About the day » Saturday October 23, 1886Calender converter

• Adrianus Welschot, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Anna van Betteray, Wyler (D) († 1961)
• Allegonda Catharina Van. Alphen, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL
• Adriana Nouwen, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Otille de Neui, Ackley, Hardin County, Iowa († 1970)
• Adrianus Faro, Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Rintjes Hofman, Hallum († 1887)
• Albertus Kolkman, Holten († 1970)
• Aaltje Bijsterbosch, Heerde (buurtschap Werven) († 1947)
• Antje Rentjes Hofman, Hallum († 1887)

• Adrianus Lodewicus van Dam (0), Leiden
• anthonie van ZIJTVELD (53), maartensdijk
• Johannes Hartsuiker (55), Pesse (Ruinen)
• Barendina Braafhart (0), Ede, Nederland
• Berendina Braafhart (0), Ede
• Baafje Blom (0), Broek op L'dijk
• Cornelia Johanna Wilhelmina Ruijsch van Dugteren (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aagje van Willigen (0), Brakel
• Cornelia de Ridder (49), Zevenbergen (NL)
• "Joséphine" Marie Chamans de Lavalette (84), Paris

• 1876 » Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, Reich Ministry of Justice († 1970)
• 1880 » Dominikus Böhm, German architect († 1955)
• 1880 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress and singer († 1959)
• 1883 » Hugo Wast, Argentine writer († 1962)
• 1885 » Lawren Harris, Canadian painter and educator († 1970)
• 1888 » Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1961)
• 1892 » Speckled Red, American blues/boogie-woogie piano player and singer-songwriter († 1973)
• 1894 » Emma Vyssotsky, American astronomer and academic († 1975)
• 1894 » Rube Bressler, American baseball player († 1966)
• 1896 » André Lévêque, French soldier and engineer († 1930)

• 1867 » Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
• 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
• 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)

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.
• 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.
• March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
• 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 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• 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 23, 1886 was about 9.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.