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• Albertus Antonie Vlasblom
• Antonia johanna Houkes, Rotterdam († 1885)
• Annigje Kok, Hoogeveen († 1931)
• Antoon Dekker, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Adriana Blonk, Groot Ammers
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Gerards, Meerssen († 1918)
• Alfred Vande Walle, Berchem-Oudenaarde, België († 1953)
• Amelia Hendrika RENEMAN, Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland († 1966)
• Alma Maria Van Bogaert, Sint-Gillis-Waas († 1976)
• Anna Joanna VERMEER, Mol Belgie

• Adriana Apolonia Schrauwen (63), Roosendaal
• Agatha Berkelaar (79), Delft
• Anna Maria Coumans (65), Wessem
• Aaltje Hommes Noordhuis (69), Westernieland
• Antonetta Vissers (0), Den Dungen
• Adriana Dietvorst (50), Halsteren (Bergen op Zoom), Noord Brabant, Nederland
• "Maximilian" Joseph Ambrosius Maria von Montgelas (46)
• Anna Kloot (86), Bergschenhoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Cajétan" Louis Marie Joseph van de Werve d'Immerseel (50), Anvers, Belgique
• Anna Maria Helena Castovina Mares, Rijckholt, Eijsden-Margraten, Nederland

• 1871 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar († 1929)
• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)
• 1886 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright († 1964)
• 1887 » Rupert Brooke, English poet († 1915)
• 1890 » Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club († 1974)
• 1894 » Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1951)
• 1895 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician († 1942)
• 1896 » Ralph Horween, American football player and coach († 1997)
• 1899 » Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver († 1979)
• 1900 » Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist († 1945)

• 1857 » Eugène Sue, French author and politician (b. 1804)
• 1866 » Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)

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 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• 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.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on August 3, 1884 was about 24.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.