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• Ada Belle Todd, Pontotoc, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1975)
• Adrianus BRAND, 's-Gravendeel
• Aagje Kooijman
• Agatha Koning, Berkhout, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1886)
• Adriana Hermina La Rivière, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Aart BERKELAAR, Rotterdam
• Aaltje Maltha, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Slickers, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 1964)
• Aartje Maria Magdalena Steffens, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Berkelaar, Rotterdam

• Adriana Hoogerwaard (83), Ouderkerk aan de IJssel, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Abel Nauta (35), Schoonhoven
• Adrianus van Ingen (1), Utrecht, UT Netherlands
• Bernardus Jansz Dekker (0), Bergen aan Zee, Nederland
• Adriana van Gameren (64), delwijnen (gelderland)
• Arie van der Knijff (55), Moordrecht, Nederland
• Adam Versteegh (43), Wilnis
• Abel Nauta (35), Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• CORNELIA BARENDS KLOPPER (85), Den Helder
• Catharina Philomena Lenaerts (35), Rijkevorsel

• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)
• 1886 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright († 1964)
• 1887 » Rupert Brooke, English poet († 1915)
• 1890 » Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club († 1974)
• 1894 » Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1951)
• 1895 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician († 1942)
• 1896 » Ralph Horween, American football player and coach († 1997)
• 1899 » Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver († 1979)
• 1900 » Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist († 1945)
• 1900 » John T. Scopes, American educator († 1970)

• 1857 » Eugène Sue, French author and politician (b. 1804)
• 1866 » Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)

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.
• 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.
• May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
• May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
• November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

The temperature on August 3, 1886 was about 18.4 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.