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• Adriana Kivit, Ammerzoden († 1897)
• Bernardus Weijermars, Ittersum († 1949)
• Adriana Ariesd VAANDRAGER, Kethel en Spaland (Nl) († 1962)
• Benjamin Winnegge, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota († 1962)
• Aden Lovell Owens, Rockcastle County, Kentucky († 1953)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth VOSSEN, Bilzen (Limburg) (B)
• Arie Hofland, Diemen († 1970)
• Aaltje Geerts van der Zwaag, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Alfred Goyette, Montréal, Montréal (Urban Agglomeration), Quebec, Canada († 1968)
• Anna Maria Maat, Den Haag († 1921)

• Akke, Ruurds Rijpkema (68), Utingeradeel
• Antonius Gijsbers (0), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonia Bronk (71), Culemborg
• Alida van Waart (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Thill (77), Waldbillig,Echternach,Grevenmacher,Luxemburg
• Antje Stuij (62), Akersloot
• Anna Ossebaar (0), Amsterdam
• Akke Rypkema (68), Terkaple, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Engelen (86), Maaseik
• Akke Ruurds' Rijpkema (68), Utingeradeel

• 1875 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician († 1973)
• 1875 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist († 1955)
• 1877 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist († 1935)
• 1878 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor († 1943)
• 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
• 1883 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician († 1952)
• 1883 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general († 1948)
• 1888 » Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer († 1978)
• 1888 » Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist († 1960)
• 1891 » Edith Quimby, American medical researcher and physicist († 1982)

• 1851 » Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 » Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (b. 1831)
• 1920 » John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1929 » Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Huntley Wright, English actor (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)

• 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 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's 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 July 10, 1884 was about 25.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.