About the day » Wednesday December 15, 1886Calender converter

• Anna Hendrika Bartha Geldmaker, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Aafje Aberson, Steenwijk
• Anna Margaretha Kuijvenhoven, Naaldwijk († 1968)
• Adriana Elisabeth van de Ree, Klundert
• Adriana Maria van der Meij, Wijk aan Zee en Duin, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hibma, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Albertus Gerardus Fokker, Abcoude-Proostdij, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Anthonie Johannes de Winter, Utrecht († 1955)
• Anna Catharina Vissers, Oosterhout († 1935)
• Anna Cornelia Jasperse, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)

• Aaltje KRANS (62), Eursing (Beilen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Apolonia Meijer (6), Hillegom
• Anna Elisabeth Hauschopp (0), Werne, Unna, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Anna Maria Waaijer (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria WILKEN (16), Hebelermeer-Twist, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Adrianus Hendrik BAKKER (23), Delft
• Antje Mercus (75), Afferden, Druten
• Annaatje Gideon Rosa (64), Amsterdam Holland, Netherlands
• André Alfred de Lestrange (86), château de Chaux, Charente-Maritime, France
• Aleida Korterink (74), Baalder (Hardenbergh, Ambt)

• 1878 » Hans Carossa, German author and poet († 1956)
• 1885 » Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian lawyer, philosopher, and academic († 1971)
• 1886 » Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, Polish politician and resistance fighter († 1968)
• 1888 » Maxwell Anderson, American journalist and playwright († 1959)
• 1890 » Harry Babcock, American pole vaulter († 1965)
• 1891 » A.P. Carter, American country singer-songwriter and musician († 1960)
• 1892 » J. Paul Getty, American-English businessman and art collector, founded Getty Oil († 1976)
• 1894 » Josef Imbach, Swiss sprinter († 1964)
• 1894 » Vibert Douglas, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1988)
• 1896 » Betty Smith, American author and playwright († 1972)

• 1819 » Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
• 1855 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

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.
• March 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• August 31 » The 7.0 M_w  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
• September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

The temperature on December 15, 1886 was about 8.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.