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• Maria Luijkx, Steenbergen
• Alfonso Maria Francisco Antonio Diego De Orleans Y Borbon, Madrid, Spain († 1975)
• Aaltje Kooijman, Charlois Rotterdam († 1887)
• Adriana Castelijn, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfonso Maria Duca di Galliera, Madrid, Madrid, Spain († 1975)
• Adriaan van der Meulen, Rotterdam
• Alma Ritchie, Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, Québec, Canada
• Aartje Vedder, Nijkerk, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikus Noortman, Zwollerkerspel († 1971)
• Alfonso Maria Frans Dictus van Bourbon-Orléans, Madrid († 1975)

• Anthonie Franciscus Hoof, van (49), Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Anthonij Schipper (71), Zierikzee
• Alberta Hols (43), Hengelo, 7500, Nederland
• Adrianus Helmons (72), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Van Luyten (89), Vremde
• Adriana Catharina Pauline Versfelt (70), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonie Francis Hoof van (49), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cortvriendt (85), Loppem, Belgium
• Albert Oosterheerd (20)
• Almira Fenton (87), Wyoming County, New York, Verenigde Staten

• 1881 » Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1881 » Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect († 1948)
• 1886 » Ben Travers, English author and playwright († 1980)
• 1886 » Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer († 1975)
• 1889 » DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest († 1981)
• 1890 » Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater († 1974)
• 1892 » Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor and actor († 1958)
• 1894 » Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist († 1976)
• 1895 » Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Spanish tennis player († 1984)
• 1895 » Nima Yooshij, Iranian poet and academic († 1960)

• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
• 1916 » Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
• 1933 » F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
• 1933 » John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
• 1939 » Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (b. 1890)
• 1946 » Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (b. 1875)

• 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.
• 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 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• 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.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

The temperature on November 12, 1886 was about 9.5 °C. The air pressure was 30 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.