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• Aart BOLLUIJT († 1887)
• Verhagen, Westerhoven († 1887)
• Akke Adams van der Woude, Edens, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1965)
• Albert van de Beek, Heerde, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Zomermaand, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Nederland († 1889)
• Aagtje Blakborn, Kwadijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Snoek, Edam
• Korda, Furta, Hajdu-Bihar († 1887)
• Alida Elisabeth van der Togt, Amsterdam († 1982)
• Aleida Bernardina Josephina Nieuwhof († 1946)

• Johannes Busio (68), Made en Drimmelen
• Bernardina VOGELS (70), Neer
• Cassius M Divine (25), Shelby, Osceola, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• * Johanna Catharina Maria Smits (36), Culemborg
• Catharina Rosa Debrabandere, Moorslede
• Armistead Thompson Mason Marlow Rust (67), Union Cemetery, Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria List (9), Wieringen
• Antonia Schoonwater (1), Oploo
• Berendina Garharda Johanna Loseman (74), Haarlem
• Catharina Coleta de Vos (12), Ossendrecht

• 1879 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 1960)
• 1882 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset († 1949)
• 1888 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1889 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author († 1970)
• 1894 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist († 1966)
• 1896 » Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer († 1919)
• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)

• 1878 » Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)
• 1881 » Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (b. 1804)
• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)

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.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• 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 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 17, 1887 was about 18.2 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.