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• Leisdon, Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1881)
• Alida Johanna Elsendoorn, Utrecht († 1881)
• Aaltje Andries Krist, Schoterland († 1917)
• Aaltje Albertina Dijkema, Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands († 1942)
• Adriana Jacoba van Bloppoel, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1938)
• Alphonsus Antonius Franciscus Naninck, Tilburg († 1943)
• Aloysius Antonius Franciscus Naninck, Tilburg († 1943)
• Anna Aleida Theodora MEULEMAN, Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1954)
• Aaltje Zwaan, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Assendelft 93

• Anna Maria van Lier (80), Millingen aan de Rijn
• Alphonsus Joannes Driesen (0), Merksem
• Adrianus Welten (5), Deurne en Liessel, Nederland
• Carol Louis Maes (61), Zarren
• Adelaide Meyer (76)
• Antje Bosma (0)
• Anna Maria Clasina Coppens, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Florisd van der Kolk (81), Gouderak, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Mari van Lier (80), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Catharina Poepjen (0), Oldemarkt

• 1860 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician († 1961)
• 1862 » John Jay Chapman, American lawyer, author, and poet († 1933)
• 1876 » Pope Pius XII († 1958)
• 1878 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver († 1944)
• 1886 » Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher († 1942)
• 1886 » Willis H. O'Brien, American animator and director († 1962)
• 1900 » Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer († 1950)
• 1901 » Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher († 1984)
• 1902 » Edward Condon, American physicist and academic († 1974)
• 1902 » Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy († 1972)

• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)
• 1864 » Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (b. 1842)
• 1865 » Carl Sylvius Völkner, German-New Zealand priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1880 » John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790)
• 1895 » Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1895 » Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Jubal Early, American general (b. 1816)
• 1921 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)

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 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
• February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
• 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.
• November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

The temperature on March 2, 1881 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.