About the day » Wednesday January 11, 1888Calender converter

• Anna Moerman, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1889)
• Aleida G. Welman († 1893)
• Agnes maria Cornelia Petronela Renard, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Achiel Cyriel Cardoen, Geluwe West-Vlaanderen België († 1969)
• Anna Polak, Zwaluwe, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1888)
• Tinga, Oostermeer († 1888)
• Adrianus Petrus Huijbregts († 1962)
• Adriaantje van Vliet, Nieuwe-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1979)
• Adriaantje van Vliet, Nieuwe-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1979)
• Albert Bultje, Termunten

• Aaltje van Heerde (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie de Vos (17), Scheveningen
• Adam S. Conde VAN PATTEN (77), Centreville Fairfax County Virginia U.S.A
• Anna Katharina Hahn (67), Heringen, Hessen, Kaiserreich Deutschland
• Adrianus van Bouwelen (56), Oude Tonge
• Age Huitema (70), Wymbritseradeel
• Aaltje van Leijden (32), Koog aan de Zaan
• Albert Doorten (0), Oosteinde, Ruinerwold, Dr, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Maria Smits (0), Dongen
• (Stillborn) VAN DIJK (0), Appingedam Groningen Netherlands

• 1885 » Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist († 1977)
• 1887 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author († 1948)
• 1888 » Joseph B. Keenan, American jurist and politician († 1954)
• 1889 » Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic († 1938)
• 1890 » Max Carey, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1890 » Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet and critic († 1954)
• 1891 » Andrew Sockalexis, American runner († 1919)
• 1893 » Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1893 » Charles Fraser, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1981)
• 1893 » Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter († 1969)

• 1866 » Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818)
• 1866 » John Woolley, English minister and academic (b. 1816)
• 1867 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812)
• 1882 » Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1891 » Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809)
• 1902 » Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (b. 1862)
• 1904 » William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and philanthropist (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Steinar Schjøtt, Norwegian philologist and lexicographer (b. 1844)
• 1923 » Constantine I of Greece (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 13 » With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
• July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
• 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 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 29 » The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

The temperature on January 11, 1888 was about 2.6 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.