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• Antonia Smits, Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1941)
• Agatha Maria de Jong, Schiedam († 1941)
• "Catherine" Maria Katharina Weyer, Ferdinand, Dubois, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1950)
• Aagje Heindijk, Oostvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1950)
• Aagje Heijndijk († 1950)
• Antoinetta Maria Helmer -, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriana van Moorsel, Soerendonk († 1968)
• Alfons Stoop, Melsele († 1881)
• Andries Ypes de Hoop, Zwaagwesteinde, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1959)
• Albertus Hermannus van LEUSEN, Dalfsen († 1883)

• Berendina Stoltenborgh (60), Heidenhoek (Bronckhorst)
• Antonie Stephanus van Rijn (32), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Kepner (80), Mifflin, Juniata Co., PA
• Bartus Hollink (64), Hengelo, 7550, Nederland
• Arend Alberts Medendorp (65), Tynaarlo, Vries, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Albert Hayes Huizingh (60), Kantens
• Catharina Bergenhenegouwen (1), Loosduinen, S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie Stephanus van Rijn (32), Rijswijk
• Berendina Holtenborg, Stoltenborg (60), Heidenhoek
• Anje Feringa (41), Sint Annen, Ten Boer

• 1876 » Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author and playwright († 1958)
• 1877 » Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1960)
• 1880 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1880 » Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist († 1943)
• 1881 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)

• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)

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.
• June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
• October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

The temperature on August 12, 1881 was about 17.2 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.