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• Anna Louisa van Tijlingen, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Michel, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 1909)
• Adriana Cornelia Oomen, Ginneken en Bavel
• Anna Johanna Groen, IJsselmonde, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1926)
• Pitter, Asia, Manchester, Jamaica
• Aagje Jacoba de Vries, Nieuwendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1976)
• Abraham Kornalijnslijper, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aletta Martina Sweemer († 1966)
• Anna Gertrudis Hannen, Herten († 1914)
• Abraham Schakenbos, Alkemade († 1923)

• Burger Oskam(p) (71), Stolwijk, 2821, Nederland
• Annetje Schaap (85), Katwijk
• Pacqué, 's-Gravenhage
• Aloijsius Josefus Lombarts (6), Tilburg
• Aimée Louisa Coelen (42), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gertrudis van Heel (51), Belle River Township, Douglas, Minnesota, United States
• Burger Oskam (71), Stolwijk, Nederland
• Adolf Kokshoorn (0), Vinkeveen
• Annetje Aries Schaap (85), Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Imelman (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1877 » Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam († 1957)
• 1877 » Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary († 1933)
• 1877 » Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer († 1915)
• 1878 » Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna († 1930)
• 1879 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist († 1965)
• 1883 » Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal († 1947)
• 1885 » Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic († 1972)
• 1886 » Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician († 1971)
• 1890 » Moa Martinson, Swedish author († 1964)
• 1890 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna († 1933)

• 1852 » Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 » Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1883 » William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (b. 1828)
• 1886 » James Watney junior, English brewer, cricketer, and politician (b. 1832)
• 1887 » Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 » George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1911 » Kyrle Bellew, English actor (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 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
• April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• 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.
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.

The temperature on November 2, 1881 was about -1.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.