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• Albert John WRIGHT, Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia († 1963)
• Adriana Petronella Tromp, Oijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Gerharda Lubbers, Langerak († 1932)
• Adriaan Kleijne († 1889)
• Alice Bush, Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1943)
• Alberta Cornelia van Middendorp, Garderbroek onder Barneveld
• Albert Streuper,, Kleinemeer Gem. Sappermeer († 1888)
• Aaltje Gijlers, Schoonebeek,Drenthe,Niederlande,Oud Schoonebeek († 1919)
• Allegonda Johanna Tromp, Ewijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1891)
• Abraham Polak, Amsterdam, Nederland

• Adriaan van der Lee (46), Vlijmen
• Alexander De Bisschop (60), Iddergem
• Antje Hemmes Pals (64), Hoorn (gem. Wedde)
• ? ? (15)
• Antje Hemmes Palts (64), Hoorn (Groningen)
• Adriaan Herman Ido van Doesburgh (51), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Brouwer, Nieuwer-Amstel
• Adriaan van der Lee (46), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allert Everts (33), Hoogeveen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alfred PAGET (72)

• 1884 » Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright († 1933)
• 1887 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player († 1974)
• 1888 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company († 1942)
• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)

• 1838 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1841 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)
• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)

• 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.
• May 13 » With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
• June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
• July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
• October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
• October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
• December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

The temperature on August 24, 1888 was about 23.1 °C. The air pressure was 22 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.