About the day » Tuesday February 21, 1882Calender converter

• Abel VAN EERDEN, Ten Post (Ten Boer) Groningen Netherlands († 1959)
• Anna Hendrina Baarda, Dantumadeel († 1969)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Boom, Venray († 1935)
• Adriaantje Lijntje den Hartigh, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland († 1938)
• Adrianus de Meij, kralingen (rotterdam) († 1882)
• Stellaard, Utrecht († 1882)
• Adriaantje Lijntje den HARTIGH, Strijen († 1938)
• - Smit, Veenhuizen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1882)
• Aagje (Aeg(h,t)je) Meij, Amsterdam
• Adriaan Cornelis Marinus Overbeeke, Poortvliet, Zeeland, Nederland († 1963)

• Stellaard (0), Utrecht
• Aaltjen Mulder (45), in Visscher(2)Emigrant
• Alexander CLOSE (57), Faymonville-Waimes, Province de Liège, Belgique
• Aaltje Lok (32), Kloosterveen
• Abel Steffens Hensens (70), Ommelanderwijk gemeente Veendam Groningen
• Annigjen Jans Slootstra (77), Peperga (Weststellingwerf. Fr)
• Antje Ytjes Folkertsma (84), Ferwerd
• Antje Brommer (0), Weststellingwerf
• Abraham Kappeijne van de Coppello (16)
• Adriana Hendrika Lommers (0), Udenhout

• 1875 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever († 1997)
• 1878 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader († 1973)
• 1881 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer († 1945)
• 1885 » Sacha Guitry, Russian-French actor, director, and playwright († 1957)
• 1887 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of War († 1945)
• 1888 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright († 1965)
• 1892 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1949)
• 1893 » Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist († 1987)
• 1893 » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress († 1979)
• 1894 » Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic († 1955)

• 1824 » Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (b. 1781)
• 1829 » Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen and freedom fighter (b. 1778)
• 1846 » Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800)
• 1862 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)
• 1888 » William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804)
• 1891 » James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
• 1919 » Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)
• 1938 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)

• 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.
• March 6 » The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
• March 24 » Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• December 6 » Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.

The temperature on February 21, 1882 was about 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.