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• Abraham Meiboom, Rotterdam († 1943)
• Aaltje Dirks (Ella) Kooistra, Lioessens, Oostdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1967)
• Aalbertje Verhagen, Hellevoetsluis († 1954)
• van den Langenberg, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje (Ella) Dirks Kooistra, Lioessens († 1967)
• (l.l.) Grootenboer, Melissant († 1881)
• Alexander Jozef Voss, Mettingen, 49497 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 1914)
• Alida Biemans, Made en Drimmelen, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adrianus van der Sluis, Nieuwenhoorn († 1932)
• Grootenboer († 1881)

• Barbara Marguerite Barbary Metz A-tree1 (67), Metz, Marion, West Virginia, United States
• Berend Jan van Heek (2), Rijssen
• Carolus Van Maele (80), Sint-Pieters, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Arnoldus Antonius van Zoest (0), Lith, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Verbunt (39), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Oosthoek (75), Pernis
• Arie Arisz (0), Beverwijk
• Arie Arisz (0), Beverwijk
• Arie van Enge (76), IJsselstein
• Augustus Adolphus Buysse (52), Hoofdplaat

• 1866 » Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony († 1932)
• 1874 » Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts († 1950)
• 1876 » Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice († 1941)
• 1882 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer († 1937)
• 1886 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy († 1965)
• 1888 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot († 1918)
• 1891 » Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator († 1946)
• 1893 » Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1956)
• 1895 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic († 1981)

• 1819 » Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
• 1829 » Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 » Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)

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.
• March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
• March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
• May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
• May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on October 6, 1881 was about 8.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.