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• Anthony Paulus Adrianus Vink, Rotterdam Hillegersberg
• Albert de Groot, Napels (Scheemda), Groningen, Nederland († 1885)
• Aleida Verhoeven, Donsbruggen, Nordrhien-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Adrianus Cornelis Aloysius Luijkx, Etten-Leur († 1975)
• Adrianus Opdam, Lisse († 1921)
• Aleida Verhoeven, Donsbruggen († 1884)
• ALFONS JOANNES PANNIER, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Alicia JANSEGERS, Aalst,9300,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Adrianus Cornelius Aloijsius Luijkx, Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1968)
• Anna Maria Roof, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1967)

• Adrianus Verhoeven (0), Driel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Sietzes Bousema (59), Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexander, Prince of Orange of Netherlands (32), The Hague, Netherlands
• Albertus van Hattem (50), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Elzes Hazelhoff (73), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alexander van Oranje-Nassau (32), den haag
• Alexandre des Pays-Bas (32)
• Alexander Karel Frederik Vrijheer van Grävenitz (77)
• Aldert Jans Kreima (68), Sauwerd, gem. Adorp, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus van Hattem (50), Utrecht

• 1880 » Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician († 1961)
• 1880 » Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant († 1941)
• 1881 » (O.S.) Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator († 1962)
• 1882 » Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer and soldier († 1966)
• 1882 » Lluís Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia († 1940)
• 1882 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator († 1971)
• 1883 » Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator († 1958)
• 1884 » Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal († 1981)
• 1887 » Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and petrologist († 1956)
• 1889 » Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor († 1972)

• 1865 » Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824)
• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)

• 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 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• 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.

The temperature on June 21, 1884 was about 11.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.