About the day » Saturday May 14, 1881Calender converter

• Fokko Van Ludolphij, Midwolda
• Andries Ferdinand Willem Woortman, Groningen († 1945)
• Albert Gustav Larson, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1980)
• Alberta Gerarda Doeser, Maartensdijk († 1954)
• Alida Boersma, Grand Rapids (Kent County) (Michigan) († 1941)
• Aagtje Kornelis van der Tuin, Surhuizum, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands († 1976)
• Adriana van den Dungen, Bergeijk († 1886)
• Maarten van Andel, Haarlemmermeer († 1962)
• Agatha Philopina Beckers, Beek en Donk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Alphonsus Theys, Testelt

• Anna Maria Ketelaars (71), Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Anne Mazyck Wilson (62), Charleston, South Carolina
• Abraham van der Horst (39), Mijdrecht
• Anna Maria Geers (43), Peer (B)
• Arie de BRUIJN (42), Dubbeldam
• Albert Tonnis (47), Kolham, gem. Slochteren
• Otten, Steenwijkerwold, Eesveen {Eeze}
• Albert Tonnis (47), Kolham, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna de Breed (0), Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Veenker (11), Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1869 » Arthur Rostron, English captain († 1940)
• 1872 » Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal († 1961)
• 1878 » J. L. Wilkinson, American baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1879 » Fred Englehardt, American jumper († 1942)
• 1880 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal († 1971)
• 1881 » George Murray Hulbert, American judge and politician († 1950)
• 1881 » Lionel Hill, Australian politician, 30th Premier of South Australia († 1963)
• 1885 » Otto Klemperer, German composer and conductor († 1973)
• 1887 » Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War († 1943)
• 1888 » Archie Alexander, American mathematician and engineer († 1958)

• 1847 » Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (b. 1805)
• 1860 » Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801)
• 1873 » Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (b. 1797)
• 1878 » Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830)
• 1881 » Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (b. 1805)
• 1889 » Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1809)
• 1893 » Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)
• 1906 » Carl Schurz, German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1829)
• 1912 » August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (b. 1849)
• 1912 » Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)

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.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
• November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on May 14, 1881 was about 15.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%.