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• Anna Louisa de Meijer, Zundert, Nederland († 1966)
• Adriana van de Wiel, Drunen († 1918)
• Anna Bevaart, Heenvliet († 1950)
• Aaltje Leijssenaar, Hollandscheveldschendijk (Hoogeveen), Drenthe, Nederland († 1923)
• Aaltje Struiksma, Buitenpost († 1971)
• Anna Cornelia Roovers, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1972)
• Alberta Dykstra, Pella, Marion, Iowa, United States († 1968)
• Aagje Tiemersma, Welsrijp († 1941)
• Anna Roorda, Franeker, Fr, Nederland († 1919)
• Anna Roorda-, Franeker, Nederland († 1919)

• Anna Heikes Rouw (70), Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• *Ysabel Chaves Tejeda (59), Mechoacanejo, Jalisco, México
• Adriana den Hoed (71), Stolwijk, Vlist, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonetta Antonetta Penders (64), Dordrecht
• Adriana Hendrika Meijers (42), Loon op Zand
• Antonet VOLMULLER (76), IJsselstein (Utrecht)
• Arie Vianen (72), Kamerik
• Arie Jacobus Visser (37), Sliedrecht
• Adriana den Hoed (70), Stolwijk
• Adolf VON LEDEBUR-WICHELN (74), Krzemusch, Czech Republic

• 1882 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Margaret Dumont, American actress († 1965)
• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)
• 1893 » Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1940)
• 1894 » Olive Thomas, American model and actress († 1920)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

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.
• May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• 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 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• 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 October 20, 1886 was about 11.1 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.