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• Johannes Stadig
• Albertien Mones, Odoorn,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1964)
• Agnès Marie Adèle Jeanne Julie Ignace Ghislaine Josèphe ORBAN de XIVRY, Louvain († 1944)
• Pieter Grave(n)kamp, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1906)
• "Lei" Aleida Könning, Babberich († 1973)
• De bruyn, Bornem († 1886)
• Adrianus Marinus Cornelis Schellekens, Wijk bij Duurstede,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1934)
• Anna Booy, Opsterland
• Anje Smit, Oude Pekela,Gemeente Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1980)
• Anna Catharina RENERS, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie

• Agnes Hubertina Van Herten (20), Herten, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Elizabeth Tebbenhof (57), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonet Vollmuller (76), IJsselstein
• Adriana Hendrika Looijen (0), Apeldoorn (GL)
• Anna Theadora van Schaik (2), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Catharina van Dijk (84), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Estor, Den Haag
• Agnes Maria Hubertina van Appeven (29), Posterholt, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Jentjes de Boer (81), Holwerd
• Adriaan Schrauwen (66), Breda

• 1874 » Tan Kah Kee, Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (d.1961)
• 1877 » Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist († 1955)
• 1884 » Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress († 1957)
• 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
• 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
• 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
• 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
• 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)
• 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)
• 1898 » Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor († 1960)

• 1835 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)

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.
• January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
• March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• March 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on October 21, 1886 was about 10.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.