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• Adrianus VERBIEST, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Johan Nossent, Lochem
• Allard van Koolwijk († 1975)
• Aaltje Smids, Doezum, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1965)
• Albert Gerrit Schonewille, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen († 1895)
• Adolph Eduard Koepke († 1955)
• Klaassen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Alena Johanna van Gaal, Balgoij (Wijchen) († 1932)
• Aleida Oenes Eenshuistra, Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus Steenbergen, Tiendeveen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1942)

• Aaltjen Klaasdr Aaltje Blom, Hattem, Nederland
• Antje Jacobsdr de Hart (66), Sijbekarspel
• Alida Vlaar (6), Spanbroek
• Arie Apolles Batenburg (0), Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Beitske Reinders Luimstra (28), Surhuisterveen, Gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• (stillborn son) HOOGENBOEZEM (0), Schiedam (Z.-H.), Neth
• Arie Doeleman (0), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ARIE DOELEMAN (0), MAASSLUIS
• Aaltjen Blom (68), Heerde, Nederland
• Aaltje Rietveld (42), Willige Langerak

• 1882 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Margaret Dumont, American actress († 1965)
• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)
• 1893 » Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1940)
• 1894 » Olive Thomas, American model and actress († 1920)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

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.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• 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.
• October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on October 20, 1887 was about 8.3 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.