About the day » Saturday March 20, 1886Calender converter

• Anna Roelfzema, Delfzijl († 1956)
• Abondius Provino August SCIARONE, Utrecht, 5553, Utrecht, Nederland († 1936)
• Alida Wilhelmina Schram, Amsterdam († 1972)
• Adolphus Fack, Gent
• Abondius Provino August Sciarone, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1936)
• Andries Lepelaar, Leiden († 1886)
• Aart Heek, Bunschoten
• Abraham Kar van de, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1943)
• Akke Aans Bergsma, Suameer, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abondio Provino Augusto Sciarone, Utrecht († 1936)

• Antonius Stuivenberg (3), Hengelo
• Antje Tammes ten Cate (77), Sappemeer
• Aaltje Johannes de Vries (86), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries Landman (0), Slochteren
• Antje - Tammes ten Cate gr (77), Sappemeer {GR}
• Adrianus Van Hasselt (81), Brasschaet
• antonius TIMMERS (46), Princenhage
• Arie Hof van 't (0), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Painter (81), Ivanhoe, Wythe, VA
• Arie Pellikaan (92), Woudrichem, Brabant, Netherlands

• 1879 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist († 1960)
• 1882 » Harold Weber, American golfer († 1933)
• 1882 » René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France († 1962)
• 1884 » John Jensen, Australian public servant († 1970)
• 1884 » Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher († 1966)
• 1885 » Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer († 1958)
• 1888 » Amanda Clement, American baseball player, umpire, and educator († 1971)
• 1890 » Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor († 1973)
• 1894 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter († 1974)
• 1895 » Fredric Wertham, German-American psychologist and author († 1981)

• 1849 » James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)
• 1855 » Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
• 1865 » Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)

• 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.
• 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 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• 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.

The temperature on March 20, 1886 was about 8.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.