About the day » Wednesday April 25, 1883Calender converter

• Adrianus Alblas, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Adrianus Johannes van de Poll, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1883)
• Anna Catharina Hubertina Feij, St.Pieter Maastricht († 1944)
• Anna Elisabeth MAST, Mol, 2400, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1950)
• Anna Lucia Hunfeld, Heede-Soring
• Achilles Joseph De Meyer, Melle, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Helena Driessen, Nederweert, Nederland († 1932)
• Jespers Maria Isabela Barbara, Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1940)
• Abram van Diest, Nebraska († 1980)
• Andries van der Wal, Meerkerk, Zederik, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)

• Anna Maria van der Weijst (38), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annegien Mannes (71), Veendam
• Aaltje Wolf Knokker (58), Amsterdam
• Angelina Brewee (83), Iddergem
• Anthonij Rijke, de (75), Poortvliet gem. Tholen Zld. NL
• de Klerk, Zevenbergen
• Andries Willem Oomen (73), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• 'daughter' Bos (0), Zuilen, Nederland
• Agatha Maria Johanna Francisca Reij (0), Vlaardingen
• Anna Geertruid van Keulen (59), Kampen, Ov, The Netherlands

• 1872 » C. B. Fry, English cricketer, footballer, educator, and politician († 1956)
• 1873 » Howard Garis, American author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories († 1962)
• 1873 » Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1956)
• 1874 » Ernest Webb, English-Canadian race walker († 1937)
• 1874 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1876 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician († 1958)
• 1878 » William Merz, American gymnast and triathlete († 1946)
• 1882 » Fred McLeod, Scottish golfer († 1976)
• 1887 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and critic († 1936)
• 1892 » Maud Hart Lovelace, American author († 1980)

• 1873 » Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1783)
• 1875 » 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
• 1878 » Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
• 1890 » Crowfoot, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1830)
• 1891 » Nathaniel Woodard, English priest and educator (b. 1811)
• 1892 » Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Karl von Ditmar, Estonian-German geologist and explorer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » John Knowles Paine, American composer and educator (b. 1839)
• 1911 » Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1862)
• 1913 » Joseph-Alfred Archambeault, Canadian bishop (b. 1859)

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.
• May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
• August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
• August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
• September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
• November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

The temperature on April 25, 1883 was about 11.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.