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• Akke Nijdam, Oldeboorn Friesland Nederland († 1913)
• Adriaan Gijsbertus Corbeth Corbeth, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Jacobus Driessen, Waspik, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1971)
• Adriaantje Pieternella Dekker, Brouwershaven gem. Schouwen-Duiveland Zld. NL († 1956)
• Adriaantje Pieternella Dekker, Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Nederland († 1976)
• van den Ent, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1887)
• Alida Georgina Strootmann, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1889)
• "Sophia Adriana" Johanna Arnoudina van Hardenbroek, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Pays-Bas († 1978)
• Akke Sybrens Nijdam, Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1913)
• Alida Georgina STROOTMAN, Amsterdam († 1889)

• Aleida Decanije (2), Mossel(Vorden)
• van den Ent (0), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Decanije (2), Vorden (Mossel)
• August Nicolaas Karel Diel (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• August Frans De La Croix (57), Oengaran, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Annechien Springelkamp (39), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaron Philhower (80)
• Akke Sybrens Nijdam (10)
• Anna Elsina van Doorne (70), Delft
• Andries PRINSEN (51), Zeelst

• 1882 » Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American mathematician, physicist and academic († 1935)
• 1884 » Joseph Boxhall, English sailor († 1967)
• 1885 » Platt Adams, American jumper and politician († 1961)
• 1885 » Roque González Garza, Mexican general and acting president (1915) († 1962)
• 1886 » Frank Irons, American long jumper († 1942)
• 1887 » Josef Čapek, Czech painter and poet († 1945)
• 1887 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor († 1927)
• 1887 » Rudolf Kinau, German author († 1975)
• 1887 » Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-born American labor leader († 1946)
• 1891 » Po Kya, Burmese author and educationist († 1942)

• 1862 » Manuel Robles Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president, 1858–1859 (b. 1817)
• 1883 » Arthur Macalister, Scottish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Queensland (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Henry C. Lord, American businessman (b. 1824)
• 1910 » Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820)
• 1914 » Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
• 1923 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Paul César Helleu, French painter and etcher (b. 1859)
• 1931 » Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908)
• 1931 » Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (b. 1907)

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.
• 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.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.

The temperature on March 23, 1887 was about 6.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 49 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.