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• Achille LIÉNART, Lille, 59350, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France († 1973)
• Adriaan Frederik Vlekke, Vlissingen
• Aaltje Engberts Blaauw, Nijega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1921)
• Anna Donselaar, Netherlands
• Amalia Maria Magdalena Mattheus, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1950)
• Aaltje Blauw, Nijega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1921)
• Anna Adelheid Otten, Neuversen († 1913)
• Adriana Oudijk, Moordrecht, Nederland († 1967)
• Albert Edward Green, Aurora, Marion Co OR († 1957)
• Akke Kornelisdr. Dijksma, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland

• Albert Hutten (55), Ane, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Baselmans (3), Aalst
• Antje (1) Ariendr Meijles (0), Sint Maarten, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Auke Hansma (76)
• Albert Keech (83), FREDERICKSBURGH, ADD, ONT, Canada
• adrianus cornelis LEEUWENBURGH (1), heinenoord
• Adelaide Jacobine Joseph MEURISSE (90), Roubaix, Nord, Frankrijk
• Bartele Sjoerds Wartena (26), Havelte, Nederland
• Adriana Nieuwland (73), Alkemade
• Anna Maria Margaretha KONING, de (88), Maarsseveen, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1873 » Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)
• 1878 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor († 1936)
• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1889 » Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American engineer and theorist († 1976)
• 1893 » Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1988)
• 1893 » Nicanor Abelardo, Filipino pianist, composer and teacher († 1934)
• 1895 » Anita Stewart, American actress († 1961)

• 1849 » Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (b. 1797)
• 1862 » Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
• 1864 » Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
• 1871 » Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (b. 1797)
• 1873 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
• 1878 » Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1891 » Marie Louise Andrews, American story writer and journalist (b. 1849)
• 1897 » Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
• 1919 » William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (b. 1874)

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.
• February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on February 7, 1884 was about 3.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.