About the day » Monday August 29, 1881Calender converter

• Angina Kruse, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alva Chester Heath, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1945)
• Antonius Petrus van Trijen, Halsteren
• Antonetta Herrijgers, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nl († 1882)
• Adrianus Petrus Van Trijen, Halsteren(Holland)
• Anna Maria Akkerman, AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1932)
• Arie Schuiten, Zandvoort († 1881)
• Anna van der Helm, Capelle aan den IJssel, ZH, Nederland († 1977)
• Andreas Schokker, Rheezerveen († 1902)
• Anna Binnenwijzen, Barsingerhorn († 1905)

• Andries Lubberts Heite (1), Wanneperveen, Nederland
• Aaltien Schepers (62), Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia de Jong (73), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Burr Hamilton McCown (74), Jefferson County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Hazelaar (2), Meppel
• Cornelis van Buren (88), Verenigde Statn
• Apolonia de Bruijn (2), Ossenisse (Zeeland)
• Aaltjen Horst (64), Roden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham Lincoln Norton (58), Jonesboro, Washington Co., ME
• Aleida Everdina Peters (0), Ubbergen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1862 » Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia († 1928)
• 1871 » Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France († 1950)
• 1875 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator († 1962)
• 1876 » Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics († 1958)
• 1876 » Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea († 1949)
• 1887 » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat († 1978)
• 1888 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician († 1964)
• 1890 » Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d.1975)
• 1891 » Marquis James, American journalist and author († 1955)
• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)

• 1844 » Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 » Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)

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 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
• April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
• 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 August 29, 1881 was about 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.