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• Aagie Riecken, Amsterdam
• Anna Gesina Olde Wiverink († 1953)
• Anna Cornelia Van Put, Stabroeck, prov. Antwerpen († 1927)
• Albina le Clair, South Bridge, Massachusettes, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Nieuwendijk, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1938)
• Adriana Dimphna Nagelkerken, Nieuw Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1888)
• Adriana Petronella Truchel, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1884)
• Akke Gerrits Bremer, Hemelum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland
• Akke Hendriks de Haan, Hantumhuizen († 1890)
• Adrianus Jacobus van den Heuvel, Hellevoetsluis

• Cent Pietersz Verschoor (58), Den Helder, nh.nld
• Arend Jan Brinkman (2), Brummen
• Augustin, Félix CORNEZ (65), Pâturages, 7340, Hainaut, Wallonie, Belgique
• Anna Jansdr Kramer (76), Hoorn, The Netherlands
• Berendina van Putten (82), Apeldoorn (Beemte)
• Andrew Rocroft Haynes (81), West Jefferson, Madison, Ohio, United States
• Anna Catharina Venmans (35), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bartele Johannes Hoekstra (77), ,, Idskenhuizen, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aleida Catharina Jagt (1), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Vreeswijk (0), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1863 » Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist († 1922)
• 1867 » Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1947)
• 1871 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar († 1929)
• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)
• 1886 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright († 1964)
• 1887 » Rupert Brooke, English poet († 1915)
• 1890 » Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club († 1974)
• 1894 » Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1951)
• 1895 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician († 1942)
• 1896 » Ralph Horween, American football player and coach († 1997)

• 1857 » Eugène Sue, French author and politician (b. 1804)
• 1866 » Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)

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.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

The temperature on August 3, 1881 was about 22.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%.