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• Aleida Willemina Baars, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1926)
• Aaltje Luikens, Mussel, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelissen, Terheijden († 1882)
• Alida Vree, Amsterdam († 1965)
• Aafke Vermeulen, Tolbert († 1974)
• Aart van Kampen, Apeldoorn († 1882)
• Aleida Nijman, Goor,Gemeente Hof van Twente,Overijssel,Nederland († 1941)
• Adriaan Francken, Warmond († 1948)
• Anna Berta van der Heijden, Zoelmond († 1960)
• Adriaan Thomas de Looff, Wissenkerke (Noord-Beveland) († 1955)

• Aaltjen de Vechte (33), Gramsbergen
• Alida van der Vijver (75), Leiden
• Antonetta Schep (32)
• Afien Poppes Bakker (79), Assen
• Amalia Deuster (0), Arborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Annigje Jans IJben (67), Kallenkote, Steenwijkerwold
• Alida van der Vijver (75), Leiden, Nederland
• Adriana Hulten van (39), Drunen
• Anna Margaretha Behrens (21), Junkernbehl
• Adriaan Dogge Doggen (67)

• 1871 » Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist, composer, and conductor († 1927)
• 1873 » Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)
• 1878 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor († 1936)
• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1889 » Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American engineer and theorist († 1976)
• 1893 » Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1988)
• 1893 » Nicanor Abelardo, Filipino pianist, composer and teacher († 1934)

• 1849 » Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (b. 1797)
• 1862 » Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
• 1864 » Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
• 1871 » Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (b. 1797)
• 1873 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
• 1878 » Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1891 » Marie Louise Andrews, American story writer and journalist (b. 1849)
• 1897 » Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
• 1919 » William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (b. 1874)

• 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 24 » Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
• June 6 » The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
• June 30 » Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
• July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
• September 5 » Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded (as Hotspur F.C.).
• September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

The temperature on February 7, 1882 was about 3.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.