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• Albertje de Boer, Jubbega-Schurega, Schoterland († 1921)
• Adriaan Aaldert Spanhake, Utrecht († 1918)
• Aaron Crawford, New Broughton, Manchester, Jamaica
• Alexander Bengtsson, Väktardalen, Frostviken, Jämtlands län (Z) († 1893)
• Alberta Feunekes, Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1933)
• Adriana Hillegonda Post, Nootdorp
• Alida Heshusius, Amsterdam
• Adeline Keus, Toeban († 1886)
• Adrianus van Elswijk, Hazerswoude-Dorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Planken, STOMPWIJK (Leidschendam-Voorburg), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1886)

• Adriana Catharina de Vette (9), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kleijkamp (73), Rotterdam
• Anna Cornelia Schapendonk (58), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Roelofs Luggerts (80), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anton Willem van Hoorn (78), Lithoijen
• Aaldrik Sjoerts (39), Rozenburg 14
• Planken (0), STOMPWIJK (Leidschendam-Voorburg), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Michiels Klok (39), Katwijk
• Anna Johanna Maria Janssen (0), Helden,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Machiel Nicolaasdr Klok (39), Katwijk aan Zee

• 1881 » Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest, palaeontologist, and philosopher († 1955)
• 1884 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician († 1964)
• 1885 » Clément Pansaers, Belgian poet († 1922)
• 1885 » Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor and painter († 1973)
• 1887 » Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan († 1983)
• 1890 » Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (d. 1963 or 1964)
• 1891 » Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America († 1988)
• 1895 » May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director († 1968)
• 1895 » Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet secret police official, head of the NKVD († 1940)
• 1896 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician († 1947)

• 1838 » Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (b. 1797)
• 1856 » John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (b. 1774)
• 1873 » David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 » Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (b. 1841)
• 1913 » John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)

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.
• May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
• 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 May 1, 1886 was about 8.6 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.