About the day » Thursday November 17, 1881Calender converter

• Alida Brons, Vlaardingen († 1955)
• Andries Bergsma, Hoornsterzwaag, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Lee Gilpin [Wk], Gilpin, Casey County, Kentucky († 1963)
• Adriaan Alexander Botellho, Padang, Sumatra (NI)
• Taetske Jorna, Franeker († 1927)
• Anders Halbes Scheper, Bovenknijpe, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1945)
• Alida Brons, Vlaardingen († 1955)
• Anders Scheper, Bovenknijpe († 1945)
• ??? Staverman, Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies
• (l.l.) Post, Rotterdam († 1881)

• Berendina Beumer (56), Raalte
• Berendina BEUMER (56), Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arien FRENTZ (65), Herveld
• Anna Maria Driesen (64), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Vincent Wijk (1), den haag
• Atje Jans Wiersma (34), Oudwoude, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Bolding (24), Westeinde
• Antje Spekken (45), Spanbroek, Opmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Augustinus Busselen, Zoutleeuw, België
• Albert van Tent (0), Dieren (Rheden) akte 214

• 1866 » Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist († 1912)
• 1868 » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic († 1918)
• 1877 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman († 1943)
• 1878 » Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player († 1963)
• 1878 » Grace Abbott, American social worker († 1939)
• 1886 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant († 1967)
• 1887 » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal († 1976)
• 1891 » Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director († 1949)
• 1895 » Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet († 1966)
• 1896 » Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher († 1934)

• 1865 » James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
• 1891 » José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823)
• 1897 » George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)

• 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).
• 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.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
• November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

The temperature on November 17, 1881 was about 10.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.