About the day » Saturday August 7, 1886Calender converter

• Adriana Voois (of Vooijs), Monster († 1967)
• Andries Sytzes de Vries, Lemmer, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1886)
• Adrianus van Koppen, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaron Gobets Bak, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Alexander Willem Baljon, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Alfons Jozef Teunkens, Vorst, België
• Aäron Gobets, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Afke Bijl, Doniawerstal
• Aaltje Westermaat, Ede († 1888)
• Abraham de Blok, Anna Paulowna

• Antje Nomes (63), Monnikendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Willem Frederik Graaf van der Decken (79), Reichenhall, Oberbayern, Beieren
• Age Jans Zoethout (62), Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Meester (53), Luinjeberd
• Adam Alexander Morgan (21), Rowan Co. N. C
• Huizing (0), Kalkwijk, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria VRANCKEN (37), Zichem, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium
• Adriana Maria Antonius van Mill (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Schellekens (70), Sint-Michielsgestel
• Anna Maria Philomina de Molenaar (21), Den Bosch ('s Hertogenbosch), Noord-Brabant (Nederland)

• 1868 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician († 1931)
• 1869 » Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician († 1959)
• 1876 » Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy († 1917)
• 1879 » Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer († 1931)
• 1884 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer († 1970)
• 1884 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator († 1940)
• 1887 » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright († 1970)
• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)

• 1834 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)

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.
• March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• 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.
• May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• 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.
• July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

The temperature on August 7, 1886 was about 21.9 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.