About the day » Sunday December 11, 1881Calender converter

• Agatha Weel, Wervershoof, wijk B
• Adriana van Munster, Everdingen, Utrecht, NL († 1925)
• Adriana Louisa Geerts, Baarle-Nassau († 1887)
• Alida Versteeve, Vlaardingen
• Aaltje van Agteren († 1971)
• Adriana van Munster, Everdingen, Nederland († 1925)
• Adriana van Eijk, Gouda († 1940)
• Klopman, Apeldoorn († 1881)
• Albertus Doosjen, Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1960)
• Aaltje Berghuis, Kantens, Groningen, Nederland († 1982)

• Akke Voordewind (0), Dubbeldam, 3318, Nederland
• Aldegonda Van De Eynden (88), Ossendrecht (NL)
• Antonetta Houts (85), Deurne
• Anna van der Veen (0), (DR) Peize
• Antonie van den Dop (70), leiden
• Ana Maria de Souza Brasil, Rosário do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Adriana Groenendijk (0), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
• Arie Cornelis Smit (3), Rotterdam
• Antje van der Starre (79), Reeuwijk, Nederland
• Antonie van den Dop (Dop) (70), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1872 » René Bull, British illustrator and photographer († 1942)
• 1873 » Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician and academic († 1967)
• 1875 » Yehuda Leib Maimon, Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician († 1962)
• 1880 » Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire († 1951)
• 1882 » Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City († 1947)
• 1882 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist and poet († 1921)
• 1884 » Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo player († 1961)
• 1889 » Walter Knott, American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm († 1981)
• 1890 » Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor († 1935)

• 1826 » Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
• 1840 » Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
• 1872 » Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
• 1880 » Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
• 1892 » William Milligan, Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Charles Townsend, American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)
• 1909 » Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (b. 1839)
• 1913 » Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852)
• 1918 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1920 » Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (b. 1855)

• 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 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
• August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
• September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.

The temperature on December 11, 1881 was about 1.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.