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• Adriaan Pieters BOONSTRA, Woudsend, Friesland, Nederland († 1909)
• Aldegonda Elisabeth Joanna Maria Hendriks, Weert, 6001, Nederland († 1967)
• Wijntje Helsloot, Rotterdam
• Aaltje Wilgenhof, Utrecht {UT}
• Aleida Wenneger, Vasse (Tubbergen) († 1956)
• Adriana Brugman, Tuil († 1881)
• Albertus van der Hart, Amerongen († 1951)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Gils, Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1946)
• Abba Huisman, Lutjeloo gem. Wedde
• Adriana Cornelia Stam, Dordrecht († 1883)

• Anna Maria Thibo (41), Hollogne-aux-Pierres, België
• Alida Pieternella Koks (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Hoerbekke (55), Reutum (Tubbergen)
• Alida Vermeer (1)
• Alida Francisca van Belle (57), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Rowaan (64), Utrecht, U
• Anna Jansen (72), Groede. Sluis, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Albert Jan Koolhof (36), Norg(D)
• Anna Swaluwenburg (0), Langbroek
• Aafje Smit (39), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1869 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian-Russian poet and author († 1923)
• 1872 » Johan Pitka, Estonian admiral († 1944)
• 1876 » Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1957)
• 1877 » Gabriele Münter, German painter († 1962)
• 1878 » Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress († 1961)
• 1880 » Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico († 1928)
• 1886 » José Abad Santos, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines († 1942)
• 1888 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian lawyer and poet († 1928)
• 1893 » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director († 1964)
• 1895 » Louis Calhern, American actor († 1956)

• 1837 » Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (b. 1813)
• 1837 » Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1756)
• 1887 » Multatuli, Dutch-German author and civil servant (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
• 1916 » Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1928 » George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)
• 1945 » John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)

• 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.
• January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
• April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.

The temperature on February 19, 1881 was about 0.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.