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• Aalt van den Akker, Nijkerk († 1964)
• Aalt van de Akker, Nijkerk († 1964)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Frederika Manders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Alberdina Essenberg, Leiden († 1961)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Frederika (Jeanne) Manders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1942)
• Albertus van den Aker, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Aaltje Veenstra, Rottevalle († 1938)
• Aaltje Bouwes HOOGLAND, Mildam, 8454, Nederland
• Alberdina Smit, Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Christiaan Kost, Warnsveld († 1942)

• Anna van Oost (0), Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Biemen (1), Leiden
• Albertus Abeen (72), Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Adrianus Oosterveer (0), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aars Veerman (90)
• Aleida Bergman (97), Kekerdom, Netherlands
• Antoine van den Boom (73), Venray
• Andrea DRENTH (0), Grootegast Groningen Netherlands
• Brouwers, Cornjum
• Adrianus Van Camp (58), Grobbendonk

• 1876 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1878 » Rutland Boughton, English composer († 1960)
• 1880 » Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Mexican politician († 1967)
• 1889 » Claribel Kendall, American mathematician (d.1965)
• 1894 » Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author († 1988)
• 1896 » Alf Blair, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1944)
• 1896 » Alf Hall, English-South African cricketer († 1964)
• 1897 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author († 1978)
• 1897 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect († 2000)
• 1897 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician († 1945)

• 1866 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

The temperature on January 23, 1886 was about -1.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.