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• Anna Elisabeth Kayser, Den Haag († 1945)
• alida maria de wolf, rotterdam († 1888)
• Anna Maria Oldert, Arnhem († 1950)
• Anna Maria Arnoldina Opdebeke, Lanaken (B) († 1976)
• Anna Berendina Jansma 9, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Annegien Boer, Oosterhesselen († 1935)
• Aaltje Lodder, Rhenen, Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1959)
• Alidanus Johannes Gerardus Stuijfzand († 1910)
• Aaltje Hamberg, venebrugge, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland († 1972)
• Adrienne Van der Veken, Brecht, België († 1945)

• Anna van der Vlugt (70), Ouder Amstel
• Alice Sargent (1)
• Alfred William Johns (0), Sandhurst, Victoria., Australia
• Adriana Peek (75), Vianen, South Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Kriller (79), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amy Sherman Hazard (88), Rome, Oneida County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Adolphus Baetens (68), Zeveneken, België
• Aaltje van Vuure (55), Ransdorp
• Aleida Veelbehr (53), Arnhem
• Aaltje van Vuure (55), Ransdorp, Nederland

• 1886 » Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer († 1971)
• 1887 » Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress († 1954)
• 1889 » Beulah Bondi, American actress († 1981)
• 1889 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player († 1972)
• 1891 » Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher († 1963)
• 1891 » Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic († 1969)
• 1892 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1892 » Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic († 1970)
• 1893 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author († 1975)
• 1895 » Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist († 1987)

• 1856 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
• 1856 » Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
• 1910 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 1916 » Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
• 1916 » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
• 1916 » Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)
• 1921 » Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1883)

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.
• May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
• August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

The temperature on May 3, 1888 was about 10.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 50 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.