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• Aagje Mantel, Wijdenes († 1921)
• Aaltje Teuntje de Borst, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel
• Alberdina Voets, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1883)
• Aline Marie HOUTTEMAN, Evregnies († 1972)
• Adriana Van Opdorp, Rucphen, Nederland († 1970)
• Aafje Plat, Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriana Velde, van de, Bruinisse gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Aaltje Teuntje Borst, Ouderkerk aan de IJssel
• Abraham Abrahamse, Wissenkerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1894)
• Albert Vierhoven, Dwingeloo, Westerveld, Drenthe, Nederland († 1956)

• Arie Vermeij (0), Sliedrecht
• Arendina de Lange (36), Frensdorf (Dld.), Nederland
• Antoinne Pierre Roeffen (90), Vierlingsbeek
• Antje Vermeulen (87), Mijdrecht
• Anne Gertrude Hauwée (72), Roosteren (Echt-Susteren), Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Pelder (25), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Gerritsen (61), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Hermans (72), Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Gertudis Hauwée (72), Roosteren
• Antonius Roeffen (90), Vierlingsbeek

• 1874 » Charles Ives, American composer († 1954)
• 1882 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Margaret Dumont, American actress († 1965)
• 1885 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) († 1941)
• 1887 » Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan († 1981)
• 1889 » Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint († 1944)
• 1890 » Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player († 1968)
• 1891 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1891 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author († 1973)
• 1893 » Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1940)

• 1865 » Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (b. 1821)
• 1870 » Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (b. 1808)
• 1871 » Karl Christian Ulmann, Latvian-German theologian and academic (b. 1793)
• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)

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 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.
• 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.
• July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
• September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

The temperature on October 20, 1882 was about 9.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.