About the day » Sunday April 8, 1888Calender converter

• Albertien LEVER, Norg, Drenthe, Nederland († 1946)
• Aaffien Bossema, Nieuw-Buinen, Nederland
• Albert STRUIK, Havelte, Nederland, Drenthe, Nederland († 1949)
• Adriana Maria van Onzenoort, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Adam KNIKMAN, Dordrecht († 1895)
• Albert Augustus Greenough, Escatawpa, Jackson, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• aagje van treuren, overschie († 1888)
• Adriana Maria de Vette, Schiedam
• Adriaan Dirkse, Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin
• Adriana Maria de Vette, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Aartje (Arendje) Schuurman (52), Epe
• Annigje Poortman (23), Ruinerwold, De Wolden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonij Verhoeven (75), Meeuwen
• Anna Wilhelmina van Woelderen (85), ‘s-Heerenberg,Gemeente Montferland,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Angelus Levecque, Marke,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• (1) Catharina van Tunen (39), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Annechien Klaassens Drenth (78), Kloosterveen gem. Assen
• Anna Barbara Florax (Florakx) (63), Hoensbroek
• ALBERT V. NEWKIRK (60)
• -Margaretha Magdalena Maritje BECKX (0), Ambarawa (Semarang) (IND)

• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)
• 1886 » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright († 1967)
• 1888 » Dennis Chávez, American journalist and politician († 1962)
• 1889 » Adrian Boult, English conductor († 1983)
• 1892 » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists († 1979)
• 1892 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records († 1970)
• 1896 » Yip Harburg, American composer († 1981)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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.
• 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.
• May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
• September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
• 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).
• October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

The temperature on April 8, 1888 was about 3.9 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%.