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• Aaltje Visser, Workum, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aafje BLOKDIJK, Blokker, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1946)
• Adelheid Wilhelmina Vink, Beslich (DL)
• Alberdiena Oosting, exloermond
• Anna Maria Duimel, Schiedam († 1952)
• Aaltje Driessen, Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands († 1885)
• Anna Christina Maria van Rooij, Amsterdam († 1975)
• Agneta Maria Sikkel, Utrecht († 1890)
• Adrianus Gerardus Sparnaaij, Gouda, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Agneta Maria Sikkel, Utrecht († 1890)

• Christiaan van Maldegem (0), Schore (Zeeland)
• Berendina Groot Haar (30), Kring van Dorth
• Barend Berend Jansz van Berkum (84), Ginneken en Bavel (Brabant)
• Adriana Cornelia Boom (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clementine Amalia van Lippe-Weissenfeld (24), Mallenchen, Brandenburg
• Albertje Geerts Nijenhuis (50), Diever, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arjen de Vries (27), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Johannes van Rijn (0), 's-Gravenzande
• Adriana Wessels (29), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arij Monster (66), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland (NLD)

• 1878 » Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager († 1963)
• 1879 » Claude Grahame-White, English pilot and engineer († 1959)
• 1884 » Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect († 1936)
• 1885 » Édouard Fabre, Canadian runner († 1939)
• 1886 » Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English author and poet († 1988)
• 1887 » James Paul Moody, English sailor († 1912)
• 1891 » Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier († 2007)
• 1892 » Charles Vanel, French actor and director († 1989)
• 1894 » Christian Schad, German painter († 1982)
• 1895 » Blossom Rock, American actress († 1978)

• 1836 » Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785)
• 1838 » Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (b. 1781)
• 1853 » Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (b. 1783)
• 1854 » Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1867 » Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790)
• 1870 » Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1821)
• 1888 » James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
• 1905 » Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
• 1910 » Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)

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 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• March 26 » The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
• June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
• October 13 » The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 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 21, 1885 was about 15.7 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.