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• Anna Van Calster, Rillaar Vl.Brabant * († 1973)
• Adèlaïde Célestine Joseph Baudry, Auchy les Mines, 62138, France († 1886)
• Adrianus Theodorus Cornelis Josephus Knoop, Schiedam († 1886)
• Aart Hendrik van GENDEREN, Well, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Van Calster, Rillaar († 1973)
• Anna Getrud Lennackers, Süchteln, Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1885)
• Adriana Anna Vermeeren, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)
• Adriana Anna Vermeeren, Waspik, Nederland
• Alle Kiers, Fochteloo († 1969)
• Albert Baukes van der Werf, Oldeboorn, Friesland, Nederland

• Albert van der Veer (1), Kuinre
• Anna Maria Hubertina VAN DEN EERTWEGH (30), Sevenum, Limburg, Netherlands
• Alida Heppenaar (Heupenaar) (82), Nieuweschans
• Adriaan Wilhelm Mijs (0), Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Kivits (82), Dussen
• Anna van der Plaats (73), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• (2) Trijntje Stam (54), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Alida Berendina Vaags (89), Hengelo Gld
• Alix Marie BRUYLANDT (0), Onkerzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Albarta Hendrika Gerrevink (28), Deventer

• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)
• 1879 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot († 1936)
• 1881 » Jess Willard, American boxer († 1968)
• 1885 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general († 1921)
• 1886 » Norman Hallows, English runner and captain († 1968)
• 1895 » Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author († 1939)
• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)
• 1899 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing († 1992)

• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)

• 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 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
• 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.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
• November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.

The temperature on December 29, 1885 was about 2.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.