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• Aloysius William Hammes, Seneca, Nemaha County, Kansas († 1951)
• Agnes Skudder, Kawakawa, Auckland, New Zealand († 1962)
• Adrianus Koolen, Schijndel († 1886)
• Anna Rink, Tiel,Gemeente Tiel,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Annechien Zuidema, Wildervank († 1887)
• Adrianus Koolen, Schijndel
• Alice Elizabeth HAMMOND, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England
• Adriana Maria van Dijk, Zoetermeer († 1887)
• Alba Ethel Clark, St Joseph, Missouri, United States
• Anna Catharina FRANS, Schelle,2627,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1908)

• Antonia Geertruida Van Kuik (0), Utrecht
• Carolina Louisa Rathmann (1), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alexandrienne Blackburn (57), Chicoutimi, Québec
• Anna Maria Kersten (52), Geijsteren
• Carolus Ludovicus Cuyt (63), Bornem
• ANTONIE VAN SPRONSEN (56), 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Adriana Pieternella van Wou (74), Den Haag
• Anna Elisabeth Nijenstein (70), Barger-Compascum, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje JACOBS (47), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aldert Buring (1), Peize, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1882 » William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter († 1960)
• 1883 » Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1939)
• 1884 » Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer († 1965)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian sailor and captain († 1951)
• 1887 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist († 1963)
• 1888 » Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer († 1976)
• 1888 » Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer († 1972)
• 1889 » Ernst Niekisch, German educator and politician († 1967)
• 1890 » Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer († 1966)
• 1891 » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)

• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)

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.
• March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
• 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 May 23, 1886 was about 24.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.