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• Anna W. van Weel-Plees, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1979)
• Anna Smit, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertha Strauss, Borne († 1960)
• Alida Cornelia van Baalen, Maassluis, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1884)
• Anna Hendrina Mees, Rotterdam († 1979)
• Aalt Aalten, Zeist († 1962)
• Aart Arie van Loon, Gouda, Nederland († 1884)
• Adelina Amelia Derouf, Oostende (B) († 1957)
• Anne (Joop) Jacquemier, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1973)
• Anna Cornelia de Booij, Steenbergen, N-Br, NL

• Anna Graumans (64), Ginneken en Bavel
• Adriaan Gillisen, Bergen op Zoom
• Anna Margaretha Büter (63), Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adriana Hulst (67), Loon op Zand
• Anna Gramans (Graumans) (65), Ginneken en Bavel
• Anna Margaretha Büter (63), Lindloh, Haren (Ems)
• Adrianus Cornelis Bot (0), dubbeldam (zuid holland)
• Anna Cornelia Henrica de Bres (81), Bergen op Zoom
• Paulus Breijaert (76), Koewacht
• *Johanna Cornelia (1) Baars (0), IJsselstein, Utrecht, NL

• 1860 » Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman, co-founded the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company († 1929)
• 1876 » William Stewart, Scottish footballer
• 1884 » Richard S. Aldrich, American lawyer and politician († 1941)
• 1892 » Augusta Savage, American sculptor († 1962)
• 1896 » Morarji Desai, Indian civil servant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of India († 1995)
• 1896 » William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1975)
• 1904 » Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 1957)
• 1904 » Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager († 1965)
• 1908 » Balthus, French-Swiss painter and illustrator († 2001)
• 1908 » Dee Brown, American historian and author († 2002)

• 1820 » Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian and critic (b. 1743)
• 1848 » Louis-François Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (b. 1775)
• 1852 » Matsudaira Katataka, Japanese daimyō (b. 1806)
• 1868 » Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
• 1880 » James Milne Wilson, Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Tasmania (b. February 29, 1812)
• 1908 » Pat Garrett, American sheriff (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Adolphe Appia, Swiss architect and theorist (b. 1862)
• 1940 » E. F. Benson, English archaeologist and author (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd President of Finland (b. 1861)

• 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.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

The temperature on February 29, 1884 was about -2.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.