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• André Louis MORIER, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France († 1985)
• Aaltien Koster, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen († 1901)
• Altina Godoy, Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Adriana Cornelia Maria Vorstenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1953)
• van der Waater, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alexis Maria Coudeville, Brugge
• Joukje Visser, Hennaarderadeel
• Assendelft 26
• Aaltje van Rhoden, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1929)
• Aaltje (Eise Geertsema) Kroon, Valthermond, Drenthe, Niederlande

• Antonius van de Moosdijk (80), Meijel
• Aleida Geertruida Siebelink (1), Stad Doetinchem, Nederland
• Anna Margareta Berden (43), Meerlo
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• Arend Tijmes (70), Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan Oprins (64), Gilze en Rijen, Nederland
• Aagje Veldhuizen (0), Charlois
• Antonius de Leest (68), Veghel, Meierijstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van de Vorle (0), Sint Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Oprins (64), Gilze en Rijen

• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)

• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)

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 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• 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.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on August 12, 1887 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.