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• Adriaan Koenraad Noorduyn, Leiden,Gemeente Leiden,South Holland,Netherlands
• Alfred SMITH, Birmingham, Warwick, England († 1966)
• Agatha Catharina Zijm, Roosendaal († 1962)
• Adrianus Jacobus Akerboom, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1886)
• Alko Ammersken, Vriescheloo, Bellingwolde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1886)
• Alonzo Eldrid Ellie Mitchell, Ouachita, Louisiana, United States († 1942)
• , Utrecht († 1955)
• Alfred Emilius Burcke, Oostende († 1887)
• Aafke Grezel, Westerlee (gem. Oldambt)
• Adriana Valster, IJsselmonde († 1970)

• Christina Sophia van Leeuwen (0), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anthonius van der Kroft (45)
• Batje Dries Broekhuis (67), Gemeente Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Perridge (19), Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland
• Catharina van 't Hof (0), Velsen
• Adriana Cornelia van Zundert (0), Roosendaal
• Arnoldus Brekelmans (84), Oisterwijk
• Berendina Severs (63), Hengforden, Olst
• Batje Dries Broekhuis (67), Oldebroek
• Armand Joseph Loncin (0), Luik

• 1879 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 1960)
• 1882 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset († 1949)
• 1888 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1889 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author († 1970)
• 1894 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist († 1966)
• 1896 » Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer († 1919)
• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)

• 1878 » Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)
• 1881 » Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (b. 1804)
• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)

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. Neeltje
12. Grietje
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.
• March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on July 17, 1886 was about 20.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.