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• Abraham Busnac, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Adriaan Willem Ruyssenaers, Rheden,Gemeente Rheden,Gelderland,Netherlands († 1966)
• Albertina Henrietta Maria Jospehina Geubbels, Duiven († 1939)
• Adrianus van Och, Dommelen
• Aaltje Breekveldt, Baarn († 1888)
• Adelaïda Margaretha Van der Vekens, Dendermonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen
• Aaltje Jans Hoekstra, De Koaten, Friesland, Nederland († 1966)
• "Brigitte" Agnes Mabella Dorothea Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Stuttgart, Allemagne († 1972)
• Adrianus de Waard, Zwijndrecht († 1977)
• Adriana Heijboer, Oud-Vossemeer

• ALBERTUS VAN DEN BROEK (44), Woudenberg
• Catharina Everdina Josefina Klugkist (31), Groningen
• Cornelis Johannes Pols (0), Oudenbosch
• Albert Bont (60), Kallenkote (Steenwijkerwold)
• Adrianus Johannes Wijman (0), Wijk bij Duurstede
• anje bousema (0), leek
• Annetta Nisetta Koster (70), Den Haag
• Adrianus Bertus Koolhaas (0), Waardenburg
• Antonia Cortenbach (39), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Arend Loenen, van (52), Ekamp (Finsterwolde)

• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)

• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)

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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

The temperature on August 12, 1888 was about 17.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.