About the day » Sunday February 24, 1884Calender converter

• Alois Huf, Miesbrunn Koninkrijk Beiren Geb Akte († 1937)
• Aleida Engelina Wellink († 1977)
• Aaltje Freerksd WARTENA, Roordahuizum, Friesland, Nederland († 1937)
• Albertine Francina Sophina Inlandse vrouw, Batavia
• Adriana Maas, Nuland (N.Br) († 1913)
• Alijda Geertruida Daniels, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• * Maria Christina Baartman, Sliedrecht († 1967)
• Aaltje Wartena, Terzool, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Angenita Onink, Maurik
• Acker Jackson "Bud" Steadham († 1959)

• Alida Kastelijn (0), Benschop, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Albert (Gerards) Arkies (78), Peize
• Albert Gerards (Arkis) Arkies (78), Peize, Drenthe, Nederland
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• Anne Marie Schoepp (60), Epping, Moselle, Lorraine, France
• Bastiaan de Regt (73), Steenbergen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana van den Berg (49), Oud-Beijerland
• aldegonda janssen (1), helden
• Ballandina van Offeren, Everdingen
• Bastiaan de Regt (72), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1868 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player († 1949)
• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)
• 1890 » Marjorie Main, American actress († 1975)
• 1896 » Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer († 1983)

• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)
• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)

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.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• 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.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on February 24, 1884 was about 4.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.