About the day » Saturday March 19, 1881Calender converter

• Age Wytzes van der Meer, Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriaan de Veij, Serooskerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1952)
• Alfred Auerbach, Krotoszyn, Wlkp., Poland
• Albertus Bouwman, Angeren († 1918)
• Age van der Meer, Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1945)
• Angela Josephina Clotildi LAHOUTER, Oostende Belgie († 1948)
• Angèle Victoire Sidonie BASTENIER, Soignies (Zinnik), Henegouwen, België
• Adriana van Sundert, Hoeven († 1881)
• Adolph C. Hild, Town of Herman († 1942)
• Aaltje de Boer, Hijkersmilde, Smilde, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1968)

• Arthur (Child) BIRD (9), Brick-Yard, Huddlesford, Whittington
• Catharina Maria Volkers (0), Sloten, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Eck (36), De Bilt
• Adrianus HOOGENBOEZEM (0), Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.), Neth
• Anna Jacoba De Groot (0), Zoeterwoude
• Spies (0), Rhenen
• Amelie Pieters (2), Schoondijke
• Ann Elizabeth Jane Gibson (40), Mt Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri, United States
• Anna Sophia Koch (59), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Lübbers (65), Hüntel, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1875 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord († 1928)
• 1876 » Felix Jacoby, German philologist († 1959)
• 1880 » Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate († 1961)
• 1881 » Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician († 1960)
• 1882 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor († 1935)
• 1883 » Joseph Stilwell, American general († 1946)
• 1883 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1885 » Attik, Greek composer († 1944)
• 1888 » Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator († 1976)
• 1888 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist († 1969)

• 1871 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
• 1897 » Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 » Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1900 » John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on March 19, 1881 was about 10.9 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.