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• Adrianus Cornelis Theodorus van den Hoven, Rotterdam († 1889)
• Adriana Carolina de Graaf, Utrecht
• Adriana van der Linden, Papendrecht
• Abraham Benjamins, Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland († 1945)
• Adam Driebergen, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Groothuizen, Alkmaar, Nederland († 1887)
• Adrianus Verboom, Schiedam († 1962)
• Abraham Haak, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1890)
• Alice Close, Mahanoy City, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1974)
• Adrianus VERWOERD, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland

• Anna Maria van der Veldt (85), Haarlem, Nederland
• Alida Jacoba van Rooijen (0), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jan Reerink (73), Lochem
• Agnes Maria van Paassen (1), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonius Josephus Berckmans (81), Ekeren
• Anna Maria Graus (62), Echt
• Antonie Karel Ferdinand Zijlmans (0), Gorinchem
• (Stillborn) BOERSMA (0), Kollumerland c.a. Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Maria van der Veldt (85), Haarlem
• Arend Jan Boom (0), Ambt Almelo, in de Windshoek

• 1876 » Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta († 1934)
• 1883 » Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor († 1950)
• 1885 » Elinor Wylie, American author and poet († 1928)
• 1887 » Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic († 1964)
• 1892 » Eric Harrison, Australian soldier and politician, 27th Australian Minister for Defence († 1974)
• 1892 » Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, pianist, and composer († 1958)
• 1893 » Leslie Hore-Belisha, English politician, Secretary of State for War († 1957)
• 1894 » George Waggner, American actor, director, and producer († 1984)
• 1894 » Vic Richardson, Australian cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster († 1969)
• 1895 » Jacques Vaché, French author and poet († 1919)

• 1871 » Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. 1826)
• 1871 » Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha, Ottoman politician, 217th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1815)
• 1881 » Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (b. 1842)
• 1891 » Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1820)
• 1892 » John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (b. 1807)
• 1893 » Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (b. 1808)
• 1907 » Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1838)
• 1910 » William Holman Hunt, English painter and soldier (b. 1827)
• 1920 » Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (b. 1856)

• 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.
• May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• 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 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.

The temperature on September 7, 1887 was about 18.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 19 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.