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• Allegonda Bijnen, Waalre
• Aagje van Leening, Mijnsheerenland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1881)
• Dijkman, Nieuwenhoorn († 1881)
• Akke Arjens Hilt, Idsegahuizum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart de With, Benschop
• Alex Willem Philip Körndorffer, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1937)
• Adriana Joanna Maria van Dongen, Tilburg
• Alex Willem Philip Körndorffer, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1937)
• Albertus Hendrikus Voorn, Kortenhoef, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Adrianus Petrus Cornelis Konijn, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1881)

• Alberta Johanna Bohlen (30), den Helder, prov. Noord Holland
• Agneta Dorothea Bisschoff (87), Pasoeroean, Java, Indonesia
• Anthonie van der Valk (67)
• Berend ARINK (13), Holthone, gem. Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Kapitein (49), Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Lelieveld (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Kapitein (49), Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• "Médéric" Ferdinand de Chivré (63), château de Gonneville, Manche, France
• "Arie"n Kapitein (48), Wieringen, Noord Holland,Nederland
• Carlo Pillone (45), San Giacomo, Campagna, Salerno, Campania, Italy

• 1872 » Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia († 1940)
• 1873 » J. E. H. MacDonald, English-Canadian painter († 1932)
• 1874 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian pediatrician and immunologist († 1929)
• 1875 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library († 1960)
• 1880 » Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer († 1951)
• 1885 » Paltiel Daykan, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist († 1969)
• 1885 » Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Japanese author († 1976)
• 1886 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot († 1937)
• 1889 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank († 1980)
• 1892 » Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director († 1970)

• 1856 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (b. 1791)
• 1860 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (b. 1795)
• 1864 » J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
• 1867 » Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)

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.
• January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

The temperature on May 12, 1881 was about 12.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.