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• Aalbert van Grootheest, Ede († 1962)
• Adriana van Rossum, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland († 1886)
• Jan Gjalt Frederiks, Texel († 1968)
• Adriana Pieternella Kemmeren, Capelle, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1886)
• Aaltje Wybes Postma, Kollumerzwaag, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• Agnes Josephina Maria Jocker, Schiedam († 1965)
• Adriana Resoort, Dalem, Vuren,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Achille Joseph Louchart, Enguinegatte, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Frankrijk († 1985)
• Adriana Maria van Merrienboer
• Adriana (Jeanne) Zonneveld, Den Haag († 1963)

• Albert Ymkes de Boer (40), Jubbega-Schurega, Schoterland
• agatha atje regnery (8), bolsward
• Anthonie (Antonij) Figee (81), Schiedam
• Anna Maria Kroonenberg (77), Wamel
• Agatha Atje Regnerij (8), Bolsward
• Adrianus SCHILDER (0), Enkhuizen (Noord-Holland)
• Absalom Jackson Downs, Sr. (64), Limestone County, Texas, United States
• Pruijs (0)
• Albert IJmkes de Boer (40), Schoterland
• Reinder Wybes Soethout (56), Sneek

• 1876 » Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany († 1967)
• 1879 » Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic († 1946)
• 1880 » Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer († 1951)
• 1881 » Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter († 1934)
• 1882 » Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist († 1958)
• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1892 » Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse († 1984)
• 1893 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American guru and philosopher († 1952)
• 1897 » Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher and author († 1945)

• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)

• 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 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on January 5, 1886 was about 3.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.