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• Alexander Alphonse KEMPS, Kaggevinne Belgie
• Adrianus Tiggelman, den bommel (goeree overflakkee)
• Adriaan Kole, Wolphaartsdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1888)
• Aaltje Huigen, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen († 1917)
• Albertje Batterink, Schottershuizen († 1954)
• Anna PLEIS, Sterkrade,, Duitsland († 1959)
• Adriana Beversluis, Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amador de Camargo Pacheco, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Amede Maes, Temse († 1955)
• Albert Hakkers, Radewijk († 1911)

• Antje de Jong (28), Goingarijp, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Luites Luitjes (38), Bellingwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Meijer (0), breda
• Anthonie van Ewijk (60), Ingen, Nederland
• Adrianus Westgeest (78), Den Haag
• Annegie van den Bogert (0), Zuidland
• Antje Frankes de Jong (28), Goingarijp
• Anna Hendrickx (67), Helden,, Limburg, Nederland
• Ann McGlynn (80), Loughmacrory, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland
• Anna Bartels (62), Schoten

• 1876 » Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany († 1967)
• 1879 » Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic († 1946)
• 1880 » Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer († 1951)
• 1881 » Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter († 1934)
• 1882 » Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist († 1958)
• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1892 » Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse († 1984)
• 1893 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American guru and philosopher († 1952)
• 1897 » Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher and author († 1945)

• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)

• 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 20 » The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
• August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
• August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
• September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

The temperature on January 5, 1888 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.