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• Adelheid Vlieks, Kerkrade
• Adriaan Stoutjesdijk, Noordgouwe (Gem. Schouwen-Duiveland), Zeeland, Nederland Nederland († 1890)
• Alberdina Roelofs, Gendt († 1890)
• ADRIANUS VAN SPRONSEN, MONSTER († 1912)
• Aaltje Hielkema, Nieuwehorne († 1965)
• Aart MONSTER, Rotterdam († 1893)
• Adrianus Schijff, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1970)
• Adriana Janna Maria van de Wege, Terneuzen († 1970)
• Adrianus van den Berg, Charlois († 1889)
• Aart van Beek, Ermelo

• Anna BLAAUW (91), Dordrecht
• Antje Willems Poelis (37), Barsbeek, Ambt Vollenhove
• Antje Blauw (91), Dordrecht
• adriana MEIER (79), klaaswaal
• Aaltien Hendriks, Dalen
• Arend van der Veen (11), Roswinkel ( Emmen)
• Adriana Willemina Timmers (70), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Antje Bouvy (91), Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• adriana Willemiena TIMMERS (70), fijnaart
• Antje Poeles (37), Barsbeek (Ambt Vollenhove)

• 1879 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor († 1954)
• 1883 » Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist († 1979)
• 1888 » Thea von Harbou, German actress, director, and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1892 » Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot († 1917)
• 1896 » Carl Zuckmayer, German author and playwright († 1977)
• 1896 » Louis Bromfield, American author and theorist († 1956)
• 1896 » Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist († 1952)
• 1898 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician († 1960)
• 1900 » Hans Stuck, German race car driver († 1978)
• 1901 » Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer († 1992)

• 1858 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (b. 1785)
• 1896 » John Brown, English businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1900 » William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810)
• 1914 » Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (b. 1846)
• 1923 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse and healthcare activist (b. 1866)
• 1936 » Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (b. 1873)
• 1938 » Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1938 » Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (b. 1891)

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.
• 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.
• September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
• October 29 » The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

The temperature on December 27, 1888 was about 1.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.