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• Anna Margaretha Meijer, Onstweddw
• Amelia Huygelberghs, Nijlen, België
• Adriana Roelofs, Vlaardingen
• Anna Gerdina ( Tante Ans) van der Pol, Rotterdam († 1966)
• Anna Schol, Den Helder († 1965)
• Adriana de Koning, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1942)
• Annigje Cornelia Booij, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1894)
• Adriana Oonincx, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje Keuris, Anna Paulowna († 1972)
• Alphonse Willio, Diest, België

• Alida de Boer (69), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annegje Schilt (55), Stolwijk, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Antoni HEKKERS (0), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albertus Petrus Maaren (68), Utrecht
• Albert Gort (0), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• Alida Jans de Boer (69), Meppel
• Aaltjen Voorhorst (66), Welsum (Gem. Olst)
• Aaltje van Engen (42), Schoonebeek, gem. Dalen, Nederland
• Anna Hendrica Sophia Voogt (0), Breda, Nederland
• Anna Barbara Haenraets (84), Borgharen, Maastricht

• 1877 » Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1960)
• 1880 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1880 » Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist († 1943)
• 1881 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)

• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)

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.
• 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.
• July 11 » The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
• July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
• September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

The temperature on August 12, 1882 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.