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• Aaltje van Lohuizen, Heerde (buurtschap Markluiden) († 1885)
• Bückmann, 's-Gravenhage
• Alphons Joseph Rottier, Sint Jansteen
• Aaltjen van Lohuizen, ........... († 1885)
• Alphons Joseph Rottier, Sint Jansteen
• Albert KLOEKERS, Assen Drenthe Netherlands († 1957)
• Amelia Deketelaere, Torhout,8820,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1931)
• "Elisabeth" Marie Josèphe Tournois de Bonnevallet († 1973)
• Albertus Feenstra, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1936)
• Annegina Afina Dikkema, Westerbroek,Groningen,Netherlands († 1967)

• Antje van Sante (67), Naarden
• Anna Koenen (6), Hommersum, Goch, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Adrianus Schipper (1), Oud-Beijerland
• Abigael Rois Mendez (75), Willemstad Curacao (NA)
• Bernardus Hendrikus Nijhuis (0), Hengelo
• Annigje ten Kate (24), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Franciscus Hurkmans (2), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldina Maria Voets (2), Boxtel
• Adriaan van de Klomp (0), Maartensdijk, De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Absalom Jr. Higginbotham (64), Amherst County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten

• 1873 » Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer († 1942)
• 1874 » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1876 » Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal († 1956)
• 1880 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr († 1936)
• 1881 » Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal († 1964)
• 1881 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria († 1938)
• 1883 » Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar († 1967)
• 1888 » Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India († 1975)
• 1892 » Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator († 1973)
• 1897 » Morris Carnovsky, American actor († 1992)

• 1857 » Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798)
• 1876 » Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1877 » Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (b. 1849)
• 1894 » George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (b. 1822)
• 1898 » Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 » Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1902 » Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1909 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist (b. 1864)
• 1912 » Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American general (b. 1845)

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 1 » Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
• January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
• 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.
• April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.

The temperature on September 5, 1885 was about 16.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.