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• Annie Jane Neal (Warren, Mississippi († 1968)
• Anna Elisabeth Pieters, Kotaradja
• Adrianus Peter Vonk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Anthonia Christina van der WIJK, Dordrecht
• Ermers, Chaam, Noord Brabant
• Andrew Bosch, Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1979)
• Andries Bosch, Putten-Diermen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)
• Anna Maria ten Have, Diepenveen († 1888)
• Anna Geertruida Schaap, Delft
• Abraham Jacobs Humalda, Leeuwarden

• Adriaan Johan Lotgering (5), Kampen,Overijssel,Niederlande
• Aristide Laleure (7), Dijon, Frankrijk
• Adriana VAN DER ZWET (34), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Asjen Bomhoff (56), Zwolle (Ov )
• Anna Maria Lijnen (0), Susteren
• Camillus Boeding (9), Stoppeldijk
• Adriaan de Loos (76), Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna van Dopperen (0), IJsselstein, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana Monster (38), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland (NLD)
• Arie van der Kooij (56), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1879 » Albert Asher, New Zealand rugby player († 1965)
• 1879 » Charles Hutchison, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1879 » Kafū Nagai, Japanese author and playwright († 1959)
• 1880 » Fedor von Bock, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1883 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor († 1945)
• 1884 » Rajendra Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st President of India († 1963)
• 1884 » Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1965)
• 1886 » Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1887 » Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese general and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan († 1990)
• 1891 » Thomas Farrell, American general († 1967)

• 1876 » Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
• 1882 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)
• 1888 » Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 » Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)
• 1894 » Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850)
• 1902 » Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (b. 1833)
• 1904 » David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (b. 1821)
• 1912 » Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)

• 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 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• 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.
• June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 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 December 3, 1886 was about -0.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.