About the day » Wednesday August 25, 1886Calender converter

• Aaltje de Vries, Schoterland(FR)
• Anna Maria Heemels, Melick († 1916)
• Adriana Elizabeth Klapwijk, Krimpen aan den Lek, ZH, Nederland († 1959)
• Albert James WATERS, Nanango,South Burnett,Queensland,Australi († 1961)
• Alida Geertruida van Duijne, Scheveningen
• Amy Mary Stroud, Wootton, Woodstock, Oxfordshire († 1963)
• Adèle Diderique Caroline Louise Schaap, Maastricht,Gemeente Maastricht,Limburg,Netherlands
• -Fredericus Terwijn, Amsterdam († 1944)
• Amelia Clementina Van Couwenberghe, Hamme
• Adriaan Lobbezoo, Krabbendijke († 1886)

• Anna De JONG (71), Dubbeldam
• Aagje van Tuil (80), Rijnsaterwoude, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Anna Pietersd de Jong (71), Dubbeldam, zh.nld
• Antje Roebertsen (35), Erm, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna de Jong (71), Dubbeldam
• Anna de JONG (71), Dubbeldam
• Andrew Jackson Crow (1), Waco, McLennan, Texas
• Abraham Everling (50), Gouda
• Amelia Cornelia Franken (62), Groede
• Adriana Hoogenboom (50), Oudenhoorn

• 1877 » Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation († 1965)
• 1878 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager († 1935)
• 1882 » Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish journalist and politician, 2nd President of Ireland († 1966)
• 1889 » Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales († 1969)
• 1891 » David Shimoni, Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator († 1956)
• 1893 » Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist († 1962)
• 1898 » Arthur Wood, English cricketer († 1973)
• 1898 » Helmut Hasse, German mathematician and academic († 1975)
• 1899 » Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author († 1978)
• 1900 » Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect († 1970)

• 1867 » Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)
• 1882 » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Zinovios Valvis, Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)
• 1892 » William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1808)
• 1900 » Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
• 1904 » Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 1924 » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)

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. Neeltje
12. Grietje
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.
• 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 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.
• October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on August 25, 1886 was about 16.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.