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• Andreas van Spreuwel, Vessem († 1883)
• Anna Margaret Merten, Boston (Suffolk), Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1927)
• Adrianus ? Van Doorn, Hoogeboom († 1958)
• Adrianus Johannes Zevenhoven, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Aafke; Eva RIETEMA, Den Hoorn, gem Leens, Groningen Netherlands († 1968)
• Aartje Wismeijer, Mijdrecht († 1967)
• Anna Wolf, Uden
• Aartje Wismeijer, Mijdrecht (U) († 1967)
• Aaltje de Jong, Katlijk, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• Adriana Helena Molewijk, Raamsdonk († 1935)

• Adrianus Cornelis Rijcken (40), Marseille (Frankrijk)
• Aagje VAN DUIN (59), Alkmaar,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Albertje Remmelts Thijs (83), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafje Baas (40), Twisk
• Anna Catharina Wijkhuizen (80), Haarlem
• Anna Catharina Wijkhuisen (80), Haarlem
• Van Herwegen (0), Oorderen
• Aafje Van Duijn (59), Alkmaar,North Holland,Netherlands
• Antje Hulsinga (76), Oudehorne, Friesland, Nederland
• Annetje Doornwaard (67), Elburg

• 1874 » Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon († 1937)
• 1877 » Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author († 1967)
• 1878 » Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. († 1966)
• 1878 » Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright († 1937)
• 1880 » Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach († 1957)
• 1880 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1881 » Max Pechstein, German painter and academic († 1955)
• 1884 » Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player († 1964)
• 1884 » Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director († 1960)
• 1885 » Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein († 1970)

• 1872 » Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)
• 1876 » Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806)
• 1877 » Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819)
• 1888 » Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)
• 1889 » George Kerferd, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Victoria (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1909 » Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)

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.
• February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
• April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
• April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).

The temperature on December 31, 1881 was about 0.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.