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• Adriana Pieternella Aalbregtse, Zierikzee († 1885)
• Aartje van Ommeren, Lienden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Rust, Leermens, Groningen, Nederland
• (Stillborn HOOGEVEEN, Marum Groningen Netherlands († 1885)
• Albertus Lieferink, Apeldoorn († 1929)
• Adriana Christina Vos, Amsterdam, Netherlands († 1965)
• Anna van der Weide, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Bargeroosterveen)
• Aaltje Gooijer, Langezwaag († 1956)
• Albertus Lieferink, Apeldoorn († 1929)
• Anna Noordeloos, Hoogkarspel

• ALIDA POPPEZEIJN (72), SCHIEDAM
• Aagje Swart (31), Haarlem NH NL
• (Stillborn HOOGEVEEN (0), Marum Groningen Netherlands
• Haeck (0), Tholen,Zeeland,Nederland
• Adolph van der Ende (0), Hof van Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Andries van Trijffel (80), Dordrecht
• Anna Maria Luising (42), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anthonie Fronik (34), Kamerik
• Annetje van Dijk (88), Nieuwenhoorn
• Aleida_Hendrika Markus (60), 's-Heerenberg,Bergh

• 1880 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1880 » Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist († 1943)
• 1881 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)

• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)

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 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
• April 3 » Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• 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 August 12, 1885 was about 20.4 °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 58%.