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• Angelina Leontina Van Driessche
• Alijda Kelder, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands († 1887)
• Groart, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1887)
• Adriana Cornelia Dienaar, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Duijn, Katwijk († 1970)
• Adriana van Duijn, Katwijk († 1970)
• Alice Louise Anna Sauviller, Marcelcave, Somme, France († 1889)
• Adalbert Arnulf Luitpold Flinzner, Batoe Bahra, Sumatra († 1966)
• Adriana Cornelia Dienaar, Den Helder
• Anna Cornelia Sorel, Essen (B) († 1892)

• Ardina van den Heuvel (4), Grave
• Aaltjen SWARTHOF (84), Brummen
• Anne Tromp (73), Druten, Nederland
• Ann Eliza Farrand (48), Colon, St. Joseph Co., Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Josina van der Hoeven (62), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Andries Lambertus van Engelen (70), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Josina Van Der van der Hoeven (62), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Catharina Nijkerk (52), Tiel
• Aaltje Jans Drent (75), Wildervank
• Albert Uuldriks (0), Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland

• 1879 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet († 1944)
• 1879 » Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician († 1976)
• 1880 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1884 » Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor († 1920)
• 1884 » Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer († 1957)
• 1886 » Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director († 1956)
• 1892 » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter († 1942)
• 1895 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère († 1983)
• 1895 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano († 1962)
• 1895 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter († 1960)

• 1845 » Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian linguist, poet, and playwright (b. 1808)
• 1850 » Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer (b. 1772)
• 1855 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The temperature on July 12, 1887 was about 19.3 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.