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• Adriana Gerardina Corijnus, Dordrecht († 1906)
• van der Wel, velsen († 1886)
• Anna Leeflang, Anna Paulowna
• Anna Catharina Pleunis, Hunsel
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Verkoijen, Nederweert, Limburg, Netherlands
• Albertus Cornelis Houtkamp, Rotterdam († 1953)
• Alice Mary Ker Oakes, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia († 1971)
• Alderina Griffijn, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Adriana Schook, Sliedrecht († 1932)
• Aaltje Adriana Schook, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1932)

• Antje Vertuin (32), Alkemade, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Albert Derks Dokter (63), Nieuw-Buinen
• Aaltje Gortzak (84), Aalsmeer
• Albert Derks Dokter (63), Nieuw-Buinen Borger-Odoorn Drenthe Nederland
• Abraham van Bennekum (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nl
• Bartholome Weinand Roth (76), Gorinchem
• Albert Derks Dokter- (63), Nieuw-Buinen, Nederland
• Arie de Jong Scheepstimmerman (40), IJsselmonde, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bruijning (0), Watergraafsmeer
• Alexis Frechette (67), Bourbonnais, Kankakee, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1882 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator († 1927)
• 1883 » Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian, author, and academic († 1975)
• 1884 » Enrico Dante, Italian cardinal († 1967)
• 1885 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter († 1962)
• 1885 » Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician († 1936)
• 1886 » Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia († 1918)
• 1886 » Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) († 1988)
• 1888 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1963)
• 1888 » Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic († 1970)
• 1889 » Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright († 1963)

• 1859 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
• 1862 » Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
• 1863 » Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
• 1884 » Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
• 1908 » Jonas Lie, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
• 1920 » Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• 1927 » Albrecht Kossel, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1929 » Henry Johnson, American sergeant (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Sasha Chorny, Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
• 1935 » Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss captain and sailor (b. 1870)

• 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.
• 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 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 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 5, 1886 was about 20.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%.