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• Adriana van Gils, Made, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aimé OUDELET, Froidmont-Cohartille,02270,Aisne,Picardie,FRANCE († 1936)
• Alvin Jones, East Nantmeal, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America († 1964)
• Agnes Mitchell, SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1970)
• Amelia Verbeeck, Bevel, 2560, België
• Am√©lie WIOLAND, Traubach-le-Haut (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• adrianus doornenbal, driebergen († 1967)
• Adrianus Stam, Oud-Alblas
• Albarta Geertruida Sanders, Lonneker († 1927)
• Adrianus Berkhout, Kethel en Spaland († 1948)

• Albertus van Oosterhout (52), Besoijen
• Adrianus van der Sanden (0), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Maria Schepers (64), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Antje Blank (12), Sijbekarspel, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan ESCH, van der (9), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonia Hendrika Spiekman (1), Jutphaas
• Albertus Middendorp (15), Schiedam
• "Louis" Joseph Ghislain Marie de Marnix (78), Bruxelles
• Marie Therese Breijaert (75), Koewacht
• Gresnigt (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1874 » Charles Ives, American composer († 1954)
• 1882 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Margaret Dumont, American actress († 1965)
• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)
• 1893 » Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1940)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

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.
• January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

The temperature on October 20, 1881 was about 4.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.