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• Anje Visser, Westernieland, Eenrum, Groningen, Nederland († 1930)
• Albertus Urff, Rotterdam
• Aart de Zwaan, Harderwijk († 1957)
• Alberdina Marsman, Dalfsen († 1929)
• Aaltje Johanna van Drooge, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland († 1924)
• Albertje Zomer, Hardenberg, Ambt († 1955)
• (15b) Alphonsus (Fons) van Besouw, Baarle-Nassau († 1932)
• Aart van 't Zelfde, Ridderkerk († 1936)
• Aleida HAGEDOORN, Meppel († 1920)
• Allie May Todd, Hamilton, Indiana († 1947)

• Adrianus van Broekhoven (76)
• Antje Boonders (3), Broek In Waterland,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Lutsenburg, Utrecht
• Aernout Willem van Haeften (66), Batavia (Struiswyk)
• Anna Gertrudis Kersten (71), Venlo
• Aernoudt Willem Haeften, van (66), Meester Cornelis (Batavia), Huis Struiswijk
• Albert de Vries (4), Steenwijk
• Andries van der Horst (75), Sleen, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Lange de (0), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Geradts (41)

• 1873 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver († 1944)
• 1873 » Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1875 » Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician († 1921)
• 1876 » Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist († 1941)
• 1878 » Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) († 1932)
• 1878 » Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist († 1968)
• 1880 » Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic († 1968)
• 1884 » Maxwell Perkins, American editor († 1947)
• 1885 » Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta († 1950)
• 1886 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic († 1945)

• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
• 1852 » Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 » José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)
• 1884 » Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)
• 1898 » Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1906 » Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
• 1908 » Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)

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.
• March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
• June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
• November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

The temperature on September 20, 1881 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.