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• Albert Streuper,, Kleinemeer Gem. Sappermeer († 1888)
• Anna Maria Geertruida Witte, Schiedam († 1965)
• Albertus Haasjes
• Anne de Leeuw, Giethoorn († 1893)
• Annetje Ras, Den Helder († 1965)
• aart cornelis KOUWENHOVEN, poortugaal
• Alberta Cornelia van Middendorp, Garderbroek onder Barneveld
• "Lavinie" Marie Blanche Louise Pigault de Beaupré, Paris († 1950)
• Adrianus Vermaat, Rotterdam
• Annie E Braby, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1983)

• Agnetta SQUIRES (0), Westbury, Tasmania, Australia
• Agatha Johanna Alessie (42), Amsterdam
• Adriana Oversluizen (68), Vlaardingen
• Barbara Alberdina Hulshoff (0), Deventer, 7411, Nederland
• Anna Maria Sundorff (82)
• Albertus van Breukelen (0), IJsselstein
• Apolonia VAN DEN HAUTE (44), Hontenisse,,Zeeland,PAYS BAS
• Barend Klaassen (0), Gemeente Haarlemmermeer, Raadhuisplein 1, Hoofddorp, 2132, Nederland
• Antje Hemmes Pals (64), Hoorn (gem. Wedde)
• Antje Scholte (76), Marken

• 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)

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.
• 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 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
• 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.
• 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 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

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%.