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• Afke Lammerts de Jong, Oppenhuizen, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1959)
• Suijkerbuijk, Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Adrianus Sluijter, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Maria Gieling, Didam
• Anna Maria Scherpenzeel, Ruwiel, Utrecht, Nederland († 1964)
• Alpharetta Devonshire, Verenigde Statn († 1906)
• Adrien Blouin
• Andriesien Muskee, Sleen
• Adriana Jacoba Johanna Le Roux, Beaufort-Wes, Cape Province, South Africa
• Amy Ruby Turvey († 1972)

• Abraham Querido (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Wijnants (79), Made en Drimmelen
• Antje Jentjes (Anne) Tichelaar (72), Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Rienks Hiemstra (49), Deinum
• Alida de Reus (75), Rotterdam
• Anne Marguerite KALTSCHMIDT (57)
• Alida de Reus (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna - Catharina Michielsen (80), Chaam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Houwing (0), Zijpe, Schagerbrug, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• VAN KERSCHAEVER, Moerkerke,8340,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE

• 1873 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress († 1959)
• 1875 » Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor († 1937)
• 1878 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer († 1927)
• 1885 » John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral († 1971)
• 1885 » Milton Avery, American painter († 1965)
• 1886 » G. I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist († 1975)
• 1886 » Virginia Pearson, American actress († 1958)
• 1886 » Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist († 1970)
• 1888 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1978)
• 1888 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist and author († 1977)

• 1838 » Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
• 1897 » Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (b. 1813)
• 1904 » Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 » Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
• 1920 » Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
• 1928 » Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
• 1932 » Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1947 » Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)

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

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. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Antje

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
• June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
• July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
• August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
• October 4 » First run of the Orient Express.
• November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

The temperature on March 7, 1883 was about 2.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.