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• Adriana Johanna Harinck, Oudelande († 1959)
• Aleida Wilhelmina Brendina Rottink, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1965)
• Allen Schoolcraft Hulbert, Duluth, St Louis, Minnesota, United States († 1972)
• Adriana Johanna Fransen, Zwartsluis († 1971)
• Aafje Margje Olree, Rotterdam
• Mijnsbergen, Kloetinge († 1888)
• Versluijs, Wissenkerke
• Adriënne Eugenie Françoise Maria Dorsman, Eindhoven,Gemeente Eindhoven,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1975)
• Hendrikje Tjibbes Pool, Aengwirden († 1890)
• Alphons Joseph Laurent Gadiot, Maastricht († 1950)

• Antje Paarlberg (61), Warmenhuizen
• Adriana Raaphorst (74), Zoetermeer
• Anna Catharina van Aurich (71), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Annegien Timmermans (29), Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Ann Spensley (83), Leadmine, Grant Co, WI
• Anna Maria Maas (54), Ottersum, Nederland
• Annigje Timmermans (29), Sleen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Alijda Roelofs (73), Arnhem (gd)
• Aalbert van der Hoek (0), oud-Beijerland
• Alphonsus Albertus Devos (8), Oostende (B)

• 1886 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1977)
• 1887 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director († 1967)
• 1887 » Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb († 1979)
• 1887 » Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and poet († 1958)
• 1888 » J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author († 1964)
• 1888 » T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1889 » Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist († 1946)
• 1889 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic († 1976)
• 1890 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager († 1959)
• 1891 » William McKell, Australian politician, 12th Governor General of Australia († 1985)

• 1868 » August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
• 1877 » Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
• 1902 » Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)
• 1904 » John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Charles Wade, Australian politician, 17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Andy Adams, American author (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and author (b. 1861)
• 1937 » Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b. 1926)

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 13 » With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
• 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.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.

The temperature on September 26, 1888 was about 15.5 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.