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• Albertus van Wanrooij, Erp († 1885)
• Anthonij Leendert Wolse, Kortgene
• Anna Maria Hubertina Hermkens, Velden,, Limburg, Nederland († 1970)
• Antje KARDOL, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1903)
• Albert Petrus Sligter, Nieuw Buinen († 1886)
• Amede Vercauteren, Beveren-Waas
• Anna Bouma († 1968)
• "Francis Richard" Henry Penn Curzon-Howe († 1964)
• Andreas de Kever
• Adrianus van der Linden, Renkum († 1904)

• Aletta Schipper (35), slochteren
• Annigje Giezen (70), Harderwijk
• Adriana Leermakers (52), Alem Maren en Kessel
• aagje VISSER (76), sliedrecht
• Anna Maria Sievers (71), Wesuwer Brook, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adriana van der Wulp (43), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje Pieters Visser (76), Sliedrecht
• Annechien Roelfs Giezen (70), Harderwijk
• Adrianus Augustinus Grishaver (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kooren (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1874 » Paul Van Asbroeck, Belgian target shooter († 1959)
• 1874 » Romaine Brooks, American-French painter and illustrator († 1970)
• 1875 » Dave Hall, American runner († 1972)
• 1881 » Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, palaeontologist, and philosopher († 1955)
• 1884 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician († 1964)
• 1885 » Clément Pansaers, Belgian poet († 1922)
• 1885 » Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor and painter († 1973)
• 1887 » Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan († 1983)
• 1890 » Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (d. 1963 or 1964)
• 1891 » Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America († 1988)

• 1838 » Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (b. 1797)
• 1856 » John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (b. 1774)
• 1873 » David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 » Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (b. 1841)
• 1913 » John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)

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 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.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

The temperature on May 1, 1884 was about 14.4 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.