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• Abraham Dekens, Wildervank gemeente Veendam Groningen († 1939)
• Menting, Wehl († 1946)
• Aaldert van Olphen, boijle
• Agada van Duijn, Katwijk aan Zee
• Allen L Powell, Sterling, Johnson, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 1937)
• Akke Oebeles Eizenga, Oldeboorn († 1948)
• Adriaan Vermeulen, Heinkenszand
• Adriana Maria MAASKANT, IJsselmonde Zuid-Holland Netherlands († 1950)
• Mulder, meppel († 1884)
• Akke Oebeles Eizenga, Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• Aagje Claas van OMMEN (72), Zaandam, 4918, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (Levenloos geboren) Speelman (0), Burgh, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Banning (78), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Gerritje Grotenhuis (0), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Mulder (0), meppel
• Arij Metselaar (66), Boskoop
• Aaltjen Hurink (32), Ane
• Anje Dijksterhuis (0), Holwierde, Bierum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Banning (78), Bemmel
• Anna Wolfs (81), Eijsden

• 1878 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator († 1961)
• 1880 » Alfred Noyes, English author, poet, and playwright († 1958)
• 1880 » Clara Ayres, American nurse († 1917)
• 1881 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic († 1964)
• 1883 » T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic († 1917)
• 1886 » Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1887 » Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator († 1979)
• 1888 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1888 » W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited († 1971)
• 1890 » Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author († 1970)

• 1843 » Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1770)
• 1845 » Thomas Davis, Irish poet and publisher (b. 1814)
• 1865 » Christian de Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
• 1887 » Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
• 1896 » Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)
• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)

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 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.

The temperature on September 16, 1884 was about 18.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.