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• Achiel Lybeer († 1968)
• Albrecht Berengar Berthoald Fva Graf von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, München, Bayern, D († 1947)
• Adriana de Back, Cadzand († 1960)
• Helena Maria Josepha Cornelis Zijlmans, Waalwijk († 1888)
• Albert Lee TIEKEN, Robinson Tow, Indiana
• Agatha Rühling, Niederhochstadt,Pfalz,Bayern,Deutschland
• Adriana Catharina Jansen, Tilburg († 1948)
• Agnès Schnaufer, Lauffen Allemagne
• Aaltje Leenderts admiraal│Ammeraal, Noordwijk († 1952)
• Aaltje Admiraal, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1952)

• Bouke Willems (Werkema) (75), Feerwerd (Ezinge) Gem. Winsum
• Amanda "Mandy" Cook Estes (41), Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina Hubertina Geurten (58), Heerlen
• Catharina van Velzen (42), Abcoude-Proosdij
• Bernard Otto Hanstein (44), Stettin,Po, Duitsland
• Carolina Johanna Margaretha Wustrow (4), Leiderdorp
• Annigje Verkuil (5), Driebergen, Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika de Leeuw (54), amsterdam, Nederland
• Adrianus Elbertse (38), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham Gabrielse (0), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL

• 1876 » Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning († 1950)
• 1878 » Major Taylor, American cyclist († 1932)
• 1885 » Heinrich Brüning, German lieutenant, economist, and politician, Chancellor of Germany († 1970)
• 1888 » Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter († 1978)
• 1889 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1891 » Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1977)
• 1894 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal († 1974)
• 1894 » Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher († 1964)
• 1895 » Bill W., American activist, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous († 1971)
• 1898 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)

• 1857 » Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and author (b. 1788)
• 1860 » Benjamin Greene, English brewer, founded Greene King (b. 1780)
• 1872 » Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician, Minister President of Prussia (b. 1805)
• 1883 » Sojourner Truth, American activist (b. 1797)
• 1885 » Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813)
• 1892 » Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal and academic (b. 1825)
• 1895 » George Edward Dobson, Irish zoologist, photographer, and surgeon (b. 1848)
• 1896 » Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic (b. 1823)
• 1912 » Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1834)

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.
• January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 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 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• 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.

The temperature on November 26, 1886 was about 9.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.