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• Antje de Vries, Ureterp (Opsterland) († 1960)
• Alfons Lodewijk Oelbrandt, Nieuwkerken-Waas
• Aagje Berkouwer, Krimpen aan den IJssel
• Annette Hofman, Garrelsweer († 1971)
• (Levensloze dochter) Toornstra, Dokkum († 1885)
• Annie Louisa Wheatley, Dalton, Nsw, Australia († 1972)
• Aal (Potter) Veerman († 1947)
• Antje Rosalia Wullems, Hontenisse († 1966)
• Aaltje de Wit, Midlum, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1968)
• Terneuzen, Culemborg

• Anna Beckers (37), Maastricht (Maastricht) (Limburg)
• Adrianus van Tichelt (1), Ekeren
• Antje Wiegman (34), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Aafke Hendriks CLEVERING (32), Tjamsweer Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Maria CLAESSENS (77), Sint Niklaas
• Anna Catharina Barbara Enger (28), Breyell, Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Albertus van den Kerkhof (51), Woensel en Eckart
• Anna Catharina van Wijlick (66), Velden, gem Arcen en Velden, 66 jr. oud
• (Stillborn) OLTHOF (0), Veendam Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Christina Vrolijk (85), Arubase Antillen

• 1878 » C. Ganesha Iyer, Ceylon Tamil philologist († 1958)
• 1879 » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman († 1967)
• 1881 » Octavian Goga, Romanian Prime Minister († 1938)
• 1883 » Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director († 1976)
• 1883 » Laurette Taylor, Irish-American actress († 1946)
• 1883 » Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1930)
• 1885 » Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill († 1977)
• 1885 » Wallace Beery, American actor († 1949)
• 1889 » K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist († 1940)
• 1893 » Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress († 1980)

• 1865 » Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
• 1872 » Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian and academic (b. 1805)
• 1878 » John C.W. Daly, English-Canadian soldier and politician (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Alexander Mozhaysky, Russian soldier, pilot, and engineer (b. 1825)
• 1890 » David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
• 1914 » Charles Wells, English founder of Charles Wells Ltd (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1917 » Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (b. 1868)
• 1920 » Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Charles I, emperor of Austria (b. 1887)

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 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
• June 9 » Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• September 6 » Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
• December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.

The temperature on April 1, 1885 was about 7.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.