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• Alida Maria Tempelaere, Lichtervelde,8810,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1965)
• Adrianus Johannes de Jong, Berkel-Enschot
• Adrianus Theodorus Antonius Bergmans, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1967)
• Anna Geertrudis Knapen, Nederweert
• Adrianus Henricus van den Heuvel, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1948)
• Alphonsus Aloysius Bakker, Den Haag
• Andreas Adrianus Empel, Helvoirt († 1970)
• Andries Adrianus van Empel, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1970)
• Adrianus Theodorus Antonius Bergmans, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1967)
• Adrianus Christianus van der Pol, nijmegen († 1888)

• Anna Catharina van Leendt (78), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kux (72)
• Anna Cornelia Laanen (24), Halsteren
• Adriana Maria Homburg (82), Rotterdam
• Alida Jacoba Dorregeest (2), Nieuwer-Amstel, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina VAN LEENT
• Adriana Holster (84), Werkendam
• Anna Catharina Van Leendt (78), Zevenbergen (NL)
• Adriana Feskens (47), Breda
• Adriaantje Bosman (2), Zevenhoven

• 1880 » Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator († 1939)
• 1881 » Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer and critic († 1946)
• 1882 » Hans Rebane, Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1961)
• 1883 » Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and producer († 1945)
• 1885 » Paul Manship, American sculptor († 1966)
• 1886 » Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American actor, director, and producer († 1962)
• 1887 » Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer († 1951)
• 1891 » Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian illustrator and painter († 1970)
• 1892 » Ruth Chatterton, American actress († 1961)
• 1893 » Harry Warren, American pianist and composer († 1981)

• 1863 » William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811)
• 1865 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)
• 1867 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)
• 1868 » Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
• 1872 » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
• 1873 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch pastor and poet (b. 1819)
• 1893 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (b. 1807)
• 1898 » Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese priest and saint (b. 1828)

• 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 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• 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.
• October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

The temperature on December 24, 1887 was about 3.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.