey, Lebbeke
• Adolfo Konder, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1956)
• Anna Catharina Smeets, Maastricht († 1969)
• Alida Steenbergen, Vlaardingen
• Alle van der Sluis, Sleen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Schoonoord
• Aleida Boeve, Diepenveen (Rande)
• Anna Catharina Caecilia Kagie, den haag († 1935)
• Heijnen, Bunschoten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1884)

• Anna Klasina Uitendaal (3), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Klasina Uitendaal (3), Bloemendaal
• Anna Catharina de RONGE (42), Baal
• Aartje de Wijzer (56), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Roelofs Lijster (73), Hoogeveen
• Aaltjen Roelofs Lijster (73), Groote Kerkstraat A51, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Adriaan Habraken (70), Liempde, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Bakker (60), Rotterdam
• Arnolda Netten (74), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Abraham Trout (81), Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1873 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author († 1908)
• 1876 » G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic († 1962)
• 1878 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss († 1920)
• 1878 » Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator († 1951)
• 1884 » Robert J. Flaherty, German-Irish American director and producer († 1951)
• 1886 » Andy Ducat, English international footballer (forward and manager) and Cricketer († 1942)
• 1887 » Kathleen Clifford, American actress († 1962)
• 1891 » Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic († 1968)
• 1893 » Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer († 1974)
• 1896 » Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian († 2010)

• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)

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.
• January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
• February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 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 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.

The temperature on February 16, 1884 was about 0.3 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.