About the day » Friday December 29, 1882Calender converter

• Aafje Jandr Timmerman, Broek op Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1930)
• Adriana Groen, 's-Gravenhage († 1968)
• Aleida Te Grotenhuis, West Branch Twsp (Sioux), Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Lorscher, Schleich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• ALIX MARIA EDMONDA DE BRUYNE, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1955)
• Andries Eelkes Bouma, Utingeradeel
• Anna Maria Lammens, Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1917)
• Abraham Hamme, Schiedam († 1943)
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• Adriana Verhagen, Hooge en Lage Mierden († 1942)

• Anna BEKKER (34), Warmenhuizen,Nederland
• Arend KOORING (72), Haarlemmermeer, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hazelhoff- (50), Zuidwending, Nederland
• Albert Douwes MAAT (64), Het Bildt
• Anna Hazelhoff (50), Zuidwending, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adelaïde Harriett Lucretia Los (27), Sunderland
• Aafke Foppes de Haan (82), Wijnjeterp
• Aaltje van der Breggen (2), Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Wilhelmus Vermeulen (57), Utrecht
• "Ippolita" Emanuela Francesca di Paola Gaspara Baldessarra Melchiorra Dentice (62), Wien, Autriche

• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)
• 1879 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot († 1936)
• 1881 » Jess Willard, American boxer († 1968)
• 1885 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general († 1921)
• 1886 » Norman Hallows, English runner and captain († 1968)
• 1895 » Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author († 1939)
• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)
• 1899 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing († 1992)

• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Arie
12. Adrianus
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Aaltje
13. Petronella
14. Jacoba
15. Trijntje
16. Geertruida

• 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.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
• September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
• September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
• September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

The temperature on December 29, 1882 was about 9.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.