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• Adriaan de Looff, Koudekerke, Veere, Zeeland, Nederland († 1892)
• Adriaan de Looff, Koudekerke († 1892)
• Aleida Johanna Kolenbrander, Sinderen
• Adriaan Beaufort, Axel, Zeeland, Nederland († 1888)
• Alphonsus Petrus Josephus Marie van der Ouderaa, Bergen op Zoom, Gemeente Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1970)
• Abeline Jans, Groningen
• Adriana Wijnings, Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1967)
• Alida Weijers, Hillegom, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Albert Horree, Leiden († 1890)
• Akke van Vugt, Sneek († 1889)

• Alexander Waldegrave PYM (34), "The Firs", Ampthill, Bedfordshire
• Aan Edsgers Mud (53), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Du Pont (60), Middelburg, Nederland
• Antonius Breugelmans (37), Antwerpen
• Aafje de REUS (61), Edam, Gemeente Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Poortman (23), Ruinerwold
• Barbara Maes (84), Temse
• Berend Schimmel (64), Wilp
• Anna Elisabeth Lemmens (55), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Pont, du (60), Middelburg

• 1879 » Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar († 1962)
• 1880 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire († 1968)
• 1882 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler († 1964)
• 1882 » Leopold Stokowski, English conductor († 1977)
• 1884 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician († 1937)
• 1888 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1889 » Jessie Street, Australian activist († 1970)
• 1892 » Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor († 1962)
• 1893 » Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower († 1944)
• 1897 » Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer († 2001)

• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)
• 1873 » Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1898 » Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1912 » Martha Ripley, American physician (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)

• 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.
• August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• 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 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
• December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

The temperature on April 18, 1888 was about 9.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.