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• Anna Maria Arkesteijn, Hof van Delft, ZH, Nederland
• Antonia Tromp, Aruba
• Antje Schievink, Dwingeloo († 1961)
• Amaury Marie Joseph Edouard Paul Ghislain de Ramaix, Berlijn,,Berlin,Germany († 1955)
• Adriana de wilde, Monster
• Abraham Martinus Hoppezak, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Martinus Hoppezak, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Maria van Lotringen, Veghel
• Cornelis Zwaan, Rijnsburg
• Alida Jacoba Steijn, Loosduinen († 1953)

• Amerens (Trijzelaar) Trijselaar (53)
• Aaltje Klein (72)
• Alida Handgraaf (55), Haarlemmermeer
• Antje Redeker (70), Wervershoof
• Alida Handgraaf (55), haarlemmermeer
• Adolf Henneveld (0), Schipluiden (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia van Nuland (27), Nuland
• Anna Maria Bruëns (28)
• Aart Aarts (80), Noord-Apeldoorn
• Addie Lee (18)

• 1871 » Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author († 1943)
• 1875 » Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter († 1912)
• 1881 » Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1881 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor († 1944)
• 1881 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer († 1963)
• 1888 » Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1888 » Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral († 1945)
• 1889 » Paul Nash, British painter († 1946)
• 1890 » Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete († 1984)
• 1890 » Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter († 1958)

• 1848 » Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)
• 1882 » Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)
• 1889 » John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)
• 1908 » Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
• 1918 » George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1920 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
• 1920 » William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)
• 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Jacoba
13. Neeltje
14. Petronella
15. Geertruida
16. Trijntje

• 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
• October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.

The temperature on May 11, 1881 was about 9.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%.