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• Adrianus Kors Hofman, Sliedrecht († 1886)
• Adriana van der Meij, Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Adriana Ariens van der Meij, Oegstgeest
• Andrew Pol, Mi, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Roovers, Ginneken en Bavel († 1959)
• Abeltje Birza, Garsthuizen, gem. Stedum, Groningen, Nederland († 1962)
• Albertje Birza, Garsthuizen (Stedum-Gr) († 1962)
• Albina Margaret Steele, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1964)
• Adam Kramer, Leeuwarden († 1939)
• Anna Derks Drukker, Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands

• Cornelis Hanegraaff (26), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Cornelia Margaretha Huisman (36), Moerkapelle
• Carl Klumpen (0), Dülken, Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Aleida Veldhuis (28), Tubbergen
• Anna Jacoba de Jongh (83), Assen
• Boeree, haarlem
• Christian Birkey (74), Seward, NE, United States
• Benedictus Pauwels (0), Pamel
• Alida Maria Naessens (6), STEKENE
• Anna Maria Heuts (74), Heer, Limburg, Nederland

• 1884 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist († 1951)
• 1886 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1977)
• 1887 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director († 1967)
• 1887 » Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb († 1979)
• 1887 » Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and poet († 1958)
• 1888 » J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author († 1964)
• 1888 » T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1889 » Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist († 1946)
• 1889 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic († 1976)
• 1890 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager († 1959)

• 1868 » August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
• 1877 » Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
• 1902 » Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)
• 1904 » John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Charles Wade, Australian politician, 17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Andy Adams, American author (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and author (b. 1861)
• 1937 » Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b. 1926)

• 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 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
• February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
• March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
• July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
• November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.

The temperature on September 26, 1885 was about 7.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.