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• Alphonsus Sturms, Koewacht († 1948)
• Anne Wybenga, Zwaagwesteinde († 1948)
• Aloysius Franciscus Pauwels, Tielrode († 1957)
• Dijkstra, St. Jacobiparochie († 1884)
• Anna Francisca van Zeelst, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• SPIERING, Utrecht († 1944)
• Aaltje Klazes Paasman, Hollandsche Veldt (Hoogeveen)
• "François" Henri Laurent Marie de Cours de Saint-Gervasy, Monlezun, Gers, France († 1938)
• Adrianus de Visser, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agostino Paolo Oreste Scarabotto, Provincia di Padova, Veneto, Italia († 1931)

• Barendje Endendijk (53), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catherine Shimmel (72)
• (71), Antwerpen
• Anna Maria Matthe (84), Baarle-Nassau, Gemeente Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Steenvoorden (64), Warmond
• Amalie Benda (60), Kepno, Wlkp., Poland
• Antje Ibes Veenstra (81), Ureterp, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltjen Ruiterkamp (41), Erve .... Oolde
• Anna Elisabetha Aerts (23), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Barendje Endendijk (53), Utrecht

• 1874 » Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian († 1939)
• 1882 » George Barker, American painter († 1965)
• 1882 » Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards († 1967)
• 1883 » José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic († 1955)
• 1884 » Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor († 1917)
• 1885 » Gianni Vella, Maltese artist († 1977)
• 1888 » Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot († 1918)
• 1888 » Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector († 1964)
• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)

• 1850 » Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
• 1850 » Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)

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.
• 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.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• 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 May 9, 1884 was about 14.8 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.