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• Abel Hendriks Dalstra, Niekerk, Gemeente Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1888)
• Abraham Markusse, Krabbendijke, Zuid-Beveland,, Zeeland, Nederland († 1973)
• Adriana Bijl van der, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1946)
• Adrianus Johannes van Rooijen, Jutphaas († 1955)
• adolphe ROLAND, Wasmes (Belgium)
• Adriana de JONGH, Dubbeldam
• Aaltje Meijering, Gees, Oosterhesselen († 1966)
• Agnes Senn Van Basel, Semarang,, Java, Nederlands-Indië († 1950)
• Adriana Van Der Bijl, Amsterdam († 1946)
• Aldegonda Maria Das, Bree, België († 1976)

• Antoon Peter van den Berg (78), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hebben (30), Linne
• Anthonij Hoogendijk (62), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Melein (1)
• Adriaan van den Eijnden (63), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adélaïde Judith DORDAQUY (82), Crouy-en-Thelle, Département de l'Oise, Hauts-de-France, France
• Adriana van den Broeck (85), Ginneken en Bavel
• Antje Kornelius Kremer (76), Veendam
• Age Meinderts Miedema (59), Hijlaard
• Amelia GARREZ (80), Waregem, West-Vlaanderen, België

• 1884 » J. C. Squire, English poet, author, and historian († 1958)
• 1891 » Jack Buchanan, Scottish entertainer († 1957)
• 1891 » Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet († 1976)
• 1891 » Tristão de Bragança Cunha, Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from Goa († 1958)
• 1896 » Johnny Golden, American golfer († 1936)
• 1898 » Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician († 1940)
• 1898 » Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician († 1990)
• 1900 » Alfred Strange, English footballer († 1978)
• 1900 » Anis Fuleihan, Cypriot-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1970)
• 1900 » Roberto Arlt, Argentinian journalist, author, and playwright († 1942)

• 1865 » A. P. Hill, American general (b. 1825)
• 1872 » Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (b. 1791)
• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Jacoba
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
• May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
• June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
• August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
• October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

The temperature on April 2, 1888 was about 5.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.