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• Aaltje de Jonge († 1977)
• Aaltje Jans Groustra, Uitwierde, province of Groningen
• - Beun, Weststellingerwerf († 1885)
• Adriaantje Kommertje van den Berg, Bruinisse († 1919)
• Aagtje Pluis, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Meeuwse, Arnemuiden, Walcheren, NL († 1945)
• Adriaan van Doorn, Ellewoutsdijk
• adriaan bree(d)tveld(t), hardinxveld-giessendam, zuid holland, nederland
• Alida de Ruijter, Amsterdam († 1962)
• Adam Hauf, Exselbrücke Duitsland († 1944)

• Aris Prins (86), Gouda
• Anna Theresia ( Bryssinck ) Brissinck (58), Gent
• Adriana van Opstal (68), Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoinette Wilhelmina Coenen (81), Ravenstein
• Antoon (Antoin) Leblanc (83), St. Odiliënberg, Limburg, Nederland
• van den Berg (0), Sliedrecht
• Alice Louisa Matthews (0), Moores, NY
• Antheunis (Anthonius) Ferdinand Lambert (45), Watergraafsmeer
• Hage (0), Stavenisse gem. Tholen Zld. NL
• Barteld Jansz van de Velde (61), Rotterdam, zh.nld

• 1879 » Robert Edwards, American artist, musician, and writer († 1948)
• 1880 » Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer. († 1946)
• 1881 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal († 1948)
• 1884 » Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author († 1941)
• 1888 » Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief († 1961)
• 1888 » Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater († 1954)
• 1890 » Alan L. Hart, American physician and author († 1962)
• 1890 » Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer and journalist († 1945)
• 1892 » Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria († 1934)
• 1892 » Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author († 1934)

• 1852 » James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
• 1859 » Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
• 1864 » Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 » Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 » Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)

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 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
• February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
• March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
• March 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
• 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.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on October 4, 1885 was about 13.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.