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• Alida van den Boogaard, Rietveld, Woerden
• Anna Bregje Heemskerk, Haarlemmermeer († 1912)
• Anna Krijna Vercouteren, Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alijda Maria de Jong, Rotterdam († 1950)
• Anna Elizabeth Bregman, Koedijk
• Adriana Van DIJKE, Zonnemaire, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherland
• Kerver, Ommen († 1881)
• Amedé Vercauteren, Temse († 1886)
• Adrianus Cornelis Vermeer, Dongen († 1958)
• Anna Bregje Franser Heemskerk, Haarlemmermeer († 1912)

• Aaltje van Gulik- (75), Wijhe, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Joris (60), Geel, Antwerpen, België
• Antonie Eijkenaar (55), Krimpen aan den IJssel, Nederland
• Abel Cazemier (0), Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• (Stillborn) EHLHART (0), Holwerd (Westdongeradeel) Friesland Netherlands
• Adrianus Meijne (0), Warmenhuizen
• Aaltje Luikens (50), Leens
• Anna Maria Schoutese (63), Liège, Liège, Belgique
• Adriana Maria Horvers (1), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan BROOS (30), Halsteren,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND

• 1873 » Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic († 1945)
• 1874 » August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1874 » Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner († 1941)
• 1879 » Lewis Stone, American actor († 1953)
• 1881 » Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author († 1960)
• 1882 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist († 1965)
• 1886 » René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author († 1951)
• 1887 » Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator († 1986)
• 1887 » Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator († 1972)
• 1888 » Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer († 1958)

• 1845 » William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (b. 1803)
• 1853 » Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819)
• 1892 » Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)
• 1897 » Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)
• 1908 » Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)
• 1910 » Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
• 1916 » Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1917 » Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)
• 1919 » Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)

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.
• February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
• April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.

The temperature on November 15, 1881 was about 11.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.