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• Adriana Johanna Dullaart, Zevenhuizen († 1959)
• Adriana Johanna Dullaart, Zevenhuizen
• Anna Maria Hubertina Kicken, Elsloo
• Adriana Meeuse, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1979)
• Clazina Herberdina Helsloot, Rotterdam
• Ada Neher, Monkton, Perth, Ontario,Canada
• Adrianus Bernardus de Kruif, Vlijmen († 1952)
• Adrianus Pollemans, Oude-Tonge,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Amy Ethel Isabella Black, Preston, Victoria, Australia († 1889)
• Adrianus Johannes van Eijck, Alphen en Riel († 1888)

• Annechien Boes (1), Rolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arnoldus van de Kamp (40), Arnhem
• Arnoldus Haverkamp (37), Oldemarkt
• Andrew B. Ryerson (88)
• Arie De JONGSTE (74), Numansdorp
• Barthelemé Guillaume Kleyn (61), Bad Godesberg,Regierungsbezirk Köln,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany
• arie de JONGSTE (74), numansdorp
• Arie Jongste (74), Numansdorp
• Antje Jochems Rienstra (68), Rauwerderhem
• Arie Jongste (74), Numansdorp

• 1878 » Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer († 1955)
• 1881 » Kesago Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army († 1945)
• 1884 » Harry Langdon, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1944)
• 1886 » Frank Clement, British racing driver († 1970)
• 1888 » Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author († 1921)
• 1890 » Georg Wüst, German oceanographer and academic († 1977)
• 1894 » Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist († 1947)
• 1894 » Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and conductor († 1981)
• 1898 » Hubertus Strughold, German-American physiologist and academic († 1986)
• 1900 » Gotthard Günther, German philosopher and academic († 1984)

• 1844 » Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1777)
• 1849 » James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
• 1858 » Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (b. 1795)
• 1888 » Frederick III, German Emperor (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
• 1890 » Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
• 1917 » Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic (b. 1867)
• 1934 » Alfred Bruneau, French cellist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and physician (b. 1873)

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.
• January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
• 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 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.
• July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
• September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.

The temperature on June 15, 1888 was about 17.5 °C. The air pressure was 25 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.