About the day » Sunday May 6, 1888Calender converter

• Addie Emma Smith, Horry County,South Carolina († 1951)
• Petronella Hellemons, Oud Gastel († 1949)
• Aalt van den Brink, Nijkerk
• Alberic Josef Compernolle, Passendale,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1947)
• Amandine Marie Adeline Philips, Burst († 1888)
• Andries Wijnand, Nijehaske Haskerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1890)
• Aaldert Jan Kikkert, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1968)
• Adriana Opdam, Zegwaart-Zuid-Holland-Nederland († 1889)
• Adriana Opdam, Zegwaart († 1889)
• Regtop, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, The Netherlands († 1888)

• Adriana Maria Allegonda Hamerslag (5), Rotterdam
• Aart Gerritsz Overeem
• Alois Jozef Habets (0), Heerlen, Nederland
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• Antoine Broeckx (69), Retie,Antwerpen,Belgium
• Anna Kristina Maria Nieuwland (68), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonio de Queiroz Telles (56), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Maria Corveleyn (70), Antwerpen, België
• Abraham Hartog (50)
• Anna KREUMER (61), Meppel,, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1879 » Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist († 1952)
• 1879 » Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer († 1929)
• 1880 » Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter († 1938)
• 1880 » Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator († 1959)
• 1883 » Alberto Collo, Italian actor († 1955)
• 1895 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture († 1946)
• 1895 » Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author († 1974)
• 1895 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor († 1926)
• 1896 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic († 1966)
• 1897 » Paul Alverdes, German author and poet († 1979)

• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)

• 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 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
• April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.

The temperature on May 6, 1888 was about 15.1 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.