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• Alle Linker, Zevenhuizen, gem. Leek, Groningen, Nederland († 1883)
• Anna Dina Weseldijk, Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Scholte, Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 1973)
• Anna Maria van Daalen, H I Ambacht († 1956)
• Anna Catharina Zoeteman, Dordrecht, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Siebenga, Bovenknijpe
• Aaltje Gijsberta Kroon, Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Beikel, Nieuw Schoonebeek (Dalen) († 1943)
• Abraham Albertus Celliers, Kimberley, Cape, South Africa
• Alexander Arthur Burrell, Morristown Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1964)

• Anna Catharina à Campo (36), Nuth
• Anna Maria Mechtildis Anten (65), Oud Vroenhoven
• "Felix" Georg Julius August Werner Heinrich Karl von Voss (79), Berlin
• Angélique Esther Gockinga (74), Groningen,Gemeente Groningen,Province of Groningen,Netherlands
• Albartus Budding (86), Scherpenzeel
• Anna Maria Mechtildis Anten (65), Oud-Vroenhoven, Maastricht
• Adrianus Wartenberg (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Leenders (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Mentink (65), Twello, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Hoonhout (0), Nieuwer Amstel

• 1877 » Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia († 1959)
• 1877 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator († 1968)
• 1879 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer († 1941)
• 1880 » Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer († 1972)
• 1881 » Janus Djurhuus, Faroese poet († 1948)
• 1882 » Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral († 1968)
• 1885 » Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian farmer and politician, 2nd President of Lithuania († 1969)
• 1887 » Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach († 1950)
• 1887 » Stefan Grabiński, Polish author and educator († 1936)
• 1887 » William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian († 1966)

• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

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.
• March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• 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.

The temperature on February 26, 1881 was about 1.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.