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• Aaltje Jeltje Kerstma, Delfstrahuizen († 1945)
• , Havre-aux-Maisons, I-M, QC, Canada († 1965)
• Adriana van de Lisdonk, Tilburg († 1906)
• Andries Jacobus Groen, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Louise SMITH, Pirton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire († 1961)
• Alphonse Eugène Bolloré, Concarneau, Finistère, France († 1932)
• Adrianus van Hoegee, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1979)
• Andries Jacobus Groen, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Van der Veeken, Rucphen († 1962)
• Aafke Zuidema, Uithuizermeeden († 1890)

• Adrianus van Velzen (81), Warmond
• Aaltje Roelofs Calis (53), Laren
• Aaltje Hoogermoolen (72), Enkhuizen
• Alida Giesekamp (32), 's-Gravenhage
• Barbara Geldhof (79), Brugge, WVL.BE
• Aaltje Janssen (64)
• Aaltje Boerefijn (71), Ter Aar (Korteraar)
• Anna Maria Ludwig (66), Delaware, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States
• Alberta (kind) Klein Ovink (0), Erve Haverkamp
• Antonius (Antoon Antonie) Vos (65), Son en Breugel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1880 » Dominikus Böhm, German architect († 1955)
• 1880 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress and singer († 1959)
• 1883 » Hugo Wast, Argentine writer († 1962)
• 1885 » Lawren Harris, Canadian painter and educator († 1970)
• 1888 » Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1961)
• 1892 » Speckled Red, American blues/boogie-woogie piano player and singer-songwriter († 1973)
• 1894 » Emma Vyssotsky, American astronomer and academic († 1975)
• 1894 » Rube Bressler, American baseball player († 1966)
• 1896 » André Lévêque, French soldier and engineer († 1930)
• 1896 » Lilyan Tashman, American actress († 1934)

• 1867 » Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
• 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
• 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)

• 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 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.
• August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
• September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
• October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

The temperature on October 23, 1888 was about 8.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.