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• Adriana Anna Kop, Aarlanderveen († 1888)
• Albert Kappert, Warnsveld, Nederland
• Achiel Jozef Beauprez, Klerken West-Vlaanderen, België
• Achilles Jozef Beauprez, Klerken
• Aaltje Tiemens, Noordhorn gem. Zuidhorn Groningen, Nederland († 1897)
• Adelbert Aaron Hoard, Ivanhoe, Huntingdon, Hastings, Ontario, Canada († 1962)
• Anna Catharina van Brevoort, amsterdam, Nederland († 1888)
• Adolf Hamburger, Burgsinn, Main-Spessart, Bayern, Duitsland († 1914)
• Anna Maria Groenen, Luiksgestel
• Adriana van Beelen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1888)

• Adrianus Leermakers (1), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Akke Johannes Posthuma (77)
• Alberdina Catrina Riepma (71), Zwolle
• Alida Pietersd van Schie (74), De Zilk, zh.nld
• Anna Henriëtte Elisabeth Völcker (38), Montreux,, Switzerland
• Alida van Schie (74), De Zilk
• Alida van Schie (74), De Zilk, Nederland
• Adrianus Wuyts (68), Arendonk
• Alida Pieters van Schie (74), De Zilk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Henriëtta Völcker (38), Montreux VD

• 1880 » Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer († 1960)
• 1881 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1881 » Harry Price, English psychologist and author († 1948)
• 1882 » Noah Beery, Sr., American actor († 1946)
• 1883 » Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright († 1972)
• 1886 » Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company († 1955)
• 1887 » Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist († 1975)
• 1888 » Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author († 1963)
• 1897 » Marcel Petiot, French physician and serial killer († 1946)
• 1898 » Lela Mevorah, Serbian librarian († 1972)

• 1869 » Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
• 1878 » Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804)
• 1887 » William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
• 1888 » Big Bear, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1825)
• 1891 » George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)
• 1893 » Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1903 » Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
• 1908 » Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
• 1909 » Francis Smith, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)

• 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.
• January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
• March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
• April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
• 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.
• September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

The temperature on January 17, 1888 was about -4.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.