About the day » Monday May 26, 1884Calender converter

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• Aaltje Keur, Utrecht († 1886)
• Anna Barbara Catharina Smit, Amsterdam († 1965)
• Aaltje Keur, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1886)
• Abraham Bengtsson, Gussvattnet, Frostviken, Jämtlands län (Z) († 1961)
• Adriaan Cornelis Meeusen, Chaam († 1959)
• Anna Waterborg, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1971)
• Adriana Cornelia BOZUWA, Dordrecht
• Veenstra, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1884)
• Anna Fransisca Helsloot, Amsterdam († 1964)

• Aagje Baar (64), Harmelen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anton Gärber (54), Wernsdorf (Hrob-Verneřice), Böhmen, Österreich-Ungarn (jetzt: Tschechien)
• Antje Poelman (59), Emmen
• Anna Catharina GEILENKIRCHEN (2), Kerkrade, Nederland
• Anne Post (0), Ooststellingwerf
• Adrianus Traan (67), Velsen
• Anna Catharina van Papendrecht (80), Gorinchem (ZH-NLD)
• Adrianus BOKHOUT (33), Piershil,Zuid-Holland,NEDERLAND
• Albert Durks Bergsma (75), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antonia Houtepen (81), Hoeven

• 1873 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator († 1958)
• 1876 » Percy Perrin, English cricketer († 1945)
• 1880 » W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator († 1967)
• 1881 » Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 († 1955)
• 1883 » Mamie Smith, American singer, actress, dancer, and pianist († 1946)
• 1886 » Al Jolson, American singer and actor († 1950)
• 1887 » Ba U, 2nd President of Burma († 1963)
• 1893 » Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer († 1962)
• 1895 » Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist († 1965)
• 1895 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor and singer († 1971)

• 1840 » Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (b. 1764)
• 1881 » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)
• 1883 » Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (b. 1808)
• 1902 » Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1926 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 » Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860)

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.
• 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.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
• December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on May 26, 1884 was about 13.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.