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• Amanda Emma Beam († 1917)
• Dinkla, Zuidlaren
• (Moeke) Geerdina Daems Pijs, Valkenswaard, Valkenswaard, North Brabant, The Netherlands († 1968)
• Adriana Maria van de Lisdonk, Goirle
• Aaltje Goudkamp, Gouda († 1947)
• Adrianus Petrus Kaizer, Amsterdam († 1951)
• van Giersbergen, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van der Hoeven, Klundert, Nederland († 1936)
• Aagje de Roos, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• Aaltje Mes, Wognum, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1889)

• augustin DUFRANE (42), Wasmes (Belgium)
• Adriaan Schrauwen (80), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Aagje de Boodt (82), Purmerend
• Antonij Vereijken (68), Bergeijk (NL)
• Prinssen, Hilversum
• Albert Versteege (64), Vorden (Veldwijk)
• Adrianus Van Leeuwen (0), Beesd, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aagje de BOODT (82), Purmerend, Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha Johanna Schiks (0), Sambeek
• Arie Paul (47), Zevenhuizen, 2761, Nederland

• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)
• 1879 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot († 1936)
• 1881 » Jess Willard, American boxer († 1968)
• 1885 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general († 1921)
• 1886 » Norman Hallows, English runner and captain († 1968)
• 1895 » Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author († 1939)
• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)
• 1899 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing († 1992)

• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)

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 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on December 29, 1887 was about -12.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.