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• Anna Johanna Frieda Germighausen, Harburg, Hamburg, Duitsland († 1940)
• Andries van Eijk, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Albertus Adrianus de Monye, Noordwijk, Netherlands († 1987)
• Anna Bonzet, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria MENKMAN, Wageningen (Gelderland, The Netherlands) († 1914)
• Anna Margaretha Pluijmen, Voerendaal,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aafke Groefsema, Den Ham, gem. Aduard, Groningen, Nederland
• Aäron Morpurgo, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriana Christ, 's-Gravenmoer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1935)
• Adolf van Etten, Berkhout, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1901)

• Adolf Hugo Diemont (60), Arnhem
• Aafke Durks Zijlstra (76), Kollumerzwaag, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Molenberg (25), Groningen
• Aleida Petronella Pieters (0), Den Haag
• Antina Vrijborg (32), Ditzumerverlaat, Ostfriesland, Germany
• Antonius Hendrikus Schoemaker (55), Stad Almelo
• Antonia van den Beld (21), Dieren {GE} (Rheden)
• Schalk Cornelis Helsloot (11), Lopik
• Anna Spierings, Gemert, NL
• Antonius Arnoldus van den Heuvel (0), Stratum

• 1877 » Arnaud Massy, French golfer († 1950)
• 1878 » Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist († 1926)
• 1883 » Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland († 1971)
• 1884 » Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor († 1970)
• 1885 » Ernst Busch, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1886 » Marc Bloch, French historian and academic († 1944)
• 1887 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress († 1975)
• 1887 » Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet († 1985)
• 1890 » Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar († 1936)
• 1892 » Will James, American author and illustrator († 1942)

• 1854 » Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (b. 1840)
• 1893 » Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1850)
• 1901 » Chlodwig Carl Viktor, German prince and chancellor (b. 1819)
• 1902 » Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
• 1904 » Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1907 » August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (b. 1826)
• 1916 » Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1918 » Wilhelm von Mirbach, German diplomat (b. 1871)
• 1922 » Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (b. 1863)

• 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.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.

The temperature on July 6, 1885 was about 23.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.