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• Alida Gerarda van Hartingsvelt, Amsterdam († 1888)
• Adrianus Vader, Oudorp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Adrianus Duijvesteijn, Loosduinen
• Achille Camiel RAES, Ledegem († 1965)
• Aaltje Jitzes van der Meulen, Moarrewâld, Friesland, Nederland († 1977)
• Aaltje van der Meulen, Dantumadeel (Murmerwoude) (Friesland) († 1977)
• Alida Maria Pirovano, Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• Albertus Kuijpers, Herpen
• Adrianus Werts, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Allegonda Teurlinckx, Steensel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)

• Anna Maria Looze (22), Stompwijk
• Aart van Blijderveen (0), Echteld
• Albert Beverdam (69), Rectum, gemeente Wierden
• Aafje Roosje (59), Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Aardina Susanna de Heus (8), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Looze (22), Stompwijk, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angela Francisca Verstraete (86), Klerken
• Adriana van Boxtel (38), Drunen
• Aaltje Westervoort (65), Epe
• Anna Maria Loose, Stompwijk, ZH, Nederland

• 1874 » Walter Murdoch, Australian author and academic († 1970)
• 1878 » Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer († 1950)
• 1879 » Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman, social activist, and politician († 1973)
• 1879 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager († 1930)
• 1881 » Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient († 1955)
• 1883 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist († 1963)
• 1884 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer († 1920)
• 1886 » Anton Irv, Estonian captain († 1919)
• 1897 » Earl Webb, American baseball player and coach († 1965)
• 1900 » Hughie Critz, American baseball player († 1980)

• 1868 » Roman Nose, Native American warrior (b. circa 1823)
• 1877 » Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800)
• 1878 » Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and theorist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Deng Shichang, Chinese captain (b. 1849)
• 1899 » Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Ignaz Brüll, Czech-Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1852)
• 1908 » Thomas Selfridge, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1882)

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. Wilhelmus

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.
• February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• 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.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on September 17, 1887 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.