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• Aaltje Stellinga, Dokkum († 1965)
• "Roger" Théodore Louis de Gonzague Marie Joseph Colette Ghislain de Ghellinck d'Elseghem Vaernewyck, Bruxelles († 1944)
• Sportel, Westerlee, Groningen, Nederland († 1881)
• Adriana Aagtje Anthonisse, Poortvliet gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Aart Gerrits Nauta, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• * Grietje Adriana Visser, Hoogblokland († 1945)
• Adriana Barbara Maria van de Pavert, Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1964)
• Abraham Cornelis de Goederen, Linschoten, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1881)
• Alida van Coevorden, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Alphonsus Josephus van Pelt, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1944)

• van Gestel (39), Wuustwezel (maandag)
• Antonius de Jong (63), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Stevens Wassenaar (61)
• Sportel (0), Westerlee, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie van Kekem (26), Ameide, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Oskamp (40), Stolwijk
• Anthoni Oskam (40), Stolwijk, ZH, Nederland
• Adriana van Uden, Heesch
• Aaltje Gosselink (54), Apeldoorn
• Adrianus Elbers (47), Nieuwer-Amstel

• 1871 » Willem Mengelberg, Dutch-Swiss conductor († 1951)
• 1873 » John Geiger, American rower († 1956)
• 1878 » Abraham Walkowitz, Russian-American painter († 1965)
• 1879 » Terence MacSwiney, Irish republican politician and hunger striker; Lord Mayor of Cork († 1920)
• 1881 » Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper († 1918)
• 1884 » Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright († 1951)
• 1886 » Gustave Mesny, French general († 1945)
• 1890 » Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader († 1967)
• 1892 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1892 » Tom Maguire, Irish general († 1993)

• 1865 » Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)
• 1866 » Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 » James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)
• 1870 » George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795)
• 1881 » Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1893 » Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (b. 1824)
• 1900 » Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (b. 1831 or 1834)
• 1910 » Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1917 » Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (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.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
• September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon 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 28, 1881 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.