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• Adriana Christina Vos, Amsterdam, Netherlands († 1965)
• Adrianus van Deursen, Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1974)
• Aagje DUBBELD, Middelharnis
• Anna Verloop, Aengwirden († 1973)
• Anna Maria POSTHUMA, Midlum (Franekeradeel) Friesland Netherlands († 1946)
• Anna Maria Jansen, Zaamslag († 1886)
• Adrian Joseph Moyls, Toronto, Ontario, Canada († 1961)
• Adelheid Schulte, Haselünne
• Anna Maria Teunisse, 's-Gravenhage
• Aartje van Ommeren, Lienden, Gelderland, Nederland

• Annetje van Dijk (88), Nieuwenhoorn
• Adriana Karreman (55), Stolwijk, 2821, Nederland
• Antje (Annetje) van Dijk (88), Nieuwenhoorn
• Adolf van der Ende (0), Hof van Delft Akte Jaar 1885 Nummer 38
• Adolph van der Ende (0), Hof van Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Aagje Swart (31), Haarlem
• Anthonie Fronik (34), Kamerik
• Adriana SCHRAUWEN (0), Zundert,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• ALIDA POPPEZEIJN (72), SCHIEDAM
• Annetje Cornelisse van Dijk (88), Nieuwenhoorn

• 1880 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1880 » Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist († 1943)
• 1881 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)

• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacobus
9. Jacob
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Wilhelmina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Jacoba
13. Grietje
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
16. Antje

• 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.
• January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
• February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
• July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on August 12, 1885 was about 20.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.