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• Anna Margaretha Theyken, Schwartenberg, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1886)
• Adriana Bal, 's-Gravenhage († 1942)
• Antonette ( Antonia ) Schouten, Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1933)
• Aart 't Jong, Sliedrecht († 1970)
• Adrianus Verbrugge(n), Erp, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elizabeth Buursink, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1954)
• Aart Langezaal, Zoeterwoude († 1881)
• Alphonse Victor Theodore Van Moerbeke, Brugge,, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1886)
• Gijske Slottje, Lisse († 1975)
• Adriaan Dekker, Middelburg († 1882)

• Aafje Kooij (49)
• Aldert van Duijvenbode (69), Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van Oers (56), Princenhage (NL)
• Aldert van Duijvenbode (69), Katwijk aan Zee
• Andreas Martin BILLEKENS (77), Sevenum, Limburg, Netherlands
• Ann Alice Wilson # (78), Edmonton, Middlesex, England
• Steven Andries Turksema (Turksma) (65), Leek
• Aaltje Jansen Dankelman (87), Beerze
• Adrianus van Os (66), Erica (gem. Emmen)
• Aldert van Duijvenbode (69), Katwijk

• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)
• 1877 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1910)
• 1877 » Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1963)
• 1878 » Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general († 1928)
• 1884 » Denis G. Lillie, British biologist, member of the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition († 1963)
• 1884 » Vincent Auriol, French lawyer and politician, 16th President of the French Republic († 1966)
• 1886 » Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer († 1979)
• 1890 » Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter († 1976)

• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)
• 1931 » Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856)

• 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 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

The temperature on August 27, 1881 was about 16.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.