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• Aaltje Wouters de Vries, Niehove, Groningen, Nederland († 1974)
• Arie Cornelis de Man, Hardinxveld
• Ardina van den Tillaar, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1964)
• Aaltje de Vries, Niehove, gem. Oldehove, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Pezie, Almelo, Stad
• Aart Boonen, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 1890)
• Schellings, Maastricht († 1888)
• Anna Huberdina Catharina PEIJSTER, Breda
• * Krina Kornelia Elisabeth Leijs, Middelburg († 1943)
• Adriaan Elst, Zundert

• Augustus Josephus Herssens (63), Brugge
• Arie Stolk (0), Rotterdam Z.H
• van Bavel (0), Tilburg
• Albert Lindsey Ellis (75), Putnam, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Schellings (0), Maastricht
• Albert Harmsel (20), Rijssen
• Annetje van Wijnen (70), Rotterdam
• Alida de Wildt (25), Everdingen
• Alida de Wildt (25), Everdingen, Nederland
• Albertus Marinus Stinissen (0), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1879 » King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1879 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army († 1940)
• 1886 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician († 1935)
• 1888 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1888 » Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, founded the Black Army († 1934)
• 1890 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator († 1972)
• 1891 » Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD († 1938)
• 1893 » Leatrice Joy, American actress († 1985)
• 1893 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author († 1974)
• 1896 » Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist († 1975)

• 1862 » Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (b. 1775)
• 1872 » Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1833)
• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 1856)

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 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
• July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
• 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.

The temperature on November 7, 1888 was about -3.4 °C. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.