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• Adriana Clara de Zoete, Soest, Nederland († 1922)
• Alida Elisabeth Burgerhout, Middelharnis († 1934)
• Adriaan Johannes SCHIMMER, Rotterdam
• Adriana Clara de Zoete, Soest(UT) († 1922)
• Anna Maria Baetsen, Weert († 1978)
• Aaldert Mulder, Aardscheveld, Assen
• Anne Jitzes Wedzinga, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Agatha SCHIPPER, Beverwijk († 1972)
• Alida Elisabeth BURGERHOUT, Middelharnis
• Anne Wedzinga, Kooten, Nederland († 1981)

• Ambroise Joseph Horgnies (72), Solre-Sur-Sambre, Hainaut, Belgique
• Adriana Cornelia de Bondt (80), Dordrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Johannes Abbing (0), Hoogeveen
• Bastiaan LANDSMEER (3), Rotterdam
• Adriaan Johannes SCHIMMER (2), Rotterdam
• Aaltjen Harmsen (63), Lochem,Gemeente Lochem,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Anna Ervin (59), Jefferson Township Greene County Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Geerts, Ginneken en Bavel
• Scheper (0), Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna van TIL (0), Heemskerk

• 1880 » Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician († 1950)
• 1887 » Wharton Esherick, American sculptor († 1970)
• 1892 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic († 1940)
• 1893 » Dick Rauch, American football player and coach († 1970)
• 1893 » Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress († 1969)
• 1894 » Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer († 1989)
• 1899 » Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland († 1971)
• 1902 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission († 1983)
• 1903 » K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician († 1975)
• 1903 » Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author († 1998)

• 1851 » Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1787)
• 1857 » Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
• 1858 » Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
• 1883 » General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (b. 1838)
• 1885 » Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop († 1825)
• 1904 » Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)

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 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• 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.
• July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
• August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.

The temperature on July 15, 1888 was about 16.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.