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• Alicia Maria Vandecandelaere, Staden († 1939)
• van Dalen, Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1884)
• Aline, Pelagie, Marie Dauwe
• Adriaan Kooman, Waarde, Nederland († 1884)
• Adriana de Waard, Egmond-Binnen († 1958)
• Albert Langerhorst, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Huiberdina Johanna Bosman, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Uphues, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Aafke Westerhof, Burum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1950)
• Albertus Johannes Staal, Arnhem († 1965)

• Anna Maria Moonen (0), Kerkrade (L
• Adaline MORRIS (65), Etta, Union, Mississippi, United States
• van Dalen (0), Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aartje van den Brink (51)
• Annigje van der Kolk (34), Genemuiden, Nederland
• Berendina VEERMAN (79), Epe, 1358, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnolda van Oijen (80)
• Ariën van Lienen (0), Groet, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Newman Unknown (61), New Providence, Bahamas
• Annigje van der Kolk (34), Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)
• 1886 » Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author († 1968)
• 1888 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1971)
• 1890 » Alfred Jodl, German general († 1946)
• 1891 » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic († 1934)
• 1893 » Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist († 1949)
• 1894 » Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor († 1979)

• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)

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 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
• 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 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

The temperature on May 10, 1884 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.