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• Brent, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Einspannier, Wesuwe, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albert Ploeger, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1935)
• Adrianus Visser, Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• van Aarle, Schijndel
• Adam Arisz Eelman, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Huiberts, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1887)
• * Christina Hendrika IJsenbrand, Lent († 1931)
• Adrianus van der Kolk, Velsen († 1888)
• Adriana van Beelen, Katwijk († 1890)

• Adriaan Alewijns (72), Dongen, Noord Brabant
• Andries Visscher (72), Oldebroek, Gld, The Netherlands
• Adrianus van Kan, Delft
• Anna Catharina Breugelmans (35), Antwerpen
• Alexander Napoleon Longien (0), Utrecht, Utr, NL
• Otten (0), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Johanna Mijnsbergen (2), Bergen op Zoom
• Adriaan Bliek van der (78), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• ANNA CATHERINA BREUGELMANS (35), Antwerpen
• Alexander Napoleon Longien (0), Utrecht

• 1879 » Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer († 1984)
• 1880 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper († 1954)
• 1880 » Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist († 1964)
• 1882 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal († 1970)
• 1885 » Con Walsh, Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer († 1961)
• 1885 » Thomas Cronan, American triple jumper († 1962)
• 1887 » Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter († 1931)
• 1888 » Pe Maung Tin, Burma-based scholar and educator († 1973)
• 1889 » Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and academic († 1924)
• 1889 » Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1952)

• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1942 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)

• 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.
• January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• 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.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on April 24, 1887 was about 13.2 °C. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.