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• Anna Leonia Willems (Wilms), Antwerpen
• Anna Maria de Rooij, Haarlem, 4599, Noord-Holland, NL
• Adriaantje de Zeeuw (Zeeuw,de Seeuw,de Seeu), 's-Gravendeel, Nederland († 1952)
• albert vossekuil, schipborg, gem. anloo († 1910)
• Aafke Knot
• Pieter Moolenaar, Sassenheim († 1971)
• Aaltje BEKET, Middelharnis
• Alonzo Arthur Chesnut, Lyons Greene County, India († 1973)
• Adrianus van Ooijen, Heusden
• Anna Maria van Niel, Haarlem († 1985)

• Catharina Elisabeth BERGMAN (81), Schiedam (Z-H)
• Bernardus Pieter Kemp (Kimp) (0), Culemborg
• Cornelia Buitendijk (76), Maasdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriianus Gerardus van Roessel (21), Tilburg
• Augusta Wentworth (26), Scalp Level, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
• Alberto Garibay (2), Patos, Coahuila, México
• arie KAPPETEIN (72), maasdam
• Arie KAPPETEIN (72), Maasdam
• Anna Maria Kup (71), Hirzenach, Boppard, RP, Deutschland
• Anne Marie LEFEVRE (41), Tienen

• 1873 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician († 1924)
• 1875 » Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist († 1935)
• 1879 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator († 1955)
• 1882 » Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel († 1945)
• 1883 » Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer († 1963)
• 1883 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler († 1950)
• 1890 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor († 1977)
• 1893 » Leroy Shield, American composer and conductor († 1962)
• 1895 » Ruth Cheney Streeter, American colonel († 1990)
• 1897 » Bud Abbott, American comedian († 1974)

• 1850 » Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)

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. Albert

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.
• February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
• 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 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on October 2, 1887 was about 11.4 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.