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• Adriana Cornelia Lint, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Amelia Grada van Kempen, Oosterhout († 1968)
• * Willem Begeer, Gouda
• - Hofstede, Schipluiden († 1885)
• Adriana de Hommel, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1892)
• Christina Jacoba Maria Helsloot, IJsselstein
• Aaltje Kruize, Winschoten († 1950)
• (3) Agatha Kok, De Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1952)
• Andries Meurs
• Aafke Steegstra, ferwerderadeel († 1949)

• Aartje van Capelleveen (0), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Christina Ruijter de (46), Voorburg Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van der Wal (40), Utrecht
• Adriaan Anker (55), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Albert Boeke (79), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana le Roy (67), Haamstede, Schouweduiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Van Ballegooien (18), Strijen
• Adriana Krooijmans, Montfoort
• Adriana Hermans (3), Rijnsburg
• Anna Maria Schulte (11), Dankern, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1877 » Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary († 1933)
• 1878 » Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna († 1930)
• 1879 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist († 1965)
• 1883 » Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal († 1947)
• 1885 » Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic († 1972)
• 1886 » Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician († 1971)
• 1890 » Moa Martinson, Swedish author († 1964)
• 1890 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna († 1933)
• 1891 » David Townsend, American art director and set decorator († 1935)
• 1892 » Alice Brady, American actress († 1939)

• 1852 » Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 » Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1883 » William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (b. 1828)
• 1886 » James Watney junior, English brewer, cricketer, and politician (b. 1832)
• 1887 » Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 » George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1911 » Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)

• 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
• March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• May 12 » North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
• July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

The temperature on November 2, 1885 was about 2.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.