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• Antje Bos, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Alle Postma, Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands († 1985)
• Anna Catharina Vreuls, Kerkrade (L
• Angela Di Maggio, Grumo Appula BA
• Alida Schalk, Nederhemert († 1887)
• Alphonse Emile Vancraeynest, Koekelare († 1969)
• Albertus Overbeek
• Alberdina Maria de Kleijn, Huisseling en Neerloon, N-Brabant (NL.)
• Antonie Antonies Welle, Zutphen
• Aaltje Dekker, Peize, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1887)

• Alfonso van Spanje (27), El Pardo
• Bertha Johanna Laret (1), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Verschuren (65), Axel, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bernard Francis Barhorst (0), Carthagena, Mercer, OH
• Andreas Paffen (45), Schin op Geul
• ALIDA MONTOFT (83), DELFSHAVEN
• Anna van Vugt (70), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Christiaan Suijck (61), Soerabaja
• Alida van Vliet (71), Leiden
• Bernardina Wilhelmina Catharina Garstenveld (73), Den Helder

• 1870 » Alexander Berkman, Lithuanian-American activist and author († 1936)
• 1876 » Olav Duun, Norwegian author and educator († 1939)
• 1877 » Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer and educator († 1933)
• 1878 » Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of Justice († 1949)
• 1886 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician († 1968)
• 1894 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician († 1984)
• 1897 » Mollie Steimer, Russian-American activist († 1980)
• 1898 » René Magritte, Belgian painter († 1967)
• 1899 » Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha († 1987)
• 1899 » Jobyna Ralston, American actress († 1967)

• 1859 » Yoshida Shōin, Japanese academic and politician (b. 1830)
• 1861 » Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French priest and activist (b. 1802)
• 1870 » Karel Jaromír Erben, Czech historian and poet (b. 1811)
• 1874 » Marià Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ami Boué, German-Austrian geologist and ethnographer (b. 1794)
• 1899 » Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Harry Boyle, Australian cricketer (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
• 1908 » Carl Friedrich Schmidt, German-Russian geologist and botanist (b. 1832)
• 1909 » Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (b. 1851)

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
• January 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
• 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 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

The temperature on November 21, 1885 was about -1.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.