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• Adriaan Stofregen, Rotterdam († 1930)
• Agnes Guzik, Bohemia, Austria († 1960)
• Adrianus de Kort, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Adriana de Voogd, Vrouwenpolder
• Aleida Alberta Vos, Didam († 1961)
• ?? Blonk, Groot Ammers († 1884)
• wilhelmina petronella van blijdestijn, oegstgeest
• Aleida Johanna Schulte
• Adrianus Amelsfort van, Tilburg († 1970)
• Chaulet, Zuidland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Adrianus Wolfs (80), Empel en Meerwijk, Gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Overbeke (0), Haamstede
• (Maria) Elisabeth Schrammen (72), Born
• Aalbert Boesveld (47), Dieren (Rheden), Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Bootes Spijksma (70), Oudkerk, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Aukes van der Wal, Rijperkerk
• Anna Maria Donders (76), Schin op Geul, Limburg, Netherlands
• ?? Blonk (0), Groot Ammers
• Adriaan Overbeke (0), Haamstede gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld, NL
• Adriaan Johannis Moeliker (0), Sint Annaland

• 1879 » Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist († 1966)
• 1880 » Archie Hahn, American sprinter, football player, and coach († 1955)
• 1880 » Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary († 1961)
• 1883 » Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator († 1908)
• 1885 » Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor, composer, and critic († 1975)
• 1886 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1948)
• 1887 » Karl Taylor Compton, American physicist, 9th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) († 1954)
• 1887 » Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer († 1934)
• 1891 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1983)
• 1892 » Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot († 1968)

• 1852 » Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
• 1852 » Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (b. 1812)
• 1862 » Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (b. 1834)
• 1862 » Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
• 1879 » Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (b. 1808)
• 1891 » Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817)
• 1898 » William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857)
• 1901 » William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
• 1905 » Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)
• 1916 » José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)

• 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 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.
• August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

The temperature on September 14, 1884 was about 22.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%.