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• Aaltje Hendrika Bos, Heukelum West Betuwe (GL) († 1955)
• Anna Maria Vissers, Schoten, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1979)
• Aaltje Fresco, 's-Gravenhage / den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Anna VAN DER WEYDE, Rauwerderhem(Friesland)
• Adolf Weinhag, Bedburg, Erftkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1886)
• Adrianus Cornelis OVERGAAUW, Weltevreden Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia († 1955)
• * Geertje Rietveld, Giessendam
• Aaltje Martinus Bruinsma, Groningen († 1886)
• Adriana Pieternella Goosen, Zaamslag
• Klasina Geertruida van der Sluijs, Schiedam

• Alfonso the Peacemaker Bourbon of Spain (27)
• Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo (27), El Pardo, Spanje
• Adriana Straathof (71), Schiedam
• Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo (27), El Pardo, Madrid, España
• Alfons XII. van Spanje (27)
• Adriana Leenders (0), Driel, Overbetuwe
• Alfons XII von Spanien (28)
• Alfonso 12 van Spanje (27), El Pardo
• Aaltjen ten Have (82), Deventer
• Akke Ypes DE VRIES (73), Hardegarijp, Friesland, Nederland

• 1877 » Harley Granville-Barker, British actor, director and playwright († 1946)
• 1880 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author († 1960)
• 1880 » John Flynn, Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia († 1951)
• 1881 » Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic († 1958)
• 1881 » Pope John XXIII († 1963)
• 1883 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author († 1939)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist († 1943)
• 1889 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright († 1956)
• 1890 » Isaac Rosenberg, English soldier and poet († 1918)
• 1891 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna († 1941)

• 1865 » Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)
• 1884 » Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
• 1885 » Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
• 1885 » Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
• 1909 » Edward P. Allen, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
• 1920 » Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1892)
• 1925 » Vajiravudh, Siam king (b. 1880)
• 1934 » N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents (b. 1849)
• 1944 » Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)
• 1948 » Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist, founded Uechi-ryū (b. 1877)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
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.
• 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 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
• June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

The temperature on November 25, 1885 was about 3.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.