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• Albarta Geertruida Sanders, Lonneker († 1927)
• Adrianus Berkhout, Kethel en Spaland († 1948)
• Alida Cornelia Revet, Gouda († 1968)
• Amelia Verbeeck, Bevel, 2560, België
• Alberta Geertruida Sanders, Eschmarke (Lonneker) († 1927)
• Agnes Mitchell, SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1970)
• "Marie Felizia" Franziska Wilhelmine Juliane von Neipperg, Margarethen am Moos, Autriche († 1954)
• Adrianus Klerkx, Berlicum († 1971)
• Adrianus Stam, Oud-Alblas
• Adrianus Klerkx, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• ANNA MARIA LAUREYSSENS, Halle
• Antonia Maria van Ingen (68), Ommeren
• Bartha Helena Johanna Ros (72), Rotterdam
• Anna Ersdotter (0), Lilla Blåsjön, Frostviken (Z)
• Anna Maria Laureyssens, HalLe
• Adriaan ESCH, van der (9), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafje Hes (0), Limmen
• Antje Blank (12), Sijbekarspel, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia de Corte (92)
• Aafje Hes (0), Limmen, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1874 » Charles Ives, American composer († 1954)
• 1882 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Margaret Dumont, American actress († 1965)
• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)
• 1893 » Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1940)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

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 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.

The temperature on October 20, 1881 was about 4.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.