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• Albertus Jacobus Roodink, Oosterbeek (Renkum) († 1900)
• Gepke de Jong, Oranjedorp Emmen Drenthe († 1961)
• Adriana Stoker, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1881)
• Anatole Placide Bourg, Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 1925)
• Albert Hickerson Baker, Arkansas († 1967)
• Adriana Maria van der Steen, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Aalt Klok, Nijkerk († 1902)
• Adriana Maria van Luik, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland (Netherlands) († 1946)
• Adriana Klazina VERSCHOOR, Charlois († 1962)
• Alida Leuven, Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1881)

• Arie Spaan (53), Zaamslag
• Adrianus Bossche (0), Overschie
• Adriaan Geluk (57), Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Baukjen Aalderts Stuurman (74), Balk gem. Gaasterland
• Anna Margareta Schoenaerts (50), Zepperen, België
• Anton Johan HOYNG (4), s'Gravenhage
• Aafje Notenboom (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Los (47), Vreeland,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonetta van de Leijgraaf (65), Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Buijense (45), STOLWIJK (Krimpenerwaard), Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1877 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1878 » Louise Dresser, American actress († 1965)
• 1879 » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic († 1945)
• 1883 » Ernst Pittschau, German actor († 1951)
• 1885 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat († 1969)
• 1885 » Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballerina and actress († 1960)
• 1887 » Manny Ziener, German actress († 1972)
• 1887 » René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1888 » Mary Fuller, American actress and screenwriter († 1973)

• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 » Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)

• 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 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
• May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.

The temperature on October 5, 1881 was about 7.7 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.