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• Adriana Maria Janssen, Tilburg († 1885)
• Albertus Petrus Devilee, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1883)
• van den Brink, Putten, Huinen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1970)
• Albertus Hendricus van Wijk, Utrecht († 1893)
• Anna Maria Catharina Vogelzang, Oldenzaal, 7570, Nederland
• ?? Oele, Ellewoutsdijk († 1882)
• Albertus Theodorus Scheuter, Wisch
• Aaltje Pieters van der Werk
• Abraham Engelbertus Habraken, Leiden († 1953)
• Anna Margaretha Steenvoorden, Heemstede († 1882)

• Anneken Bruijns (75), Hengelo
• Anne Durks van der Meer (73), Akkerwoude, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthonie Hilhorst (51), Soest
• Aart van den Brink (32), Arnhem
• 1 Lucia van Van Poppel (55), Etten-Leur N B N L
• Anna Maria Hupper(e)ts (60), Vaals, Limburg, Netherlands
• Alezander Boss, Kerkrade (L
• Aalbert de Wilde (82), Markelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adrianus Willem Dersjant (56), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Magdalena Mijnders (27), Amsterdam

• 1872 » Trevor Kincaid, Canadian-American zoologist and academic († 1970)
• 1876 » Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales († 1975)
• 1877 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar († 1954)
• 1878 » Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish-Irish mathematician and philosopher († 1956)
• 1884 » María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist († 1951)
• 1885 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1960)
• 1888 » Jean Bouin, French runner and rugby player († 1914)
• 1889 » Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist († 1988)
• 1890 » Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1891 » John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1980)

• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

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 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
• March 29 » The Knights of Columbus is established.
• April 3 » American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
• 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.
• July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.

The temperature on December 21, 1882 was about 3.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.