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• "Jeanne" Marie Joseph Germaine de Sarcus, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France († 1972)
• Aafke Jansma, Aalsum
• Anna Maria Luthart, Heukelum, Gelderland, Nederland (Gemeente Lingewaal) († 1975)
• Arendina Petronella Johanna Schrevelius, Rotterdam, Nederland
• van Tienhoven, Lexmond (Zederik), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1881)
• Anna Geertruida Catharina de Graaf, Houten
• Adriana Klep, Etten
• Andries Johan ten Cate, Hengelo († 1974)
• Adriana Schneider, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Johan ten Cate, Hengelo

• Albertjen wijntjes bolwijn (79), beerta
• Aaltje Jacobs Feenstra (0)
• Aagje van der Sanden (85), Weesperkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Leewes (58), Rheden (Gelderland)
• Aagje van der Sanden (85), Weesp
• Aletta Petronella VAN TIL (85), Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aafje Waterdrinker (0), Berkhout
• Anna Maria van Dam (77), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Marel (4), Schiedam
• Aaltje Brakels (0), Meppen, Nederland

• 1875 » Rosa May Billinghurst, British suffragette and women's rights activist (d.1953)
• 1879 » Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano († 1952)
• 1882 » Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War († 1956)
• 1883 » Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland († 1942)
• 1885 » Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia († 1967)
• 1887 » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1892 » Erich Neumann, German lieutenant and politician († 1951)
• 1892 » Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant and politician († 1934)
• 1892 » Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian poet and author († 1968)
• 1892 » Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter († 1968)

• 1831 » Samuel Bentham, English architect and engineer (b. 1757)
• 1832 » Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
• 1837 » Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer, (b. 1779)
• 1846 » Philip Marheineke, German pastor and philosopher (b. 1780)
• 1847 » Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister and economist (b. 1780)
• 1848 » Eugénie de Guérin, French author (b. 1805)
• 1899 » Stefanos Koumanoudis, Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer (b. 1818)
• 1908 » Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)
• 1909 » Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Elizabeth Blackwell, English-American physician and educator (b. 1821)

• 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.
• April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• 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.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

The temperature on May 31, 1881 was about 19.7 °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%.