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• Mommen, Overwinden († 1882)
• Abram van Riper, Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey († 1883)
• Aaltje Tollenaar, Zwolle († 1882)
• Hermannus van Weverwijk, Lopik
• Adriana Justine Civile Wassenaer, van, Den Haag
• Brinksma, Oosterwolde, gem. Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Kammann, Altenberge, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1882)
• Alida Maria Neirynck, Zuienkerke
• Aaltje Steenstra, Jutrijp († 1969)
• Adriana Justine Civile van Wassenaar, 's Gravenhage († 1944)

• Arnoldus Sengers (1), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bernardus Warmenhoven (0), Wijk A/z
• Adriana Smulders (71), Haren
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Josephus Zijlmans (0), Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arend Aizo Lyclama à Nijeholt (17), Wolsum
• Berend Albronda (72), Godlinze
• Arend Lycklama a Nijeholt (17), Wolsum,S√ªdwest Frysl√¢n,Friesland,Nederland
• Anthona de Kroon (62), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Berend Albronda (72), Godlinze, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Magdalena De Roost (66), Geel

• 1877 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1878 » Louise Dresser, American actress († 1965)
• 1879 » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic († 1945)
• 1883 » Ernst Pittschau, German actor († 1951)
• 1885 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat († 1969)
• 1885 » Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballerina and actress († 1960)
• 1887 » Manny Ziener, German actress († 1972)
• 1887 » René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1888 » Mary Fuller, American actress and screenwriter († 1973)

• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 » Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)

• 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.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• 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 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• 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.
• September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
• September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.

The temperature on October 5, 1882 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.