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• Anna Evelyn Hardy, Gabarus, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, NS, Canada († 1968)
• Aafje Briefjes, Bergen, Nederland
• Anna Woudina Thewald, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1881)
• Agnes Maria van Uffelen, Maasland, South Holland, Netherlands
• Thewald, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1881)
• Alphonse Winnen, Overwinden († 1948)
• Adriana den Besten, Arkel
• Adelina Maria Bos, Groningen († 1893)
• Annetje Elisabeth Pernis, Utrecht (Ut/NL) († 1916)
• Adolph Hendrik DIJKSTRA, Aengwirden, Friesland, Nederland

• Adrianus Johannes van Bergenhenegouwen (0), Monster
• Anja Smit (25), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Brands (80), Halsteren
• Annigje Annes de Vries (43), Blesdijke, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Karoline Korbus (5), Plosnica, Powiat Dzia≈Çdowski, Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren, Polen
• Anna Maria GEURDEN (38), Genk (Limburg) (B)
• Anna Maria Snijders (67), Someren, Nederland
• Adrianus Adriaan Brands (80), Halsteren
• Adriana Johannes van Beek (74), 's Gravemoer
• Annigje Annes de Vries (43), Blesdijke, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1875 » Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and playwright († 1910)
• 1876 » Frank Hague, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City († 1956)
• 1877 » Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist († 1937)
• 1877 » May Gibbs, English-Australian author and illustrator († 1969)
• 1880 » Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer († 1960)
• 1881 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1881 » Harry Price, English psychologist and author († 1948)
• 1882 » Noah Beery, Sr., American actor († 1946)
• 1883 » Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright († 1972)
• 1886 » Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company († 1955)

• 1861 » Lola Montez, Irish actress and dancer (b. 1821)
• 1863 » Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
• 1869 » Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
• 1878 » Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804)
• 1887 » William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
• 1888 » Big Bear, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1825)
• 1891 » George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)
• 1893 » Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1903 » Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)

• 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.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• 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 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

The temperature on January 17, 1881 was about -7.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.