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• Albertus Pietersz van der Gust, Oegstgeest
• Albert Veld, Steenwijkerwold, Nederland († 1964)
• Albertina van Stuivenberg, Veenendaal († 1953)
• Adriaan Gorter, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Brok, Drunen († 1940)
• Adrianus Cornelis Maas, Dordrecht
• Egbert Benjamins, Hollandscheveld († 1905)
• Adriaan van Campen, Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Jan Petrus Maria Bogaerts, Breda († 1885)
• Mattousch, Venlo († 1884)

• Albertha Hoebée (66), Dordrecht
• Aldert Bonnema (0), 't Zandt, Groningen, Netherlands
• Mattousch (0), Venlo
• ---- Been (0)
• BASTIAAN VETH (81), DELFT
• Aaltje Gerrits Lassche (24), IJsselmuiden
• Alfred Monroe Tims (62)
• Antje Wolf (9), Epe, Nederland
• Alberta Hoebée (65), Dordrecht
• Arij Pieter van KATWIJK (61), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1880 » H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic († 1956)
• 1882 » Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop († 1963)
• 1884 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach († 1947)
• 1885 » Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer and art dealer († 1957)
• 1888 » Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer († 1972)
• 1889 » Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta († 1942)
• 1891 » Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher († 1968)
• 1891 » Jean-François Martial, Belgian actor († 1977)
• 1891 » Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician († 1965)
• 1892 » Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. († 1984)

• 1869 » Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779)
• 1870 » Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (b. 1782)
• 1870 » Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (b. 1836)
• 1874 » François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
• 1903 » Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)
• 1912 » Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (b. 1829)
• 1918 » George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1923 » Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841)

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 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.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on September 12, 1884 was about 22.5 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%.