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• (3e) Albertus van de Meerakker, Waalre, Noord-Brabant, Nederlannd († 1967)
• Adriana van Vugt, Barendrecht
• Adriaantje de Stroete, Lekkerkerk († 1973)
• Alice Aldora Vandevander, Prentiss, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1962)
• Albert Bartels, De Krim
• Anna Margaretha Wilhelmina Bergmann, Batavia, Java, Ned. Indie
• Aleida Willemsen, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 1884)
• Anna Giezen, Leeuwarden († 1910)
• van der Wal († 1884)
• Aartje De Deugd, Puttershoek

• Alberdina Lukkien (61), Wildervank, Gemeente Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Hotzes Boonstra (82), Stiens, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Carel Martens (39), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• van der Wal
• Catharina Wilhelmina Petronella Steffen (5), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Velzen (71), Ouder Amstel
• Apolonia de Koning (Konin(g,h)ck) (85), Graauw en Langendam
• Arend Kloosterman (1), Kommerzijl
• Berendina Wolters (87), Groningen
• Bernhard Schario (73), Stark, Ohio, Verenigde Staten

• 1872 » Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian empress († 1918)
• 1875 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1878 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician († 1956)
• 1884 » Jock Hutchison, Scottish-American golfer († 1977)
• 1890 » Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader († 1971)
• 1891 » Erich Marcks, German general († 1944)
• 1891 » Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author and academic († 1986)
• 1896 » Henry Allingham, English World War I soldier and supercentenarian († 2009).
• 1896 » Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and politician († 1940)
• 1898 » Walter Abel, American actor († 1987)

• 1861 » Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
• 1862 » Turner Ashby, American colonel (b. 1828)
• 1865 » William Quantrill, American captain (b. 1837)
• 1878 » Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (b. 1790)
• 1881 » Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1820)
• 1883 » Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer and poet (b. 1853)
• 1891 » John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
• 1916 » Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1859)
• 1922 » Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1860)
• 1924 » William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (b. 1847)

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.
• 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.
• April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
• July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.

The temperature on June 6, 1884 was about 11.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.