About the day » Monday November 20, 1882Calender converter

• Albertus Vuijk, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1968)
• Aaltje Neef, Zuidbarge (Emmen)
• Aagje, den Haag
• Albert Wekema, Peize († 1972)
• Adelaide Fleury da Silveira, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• ""Camiel Achiel"" Duyck, Steenkerke
• Adrianus ENZE, Stompwijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1936)
• Aaltje Stuut*, Termunten, Groningen, Nederland († 1964)
• Aaltje van de Pol, Elburg († 1971)
• Alfred John Engeset, Faribault Co., Minnesota

• Nuyen, Dokkum
• Abraham Siereveld (19), Arnemuiden
• Adriana Maria Briër (61), Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)
• Abraham Izak GELUK (0), Tholen
• Aldert Telkamp (26), Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Siereveld (19), Arnemuiden, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis van Daal (Dael) (52), Ittervoort
• Albert Drogt (39), Ommen
• Adriana Vermeulen (78), Roosendaal &, Nispen(NB)
• Anna Gertrudis van Dael (52), Ittervoort

• 1880 » Walter Brack, German swimmer († 1919)
• 1881 » Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician († 1959)
• 1882 » Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician († 1967)
• 1883 » Edwin August, American actor and director († 1964)
• 1883 » Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer († 1951)
• 1884 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » George Holley, English footballer († 1942)
• 1885 » Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast († 1926)
• 1886 » Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1886 » Robert Hunter, American golfer († 1971)

• 1856 » Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
• 1864 » Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
• 1866 » Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1880 » Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1882 » Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
• 1886 » William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1894 » Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829)
• 1898 » Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
• 1903 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867)
• 1903 » Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier

• 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 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
• March 29 » The Knights of Columbus is established.
• May 6 » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
• 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 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
• September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

The temperature on November 20, 1882 was about 2.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.