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• Abram VERMEER, Bunschoten († 1975)
• Alexander (Sen) Heuts, Heer,6227,Maastricht,Limburg,Nederland
• (Stillborn) POORTINGA († 1888)
• Adriana VAN DER VOOREN, Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Jacoba Maria Horstink († 1974)
• Abraham Adriaan van Rossem, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Bakker, Anna Paulowna
• Alfred Alphonse Georges Dupont, Brugge West-Vlaanderen († 1888)
• * Johannes Hubertus (Jean) Bongaerts, Roermond († 1966)
• Alle Smid, Groningen († 1958)

• Antje van Putten (1), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba van As (0), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Abraham Verwer (39), Leiden
• Anna Jacoba van As (0), Tholen
• van Zon (0)
• Arij van der HORDE (57), Nieuw Beijerland
• * Catharina van Gerwen (58), Gemert
• Arnold Wilhelmus van Eerd (9), Veghel, Nederland
• Anna Grabill (78), Jackson, Amelia, Virginia, United States
• Antonius Teunissen (43), USA

• 1880 » W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator († 1967)
• 1881 » Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 († 1955)
• 1883 » Mamie Smith, American singer, actress, dancer, and pianist († 1946)
• 1886 » Al Jolson, American singer and actor († 1950)
• 1887 » Ba U, 2nd President of Burma († 1963)
• 1893 » Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer († 1962)
• 1895 » Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist († 1965)
• 1895 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor and singer († 1971)
• 1898 » Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater († 1965)
• 1898 » Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1990)

• 1881 » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)
• 1883 » Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (b. 1808)
• 1902 » Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1926 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 » Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)

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 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
• 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.
• 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 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
• October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

The temperature on May 26, 1888 was about 8.4 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.