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• Aloise Depoorter, Aartrijke
• Aaltje Quist, Tholen gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 1910)
• Alle Geveke, Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert van Wijk, Emmen († 1958)
• Absolom Jeans Dyke, Pool's Island, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland Labrador, Canada († 1955)
• Aart Dibbet, Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriana Risseeuw, Zierikzee († 1962)
• Alle Alberts Roelsma, Stadskanaal († 1954)
• Adriana Moeliker, oud-vossemeer (zeeland) († 1903)
• Albert Deichman, Laren, Lochem Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands

• Akke Koopmans (48), Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriaan 't Jong (83), Sliedrecht
• Aleida Amalia Hartgering HARTGERINK (73), Schuttorf (Dld) Bentheim
• Akke Alberts KOOPMANS (48), Wierden
• Anna Elizabeth Goudappel (0), Vlaardingen
• Adriana BRUGMAN (0), Tuil
• Anna Hendrika de Wit (56), Amsterdam (Amsterdam) (Noord Holland)
• Allerdina Enno Rijpma (82), Baflo
• Anna Catharina Coreyns (33)
• "Jacoba" Wilhelmina Jacoba Wilhelmina Jacoba (27), Ooij, Ubbergen, NL

• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1892 » Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author († 1979)
• 1896 » Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa († 1975)
• 1899 » Elmer Keith, American gun designer and author († 1984)
• 1900 » Howard H. Aiken, American physicist and computer scientist, created the Harvard Mark I († 1973)
• 1902 » Jennings Randolph, American journalist and politician († 1998)
• 1902 » Louise Beavers, American actress and singer († 1962)

• 1844 » Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1869 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 » Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 » Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 » Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
• 1887 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 » John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)

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.
• February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
• May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
• September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on March 8, 1881 was about 7.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.