About the day » Saturday January 15, 1881Calender converter

• Oldejans, Zweeloo († 1881)
• Adriana Cornelia Marsie, Koudekerke († 1965)
• Adrianus Julianus Josephus de Meulemeester, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1951)
• Aaltje Jans Smit, Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adriana Cornelia Marsie, Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL († 1965)
• Aartje Manschot, Jaarsveld, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan Platje (Platier), Onstwedde, Nederland († 1977)
• Alexander McDonald, Tomnavoulin, Glenlivet, Banffshire, Scotland († 1951)
• Albert Hartsuiker († 1955)
• Adriaan Platje-, Onstwedde, Nederland († 1977)

• Oldejans (0), Zweeloo
• Amelia Francisca Eugenia Olieu (82), Oostende, België
• Aaltje Harte (67), Terneuzen
• Anna Cornelia Huismans (81), Turnhout, België
• Albertus van der Doelen (72), 's-Hertogenbosch
• (Stillborn) WIERTSEMA (0), Holwierde (Bierum) Groningen Netherlands
• Alijdis D(e)irksen (75), Didam
• Anna Hendrika Pot (49), Driebergen
• Antje Miesdr Brommer (68), Burgerbrug, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Dekker (1), Wildervank, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1872 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator († 1944)
• 1875 » Thomas Burke, American sprinter, coach, and journalist († 1929)
• 1877 » Lewis Terman, American psychologist, eugenicist, and academic († 1956)
• 1878 » Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer († 1941)
• 1879 » Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright († 1961)
• 1882 » Henry Burr, Canadian singer, radio performer, and producer († 1941)
• 1885 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player († 1968)
• 1885 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and author († 1973)
• 1890 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral († 1947)
• 1891 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player († 1920)

• 1855 » Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1780)
• 1864 » Isaac Nathan, English-Australian composer and journalist (b. 1792)
• 1866 » Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter (b. 1798)
• 1876 » Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)

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.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
• September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.

The temperature on January 15, 1881 was about -14.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.