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• Aleida Maria (Harmannus Hofstede) Hofstede, Emmen (NL) († 1949)
• Aleida Maria Hofstede, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1949)
• Aleida Maria Hofstede, Emmen (NL) († 1949)
• Alzira de Oliveira Brizola, São Miguel Arcanjo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1973)
• Aaltje Sakes Broersma, Opende († 1968)
• Albertus Gasseling, Zelhem (Gld) Nederland († 1973)
• Aaltje Bruinsma, Ooststellingwerf,Friesland,Nederland († 1895)
• Allardus Jans Bos, Aduard († 1897)
• Adriaantje Maria Jumelet, Bruinisse († 1976)
• Aaltje Bruinsma, Ooststellingwerf, Nederland († 1895)

• Antonetta Vroomans (0), Stratum, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonij Eekhuis (52), Voorst
• Asa Bullard (84), Cambridgeport, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Albert Metselaar (2), Westerbork, Drenthe, Netherlands(Nieuweroord)
• Alida Clasina de Wit (4), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnate Brüning (17), Trechwitz,Potsdam-Mittelmark,Brandenburg,Bundesrepublick Deutschland
• Anna Dibbets (63), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Kusters (52), Sevenum
• Albert Jan Bekamp (3), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Lips (73), Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1885 » Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer († 1978)
• 1886 » Frederick Lindemann, British physicist († 1957)
• 1886 » Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist († 1933)
• 1886 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru († 1933)
• 1887 » William Cowhig, British gymnast († 1964)
• 1889 » Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist († 1981)
• 1890 » Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast († 1955)
• 1890 » William Moore, British track and field athlete († 1956)
• 1891 » Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer († 1972)
• 1891 » Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun († 1904)

• 1872 » Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (b. 1812)
• 1873 » Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (b. 1824)
• 1882 » Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (b. 1806)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1891 » Johann Hermann Bauer, (b. 1861)
• 1900 » Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
• 1900 » Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)
• 1901 » Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)
• 1904 » Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)

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.
• August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

The temperature on April 5, 1888 was about 3.6 °C. The air pressure was 37 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.