About the day » Thursday February 11, 1886Calender converter

• Afien Wierenga, Ten Boer, Groningen, Netherlands
• Hugelier, Kuurne (W-VL) België
• Alida Jacoba Geertruida Born, Putten († 1886)
• Andries Beugeling, Oldemarkt
• Ada Maud Thompson, Waynesfield, Auglaize Co, Ohio († 1984)
• Adrianus Slot, Alphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1971)
• Anna Maria van der Heijden, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Albert Gruson IJsseldijk van, Sint-Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika Bosman, Utrecht († 1916)
• Jan Roseboom, Ede († 1888)

• Arie de BORST (15), Hillegersberg
• Anna Slechten (81), Hoelbeek-Bilzen
• Ane Klazes Ritsma (30), Sloten, Gaasterlan-Sleat, Friesland, Netherlands
• Spruit, Amsterdam, NH. NL
• Arie de Vroome (72), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Weststrate (0), Krabbedijke
• Alijda van Essen (66), Bussum
• Anna Catharina Wynants (63), Tongerlo, 3960, België
• Anneke Hendriks ten Berge (68), Slochteren, Hellum
• Ane Ritsma- (30), Sloten, Nederland

• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)
• 1897 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
• 1898 » Leo Szilard, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 1964)
• 1900 » Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education († 1994)
• 1900 » Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar († 2002)
• 1900 » Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist († 1958)
• 1902 » Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed Radisson Blu Royal Hotel († 1971)

• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Petrus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Hendrika
8. Wilhelmina
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Grietje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
16. Elizabeth

• 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.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on February 11, 1886 was about -2.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.