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• Adrianus Marinus Marree, Utrecht {UT} († 1884)
• Adam Jansen, Rotterdam († 1961)
• Adela Ludovica LIPPENS, Gent († 1965)
• Adrianus Turkenburg, Nieuwer Amstel
• Abram van der Ende, Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1982)
• * Jacobus van Bol-es, Delfshaven († 1932)
• Adrianus van Heeswijk, Schijndel († 1889)
• Adriana van Dijk, Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• * Cornelis Marinus van der Velden, Loon op Zand
• Adrianus van der Does, Overschie († 1884)

• Adriana Maria Jacoba Everaers (9), St. Philipsland, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Anne Jacobs Groenland (84), Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Spierings (0), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van Schaik (35), Vlist, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Geesink (63), Gilze en Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adele Robillard (48), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Aleida Geesink (63), Gilze en Rijen
• * Petronella Bernardina Kolvenbach (2), Leeuwen, Gem. West Maas en Waal
• Anna Catharina Kemps (58), Balen, België
• Anna Josephina (alias: Jozephine) Hetterscheid (3), Baak (Steenderen-Gl)

• 1880 » Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist († 1911)
• 1883 » Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor († 1959)
• 1883 » Imogen Cunningham, American photographer and educator († 1976)
• 1884 » Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1884 » Tenby Davies, Welsh runner († 1932)
• 1885 » Robert Delaunay, French painter († 1941)
• 1887 » Harold Lockwood, American actor and director († 1918)
• 1888 » Cecil Kimber, English automobile engineer († 1945)
• 1888 » Dan Ahearn, Irish-American long jumper and police officer († 1942)
• 1892 » Henry Darger, American writer and artist († 1973)

• 1850 » Adoniram Judson, American lexicographer and missionary (b. 1788)
• 1866 » Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded Fleetwood (b. 1801)
• 1872 » Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer and theorist (b. 1795)
• 1878 » William M. Tweed, American lawyer and politician (b. 1823)
• 1879 » Richard Taylor, American general (b. 1826)
• 1885 » William Crowther, Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist and academic (b. 1842)
• 1906 » Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar, academic, and philanthropist (b. 1836)
• 1912 » Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)

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.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• 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.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

The temperature on April 12, 1884 was about 6.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.