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• Anna Paulina Hien, van, Kroja, Tjilatjap († 1972)
• Alfred Gordon, Moneague, Saint Ann, Jamaica († 1967)
• Abraham Hechler Benner († 1956)
• Aafke Jelles Boorsma, Kollumerzwaag, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland († 1912)
• Akke Dankert († 1973)
• Akke Dankert, Vrouwenparochie († 1973)
• Aaltje Koning, Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Ham, Fijnaart († 1975)
• Anna Elisabeth van Dort († 1980)
• Albertus Jongbloed, Utrecht († 1959)

• Anna Maria Hermans (1), Tongerlo
• Arie Mout (0), Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Keij (37), Tricht
• Albertus Olijslag (0), Almen
• Aleida Klieverink (51), Volthe (Weerselo)
• Anna Elisabeth Winters (82), Grote-Brogel
• Anne Konink (14), Scheerwolde (Steenwijkerwold)
• Adrianus van der Graaf (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Albert Middelbeek (31), Culemborg, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• bastiaan BOOMAN (0), oud-beijerland

• 1882 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)
• 1887 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager († 1978)
• 1889 » Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., Russian-American violinist, composer, and conductor († 1985)
• 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)
• 1889 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1892 » Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver († 1956)
• 1893 » Romeo Bertini, Italian runner († 1973)
• 1898 » Maurice Wilson, English soldier, pilot, and mountaineer († 1934)
• 1899 » Randall Thompson, American composer and academic († 1984)

• 1852 » Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782)
• 1900 » Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)
• 1910 » Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)
• 1918 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1924 » Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)

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 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.
• 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 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
• September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• October 29 » The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

The temperature on April 21, 1888 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.