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• Adrianus (Arjaan) van Dravik, , Achthuizen, den Bommel, Nederland († 1967)
• Noordzij, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1881)
• Aaltje Keijzer, Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert van 't Wout, Alphen († 1907)
• Damen, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dravik, Den Bommel,Oostflakkee,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Theunisse, Steenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1968)
• Albert Ebeles Glastra, smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Angèle Félicie Marie Rose Bernard, Gozée, Hainaut, Belgique († 1902)
• Aaltje Keyzer, Zevenhuizen († 1962)

• Noordzij (0), Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (77), Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Albertus van Harinxma thoe Slooten (44), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) SIERSEMA (0), Menaldumadeel Friesland Netherlands
• Albert Gallatin Eberhart (70)
• Anna Margaretha Terfehr (49), Niederlangen, Emsland
• Albertus, baron van Harinxma thoe Slooten (44), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adélaïde de Villegas de Saint-Pierre Jette (42), Anvers (Antwerp), 11002, Belgique
• Anna Maria Cornelia Schrik (42), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Marinus KoppenOl (5), Tholen ZL

• 1874 » Daniel François Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa († 1959)
• 1876 » Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1879 » Jean Cras, French admiral and composer († 1932)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian statesman and independence leader († 1926)
• 1879 » Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer and journalist († 1947)
• 1880 » Francis de Miomandre, French author and translator († 1959)
• 1885 » Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician († 1924)
• 1885 » Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral († 1957)
• 1887 » A. W. Sandberg, Danish film director and screenwriter († 1938)
• 1891 » Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet († 1958)

• 1851 » Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)
• 1859 » Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
• 1861 » Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 » Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)

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.
• April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
• 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).
• September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
• November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

The temperature on May 22, 1881 was about 15.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%.