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• Anje Zeldenrust, Warffum, Het Hogeland, Groningen, Nederland († 1969)
• AART VELDHUIZEN, Renswoude
• Anje Zeldenrust, Warffum (gem. Eemsmond) († 1969)
• Adrianus Bezemer, Krimpen op de Lek († 1974)
• Albertus Hendrikus Scheurs, Winterswijk
• Alieda Maria de Waay, Kampen († 1954)
• Anna Matzinger, Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Alexander Cornelis Balkenende, 's-Gravenhage
• Achille FOURMENTRAU, Wervik,8940,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie
• (14j)Hendrik van Bezouwen, Dubbeldam († 1961)

• Anthonius Dominicus van WIJNGAARDEN (75), Beesd
• van der Kruijssen (0), Oosterhout
• Antony Brus (79), Winterswijk
• Ariaantje Munnik (72), Schiedam
• Anna Zoé Léopoldine DE RUDDER (0), Ronse, 45041, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Annechien Hoogeveen (39), Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arnoldus Antonius van den Heuvel (48), Breda
• Adriana Joannes ANTONISSEN (84), Zundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Antoine van der Put (74), Dongen
• Adriana Ambrosius (80), Mook

• 1873 » Fred Herd, Scottish golfer († 1954)
• 1876 » Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning († 1950)
• 1878 » Major Taylor, American cyclist († 1932)
• 1885 » Heinrich Brüning, German lieutenant, economist, and politician, Chancellor of Germany († 1970)
• 1888 » Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter († 1978)
• 1889 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1891 » Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1977)
• 1894 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal († 1974)
• 1894 » Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher († 1964)
• 1895 » Bill W., American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous († 1971)

• 1857 » Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and author (b. 1788)
• 1860 » Benjamin Greene, English brewer, founded Greene King (b. 1780)
• 1872 » Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician, Minister President of Prussia (b. 1805)
• 1883 » Sojourner Truth, American activist (b. 1797)
• 1885 » Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813)
• 1892 » Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal and academic (b. 1825)
• 1895 » George Edward Dobson, Irish zoologist, photographer, and surgeon (b. 1848)
• 1896 » Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic (b. 1823)
• 1912 » Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1834)

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
• June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• August 14 » Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

The temperature on November 26, 1885 was about 3.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.