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• Albert Zweers († 1944)
• Albertus Dijk, Varsenerveld († 1883)
• Amanda Alwine Johanne Asche, Addison
• Abraham Peters, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1945)
• Aafje Bakkum, Limmen († 1969)
• Adriana van Zanten, Maassluis († 1947)
• Adriana van Laarhoven, Best († 1914)
• Alida Jonkman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Almira N. Fraser, Doylestown (Wayne County) (Ohio) († 1972)
• Adrianus Driesen, Overpelt (B) († 1892)

• Abraham Aldertsz Bart (71), Oude Niedorp
• Adrianus Duijvenvoorde van (0), Rijnsburg
• Adrianusxyz Janssenxyz (84), Rijswijk
• Augusta Sophia RUBBEN (0), Adinkerke,8660,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Abram Aldertsz Bart (71), Oude Niedorp
• Bernardus Franciscus Jansen (81), Huissen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arendje den Herder (0), Vlaardingen
• Aafje Albertine Keiser (83), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Jacobus Fase (0), Waarder, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Albertina Keiser (83), Nijmegen (Gld) NL

• 1874 » Charles Fort, American author († 1932)
• 1877 » Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1952)
• 1880 » Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer († 1964)
• 1881 » Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1881 » Leo Carrillo, American actor († 1961)
• 1881 » Louella Parsons, American journalist († 1972)
• 1883 » Scott Nearing, American economist and educator († 1983)
• 1886 » Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic († 1971)
• 1887 » Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver († 1957)
• 1889 » George Kenney, Canadian-American general († 1977)

• 1850 » Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 » John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 » James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1893 » Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
• 1904 » Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)
• 1906 » George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)
• 1925 » Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853)
• 1925 » Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (b. 1848)

• 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.
• March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
• April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
• June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on August 6, 1881 was about 22.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.