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• Adriaan Janus KOLE, 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1957)
• Aalt Bos († 1963)
• Adriaan Janus Kole, 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Thomasson, Neede († 1960)
• Aart Boer, Gouderak
• Adriaan Thomasson († 1960)
• Aaltje Neeltje Monster, Zuid-Beijerland († 1965)
• Tonje Bosscher, Zuidbroek († 1960)
• Albert Jan Woltersom, Amsterdam
• Adolphe Petrus Joannes Geers, Essen (België)

• Adriana Waasdorp (0), Alkemade
• Ambrose Unknown (50), Brant, Ontario, Canada
• Anna Elisabeth Wurtz (87), Lathen, Emsland
• Catharina Helena KOK (32), 's-Gravenhage, ZH. NL
• Antonius Hubertus Schellens (48), Eersel
• Anna Catharina de ROO (3), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van der Noll (26), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Nijkamp (2), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Berendina van de Bijl (16), Kesteren, Nederland
• Anna Maria HELLEMONS (2), Roosendaal (N.Br. Nl)

• 1874 » Thomas J. Watson, American businessman († 1956)
• 1877 » André Maginot, French sergeant and politician († 1932)
• 1877 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and author († 1904)
• 1881 » Mary Carson Breckinridge, American nurse midwife, founded Frontier Nursing Service († 1965)
• 1887 » Joseph Bech, Luxembourgian lawyer and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1975)
• 1887 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic († 1947)
• 1888 » Otto Stern, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1890 » Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist († 1962)
• 1891 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic († 1965)
• 1893 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player and journalist († 1965)

• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (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.
• 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.
• July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
• 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.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on February 17, 1884 was about -2.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.