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• Anna Margrieta Sterkenburg, Leeuwarden
• Adriana van Geffen, Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Belle Rowland Kittrell, Coffey County, Kansas († 1961)
• Aaltje Gerrits Benjamins, Tiendeveen (Beilen) († 1885)
• Adriana BRUGEL, Oudenbosch (N-B) († 1886)
• * Sara Catharina Oskam, Peursum
• Anna Hendrika Garritsen, Eefde
• Anna Angelina Schulpen, Susteren († 1962)
• Adriana Bogers, Made en Drimmelen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1967)
• Anna Margaretha Schulte, Dörpen, Emsland

• Benjamin Louis Meijers (9), Baarn
• Aafje Prins (5), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Appolonia Smink (54), Harderwijk
• ALPHONSUS THEODORUS MARIA KOCKEN (0), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba Vermeulen (80), Weelde, Ravels, Antwerp, Belgium
• Baukje Fokkema (68), Zwolle,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aafje van der Meer (71), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Anna Johanna Judith van Ittersum (77), 's Gravenhage
• AFIE VAN DER MEER (71), NAALDWIJK
• Anna Johanna Judith Barones van Ittersum (77), 's Gravenhage

• 1881 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti († 1947)
• 1883 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer († 1950)
• 1886 » Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist († 1971)
• 1887 » Carlos Dávila, Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile († 1955)
• 1888 » Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver († 1925)
• 1889 » Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author († 1948)
• 1889 » Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor († 1945)
• 1890 » Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1976)
• 1890 » Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer († 1979)
• 1890 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer († 1981)

• 1842 » Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (b. 1792)
• 1842 » Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• 1852 » Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)

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 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
• February 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
• 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.
• July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
• 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 September 15, 1885 was about 17.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.