About the day » Thursday December 23, 1886Calender converter

• adriaantje BAKKER, ridderkerk († 1961)
• Adriana de Graauw, Terheijden
• Knevelbaard, Onstwedde († 1886)
• Albertus Rudolphus Boesjes, Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Gees († 1888)
• Alte Pleket, Meppel
• Aaldert Strijker, Hoogeveen (Slood)
• albertus wilhelmus lensen, 's-gravenhage,, zuid holland († 1887)
• Adriaantje Rijke, de, Zon gem. 's-Hertogenbosch Nrb. Nederland († 1966)
• Adriaantje de Rijke, Zonnemaire
• Middleton, Halfway, Missouri († 1886)

• Arie Visser (23), Charlois
• Abraham Gerrit Hendrik Grutterink (57), Vught
• Tacoma (0), Nijega (H.O.N.)
• Aletta Fronik (0), Breukelen-Nijenrode, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertus Derksen (71), Steenderen (Bronckhorst), Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana de Raad (33), Hedikhuizen, gem. Heusden, NB, Nederland
• Antje WEITENBERG (0), Menaldumadeel
• Albertus Wilhelmus van Erp, Geffen
• Aagje de Waart (57), Marken, Nederland
• Antonie Withuis (30), Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• 1870 » John Marin, American architect and painter († 1953)
• 1878 » Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Pierre Brissaud, French illustrator, painter, and engraver († 1964)
• 1894 » Arthur Gilligan, English cricketer († 1976)
• 1895 » Nola Luxford, New Zealand-American actress and broadcaster († 1994)
• 1896 » Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian lieutenant and author († 1957)
• 1900 » Marie Bell, French actress and stage director († 1985)
• 1900 » Merle Barwis, American-Canadian supercentenarian († 2014)
• 1900 » Otto Soglow, American cartoonist († 1975)
• 1902 » Norman Maclean, American author and academic († 1990)

• 1834 » Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and demographer (b. 1766)
• 1884 » John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1902 » Frederick Temple, English archbishop and academic (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, last emperor of the Gaza Empire (b. c.1850)
• 1912 » Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1926 » Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay, Turkish lieutenant and educator (b. 1906)
• 1931 » Wilson Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)

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.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on December 23, 1886 was about 1.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.