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• Adriana IJsbrands van Rooijen, Noordwijk
• Aartje Boulande, Kralingen († 1889)
• Aaltje Brandenburg, Putten
• Andries Swinkels, Lieshout, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1892)
• , Hensbroek († 1958)
• Aaltje Brandenberg, Putten
• Anna Eleanor Maria Christina HOSS, Clinton Clinton County Iowa U.S.A († 1967)
• Albert Grieten, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek (B.)
• * Lijntje Muis, Giessen Nieuwkerk († 1953)
• Anna Elizabeth Leeder († 1983)

• Alvah Miller Sr (90), Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Pillars (77), Randolph, Illinois, United States
• Aaltje van der Veen (42), Haskerdijken, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Dirks Bos (82), Giethoorn
• Antje Westra (1), Stroobos
• Anna van der Ploeg, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alvah Miller (90), Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
• Aaltje Alberts van der Veen (42), Haskerdijken
• Antje van der Ploeg (80), Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Volkens Huisman (1)

• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)
• 1885 » Charles Daniels, American swimmer († 1973)
• 1885 » Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer († 1978)
• 1886 » Edward Weston, American photographer († 1958)
• 1886 » Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer († 1945)
• 1887 » Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1933)
• 1888 » Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician († 1922)
• 1889 » Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner († 1969)
• 1890 » Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician († 1954)
• 1891 » Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic († 1951)

• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)

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 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
• April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

The temperature on March 24, 1888 was about 3.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.