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• Adriana Roelofs, Vlaardingen
• Abraham Menschaart, 's Gravenhage
• Anna Maria Driessen, Overasselt, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1959)
• Albertus ten Cate, Arnhem {GE} († 1936)
• Agnes Habel, Pennsylvania († 1927)
• Aaltje Simonsdr (ida) Steur, Blokker Nederland († 1956)
• Akke De Jong, Schoterland
• Adriaantje Keuris, Anna Paulowna
• Anna Catharina Villain, Kerkrade (L († 1883)
• Anna Maria Driessen, Overasselt

• Bashley Britten (57), Ullapool, Scotland
• Baeke Kerstens (Boeke) Jellema (93), Oldeholtpade, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Tepper (43), Gildehaus, Niedersachsen, Germany
• Albert Jans Kroon (54), Stadskanaal gem. Onstwedde 102
• Antonius HENDRIX (66), Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Albert Gort (0), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• Arthur Benton Collier (8), McLennan County, Texas
• Alida de Boer (69), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Gort (0), Amsterdam
• Albertus Petrus Maaren (68), Utrecht

• 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)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)

• 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)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)

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.
• March 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
• April 3 » American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• July 11 » The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
• July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
• October 16 » The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.

The temperature on August 12, 1882 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.