About the day » Monday March 15, 1886Calender converter

• Albertus Meijer, Rhenen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1886)
• Adrianus de BORST, Dordrecht († 1963)
• Johanna Hendrika Broekman, IJsselstein
• Adrianus Plomp, utrecht († 1937)
• Nijdam, Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1886)
• Abelina Reitsema, Wetsinge (Adorp) († 1917)
• Adriana Ida Verhoeven, Herpt en Bern († 1889)
• Adrianus van den Berg, Noordwijkerhout († 1972)
• Aletta OLTMANS, Leeuwarden († 1887)
• Albertje Leever, Rolde († 1954)

• Alida Heemskerk (85), Warmond, ZUI, Nederland
• Alfred Ryder Bennett (49), West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Anna Kuijpers (38), Huisseling en Neerloon, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius ELST (50), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje Huizing (1), Usquert
• Alida Sijmensd Heemskerk (85), Noordwijkerhout, zh.nld
• Anna Maria Falise (57), Bocholt
• Antje Johannes Frieswijk (74), Friesch Stroobos, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Bol (55), Wij aan Zee en Duin
• Archibald Godfrey McColeman (born MacColman) (86), Nottawasaga, Ontario, Canada

• 1874 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1951)
• 1874 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1952)
• 1878 » Reza Shah, Iranian king († 1944)
• 1879 » Benjamin R. Jacobs, American biochemist († 1963)
• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian-Greek painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health († 1961)
• 1887 » Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods († 1973)
• 1890 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer († 1980)
• 1892 » James Basevi Ord, Mexican-American colonel († 1938)
• 1897 » Jackson Scholz, American runner († 1986)

• 1842 » Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1849 » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1891 » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
• 1897 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
• 1921 » Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
• 1927 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)
• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)

• 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 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
• June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
• 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 March 15, 1886 was about -3.3 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.