About the day » Tuesday May 18, 1886Calender converter

• Adrianus de Reuver, Oss († 1886)
• (Stillborn) SMIDS, Westdongeradeel Friesland Netherlands († 1886)
• Alphons VROMEN, Schin op Geul (NL/LI) († 1887)
• Adrianus Groeneweg, Stompwijk († 1954)
• Assendelft 498
• van Wijck, Terneuzen
• Adrianus Boekhorst, Maurik, Gelderland, Nederland († 1965)
• Adriaan den Boer, Hooge en Lage Zwalue
• Abraham Cohen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hertogs, Loenhout, België

• Agatha Brandt (33), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van der SPEK (0), Delft
• Aaltje van Ommen (34), Oldebroek
• Bernardus Antonius Leoné (0), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana van den Noort (80), Oosterhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bart Corton (51), Rotterdam
• Anthoinette Sluyers (73), Veerle, 2431, België
• Catharina Geldof (0), Serooskerke (W)
• Arnoldus van Kempen (47), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aart van den Ende (81), Rotterdam, Nederland

• 1876 » Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany († 1931)
• 1878 » Johannes Terwogt, Dutch rower († 1977)
• 1882 » Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist († 1968)
• 1883 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil († 1974)
• 1883 » Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building († 1969)
• 1886 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1889 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer († 1944)
• 1891 » Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and academic († 1970)
• 1892 » Ezio Pinza, Italian-American actor and singer († 1957)
• 1895 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader († 1934)

• 1853 » Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (b. 1806)
• 1867 » Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)

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 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• 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.
• June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
• June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

The temperature on May 18, 1886 was about 14.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.