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• Anna Dannehower Weir, Warrington Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania († 1949)
• Aaltje Groeneveld, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1959)
• Aaltje Baruch († 1943)
• Alida Maria Morreel, Woumen
• Adrianus van Schie, Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Cant († 1965)
• Adriana Spruijt, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Hamberg, Hardenberg, Ambt (Radewijk),, Overijssel, Nederland († 1964)
• Anna Maria Aalmans, Maastricht († 1883)
• Anje Dwarshuis, Middelstum, Netherlands

• Antonie Bagchus (67), Steenwijkerwold
• Abraham Schaap (26), Maastricht
• Ambrose ISTED
• Alfred Ely (89), Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
• Aleida Grada te Wechel (11), Nijbroek
• Aaltje van de Haaren (87), Asch (NL)
• Abraham Huijzer (0), Charlois
• Alphonse Gustave Casper Anton baron van Voorst tot Voorst (68), Brussel,,Brussels Capital Region,Belgique
• Anthonius Bagchus (67), Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Abraham Kema* (37), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1869 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer († 1944)
• 1877 » Robert Hamilton, Scottish international footballer († 1948)
• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)

• 1835 » John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)

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.
• March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.

The temperature on May 13, 1881 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%.