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• adriana schuurman, doorn († 1924)
• Alida Wilhelmina van Wijngaarden, Leerdam, Utrecht, Nederland († 1958)
• Aalbert LODDER, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina van Wijngaarden, Leerdam († 1958)
• Alexander Verhage, Biervliet, Zeeland, NL († 1883)
• Adriana Duijzer, Sint Annaland († 1964)
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Ramakers, Thorn, Limburg, Netherlands († 1956)
• Adriaan Berg, van der, Bruinisse gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL († 1952)
• Alexander Verhage, Biervliet († 1883)
• Adriana Catharina Vader, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1882)

• Anna Maria Bontje (30), Alkemade*, Nederland
• Anna Aletta Henrica Merxlo (65), Amsterdam
• Catharina Maria Wiggenraad (0), Kampen
• Apolonia Kole (72), Kapelle (Kapelle) (Zeeland)
• Amandus Rosenveldt (17), Kampen, Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Carolina Schulten, Scholte (25), Brielle
• Arnoldus Hendrikus van der Veen, Aengwirden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anne Maria Bontje (30), Alkemade
• Alexandre Désiré Docclot (9), Boussu, Hainaut, Belgium
• Albertus Johannes de Jong (1), Deil, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1866 » Germanos Karavangelis, Greek-Austrian metropolitan († 1935)
• 1874 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada († 1960)
• 1880 » Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and author († 1963)
• 1882 » Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian educator and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran († 1967)
• 1885 » Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect († 1941)
• 1888 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician († 1925)
• 1888 » Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer († 1980)
• 1890 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian († 1965)
• 1896 » Murray Leinster, American author and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1897 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)

• 1858 » John Snow, English epidemiologist and physician (b. 1813)
• 1862 » Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
• 1869 » Charles Sturt, Indian-English botanist and explorer (b. 1795)
• 1872 » Norman MacLeod, Scottish minister and author (b. 1812)
• 1878 » Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1878 » Kikuchi Yōsai, Japanese painter (b. 1781)
• 1881 » Josiah Mason, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1885 » Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter and academic (b. 1818)
• 1886 » Alexander Stuart, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1824)
• 1902 » Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (b. 1841)

• 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 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.

The temperature on June 16, 1881 was about 16.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.