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• Albert Bos, Hollandscheveld († 1963)
• Adeline Florence Fergusson, Kaeo, Whangaroa, Northland, Aotearoa († 1972)
• Van Schie, Rijnsburg
• Aartinus Cornelis Tjarko Polee, Hoogkerk
• Hoeks, Eersel
• Adrianus Augustinus Buijs, Zundert, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Adrianus de Brabander, Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Adrianus Goos, Princenhage († 1887)
• Aaltje van der Laan, Sappemeer (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Albertus Cornelis Perk, Anna Pauwlona, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Chila Johanna De Jong (16), Krimpen aan de IJssel
• Daniel Emery (70)
• Abel Dijkstra (0), Den Andel Gem. Baflo
• Charles BLAYDEN (64), Scone, Upper Hunter Shire Council, New South Wales, Australia
• Cintilda Wilson (67), Montgomery, Indiana, United States
• Cornelia Smolders (57), Reusel
• Balvaneda Velasquez (70), Pitiquito, Sonora, México
• Wouter van Hattem (51), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Maria Vermeulen (1), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Gelder (46), Charlois

• 1881 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic († 1964)
• 1883 » T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic († 1917)
• 1886 » Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1887 » Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator († 1979)
• 1888 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1888 » W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited († 1971)
• 1890 » Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author († 1970)
• 1891 » Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany († 1980)
• 1891 » Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy († 1972)
• 1893 » Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1956)

• 1845 » Thomas Davis, Irish poet and publisher (b. 1814)
• 1865 » Christian de Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
• 1887 » Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
• 1896 » Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)
• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)

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 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• 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.
• October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on September 16, 1887 was about 11.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.