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• Albert Jan WITHOLT, Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1881)
• Albertus van der Meij († 1881)
• Anna Jochem Douma, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1961)
• Alida Grootenboer, Dussen († 1957)
• Andries van den Bos, Ooststellingwerf († 1948)
• Anna Jacoba (Annie) Simmers (Simners), Rotterdam († 1930)
• ? (levenloos) Quist, Rilland Bath, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 1881)
• Albertus van der Meij, Voorschoten († 1881)
• Alida Christina De Cler
• Anna Pijpelink, Hoek, Zeeland, Nederland († 1955)

• Antonius Franciscus Philippus Voorwaldt (39), Amsterdam
• Antje Sytzes Anema (80), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anje Kornelis Wieringa (33), Westeremden, Stedum
• Alstje Klunder (17), Warffum
• Aaltje Schouten (64), Arnhem
• Arij van der van der Pauwert (49), Wijk bij Duurstede
• Anna Maria Mommersteeg (55), Nieuwkuijk
• Vermeer (0), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• "Charlotte" Adrienne Ferdinande Marie de Wilmet (63), Namur, Belgique
• Aaltje Romijnders (75), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
• 1897 » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic († 1994)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)

• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)

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 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
• April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
• August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.

The temperature on May 16, 1881 was about 12.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.