About the day » Sunday December 16, 1888Calender converter

• Albert Butter († 1976)
• Alexander Karadordevic Koning van Joegoslavië, Cetinje, Montenegro († 1934)
• Adriana Joanna Maria van Loon, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Albertha Schoemaker, Zuidwolde († 1980)
• Boers, of Assen,Drente,Nederland
• Alexander I KARAĐORĐEVIĆ, Cetinje, Montenegro († 1934)
• Adriana Cornelia Janssens, Etten Leur
• Abraham Kok, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1943)
• Aaltje Lokhorst, Doornspijk (Elburg), Gld, NL († 1889)
• Aleksandar I Karađorđević, Tsetinye († 1934)

• Aaltje Jans Monsuur (78), Wittelte, Nederland
• van der Velden (0), Oerle
• Anna Jacoba Brussé (76), Haarlem
• Anje Vink (63), 't Zandt, Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anthonetta Pieternella Bienefelt (57), Haamstede
• Anthonie van de Pol (93)
• Anthonetta Pieternella Bienefeld (57), Haamstede, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Bailey (35), Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia
• Adriana Lenders (60), Meijel,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida van der Meer (42), Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1882 » Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist († 1963)
• 1882 » Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer († 1974)
• 1882 » Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist († 1967)
• 1883 » Károly Kós, Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician († 1977)
• 1883 » Max Linder, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1925)
• 1884 » John Gunn, Australian politician, 29th Premier of South Australia († 1959)
• 1884 » Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor († 1987)
• 1888 » Alexander I of Yugoslavia († 1934)
• 1888 » Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general († 1967)
• 1889 » Kim Chwa-chin, South Korean guerrilla leader († 1930)

• 1859 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786)
• 1892 » Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
• 1897 » Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
• 1908 » American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)
• 1917 » Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1921 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
• 1922 » Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Elinor Wylie, American poet and author (b. 1885)
• 1935 » Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian (b. 1905)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

The temperature on December 16, 1888 was about 3.9 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.