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• Adriana Maria Oerlemans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1881)
• Adrianus Christianus Josephus Moonen, Uden
• Adriana Amelia Poll, Harderwijk († 1881)
• Adrianus Christianus Josephus Moonen, Uden, Nederland († 1958)
• Aafje Nieuwenhuis, Brielle, province of Zuid-Holland († 1883)
• Anna Bornhoft, Duitsland († 1960)
• Anna Helena Koormann, Osteresch, Haren († 1881)
• Adolphe Hubert de PREUD'HOMME d'HAILLY de NIEUPORT, Schaarbeek-Bruxelles,, France († 1921)
• Alexander Lee McClendon, Tarkington Prairie, Liberty County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1948)
• Anna Margaretha Hubertina Mooren, Kessenich (B) († 1968)

• Annichje Kleine (0), Eursinge (Beilen)
• Adriana van Vugt (64), Giessen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Niesje Klasina Koster (2), Zuidwolde
• Anna Helena BRUNS (42), Roswinkel,Emmen
• Annetje Schols (32), nieuwenhoorn (zuid holland)
• Anne Marie OREY (76), Borgloon, 73009, Limburg, Belgique
• Aaltje Witkop (80), Groningen
• Anna van den Meeberg (71), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Klazes Hoekstra (67), Suawoude (Tietjerksteradeel)
• Adrianus Ludovicus Mortelmans (51), Broechem, Antwerpen, België

• 1870 » Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1941)
• 1874 » Vincent Scotto, French actor and composer († 1952)
• 1882 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)
• 1887 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager († 1978)
• 1889 » Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., Russian-American violinist, composer, and conductor († 1985)
• 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)
• 1889 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1892 » Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver († 1956)
• 1893 » Romeo Bertini, Italian runner († 1973)

• 1825 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1852 » Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782)
• 1900 » Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)
• 1910 » Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)
• 1918 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1924 » Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)

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.
• January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on April 21, 1881 was about 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.