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• Aaltje Smit, Zaandam
• Albertje Schram, Amsterdam
• , Linschoten († 1932)
• Albert Carl Bille SCHEEL, Copenhagen Denmark († 1937)
• Aaltje Zichtema, Doniawerstal Friesland Nederland († 1940)
• Adriana Maria Emma Johanna P.S van den Bliek, Breda († 1943)
• Age Jans van Balen, Wytgaard (LWL), Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1945)
• Aaltje Bonzes Zigtema, Doniawerstal, 8522, Nederland († 1940)
• Alfred Dubé, Québec, Canada († 1944)
• Adrianus Groot, Hensbroek

• Anne Josèphe SAUVAGE (67), Liège,4000,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Hermanus (11), Utrecht
• Amelia Francisca Cloet (59), Oostduinkerke
• Antonia Maria van der Vegte (0), Ambt Ommen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anneke Huizinga (68), Zijldijk, Gemeente Loppersum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Abraham Sipkens (10), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Maria van der Vegt (0), Arriën
• Aart van den Bosch (7), Nijkerk
• Alphonsus Joseph Maria Smulders (0), Tilburg
• Albert Rijkeboer (7), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1869 » Stanisław Wojciechowski, Polish scholar and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Poland († 1953)
• 1874 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1951)
• 1874 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1952)
• 1878 » Reza Shah, Iranian king († 1944)
• 1879 » Benjamin R. Jacobs, American biochemist († 1963)
• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian-Greek painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health († 1961)
• 1887 » Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods († 1973)
• 1890 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer († 1980)
• 1892 » James Basevi Ord, Mexican-American colonel († 1938)

• 1832 » Otto Wilhelm Masing, Estonian linguist and clergyman (b. 1763)
• 1842 » Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1849 » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1891 » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
• 1897 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
• 1921 » Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
• 1927 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)
• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)

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.
• March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
• May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on March 15, 1881 was about 11.0 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 27%.