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• Aaltje Pietersma, Smallingerland
• Antonia Catharina Bus († 1983)
• Aart van der Velden, Haaften
• Antonia (Anna) Sol, Oirschot († 1976)
• * Hendrik Cornelis Doelman, Vlaardingen († 1955)
• Aalbertje van Hal, Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Andries Otter, Sloten († 1889)
• Aleida van der Vlekkert, Epe († 1913)
• Anton Cornelis van der Gaag, Delft († 1951)
• Slagboom, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1887)

• Antje ten Wolde (31), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Steufken (76), Beekbergen (Apeldoorn), Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Goes (0), Amsterdam
• Anna Margaretha Müller (30), Mettmann (Duitsland)
• Adrianus Jacobus van der Priem (1), Hellevoetsluis
• Almuth Margarethe LACKMANN (89)
• Aaltje Adams Sluis (66), Scheemda (gem. Oldambt)
• Antje ten Wolde (31), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus GEENEN (64), Stratum, Eindhoven, 3547, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie HOMBURG (66), Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1879 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist († 1965)
• 1883 » Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal († 1947)
• 1885 » Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic († 1972)
• 1886 » Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician († 1971)
• 1890 » Moa Martinson, Swedish author († 1964)
• 1890 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna († 1933)
• 1891 » David Townsend, American art director and set decorator († 1935)
• 1892 » Alice Brady, American actress († 1939)
• 1893 » Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company († 1966)
• 1894 » Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer († 1976)

• 1852 » Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 » Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1883 » William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (b. 1828)
• 1886 » James Watney junior, English brewer, cricketer, and politician (b. 1832)
• 1887 » Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 » George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1911 » Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)

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.
• February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
• 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.
• June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• 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.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

The temperature on November 2, 1887 was about 7.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.