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• Adriana Goudriaan, Amsterdam (Amsterdam), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Bottelier, Haarlem († 1963)
• Adrianus Bergmans, Waalwijk
• Anna Maria Dijksman, Hillegersberg († 1949)
• Anna Popko's Westerhuis, Usquert
• Adriana Catharina Maria Otten, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Louis Heugens, Gulpen, Limburg, Nederland († 1966)
• Albert J RUNDE, Hazel Green, Grant, Wisconsin, United States († 1973)
• Albert Ray Allen, S. Haven, Van Buren Co., MI († 1981)
• Aaltje Pater de, Schiedam

• Annechien Bieleveld (0), Roodehaan, Noorddijk,, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Thole (0), Schwartenberg, Haren (Ems)
• Baartje Herbert (4), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Jansma (81), Hemrik
• Adriaan van Gool (0), Oosterhout
• Alphonsus Maria (1) Bellersen (1), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Abraham Tellier (1), Biervliet, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Geitenbeek (75), amsterdam, Nederland
• Alida Johanna de Bruijn (34), De Lier, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aris Cornelis Schoonhoven (0), Linschoten

• 1879 » Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous († 1950)
• 1879 » Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician († 1919)
• 1880 » Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia († 1961)
• 1881 » Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1882 » Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 1965)
• 1884 » Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator († 1933)
• 1889 » Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor († 1968)
• 1889 » Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer († 1977)
• 1891 » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic († 1953)

• 1858 » Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Haitian Empress (b. 1758)
• 1863 » Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)

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.
• January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
• 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 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
• 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.
• 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 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.

The temperature on August 8, 1888 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.