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• * Geertruida van den Berg († 1958)
• Anna Jeannette Iken († 1968)
• Albert Howell, Texas, Monroe, Ohio († 1933)
• * Franciscus Antonius van Berkel, Tilburg († 1959)
• Adriana de Wert, Westelbeers († 1944)
• Ambrosio Repetto, Ocumare de la Costa Venezuela
• Albertus Ruks (Buks), Lobith (GLD), Nederland († 1895)
• Jan Hendrik Schiltmans, Tiel († 1892)
• Anna Alberta Räkers, Uelsen
• Anna Johanna van Berlo, Stratum (Eindhoven) († 1887)

• Anna-Catharina Wierinckx (76), Lubbeek
• Aagje Baks (17), Aalburg
• Antonia Lambregts (0), Etten-Leur
• Andries van Klij (2), Meerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Bakker (84)
• adriana GOUDSWAARD (0), oud-beijerland
• Anna Elizabeth Lambrechts (79), Suid Afrika
• Amelia Geylens (Gijlens) (56), Waarschoot
• Adrianus van Zon (21), Ammerzoden
• Adrianus van Kaam (0), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1879 » James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and politician, 49th United States Secretary of State († 1972)
• 1880 » Bill Horr, American football player, discus thrower, and coach († 1955)
• 1882 » Isabel González, Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship († 1971)
• 1885 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist († 1966)
• 1886 » Gottfried Benn, German author and poet († 1956)
• 1887 » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager († 1951)
• 1887 » Vernon Castle, English-American dancer († 1918)
• 1889 » Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian philosopher, academic, and politician († 1959)
• 1890 » E. E. Smith, American engineer and author († 1965)
• 1892 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot († 1918)

• 1857 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (b. 1810)
• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)
• 1925 » Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)

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.
• January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
• January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 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 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• August 31 » The 7.0 M_w  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.

The temperature on May 2, 1886 was about 7.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.