About the day » Thursday June 2, 1881Calender converter

• Aaltje Heemstra, Wierum, Dongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1958)
• Adrianus van Buren, Strijen († 1883)
• Aaltje (Alice) Mames Heemstra, Wierum
• Anna Lijntje van den Berg, Spijkenisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Alida Vanacker, Beernem,8730,West Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,België († 1952)
• - Smits, Maasbree, Limburg, Nederland († 1881)
• Albert John Kirstine, Bruce County, Ontario († 1955)
• Alice Didsbury, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England († 1973)
• Andreas Marinus Koppert, Monster († 1881)
• Adriaantje Duhen, Rotterdam Delfshaven

• Adriaan Deurloo (1), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jochems Piek (80), Nieuwehorne
• Anna Cornelia BRUYNDONCKX (56), Schilde, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• - Levenloz Edochter - Eilander (0), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Meyes van der Schuit (5), Heeg
• alida de clerck (0), amsterdam
• Angelica Lemmens (0), Schaffen, Vlaams-brabant, Belgie
• Adriana Meulmeester (0), Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert Eenink (59), Brummen, Nederland
• Adriaan Daniël Stoker (0), Ijsselstein

• 1863 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1942)
• 1865 » Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Sierra Leone Creole advocate and activist for cultural nationalism († 1960)
• 1865 » George Lohmann, English cricketer († 1901)
• 1869 » Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager († 1937)
• 1875 » Charles Stewart Mott, American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan († 1973)
• 1878 » Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader († 1912)
• 1881 » Walter Egan, American golfer († 1971)
• 1891 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral and pilot († 1945)
• 1891 » Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge († 1969)
• 1899 » Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director († 1981)

• 1853 » Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (b. 1777)
• 1865 » Ner Middleswarth, American judge and politician (b. 1783)
• 1875 » Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1881 » Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1882 » Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1901 » George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary and author (b. 1844)
• 1927 » Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b. 1889)
• 1933 » Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple jumper (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (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.
• January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
• October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.

The temperature on June 2, 1881 was about 14.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.