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• Albert Edmond Dennis, Puhoi, Auckland, New Zealand († 1970)
• Annigje van Dam, Stolwijk († 1888)
• Afke Hazenberg, Groningen
• Arie Lolkus, Alblasserdam († 1887)
• Archibald Frederk James, GB († 1956)
• Albertus Kobes, Gorinchem († 1887)
• Neeltje Kramer, Leeuwarden
• Arendina Bakema, Loppersum († 1890)
• Aafke Sjoerds van Maassen, Oudwoude († 1965)
• Knibbeler, Breda

• Adriana de Visser (62), Heinkenszand
• Anna van der Lelie (69), Leiden
• Annetje Johannesd Weij (65), Rotterdam
• Antonetta van den Hout (58), Tilburg
• Aaltje Klazes De Vos (88), Idaarderadeel
• Annetje Weij (65), Rotterdam
• Annigje de Kruik (67), Ameide, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Klazes de Vos (89), Wartena, Friesland, Netherlands
• Annigje de Kruijk (67), Ameide
• Adriana de Visser (62), Heinkenszand (Borsele), Zeeland, Nederland

• 1882 » Athanase David, Canadian lawyer and politician († 1953)
• 1882 » Carl Diem, German businessman († 1962)
• 1883 » Arthur L. Newton, American runner († 1956)
• 1883 » Frank Verner, American runner († 1966)
• 1883 » Fritz Löhner-Beda, Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (d.1942)
• 1883 » Jean Metzinger, French artist († 1956)
• 1883 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1884 » Frank Waller, American runner († 1941)
• 1885 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist († 1975)
• 1888 » Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect, designed the Rietveld Schröder House († 1964)

• 1835 » Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1769)
• 1902 » George Leake, Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (b. 1856)
• 1908 » Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)
• 1909 » Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1849)
• 1922 » Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1867)
• 1931 » Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Camille Roy, Canadian priest and critic (b. 1870)
• 1946 » Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)

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.
• 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.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The temperature on June 24, 1887 was about 13.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.