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• Adriana Alida Cornelia van der Burg, Vlaardingen († 1926)
• Albert Kist
• Aafke Klaster, Odoornerveen(Odoorn) († 1970)
• Adriana Alida Cornelia van der Burg, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1926)
• Adriana Maria Terra, Assendelft († 1918)
• Anna Maria Hilhorst, Soest († 1881)
• *Elizabeth van Wijck, Hoek († 1882)
• Albert Belie, Midwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Johannes Lambertus Renes, Utrecht
• Anna Tailleur, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Antonia Lambregts (0), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Marie Roselle (83), Sint-Truiden
• Berend Gerrits Koster (46), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Huizen)
• Carolus Ludovicus DE SMET (66), Denderwindeke,9400,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Bartel Jacobus Kooijman (20), Middelburg
• Alida Mul (58), Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina van der Linden (58), Breda
• Bernard Onstein (55), Zelhem
• Antonius Cornelis Driessen (0), Well, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antonia van Rooij (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1874 » Ernst Moro, Austrian physician and pediatrician († 1951)
• 1875 » Frederik Buch, Danish actor and screenwriter († 1925)
• 1877 » Paul Ladmirault, French pianist, violinist, and composer († 1944)
• 1880 » Johannes Aavik, Estonian linguist and philologist († 1973)
• 1881 » Albert Gleizes, French painter († 1953)
• 1884 » Francis Balfour, English colonel and politician († 1965)
• 1886 » Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and educator († 1957)
• 1890 » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American pianist and composer († 1959)
• 1892 » Marcus Lee Hansen, American historian, author, and academic († 1938)
• 1894 » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye († 1938)

• 1856 » Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
• 1864 » George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
• 1869 » Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)

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.
• March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
• May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.

The temperature on December 8, 1881 was about 7.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.