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• Albin Max Lerch, Offenburg (D)
• Aaltje Zwaan, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Weckwert, Leiden († 1953)
• Amelia Nancy Young, Louisville, Kentucky († 1932)
• Anna Catharina Anneessens, Schaarbeek
• Aaltje Albertina Dijkema, Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands († 1942)
• Aaltje Andries Krist, Schoterland († 1917)
• Adriana Jacoba van Bloppoel, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1938)
• Alphonsus Antonius Franciscus Naninck, Tilburg († 1943)
• Anna Maria Levsen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1882)

• Anna Jans Van Harlingen (2), Krommenie, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Smit (39), Weltevreden (Batavia=Jakarta) (NOI)
• Anna VAN HARLINGEN (2), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van der Kolk (81), Gouderak, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benedictus Soesan (21), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria van Lier (80), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Mari(j)nus Gerritsen (58), Arnhem
• Antje Mijzen (74), Spanbroek
• Adelaide Meyer (76)
• Catharina Poepjen (0), Oldemarkt

• 1860 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician († 1961)
• 1862 » John Jay Chapman, American lawyer, author, and poet († 1933)
• 1876 » Pope Pius XII († 1958)
• 1878 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver († 1944)
• 1886 » Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher († 1942)
• 1886 » Willis H. O'Brien, American animator and director († 1962)
• 1900 » Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer († 1950)
• 1901 » Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher († 1984)
• 1902 » Edward Condon, American physicist and academic († 1974)
• 1902 » Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy († 1972)

• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)
• 1864 » Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (b. 1842)
• 1865 » Carl Sylvius Völkner, German-New Zealand priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1880 » John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790)
• 1895 » Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1895 » Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Jubal Early, American general (b. 1816)
• 1921 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)

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 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
• September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.

The temperature on March 2, 1881 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.