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• Adriaan Maan, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1890)
• Adriana van Brussel, Geldermalsen
• Anna Catharina van der Starre, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland († 1918)
• Anna Catherrina van der Starrre, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Abel Leme de Assis Gonçalves, Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil († 1973)
• André De Vuyst, Herzele
• Aaltje Mulder, Nijega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Driessen, Nederweert, Limburg, Netherlands
• achille SCARCERIAUX, Wasmuël (Belgium) Hainaut
• Aaltje Jans Mulder, Nijega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1917)

• Aaltjen Bannink (56), Doetinchem
• Arnold Joseph Theodore Hubert van den Bergh (68), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Alphonse DEFONTAINE (75), Ligny-lès-Aire,62960,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Anna van Esser (21), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis van Wingerden (28), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Wilhelmina Elings (0), Wageningen
• Arnoldus Martens (79), Wijchen
• Antje Jacobs van Dijk (40), Langezwaag, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Ark (49), wesepe (olst)
• Antonio Gonçalves de Oliveira (67), Amparo, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)
• 1894 » Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland († 1972)
• 1895 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author († 1964)

• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
• 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 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
• 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 May 13, 1888 was about 16.4 °C. The air pressure was 46 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%.