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• Aagtje Capaan, Usquert, Groningen, Nederland († 1962)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Heijmans, Vessem, Wintelre en Knegsel
• Aagje Van Der Schoor, Zwijndrecht
• Aaltje Buijs, Edam († 1913)
• Aagje Beumer, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Keus, 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Bruin, Culemborg († 1949)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Heijmans († 1966)
• Aaltje Stolk, Rotterdam Z.H
• Aaltje Julia Christina van Ginkel, Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1915)

• Adriana van Wijk (0), Oudheusden en Elshout
• Berend Klaassen SWART (56), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Arnoldus Lochman, Gouda (ZH
• Anna Johanna van de Sande (17), Goirle
• Maassen van den Brink (0), Wierden
• Dingeman Adrianus Hazen (58), Steenbergen
• Bernardus van den Berg (75), Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius COPPENS (71), Helvoirt
• Clasina ( Nicolaa) van Mierlo (79), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiana Catharina Kraft (58)

• 1884 » Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut († 1967)
• 1886 » Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author († 1954)
• 1887 » Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1888 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic († 1950)
• 1888 » Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1889 » James Whale, English director († 1957)
• 1890 » Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist († 1995)
• 1892 » Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player († 1983)
• 1893 » Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach († 1978)
• 1893 » Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author († 1990)

• 1864 » James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
• 1869 » John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)
• 1902 » Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
• 1903 » Cassius Marcellus Clay, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1810)
• 1904 » Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (b. 1846)
• 1906 » William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (b. 1827)
• 1908 » Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 1915 » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
• 1916 » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
• 1918 » Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)

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.
• April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• 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 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
• October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
• October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
• December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

The temperature on July 22, 1888 was about 22.2 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.