About the day » Saturday June 4, 1881Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Strijbosch, Deurne en Liessel († 1939)
• Adolph Nijgh, San Francisco
• Adolph Nijgh, San Francisco,San Francisco County,Calif,United States
• Adriaantje de Groot, Langerak
• Adriana Warnaar, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1884)
• Age de Boer, Tzummarum, Friesland, Nederland († 1960)
• Allegonda in't Veld, Klundert († 1881)
• Aloysius Coone, Koewacht (NL)
• Anna Catharina Amelia Bogaerts, Berlaar, België
• Anna Maria VASEN, Haarlem († 1952)

• Berend Engels (61), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Bierhorst (64), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Albert Jacobs Wasseur (80), Hoogezand, Kalkwijk
• Barbara Kruit (0), Leiden
• Adriana HOENDERFANGER (59), Rijswijk
• Arie Brand (0), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna RUIJSEVELD (65), Pernis
• Alida van Dijk (40), Rijswijk
• Beleke Kruijs (40), Herwijnen
• Anna Geertruda Camps (1), Horst, Limburg, Nederland

• 1861 » William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania († 1937)
• 1866 » Miina Sillanpää, Finnish journalist and politician († 1952)
• 1867 » Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland († 1951)
• 1873 » Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (d.1942)
• 1877 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1879 » Mabel Lucie Attwell, English author and illustrator († 1964)
• 1880 » Clara Blandick, American actress († 1962)
• 1885 » Arturo Rawson, Argentinian general and politician, 26th President of Argentina († 1952)
• 1887 » Tom Longboat, Canadian runner and soldier († 1949)
• 1889 » Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist († 1960)

• 1830 » Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (b. 1795)
• 1872 » Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch historian, jurist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1798)
• 1875 » Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (b. 1804)
• 1876 » Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1830)
• 1922 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Margaret Murray Washington, American Academic (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (b. 1853)
• 1928 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• 1929 » Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (b. 1881)
• 1931 » Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (b. 1853/54)

• 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.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
• 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.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

The temperature on June 4, 1881 was about 24.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.