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• Adrianus Bennaars, Dinteloord
• Adrianus Bennaars, Dinteloord († 1967)
• ? ?, Schoonhoven, ZH, Nederland († 1946)
• Albert Alberts DIK, Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland
• Addie Amelia Revette, West Bay City-Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States († 1944)
• Abraham Nicolaas den Dunnen, Made en Drimmelen († 1882)
• Alida Kneppers, Bleiswijk († 1964)
• Albert Dik, Delfzijl († 1974)
• Alida Johanna Hoogmoed, Vledder
• "Bernard" Heinrich Suelmann Lindloh - USA, Lindloh († 1956)

• Amandina Saegemans (0), Temse
• Christiaan van Mierlo (61), Soerendonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoni Bouhof (0), Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Charles Nestor Meijer (6), Paramaribo, Suriname
• Aagje Willempje de Zeeuw (2), 's-Gravendeel, Hoeksche Waard, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jans BOS (65), Bierum Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Maria Wouters (67), Turnhout, Antwerpen, België
• Cornelis Van Asch (81)
• Bouwke van der Leest (57), Thesinge, Ten-Boer, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia van Leeuwen (61), Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland

• 1875 » Rosa May Billinghurst, British suffragette and women's rights activist (d.1953)
• 1879 » Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano († 1952)
• 1882 » Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War († 1956)
• 1883 » Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician, 2nd President of Finland († 1942)
• 1885 » Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia († 1967)
• 1887 » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1892 » Erich Neumann, German lieutenant and politician († 1951)
• 1892 » Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant and politician († 1934)
• 1892 » Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian poet and author († 1968)
• 1892 » Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter († 1968)

• 1837 » Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer, (b. 1779)
• 1846 » Philip Marheineke, German pastor and philosopher (b. 1780)
• 1847 » Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister and economist (b. 1780)
• 1848 » Eugénie de Guérin, French author (b. 1805)
• 1899 » Stefanos Koumanoudis, Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer (b. 1818)
• 1908 » Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)
• 1909 » Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Elizabeth Blackwell, English-American physician and educator (b. 1821)
• 1931 » Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (b. 1864)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Arie
12. Adrianus
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Aaltje
13. Petronella
14. Jacoba
15. Trijntje
16. Geertruida

• 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 4 » Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
• March 29 » The Knights of Columbus is established.
• April 25 » French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
• August 20 » Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.

The temperature on May 31, 1882 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.