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• Adriana Schouten, Leiden
• Aagje Roobol, Charlois († 1883)
• Adèle Mathilde VANHECKE, Brugge, 31005, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1951)
• Anna Catherina Wurst, Ottoville, Putnam Co., Ohio († 1963)
• Alida Alberdina Focke, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1936)
• Jonkman Willem, Hoogeveen († 1969)
• Alfons DERDEN, Bekkevoort
• adonis DEMOUSTIER, Sars-la-Bruyère (Belgium)
• Anna van DEN BROEK, Zundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Albertus Wilhelmus Krosse, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland

• Albertus Wunderink (71), Warnsveld
• Antoon Diebels (73), Afferden (L)
• Ann Wilson (86), Ancaster Township, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada
• Arie Slagt (0), Kwadijk, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Timmerman (32), Staphorst, Overijssel, Netherlands
• McCoole (0), Tullybroom, Clogher, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland
• Albert Jan Brouwer (0), Collendoorn
• Aaltje van der KAMP (32), Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albarta Gerharda Kroneman (0), Zwartsluis, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria Vis (31), Hillegom

• 1873 » James Harcourt, English character actor († 1951)
• 1875 » Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet and lawyer († 1909)
• 1879 » Paul Poiret, French fashion designer († 1944)
• 1882 » Holland Smith, American general († 1967)
• 1884 » Daniel Varoujan, Armenian poet and educator († 1915)
• 1884 » Oliver Kirk, American boxer († 1960)
• 1884 » Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1966)
• 1889 » Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, lawyer, and activist († 1996)
• 1889 » Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, French mystic († 1918)
• 1889 » Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland († 1918)

• 1873 » William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
• 1881 » William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
• 1887 » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
• 1899 » Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)
• 1912 » Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
• 1918 » Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
• 1927 » Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1866)

• 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.
• March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

The temperature on April 20, 1881 was about 6.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.