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• Anna Borst, Amsterdam († 1969)
• Ann (Annie) England, Middlesborough, Yorkshire. England († 1960)
• Adrianus Versteeg, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1903)
• Adrianus Blom, Zedveld
• Addeke Dolfing, Avereest
• Adrianus Versteeg, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Johanna Theodora Strootman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1884)
• Angel Olai Pedersen, Gildeskål Prestegjeld, Nordland, Norway
• Adriana de Waard, Egmond-Binnen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Heuvel, Schijndel († 1957)

• Arie van den Heuvel (14), Numansdorp, Cromstrijen, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Van der Donck (59), Boom, Antwerpen, België
• Alexander DIDDEN (62), Molenstede
• Aaldert Pool (1), Smilde, Dr (NL), Bovensmilde
• Aagje de Waard (Waart) (56), IJsselmonde
• Aaltje VAN VLIET (37), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland), Nederland
• Anna Geertruida van Put (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje de Waard (59), IJsselmonde
• Anne Perussault (82), Fontenay, Pommiers, 36160, France
• Albert Schelfhorst (19), Almelo

• 1874 » Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress († 1967)
• 1879 » Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1907)
• 1880 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet († 1923)
• 1882 » Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor († 1946)
• 1887 » Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada († 1967)
• 1888 » Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author († 1948)
• 1889 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and physician († 1948)
• 1893 » Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author († 1993)
• 1895 » Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer († 1924)
• 1897 » Ivan Albright, American painter († 1983)

• 1850 » Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (b. 1794)
• 1862 » William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 » Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
• 1893 » P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
• 1895 » Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. c. 1818)
• 1900 » Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1920 » Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)

• 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 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

The temperature on February 20, 1884 was about 10.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.