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• Adriana Brand, Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1886)
• Albertus Pieter de Braij, Amsterdam
• Aalbert Voskuilen, Hoogland, Utrecht, Nederland († 1966)
• Adriana Flora Elieza Schouten, Zwijndrecht
• Adriana Cornelia van Velden, Loon op Zand († 1969)
• --- van Beurden, Tilburg († 1885)
• Aaltje Hazelaar, Diemen († 1923)
• Akke BOSMA, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1905)
• Adriaantje van Kempen, Rotterdam († 1965)
• * Cornelia den Besten († 1968)

• Anna Katharina Agatha BENDICK (69), Mettingen, Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Anna Catharina Paes (69), Lutterade
• Catharina Hendriks (89), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Broeders (36), Oosterhout
• Adriana Broeders (46), Oosterhout
• Arnoldus Hoogenkamp (73), Millingen
• Adriana Janse (51), Vlissingen
• Bernardus Aerts (0), Alt-Hoeselt
• Charlotte Robb Douglas (1)
• August Egidius Hubert Adan, S' Hertogenbosch, NL

• 1880 » Grantland Rice, American journalist and poet († 1954)
• 1880 » Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright († 1957)
• 1881 » Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral († 1965)
• 1886 » Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and poet († 1951)
• 1886 » Sakutarō Hagiwara, Japanese poet and critic († 1942)
• 1887 » L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator († 1976)
• 1888 » George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator († 1971)
• 1888 » Michał Sopoćko, Polish cleric and academic († 1975)
• 1889 » Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer († 1978)
• 1889 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)

• 1814 » Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1744)
• 1888 » Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1838)
• 1894 » Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
• 1903 » Theodor Mommsen, German archaeologist, journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
• 1907 » Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (b. 1873)
• 1925 » Max Linder, French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian (b. 1883)
• 1938 » Charles Weeghman, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1942 » Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1952 » Dixie Lee, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1955 » Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (b. 1888)

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.
• 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 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• August 14 » Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
• September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.

The temperature on November 1, 1885 was about 3.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.