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• Adolphus Leontinus Peeters, Puurs, België
• Albert Reinders, Voorst († 1887)
• van Dijk, Wymbritseradeel
• Aldert Engelsman, Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Jan Klein Velderman, Diepenveen, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1963)
• , Naarden, netherlands († 1960)
• Alle Rinzema, Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1886)
• Albert Jan Klijn Velderman, Weteringen, Colmschate (Diepenveen) († 1963)
• * Petronella Antonia (Tonna) Smits, Nuenen († 1978)
• Albert Friedrich Ernest, Rotterdam

• Andrew Hamilton (67), Union Grove, Meeker, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Petronella Blom (0), Oud Beijerland
• Anna Maria Geertrui Elisabeth van Dorth (72), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Adrianus Cornelis Theodorus van den Hoven (2), Rotterdam
• Adriaan van Hoorn (49), Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Roetering (80), Rott
• Andries de Jong (50), Harlingen
• Anna (Antje) Brakenhoff (50), Alkmaar
• Adriaan van Hoorn (49), Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alje Jakobs Krol (89), Kantens

• 1874 » Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer († 1948)
• 1878 » Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina († 1970)
• 1878 » Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian († 1967)
• 1880 » Tom Mix, American cowboy and actor († 1940)
• 1881 » Ion Minulescu, Romanian author, poet, and critic († 1944)
• 1882 » Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Albania († 1965)
• 1882 » Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1961)
• 1883 » Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher († 1931)
• 1898 » James Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot († 1965)
• 1899 » Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer († 1968)

• 1855 » Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)
• 1882 » Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)
• 1884 » Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
• 1885 » Bharatendu Harishchandra, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)
• 1896 » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1902 » Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)
• 1913 » Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)

• 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.
• 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.
• November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

The temperature on January 6, 1886 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.