About the day » Sunday December 18, 1881Calender converter

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• Adriana Hermans, Rijnsburg († 1885)
• Adrianus Johannes Proost, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1960)
• Adrianus Johannes Proost, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1960)
• Adrianus Alexander Smits, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1934)
• Aaltje Dalhuysen, Oldeboorn († 1949)
• Adreanus Johannes Lambertus Van Zoelen, Rotterdam († 1963)
• Aagje Buuren van, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Bruin, Ursem († 1976)
• Meiring, Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands († 1881)

• Albertje Pieters Dragt (72), Balkbrug, Nederland
• Adrianus Bartholomeus Eringaard (33), ...........
• Antonius Elbers (47), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Anna Maria Oosthof (72), Schiedam,-
• Anna Maria Oosthof (72), Schiedam
• Antonie van der Avort (50), Oosterhout, Nederland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertien Pieters Dragt (73), Balkbrug, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Anna Maria - Maria Kappen (84), Dankern, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Antonie van der Avoirt (50), Oosterhout, Nederland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphonsius Redant (0), Denderhoutem

• 1873 » Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines († 1957)
• 1875 » Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower († 1941)
• 1878 » Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union († 1953)
• 1879 » Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator († 1940)
• 1882 » Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway († 1950)
• 1884 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology († 1942)
• 1886 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager († 1961)
• 1887 » Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright († 1971)
• 1888 » Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer († 1971)
• 1888 » Robert Moses, American urban planner († 1981)

• 1843 » Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
• 1848 » Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (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 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

The temperature on December 18, 1881 was about 10.1 °C. There was 20 mm of rain. The air pressure was 36 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.