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• Albertus Hendrikus van der Heiden, Nijkerk († 1984)
• Albert Nijland, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriaan Jacobus REIJNGOUDT, Sint Philipsland († 1886)
• Albertina van Schaik, kamerik
• Aag Fortuin, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aarnoud Baart, Aagtekerke, Walcheren, NL
• Adriaan Jacobus Reijngoudt, St. Philipsland († 1886)
• Albert Wight, Colorado, Verenigde Staten († 1959)
• Albertus Philippus Hietbrink, Gorssel († 1942)
• Adriana Johanna de Jongh, Raamsdonk († 1886)

• Adrianus van Raamt (85), Schiedam
• Amerentia Knotter (2), Leiden
• Albertus Marius Ariën Jalink (5), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Kubacki (0), Paris, Huron, Michigan
• Anna Maria Huijskens (53), Heel en Panheel
• Antoon Cox (50), Boxmeer
• Anna Maria Huizer (68), Austerlitz
• (0), Weesper-Carspel
• Anna Maria Huizer (68), Austerlitz
• Anna Maria Smits (69), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1878 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer († 1927)
• 1885 » John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral († 1971)
• 1885 » Milton Avery, American painter († 1965)
• 1886 » G. I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist († 1975)
• 1886 » Virginia Pearson, American actress († 1958)
• 1886 » Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist († 1970)
• 1888 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1978)
• 1888 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist and author († 1977)
• 1894 » Ana María O'Neill, Puerto Rican scholar and activist († 1981)
• 1895 » Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist († 1988)

• 1838 » Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
• 1897 » Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (b. 1813)
• 1904 » Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 » Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
• 1920 » Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
• 1928 » Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
• 1932 » Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1947 » Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)

• 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 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 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.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
• 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 7, 1886 was about 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.