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• Aaltje Mennink, Bergentheim († 1895)
• Aaltje Mennink, Bergentheim, Ambt Hardenberg († 1895)
• Aafje de Werk, Gouda
• Aletta Verkerk, Gouda († 1886)
• Alice C. Bloemers, Wisconsin († 1918)
• Rensink, Rijssen († 1886)
• Adriana van Eyck, Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1886)
• Adriana Maria Vermeeren, Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1918)
• Anna de Boer († 1973)
• Adriana van Anrooij, Gameren († 1958)

• Rensink (0), Rijssen
• Annechien Lamberts Kuiper (56)
• Albertien (Jippingh) Jipping (59)
• Anthonius Tophoven, Djokjakarta
• Anna Angela - Angela Wübben (62), Wesuwe, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adriaan Koole (50), Wolphaartsdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annebetje Romijn (0), gorinchem (zuid holland)
• Antje de Haan (43), Haarlemmermeer (Haarlemmermeer) (Noord Holland)
• Anatole Charles Leopold Lefebvre (0)
• Antonia Wilhelmina (de) Beauveser (49), Deventer

• 1879 » Wesley Coe, American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor († 1926)
• 1884 » Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States († 1972)
• 1885 » Thomas B. Costain, Canadian journalist and author († 1965)
• 1892 » Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat († 1981)
• 1893 » Edd Roush, American baseball player and coach († 1988)
• 1893 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer († 1967)
• 1893 » Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster († 1963)
• 1895 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor († 1972)
• 1895 » Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop († 1979)
• 1895 » James H. Kindelberger, American businessman († 1962)

• 1837 » Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (b. 1770)
• 1842 » Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer (b. 1790)
• 1853 » Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1785)
• 1880 » Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
• 1891 » Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
• 1891 » John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816)
• 1893 » Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (b. 1833)
• 1903 » Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1848)
• 1907 » Edmund G. Ross, American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1826)
• 1925 » John Beresford, Irish polo player (b. 1847)

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 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• March 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 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 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

The temperature on May 8, 1886 was about 21.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 43%.