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• Anna Harte, Peelo, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1890)
• Albert Koning, volendam, Nederland († 1964)
• Anna Bertha Marschall, (NH) Amsterdam († 1957)
• Achill Camill Hendrycks, Zarren
• "Pierre" Roger Marie Anne Joseph de Poulpiquet du Halgouët, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France († 1967)
• Aaltje Kaptein, Meppel († 1932)
• Adriaan Kikkert, Amsterdam († 1897)
• Anna BIJNEN, Strijp,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Buijtendijk, Rotterdam († 1952)
• Aagtje Zeeman, Oudkarspel († 1958)

• Anna Sophia van der Lee (33), Amsterdam
• Anna Koot (36), Haarlemmermeer, 4600, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van der Schalk (69), Rotterdam
• Beitske Jans Hiemstra (71), Oosterwierum, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Melenboer (1)
• Arie Schupper (1), Rotterdam
• Antje Gerrits van der Heide (Heyde), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Baukje Jelles Fijlstra (20), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Augustin Joseph BROUILLARD (75), Condé-sur-l'Escaut... Hauts de France
• Antonetta Wilhelmina Catharina Duurkens (0), Nijmegen, Nederland

• 1878 » Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education († 1930)
• 1879 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet († 1944)
• 1879 » Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician († 1976)
• 1880 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1884 » Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor († 1920)
• 1884 » Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer († 1957)
• 1886 » Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director († 1956)
• 1892 » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter († 1942)
• 1895 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère († 1983)
• 1895 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano († 1962)

• 1845 » Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian linguist, poet, and playwright (b. 1808)
• 1850 » Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer (b. 1772)
• 1855 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (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.
• January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.

The temperature on July 12, 1886 was about 16.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.