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• Adriana Franken, Hellevoetsluis († 1886)
• Adriana Paulina Klaassen, Terneuzen (Terneuzen) (Zeeland)
• Aardina Susanna de Heus, Culemborg (GL) († 1885)
• Aaltje Schamhart, Amsterdam († 1954)
• Adrianus Franken, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Moelard, Genemuiden
• Adriana van der Hulst
• Adrianus Joannes Vermeer, Tilburg († 1970)
• Jantiena Van Den Hof, Zuidwolde († 1952)
• Aaltje Lodder, Broek in Waterland

• Arend Oosterling (1), harderwijk (gelderland)
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• (Stillbirth) PLOEGMAN (0), Uithuizermeeden
• Abraham Koppenaal (56), Klundert
• Arend Scholten (73), Borger, Gemeente Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria Voeten (6), Rucphen
• Adrianus de Vette (0), Kethel en Spaland
• Anna Erdina van Tilborg (54), Haarlemmermeer
• Agatha Pijpenzeel (84), Gouda
• Anna Erdina van Tilborg (54), Haarlemmermeer

• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)
• 1890 » Marjorie Main, American actress († 1975)
• 1896 » Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer († 1983)
• 1900 » Irmgard Bartenieff, German-American dancer and physical therapist, leading pioneer of dance therapy († 1981)

• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)
• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)

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.
• March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
• March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• April 2 » Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
• September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

The temperature on February 24, 1885 was about 14.3 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.