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• Adriana Maria Maas, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Gerrits Goodijk, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1947)
• Aaltje Schroven, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Maria RAMON, Mariakerke (Oostende), West-Vlaanderen, België
• Adolphe Aime√© Karel Kessels, Pati
• Alice Rosa Thamm, Smethport, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States († 1944)
• Aldophe Aimé Kessels, Pati Japara, Java, Indonesia († 1957)
• Aleida Hermans, Brienen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1935)
• Adolphe Aime Karel Kessels, Patti, Japara († 1957)
• Aaltje Pieters, Zeijen, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1883)

• aafje pastoor (90), beemster
• Amanda Stoddard
• Adolphus Eduardus Decostere (42), Harelbeke BE
• Albertus Nijewening (0), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Netherlands(Paardelanden)
• Cornelis Dik (0), Fijnaart en Heiningen, Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Clasina van Doesburg (60), Haarlemmerliede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christiena Doijer (56), Zutphen
• Clasina Doesburg (60), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
• Anna Elisabeth Brouwers (51), Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België
• Bastiaan Kaeim (0), Dubbeldam

• 1868 » James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence († 1956)
• 1869 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian political scientist, historian, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1938)
• 1874 » Walter Murdoch, Australian author and academic († 1970)
• 1878 » Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer († 1950)
• 1879 » Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman, social activist, and politician († 1973)
• 1879 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager († 1930)
• 1881 » Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient († 1955)
• 1883 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist († 1963)
• 1884 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer († 1920)
• 1886 » Anton Irv, Estonian captain († 1919)

• 1858 » Dred Scott, American slave (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1788)
• 1864 » Walter Savage Landor, English author and poet (b. 1775)
• 1868 » Roman Nose, Native American warrior (b. circa 1823)
• 1877 » Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800)
• 1878 » Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and theorist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Deng Shichang, Chinese captain (b. 1849)
• 1899 » Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842)

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.
• February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
• July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
• September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

The temperature on September 17, 1881 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.