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• Aaltje Maria Kortland, Streefkerk, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1882)
• Alice Rosa Thamm, Smethport, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States († 1944)
• Alberta Cornelia Van Gogh, Banjoemas, Ned Indie
• de Looff, Geersdijk († 1881)
• Albert Eising, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Arends, Opheusden
• Adrianus Frederikus Timmermans, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• Adriana Cornelia Magdalena BOELHOUWERS, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Alida Schaddelee, Holland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1951)
• Adriana Neeltje van Someren, Rotterdam

• Caroline Augusta Pierpont (58)
• Clasina van Doesburg (60), Haarlemmerliede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Nijewening (0), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Netherlands(Paardelanden)
• Aafje Bakkum Pastoor (89), Beemster
• Clasina Doesburg (60), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
• Cornelis GOORDEN (57), Rucphen,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Anna Elisabeth Brouwers (51), Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België
• Cornelis Dik (0), Fijnaart en Heiningen, Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Arnoldus Bernardus WICHERS (1), Slijk-Ewijk (Valburg)
• Cornelis Gulden (49), Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1868 » James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence († 1956)
• 1869 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian political scientist, historian, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1938)
• 1874 » Walter Murdoch, Australian author and academic († 1970)
• 1878 » Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer († 1950)
• 1879 » Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman, social activist, and politician († 1973)
• 1879 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager († 1930)
• 1881 » Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient († 1955)
• 1883 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist († 1963)
• 1884 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer († 1920)
• 1886 » Anton Irv, Estonian captain († 1919)

• 1858 » Dred Scott, American slave (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1788)
• 1864 » Walter Savage Landor, English author and poet (b. 1775)
• 1868 » Roman Nose, Native American warrior (b. circa 1823)
• 1877 » Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800)
• 1878 » Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and theorist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Deng Shichang, Chinese captain (b. 1849)
• 1899 » Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842)

• 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.
• March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
• May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
• June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
• November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

The temperature on September 17, 1881 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.