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• Sweers, Odoorn
• Amalia Maria Dietz, Utrecht
• Abraham Egbertsz van der Waal, Oudenhoorn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Anna Philomena Hubertina van Wersch, Vaals († 1970)
• Adriana Bouwman, Maassluis Zhl. NL
• Adrianus Schipper, Oud-Beijerland († 1884)
• Angela Maria-Immaculata Fanny Aloysia van Gudenus († 1918)
• Alida Rompelman, Hellendoorn († 1943)
• ANDREAS JOANNES JOSEPHUS DUA, ANTWERPEN,ANTWERPEN,BELGIE
• Alida Catharina van Welzenis, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1913)

• Anthonius de Moor (39), Clinge, Hulst, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Steur (0), Hoogwoud Nederland
• Arie Ortsen (49), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alijda Alofs (93), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Roest (45), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ann Gray ** (72), Forres, Moray, Scotland
• Anne Alberts Rienstra (0), Abbega, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Caroline Eunice Wheeler (58), Graham, Nodaway, Missouri, United States
• Berend Kin (64), Rouveen gem. Staphorst Ov. Nederland
• Adriana Brouwers (29), Rucphen

• 1876 » Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player († 1959)
• 1876 » Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician, 8th Lord Chief Justice of England († 1947)
• 1879 » Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War († 1943)
• 1879 » William Beveridge, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic († 1963)
• 1880 » Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic († 1968)
• 1882 » Dora Marsden, English author and activist († 1960)
• 1883 » Pauline Sperry, American mathematician († 1967)
• 1885 » Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic († 1969)
• 1886 » Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China († 1975)
• 1886 » Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer († 1927)

• 1829 » John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
• 1849 » David Scott, Scottish historical painter (b. 1806)
• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)

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.
• April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

The temperature on March 5, 1881 was about -0.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.