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• Adrianus Bakx, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• Albertus Audenaerde, Koewacht (NL) († 1885)
• Adriana Pieternella de Jonge, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1961)
• - Seuren, Horst, Limburg, Nederland († 1885)
• Akke GROENEVELD, Gauw (Wymbritseradeel) Friesland Netherlands († 1981)
• Alfons Julien Vercruysse, Harelbeke (W-VL) België († 1955)
• Adrianus BAKX, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• Aaltje Wilms, Midwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Beesemer, Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands († 1942)
• Alice Maria Francisca De Cordt, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België († 1964)

• Amelia Rotthier (33), Kieldrecht
• Annegien (Jacobs) Kregel (74), Yde (Vries)
• Adalbert Matthias Antal Graaf Hadik van Futak (62), Kosice (Kaschau), Z.O.-Slowakije
• Abraham KATTESTAART (73), Melissant
• "Béla" Mátyás Antal Hadik de Futak (62), Košice / Kaschau, Slovaquie
• Johannes (0), Sappemeer
• Anna Maria Van Hove (73), Oevel
• Anna Maria Drees (61), Gruitrode, Provincie Limburg, België
• Aagje Weij (65), Callantsoog
• Anna Maria Hostenbach (84), Holtum

• 1877 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor († 1934)
• 1879 » Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner († 1957)
• 1882 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil († 1954)
• 1883 » Henry Jameson, American soccer player († 1938)
• 1883 » Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist († 1953)
• 1885 » Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect († 1975)
• 1889 » Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician († 1946)
• 1891 » Françoise Rosay, French actress († 1974)
• 1892 » Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator († 1983)
• 1894 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist († 1966)

• 1881 » Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
• 1893 » Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
• 1901 » Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1906 » Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)

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.
• February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
• 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 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

The temperature on April 19, 1885 was about 12.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.