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• Anna Maria van der Meer, Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Bode, Oudewater (UTR) The Netherlands († 1965)
• Aaltje Wiesemuller, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 1888)
• Adriana Elisabeth Simonis, Raamsdonk
• Adriaantje Maartje Verschoor, Pernis († 1956)
• Adriaan Johan van Etten, Oosterhout, Nederland († 1892)
• Aaldert Ebels, (DR) Norg-Langeloo († 1918)
• Adriana Bakker, Haarlemmermeer († 1972)
• Adriaan Marijnissen, Gemeente Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1888)
• Adriana Bode, Oudewater († 1965)

• Adrianus Koot (50), Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annetta Alberta van Wijngaarden (46), Enter, gemeente Wierden
• Anna Maria Hollemans (51), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Rawson Stearns ** (0), Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten
• adriaan VERMEULEN (65), vrouwenpolder
• Bartholina Barbara Korsten (38), Maastricht
• Benjamin Greenwood Garrett (58), Bedford, Bedford, Virginia, United States
• Antoine Anne Joseph Laboijrie (0), Den Haag,-
• Adrianus Jansz Koot (50), Hazerswoude
• Callie Esters Lewis (23)

• 1881 » Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1881 » Leo Carrillo, American actor († 1961)
• 1883 » Scott Nearing, American economist and educator († 1983)
• 1886 » Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic († 1971)
• 1887 » Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver († 1957)
• 1889 » George Kenney, Canadian-American general († 1977)
• 1889 » John Middleton Murry, English poet and author († 1957)
• 1890 » Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland († 1956)
• 1891 » William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia († 1970)
• 1892 » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer († 1962)

• 1850 » Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 » John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 » James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1893 » Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
• 1904 » Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)
• 1906 » George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)
• 1925 » Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853)
• 1925 » Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (b. 1848)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Geertruida
15. Antje
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 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.

The temperature on August 6, 1887 was about 26.5 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 31%.