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• Adriana Bogers, Made en Drimmelen († 1967)
• Aaltje Gerrits Benjamins, Tiendeveen (Beilen) († 1885)
• Akke Harings Piebenga, Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alice Clara Marie Buyse, Oosterzele († 1953)
• Janssen, Princenhage († 1885)
• Rook, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Geffen, Well, Ammerzoden, The Netherlands († 1911)
• Anna Margaretha Schulte, Dörpen, Emsland
• Adriaan de Wit, Dussen († 1886)
• aagtje de vries, nieuwer amstel

• Alieda Matjes HEEMSTRA (43), Ezinge, Winsum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Judith barones van Ittersum (77), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Benjamin Louis Meijers (9), Baarn
• Schik, Oploo, Nbr.NL
• Antoni Wilgenhof (78), Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Arphaxad Loomis (Judge) ***** (87), Little Falls, Herkimer, New York, Verenigde Staten
• adriaantje van der POEL (68), heerjansdam
• Anna Jacoba Vermeulen (80), Weelde, Ravels, Antwerp, Belgium
• Barend Hendriksen (22), Renswoude
• AFIE VAN DER MEER (71), NAALDWIJK

• 1881 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti († 1947)
• 1883 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer († 1950)
• 1886 » Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist († 1971)
• 1887 » Carlos Dávila, Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile († 1955)
• 1888 » Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver († 1925)
• 1889 » Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author († 1948)
• 1889 » Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor († 1945)
• 1890 » Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1976)
• 1890 » Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer († 1979)
• 1890 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer († 1981)

• 1842 » Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (b. 1792)
• 1842 » Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• 1852 » Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)

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 1 » Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
• January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
• June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

The temperature on September 15, 1885 was about 17.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.