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• Albertje Fietje, Nieuw-Buinen (Gem. Borger) († 1948)
• Albertje Vietje, Borger († 1948)
• Alfred Bateson Goodworth, Glenburnie, near Scone, NSW, Astl († 1919)
• Alphonsus Sommen, Baarle-Nassau († 1882)
• Annette Rosaline Doeve, Semarang, NOI († 1881)
• Aaltje Klein, Ooststellingwerf Friesland Haulerwijk
• Adriana van den Hoek, Amersfoort
• Anna Mary Magdelene Gallitz, Lowell, Dodge, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1947)
• * Henricus Robben († 1963)
• ANNA CATHERINA VAN SCHIL, Antwerpen

• Anna Maria Theodora Roelofs (0), Doesburg
• Wouter Blesma (3), Franeker
• Alberdina Boer (24), Het Schut, Hoogeveen
• Ariana Peters (41), Beek (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Sterks (41), Boxtel
• Alberdina Jacobs Boer (24), Het Schut (Hoogeveen)
• Aart Evertsen Rikkers (64), Nunspeet/Ermelo
• Antoon Hermsen (61), Elden, Nederland
• Antje de Wit (31), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Petrus Franciscus Baert (0), Hulst

• 1872 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation († 1917)
• 1874 » Horace Rawlins, English golfer († 1935)
• 1874 » Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic († 1948)
• 1876 » Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and activist († 1958)
• 1877 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter († 1917)
• 1880 » Gertrude Rush, American lawyer and jurist († 1962)
• 1880 » Ruth Sawyer, American author and educator († 1970)
• 1882 » Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor († 1962)
• 1887 » Reginald Owen, English-American actor and singer († 1972)
• 1889 » Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet († 1973)

• 1868 » Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788)
• 1877 » Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b. 1830)
• 1880 » Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816)
• 1881 » Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823)
• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)

• 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.
• April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• 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).
• August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
• October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on August 5, 1881 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.