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• Adrianus Koekoek († 1958)
• (Stillborn) de Zeeuw (Zeeuw,de Seeuw,de Seeu), 's-Gravendeel, Nederland († 1885)
• Adrianus Cornelis Leendertsz van der Waal, Charlois, zh.nld († 1959)
• Adriaan Maquelin, Vlissingen († 1885)
• Agatha de Rijk, Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Abra de Pijper, Oostvoorne († 1964)
• Doornbosch, Brummen
• Adrianus Hendrik Christiaan Bohlen, Utrecht
• Aaltje van Beek, Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Waal, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1953)

• Anneke Everts van Eck (81), Ede
• Baafje Jansen (61), Beverwijk
• Arnoldus Sins (25), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hermeling Geertruida (74), Zwolle
• Arendina Hendrika Eeftink (53), Rectum, Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Janssen Peters (2), Mohrhausen, Ostfriesland, Hannover, Preußen
• Anna Maria Kersten (78), Maashees en Overloon
• Albert Neuteboom (62), Zwolle, Overijssel, NL
• Aaltje Van Den Berg (2), Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Nap (61), Kamerik, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1879 » Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American engineer, designed the George Washington Bridge and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge († 1965)
• 1879 » Waldemar Tietgens, German rower († 1917)
• 1881 » Guccio Gucci, Italian fashion designer, founded Gucci († 1953)
• 1882 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss politician († 1940)
• 1884 » Georges Imbert, French chemical engineer and inventor († 1950)
• 1884 » Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist and educator († 1969)
• 1886 » Hugh Mulzac, Vincentian-American soldier and politician († 1971)
• 1888 » Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse and philanthropist († 1948)
• 1893 » James Bryant Conant, American chemist, academic, and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany († 1978)
• 1893 » Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice († 1964)

• 1858 » John Addison Thomas, American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1811)
• 1862 » Uriah P. Levy, American commander (b. 1792)
• 1881 » Roman Sanguszko, Polish general and activist (b. 1800)
• 1885 » Anson Stager, American general and businessman, co-founded Western Union (b. 1825)
• 1888 » Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
• 1892 » Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (b. 1819)
• 1902 » Cecil Rhodes, English-South African colonialist, businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (b. 1853)
• 1905 » Maurice Barrymore, American actor (b. 1849)
• 1910 » Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
• 1920 » William Chester Minor, American surgeon and lexicographer (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 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
• February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on March 26, 1885 was about 8.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.