About the day » Monday March 15, 1886Calender converter

• Albert Bosman, Hollandscheveld († 1954)
• Albert Bosman, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus Meijer, Rhenen († 1886)
• Adrianus Willem Dersjant, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1949)
• Adrianus Marinus Meek, Assen,Gemeente Assen,Drente († 1956)
• Aaltje van 't Riet, Winkel († 1901)
• Adrianus Plomp, utrecht († 1937)
• Adriana Catharina Postel, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• († 1918)
• Adriana Ida Verhoeven, Herpt en Bern († 1889)

• Annechien Griede (3), Godlinze gem. Bierum
• Archibald Godfrey McColeman (born MacColman) (86), Nottawasaga, Ontario, Canada
• Alida (Aaltje) Sijmensdr Heemskerk (85), Warmond, ZH, Nederland
• Albert Ebbels - (78), Tolbert (Leek)
• Amatus Isidorus Edouardus VAN DYCKE (46), Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, 21012, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Adriaan van den Berg (56), Etten Leur, Etten-Leur, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Bol (55), Wij aan Zee en Duin
• Allert Johannes van Unen (3), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• *Johanna Cornelia (2) Baars (0), IJsselstein, Utrecht, NL
• Adriaan van den Berg (56), Etten-Leur

• 1874 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1951)
• 1874 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1952)
• 1878 » Reza Shah, Iranian king († 1944)
• 1879 » Benjamin R. Jacobs, American biochemist († 1963)
• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian-Greek painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health († 1961)
• 1887 » Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods († 1973)
• 1890 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer († 1980)
• 1892 » James Basevi Ord, Mexican-American colonel († 1938)
• 1897 » Jackson Scholz, American runner († 1986)

• 1842 » Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1849 » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1891 » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
• 1897 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
• 1921 » Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
• 1927 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)
• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
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. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
16. Petronella

• 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 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
• May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
• June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.

The temperature on March 15, 1886 was about -3.3 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.