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• Adriana Johanna Schoo, Bodegraven, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Post, Heerde
• Alberta van het Spijker, Diepenveen,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Addie Lee Allen Wallace [OsBu], Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina († 1912)
• Albert Veress, Fábiánháza, Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg, Hungary
• Adriaantje Jacoba Riede, Rozenburg, 3181, Nederland († 1888)
• Aaltjen Stegeman, Noordijk († 1973)
• Abel Dijkstra, Bolsward
• adriana elisabeth borst, amsterdam
• Alette van Houts, Scheveningen

• Albertus Sandberg (78), Zwolle,Gemeente Zwolle,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Antje Christina Arntz (80), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andreas Karolus Theophiel VERBEURGT (1), Schorisse,9688,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aaltje Leeuwerik (0)
• Aaltje Leeuwerink (0), Urk
• Antje Oosterbaan (61), Nijkerk
• Adriaan Amperse (51), Haarlemmermeer
• Albertus Jacobus Vernooij (0), Utrecht
• Anna Maria Assink (12), Hengelo-Woolde
• - Koning (0), Nieuw-Scheemda, Groningen, Nederland

• 1882 » Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist († 1968)
• 1883 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil († 1974)
• 1883 » Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building († 1969)
• 1886 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1889 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer († 1944)
• 1891 » Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and academic († 1970)
• 1892 » Ezio Pinza, Italian-American actor and singer († 1957)
• 1895 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader († 1934)
• 1896 » Eric Backman, Swedish runner († 1965)
• 1897 » Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)

• 1867 » Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

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.
• April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
• 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.
• September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
• September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.

The temperature on May 18, 1888 was about 25.4 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%.