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• Adriana Berdina van Doren, Utrecht
• Andreas Gerardus Willem Boijmans, Rotterdam († 1945)
• Adriana Janetta Veraart, Maastricht († 1886)
• * Elizabeth Kransse, Sommelsdijk († 1962)
• Alastair Mungo GRAHAM, London England U.K († 1976)
• , Oostende, België
• Adrianus de Cruijff, Utrecht († 1925)
• Booij, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham Landman, Zuidland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Alje Jacobus van Deemter, Oostmahorn, Friesland, Nederland († 1956)

• Anne Doedes Zijlstra (53), ,,, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Alexander Lodewijk Carel BOUDIER (74), Leende,,NETHERLANDS
• Adriana van den Ende (32), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Geertruida Oskam (0), Ede
• Antje Hillebrands (66), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Alida Butot (25), Bodegraven, ZH, Nederland
• Mathilde Maria Baert (0), Koewacht
• Aaltje Jans Vonk (48)
• Antonius Leeijen (1), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Rienders (75), Groningen, Nederland

• 1874 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian pediatrician and immunologist († 1929)
• 1875 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library († 1960)
• 1880 » Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer († 1951)
• 1885 » Paltiel Daykan, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist († 1969)
• 1885 » Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Japanese author († 1976)
• 1886 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot († 1937)
• 1889 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank († 1980)
• 1892 » Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director († 1970)
• 1895 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author († 1986)
• 1895 » William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)

• 1856 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (b. 1791)
• 1860 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (b. 1795)
• 1864 » J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
• 1867 » Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)

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.
• March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
• 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.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on May 12, 1886 was about 6.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.