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• Anna Geerling, Utingeradeel (FRL) († 1957)
• Abraham Overbeke, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 1960)
• Aaltje Betlem, Amsterdam († 1887)
• Aaltje Wolters Boersma, Zoutkamp († 1965)
• Anna Maria Cornelia Spijkers, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 1961)
• Abraham Korengevel, Zuidland
• Alida Maillij (Maillie), Vledderveen, Groningen, Nederland, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1888)
• Aaltje Stolk, Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1972)
• Alida Maillij, Frederiksoord,vledder, Drenthe, Nederland († 1887)
• Adriana Kriger, Kapelle († 1966)

• August Maurits van Oost (0), Sint-Martens-Latem (B)
• Adriaantje In 't Veld (71), Westmaas, Cromstrijen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aafke Meyles Salverda (53), Amsterdam, province of Noord-Holland
• Bernardus Antonius Wolters (0), Didam,Gemeente Montferland,Gelderland,Nederland
• Adolf van Kerkwijk (51), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NED
• Barendina de Leeuwe van Wijnbergen (75), Rotterdam
• Arij Pietersz Hordijk (63), Rotterdam, Nederland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Samuels (0), Nieuwkuijk
• Abraham Helder (53), Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland
• Bertje STEVENS (39)

• 1882 » Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1948)
• 1883 » Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, French-English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of the County of London († 1963)
• 1884 » Emil Jannings, Swiss-German actor († 1950)
• 1885 » Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume († 1935)
• 1885 » Izaak Killam, Canadian financier and philanthropist († 1955)
• 1886 » Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat († 1978)
• 1886 » Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1888 » Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter († 1959)
• 1891 » Louis T. Wright, American surgeon and civil rights activist († 1952)
• 1892 » Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor († 1975)

• 1853 » Andries Pretorius, South African general (b. 1798)
• 1875 » Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (b. 1811)
• 1878 » Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist, and politician (b. 1804)
• 1885 » Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1904 » John Douglas, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Queensland (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1916 » William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1919 » Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1920 » Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician (b. 1835)
• 1924 » Frank Frost Abbott, American author and scholar (b. 1850)

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. Grietje
12. Neeltje
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.
• 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.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• 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.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

The temperature on July 23, 1886 was about 20.9 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.