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• Albertus Johannes de Pater, Rotterdam
• Alida Cornelia Klever, Ijsselstein, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Vertommen, Bosstraat B30, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver
• Adrianus Johannes Kooijman, Wilnis, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1976)
• Anna Vogel, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• * Paulina Schuurmans, den Dungen († 1959)
• Aleides van Doorn, Uithoorn († 1957)
• Adriana Jabaaij, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amandina Rosalia Clothilde Bruyns, Hingene
• Anna Maria Rijntjes, Utrecht († 1889)

• Aaltje~Hendriks Wignand (79), Gaasterlân
• Adriana Johanna Kokken (0), Dordrecht
• Anna Catharina Rudel (85), Marion County
• Arnoldus Danklof (47), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius van NIELE (53), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltien Jannes Hogeling (54), Thij, Overijssel, Pays-Bas
• Aard Slotboom (89), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anne Robijn (0), Tietjerksteradeel
• Adrianus Berkhout (0), spijkenisse
• Aartje van Nijhuis (4), Ermelo-Telgt

• 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
• 1883 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician († 1952)
• 1883 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general († 1948)
• 1888 » Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer († 1978)
• 1888 » Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist († 1960)
• 1891 » Edith Quimby, American medical researcher and physicist († 1982)
• 1894 » Jimmy McHugh, American composer († 1969)
• 1895 » Carl Orff, German composer and educator († 1982)
• 1896 » Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician († 1981)
• 1897 » Legs Diamond, American gangster († 1931)

• 1851 » Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 » Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (b. 1831)
• 1920 » John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1929 » Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Huntley Wright, English actor (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)

• 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 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
• October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

The temperature on July 10, 1888 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.