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• Adriana Pietermella Harmsen, Klundert († 1972)
• adriana jesterhoudt, amsterdam, noord holland, nederland († 1949)
• Adrianus Vuijk, Kralingen († 1938)
• Aleida Berendina HISSINK, Steenderen, Nederland, Gelderland, Toldijk († 1887)
• Adronia Emilia Verstraete, Ingelmunster,8770,West-Vlaanderen,België
• adriana van HERWIJNEN, oud-beijerland († 1944)
• Alfred William Foote, Queensland, Australia († 1956)
• Anna Maria Malfait, Turnhout, 2300, Antwerpen
• Anna Christina Vreesen, Rotterdam († 1956)
• Anna Adriana Gravesteijn, Overschie (ZH-NLD) († 1888)

• Anna Everharda Cornelia Vierkant (2), Het Haagje, gem Hoogeveen
• de Jong, aarlanderveen
• Anthonia Schuur (65), Barneveld
• Aaltje Jans Booij (63), Vroomshoop, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aagje de Ruijg (0), Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• - Reith (0), Fulda, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Anna Everharda Cornelia Vierkant (2), Hoogeveen
• Aaltje Grooters (53), Den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Van den Broeck (76), Heist o/d Berg, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Adriana Burgmans (49), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1876 » Alexandros Papanastasiou, Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1936)
• 1882 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer († 1961)
• 1885 » Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1977)
• 1885 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss († 1948)
• 1890 » Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter († 1973)
• 1892 » Pavel Korin, Russian painter († 1967)
• 1892 » Richard Aldington, English author and poet († 1962)
• 1893 » R. Carlyle Buley, American historian and author († 1968)
• 1894 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1895 » Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)

• 1850 » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
• 1859 » Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)
• 1873 » Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)
• 1887 » Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1905 » Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1913 » Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)
• 1917 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
• 1930 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)

• 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.
• April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• August 31 » The 7.0 M_w  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
• October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

The temperature on July 8, 1886 was about 13.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.