About the day » Monday May 21, 1888Calender converter

• Aafke Bos, Noordbroek (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Anna Johanna Maria Dieperink, Schiedam
• Adrianus Krebbeks, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Frederika Barendse, Soerabaija, Java, Ned. Indie
• Alijda Fontijn, Amersfoort († 1931)
• Anna Catharina Cleyndert, Zaandam († 1923)
• Adrianus de Wildt, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elizabeth van Marion, Zuidland
• Alvin Martin Charnholm, Necedah, Juneau, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1973)
• Aalbert van Middendorp, Hoenderloo

• Brinkerhof, Borculo
• Aleida Philippina Hietbrink (36), Brummen
• Barbara BRAND (15), Dubbeldam
• Anna Walradina Noman (71), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Johanna VAN DER BURCHT van LICHTENBERG (50), Heerjansdam
• Arien van Roosendaal (74), Ugchelen (Gld
• "Caroline" Wilhelmine Eléonore Euphrosine Antoinette Pergler von Perglas (72), Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
• Anje Frederikus Beckeringh (80), Nieuw Beerta (gem. Oldambt)
• Abra Lijte (72), Zuidland (Zuid-Holland, NLD)
• Bernardus Gerhardus Freriksen (0), Ypelo, gemeente Wierden

• 1878 » Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer († 1930)
• 1880 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author, and poet († 1967)
• 1884 » Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher († 1920)
• 1885 » Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) († 1936)
• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)
• 1893 » Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant († 1969)
• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)

• 1858 » José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)
• 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)

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.
• 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 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
• August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
• October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
• October 29 » The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

The temperature on May 21, 1888 was about 18.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.