About the day » Sunday May 9, 1886Calender converter

• Alice May Woodall NWOO01.ALI01X, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire († 1978)
• - Timpman, Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1886)
• Adriana Maria Elisabeth van Oosterhout, Tilburg († 1887)
• Adelgunda Maria Nefkens, Emmerich (Duitsland) († 1886)
• , Frederiksoord, Vledder, Drenthe, Nederland
• * Hendrika Willemina van Klei, Leerdam († 1975)
• Adrianus Petrus Johannes van der Pol († 1955)
• Annie A. Mortimer, Connecticut (State) († 1980)
• Adriana Kluijtenaar, Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1939)
• Adriana Jacoba Brusselaars, Den Haag († 1929)

• - Timpman (0), Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arie van Mourick (0), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Albertje Jongman (15), Barsbeek (Vollenhove, Ambt)
• Barend van der Kolk (84), Renkum
• Antonia WILLEMS (84), Beugen en Rijkevoort
• Albert Wybenga (0), Idaarderadeel
• Bertha Herzmann (1), Kepno, Wlkp., Poland
• Arnoldus Ghijsen (18), Geulle, Limburg, Nederland
• Benjamin van de Laar (5), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Barend van der Kolk (84), Renkum

• 1882 » George Barker, American painter († 1965)
• 1882 » Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards († 1967)
• 1883 » José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic († 1955)
• 1884 » Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor († 1917)
• 1885 » Gianni Vella, Maltese artist († 1977)
• 1888 » Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot († 1918)
• 1888 » Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector († 1964)
• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)

• 1850 » Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
• 1850 » Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)

• 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.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• 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.
• July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
• 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 9, 1886 was about 11.4 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.