About the day » Thursday January 6, 1881Calender converter

• Anna Maria Verelst, Lier, België († 1901)
• Anthonie SANDIFORT Lzn, Rotterdam, NL-ZH
• Alphonse DHEULIN né DEULIN, Haine-Saint-Pierre,, Hainaut, Belgique
• Pieter Beks, Kampen († 1885)
• Ada M. Perry, Ross, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania († 1900)
• Albert Harms, Weerdinge, Emmen († 1953)
• Alfred Woolley DAVIS, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 1946)
• Adalberto Nogueira, Morretes, Paraná, Brasil
• Adrianus Smit, Middelharnis, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands († 1886)
• Alphonsius de Causemaeker, Westdorpe, Zeeland, Nederland

• Adeline Bibb Waters Martin DanWater (58), Lauderdale Co., Alabama (Old Waterloo Public Cemetery)
• Aike Nannes ter Horst (59), Vlagtwedde
• Aaltje de Groot (58), Egmond aan de Hoef (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Adrianus Luijsterburg (60), Bergen op Zoom
• Adriana van Oudshoorn (4), Gouda, Nederland
• Antje Schotsman (0), Enkhuizen
• Adriana Hollemans (42), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje van Rijswijk (42), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Aike ter Horst (59), Ter Haar (gem. Westerwolde)
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• 1870 » Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany († 1944)
• 1872 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer († 1915)
• 1874 » Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer († 1948)
• 1878 » Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina († 1970)
• 1878 » Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian († 1967)
• 1880 » Tom Mix, American cowboy and actor († 1940)
• 1881 » Ion Minulescu, Romanian author, poet, and critic († 1944)
• 1882 » Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Albania († 1965)
• 1882 » Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1961)
• 1883 » Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher († 1931)

• 1852 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
• 1855 » Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)
• 1882 » Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)
• 1884 » Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
• 1885 » Bharatendu Harishchandra, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)
• 1896 » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1902 » Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)
• 1913 » Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)

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.
• February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.

The temperature on January 6, 1881 was about -1.3 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.