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• Anna Margaretha Henrika Franke, Lingen, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland († 1912)
• Adrianus van de Steenoven, Klundert, Nederland († 1918)
• van Wieren, Ooststellingwerf
• Agatha Wissen van, Wassenaar, ZH, Nederland († 1886)
• Aafke de Vries, Leeuwarderadeel († 1981)
• Alje KRAAK, Loppersum Groningen Netherlands († 1953)
• Adriana Timmermans, Ruhrort (Duitsland) († 1926)
• Alphonsine Marie BRAULT, Balazé, 35015, Ille et Vilaine, Bretagne, France
• * Willemina Baars, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL († 1887)
• Aaltje van Dam, Zeist († 1888)

• Adriana van Eyck (0), Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Mooy (0), Maastricht
• Adrianus Cornelius van Ginneken (0), Oud-en Nieuw Gastel
• Aagje van Buuren (0), Hilversum
• Anna Maria Esmans (43), Lier, België
• Cornelia van GILS (91), Zevenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Pieter Balvert (47), Zegveld
• Albertus Conrardus Dionysius Reijnders (32), Bad Neuenahr,,Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany
• Anthony Przybycien (4), Lipinki, Malopolskie, Poland
• Arent Jan Poesse (59)

• 1880 » Clara Ayres, American nurse († 1917)
• 1881 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic († 1964)
• 1883 » T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic († 1917)
• 1886 » Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1887 » Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator († 1979)
• 1888 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1888 » W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited († 1971)
• 1890 » Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author († 1970)
• 1891 » Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany († 1980)
• 1891 » Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy († 1972)

• 1845 » Thomas Davis, Irish poet and publisher (b. 1814)
• 1865 » Christian de Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
• 1887 » Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
• 1896 » Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)
• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

The temperature on September 16, 1886 was about 13.3 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.