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• Anna Kuipers, (DR) Munsterscheveld († 1902)
• Anna Maria van Aalst, Raamsdonk
• Adriana Johanna van der Ende, Naaldwijk,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1965)
• Aaltjen van Waveren, Loenen
• Alida Jacoba Kooper, 's-Gravenhage († 1923)
• Agnes Chisholm **, Harthill, Keig Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland († 1972)
• Adolf Pieter Leonard Rosendahl, Soerabaja, Java, Indonesia († 1980)
• Albert Jonker, Den Hoorn, Texel, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1972)
• Albert Jonker, Den Hoorn (Texel, NH) († 1972)
• Wisse, Middelburg (Zeeland) NL

• Albert Siepel (40), Veendam
• Anna Catharina Ven (69), Dessel, België
• Adriana Maria van der Wees (2), Delft
• Anna Helena Robben (0), Düneburg, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Aart van der Vlis, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Koekkoek (75), Hoogeveen (Alteveer)
• * Woutrina (Waltera) Eekels (40), Vlijmen
• Aaltje Baerends Klaas (75), Hoogeveen
• Alma Helene Ruhmann (1)
• Aaltje Berends Koekkoek (75), Alteveer, Hoogeveen

• 1876 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1879 » Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player († 1939)
• 1884 » Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic († 1939)
• 1886 » Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat († 1958)
• 1889 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1891 » Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer († 1989)
• 1891 » Laura Gilpin, American photographer († 1979)
• 1891 » Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist († 1927)
• 1891 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer († 1965)
• 1892 » Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist († 1965)

• 1850 » Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798)
• 1854 » Nicolás Bravo, Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (b. 1786)
• 1871 » Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1806)
• 1877 » James P. Kirkwood, Scottish-American engineer (b. 1807)
• 1892 » Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (b. 1825)
• 1894 » Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (b. 1868)
• 1896 » Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (b. 1812)
• 1908 » Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
• 1925 » André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)

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 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
• July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
• July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
• September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
• November 19 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

The temperature on April 22, 1885 was about 22.9 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 34%.