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• Adrianus Heijne, Uitgeest († 1885)
• Adolphus Francioscus Juchtmans, Diest
• Anna Maria Cecilia Meulenberg, Born, Limburg, Nederland
• Alice Myrtie Moyer, Clarion,Wright County, Iowa († 1962)
• Adrianus Heine, Uitgeest († 1885)
• akkalina BORGDORFF, stellendam († 1962)
• Adonie Marie Deruytter, Zarren
• Albert Jans de Wolde, Meppel, Nederland
• Albert van Houten, Jubbega Schurega († 1926)
• Abraham de Wit, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1891)

• Adrianus Wilhelmus Neelis (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• van de Pol, Moergestel
• Antonia Cornelia van der Flaas (77), Baarle-Hertog (België)
• Catharina Ticheloven (83), Doetinchem Stad, Nederland
• Antje ter Heide (78), Ogle County, Illinois
• Antje van Gijn (65), Medemblik
• Adriana van Eijseren (32), Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Anna Maria Maas (0), Aalsmeer
• Bartel Kam, de (0), Vlissingen
• Arie Veenendaal (61), Culemborg, Nederland

• 1882 » Marcel Lalu, French gymnast († 1951)
• 1883 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer († 1945)
• 1884 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist († 1968)
• 1884 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal († 1972)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)
• 1885 » Charles Daniels, American swimmer († 1973)
• 1885 » Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer († 1978)
• 1886 » Edward Weston, American photographer († 1958)
• 1886 » Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer († 1945)
• 1887 » Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1933)

• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)

• 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.
• June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.
• December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

The temperature on March 24, 1885 was about 4.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.