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• Adrianus Martinus Cornelis LARO, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert A Obermiller, Grand Island,Hall County,Nebraska († 1959)
• Aartje van Eck (van Ek), Leerdam, Nederland
• Albert Wensink, Eefde († 1882)
• Alida Blankenstein, Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1894)
• Adriaantje Verschoor, Heinenoord († 1881)
• Adriaan van Stolk, Rotterdam Z.H († 1950)
• Alfons Joseph van Hooije, Koewacht († 1958)
• WEEVERS, Aalten, Gelderland, NL († 1881)
• Adriana Joanna van de Rakt, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)

• Aafje Hos (77), Assendelft, Gemeente Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Hos (77), Assendelft (Gem. Zaanstad), Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Carolus Verstichelen (81), Nederbrakel
• Anna Maria Vreuls (66), Ubach over Worms (Groenstraat)
• Antje Van Der Meer (1)
• Alphonsus Van den Broeck (1), Itegem, 2222, België
• Carolus Scheire (44), Gent
• Anthonia Caroline Weele van (67), Baarland
• Alijda Cornelia Liethof (0), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• WEEVERS (0), Lintelo, Aalten, Gelderland, NL

• 1872 » Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player († 1906)
• 1875 » Arthur Currie, Canadian general († 1933)
• 1879 » Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and businessman, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation († 1954)
• 1881 » René Cresté, French actor and director († 1922)
• 1886 » Nikolai Uglanov, Soviet politician († 1937)
• 1886 » Pieter Oud, Dutch historian, academic, and politician, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands († 1968)
• 1886 » Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author († 1968)
• 1890 » David Bomberg, English painter, illustrator, and academic († 1957)
• 1890 » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1891 » Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and academic († 1951)

• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)

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.
• February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• 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 5, 1881 was about 3.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.