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• Ale de Vries, Kommerzijl († 1892)
• Anna Cornelia van der Steen, Loenen († 1941)
• Alida van Bekkum, Zoelmond, Gelderland, Nederland († 1886)
• AALTJE POLS, BRIELLE († 1887)
• Aleida KRUDDE, Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Ale DE VRIES, Kommerzijl († 1892)
• Aaltje Stadman, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1962)
• Anna Zijp, Tondjong Pinang, Indonesië († 1956)
• Rietveld, gouda (zuid holland)
• Adriana Francisca Kleij, Breda

• Antonia Maria Van Seeters (0), Raamsdonk
• Charles J. Crider (3)
• Andreas van Mierlo (6), Heeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Boudewinus Wilhelmus Vermunt, Vermeent (81), Zierikzee
• Bertha Spiro (79), Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Andreas van Mierlo (6), Heeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Alida Adriana Martina de Bordes (70), gv
• Anna Maria Hamelinck (75), Stoppeldijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aafje De Groot (0), Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• ABRAHAM BURGER (78), NAALDWIJK

• 1882 » William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter († 1960)
• 1883 » Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1939)
• 1884 » Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer († 1965)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian sailor and captain († 1951)
• 1887 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist († 1963)
• 1888 » Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer († 1976)
• 1888 » Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer († 1972)
• 1889 » Ernst Niekisch, German educator and politician († 1967)
• 1890 » Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer († 1966)
• 1891 » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)

• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)

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 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
• February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• 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.
• March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
• August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

The temperature on May 23, 1885 was about 14.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.