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• Aloïs Verriest, Zwevegem
• Alle Geerts van der Wal, Eestrum, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1918)
• Amalie Alma Schade, Halle an der Saale, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany († 1912)
• Alfred John Gooding, Axminster, Devon, England
• Albert Félicien Martines, Huy
• Alice Maude PRESTRIDGE († 1950)
• Adrianus Tuinhof de Moed, Leiden
• Posma, Kloosterveen, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1886)
• Alvin Emery Hale, Michigan († 1941)
• Antke van der Laag, Ameland

• Aize van der Graaf (40), Opsterland
• Adrianus Van Gompel (61), Dessel, België
• Aaltje BOOGAARD (50), 's-Gravendeel
• Aaltje Taat (71), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Anna Elisabeth Robeyns (61), Thielt
• Aafke Jansen (2), tzummarum
• Adriaantje PLOOS-VAN AMSTEL (81), Huizen (Noord-Holland)
• Alida Wilhelmina Jacquemijns (2), Gorinchem
• Adriana van Eerd (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annigje Jans van HUIZEN (79), De Lemmer, De Fryske Marren, Fryslân, Netherlands 8531

• 1876 » Pope Pius XII († 1958)
• 1878 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver († 1944)
• 1886 » Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher († 1942)
• 1886 » Willis H. O'Brien, American animator and director († 1962)
• 1900 » Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer († 1950)
• 1901 » Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher († 1984)
• 1902 » Edward Condon, American physicist and academic († 1974)
• 1902 » Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy († 1972)
• 1904 » Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator († 1991)
• 1905 » Marc Blitzstein, American composer and songwriter († 1964)

• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)
• 1864 » Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (b. 1842)
• 1865 » Carl Sylvius Völkner, German-New Zealand priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1880 » John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790)
• 1895 » Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1895 » Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Jubal Early, American general (b. 1816)
• 1921 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)
• 1930 » D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1885)

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.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• 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.
• October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

The temperature on March 2, 1886 was about 0.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 46 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.