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• Adriana Huberdina Basters, Tilburg († 1883)
• Achelle Delaere, Kuurne (België) († 1950)
• Adriana Hendrikse, Ouwerkerk, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Vente, Zevenhuizen († 1882)
• Alberta de JAGER, Breukelen, 5386, Utrecht, Nederland († 1950)
• Aagje van den Oever, 's-Heerenberg en Bergambacht († 1882)
• Adolphe GAUVIN, Aumagne, 17025, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France († 1957)
• Aartje den Hartog, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ana Luisa Sampaio Coelho, Brasil († 1945)
• Adriaantje Griffioen, Vreeland, Utrecht, Nederland († 1913)

• Antonia (Anthonia) van den Ham (68), Culemborg (Gld) Nederland
• Aart Willem van Ditten (0), Dordrecht
• Aaltje Fikse (60), Doornspijk
• Allegonda Rooij van (58), Boxtel
• Alexander van WURTTEMBERG (76)
• Amelia Smets (0), Herenthout, België
• Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Württemberg (76), Bayreuth, Allemagne
• Anna Maria ARINK (30), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia van de Ham (68), Culemborg
• Alexandre de Wurtemberg (77), Bayreuth, 09462, Allemagne

• 1875 » Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist († 1966)
• 1877 » Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1879 » Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts († 1968)
• 1880 » Billy Wedlock, English footballer († 1965)
• 1880 » Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1940)
• 1881 » Vin Coutie, Australian footballer († 1951)
• 1884 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum († 1967)
• 1885 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright († 1922)
• 1886 » Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer († 1946)
• 1888 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham († 1964)

• 1857 » Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)

• 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 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
• 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 October 28, 1881 was about 4.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.