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• Albertus Hilarius Vanwalleghem, Roeselare († 1886)
• Alida van Leur, Utrecht († 1967)
• Adriaan Anthonius Hoonakker, Zuilen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1886)
• Amedée Louis Leopold Lievens, Sint-Kruis-Brugge
• Adrianus van Loon, Oosterhout
• Angenietje Riem, Harlingen, Nederland († 1966)
• Adriaan Geense, Kruiningen, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1886)
• Andrew (Pat) Nettinga, Le Mars Plymouth, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1957)
• Aafje de Boer († 1966)
• Alphonsus Bertels, Geel,Antwerpen,Belgium

• Agatha (Aagje) Mension (76), Delft
• Aagje Mension (76), Delft, ZH, The Netherlands
• Antonij Baan (69), Zwijndrecht, Netherlands
• Antje LAAN (0), Wervershoof,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van den Blink (1), Oostvoorne
• Anje Heikes Woltbeek (86), Siddeburen, Groningen, Nederland
• (1) Pieter Klaver (28), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Antje Laan (0), Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Hofstede (45), Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Abraham HOFSTEDE (45), Zevenhuizen

• 1881 » Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player († 1921)
• 1884 » Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal († 1979)
• 1886 » Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general († 1945)
• 1887 » Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway († 1945)
• 1889 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan († 1977)
• 1890 » Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia († 1983)
• 1892 » Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer († 1969)
• 1893 » David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier († 1968)
• 1895 » Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster († 1954)
• 1895 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina († 1991)

• 1863 » Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)

• 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 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.
• July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on July 18, 1886 was about 20.3 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.