About the day » Sunday December 3, 1882Calender converter

• Anna Maria Vermeulen, Boskoop
• Adrianus Franciscus VAN GESTEL, Tilburg,North-Brabant,Netherlands († 1884)
• Agnes Maria Cornelia de Rooij († 1886)
• N.N. de Vliegher, Koewacht († 1882)
• Anna Maria Baken, Valkenswaard († 1960)
• Agnes Maria Cornelia de Rooij-, Tilburg, Nederland († 1886)
• Amalia Svensson, Bräkne-Hoby (K) († 1976)
• Adrianus Rijnvos, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Wagemakers, Tilburg († 1934)
• annechien vazel, drouwendermond, gem. borger († 1967)

• Aaltje Pieters Kleine (71), Hoogeveen
• Andries Schreurs (0), Thorn
• N.N. de Vliegher (0), Koewacht
• Anne Wesselius Ganzevoort (62), Kollum
• AndrŽ Joseph PARENT (85), Solesmes,59730,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Anne Wesselius Gansevoort (62), Kollum
• Adriana Maria Jacoba Zonneveld (1), Wassenaar
• Aleida Johanna Huls (1), Het Beggelder, Dinxperlo
• Anthonie van Eijk (56), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Petrus" Pieter Pieter (53), Schijndel, NL

• 1878 » Francis A. Nixon, American businessman († 1956)
• 1879 » Albert Asher, New Zealand rugby player († 1965)
• 1879 » Charles Hutchison, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1879 » Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence († 1970)
• 1879 » Kafū Nagai, Japanese author and playwright († 1959)
• 1880 » Fedor von Bock, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1883 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor († 1945)
• 1884 » Rajendra Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st President of India († 1963)
• 1884 » Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1965)
• 1886 » Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)

• 1876 » Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
• 1882 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)
• 1888 » Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 » Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)
• 1894 » Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850)
• 1902 » Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (b. 1833)
• 1904 » David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (b. 1821)
• 1912 » Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)

• 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.
• May 20 » The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
• June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• June 30 » Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
• September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
• December 16 » Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match.

The temperature on December 3, 1882 was about -1.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.