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• Adriana Haak, Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna de rooij, Tilburg Nederland
• Van Bergen Maria Ludovica, Wortel, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus Hamers, Kaatsheuvel († 1969)
• Adriaan Wesdorp, Ellemeet, Zeeland. Nederland († 1884)
• América Augusta Nogueira de Sá, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adriana Cornelia Verbogt, Halsteren († 1884)
• Adriana Miltenburg, Vleuten († 1941)
• Allegonda van der Sterren, Luiksgestel
• Adriana Catharina van der Helm, Stompwijk († 1886)

• Bernardus Hendrikus Wiegerinck (0), Groenlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Gagesteijn (Gagestein) (1), Rotterdam
• Catharina Aggelen van (0), Wageningen
• Cornelia Leijten (0), Princenhage (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Bartholomeus Carolus Schreuder (0), Den Haag
• Anna Cornelia Verbrugge (0), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Casper Cornelis Floor (0), Voorhout
• Coleta Dens (54), Geel, België
• Amelia Steppe (81), Westdorpe
• Cornelia Boskaljon (0), Deil

• 1876 » Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute († 1929)
• 1879 » Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous († 1950)
• 1879 » Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician († 1919)
• 1880 » Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia († 1961)
• 1881 » Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1882 » Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 1965)
• 1884 » Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator († 1933)
• 1889 » Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor († 1968)
• 1889 » Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer († 1977)
• 1891 » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer († 1952)

• 1858 » Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Haitian Empress (b. 1758)
• 1863 » Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)

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.
• March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
• May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• 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.

The temperature on August 8, 1884 was about 26.6 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 35%.