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• Aaltje van den Bosch, Doornspijk, Nederland
• Adriaan Meeuwes, Zodereigen, België († 1976)
• Aartje Van Maren, Zaltbommel († 1957)
• Agnes MOOTZELAAR, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1882)
• Adriana Maria van der Linden, Breda
• Alphonsus Poppe, Sint-Niklaas (Oost-Vlaanderen, België) († 1948)
• Akke Sytema, Grouw, Friesland, Nederland († 1908)
• Alphonsus Cornelis van Gorp, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1945)
• Aleida Bernardina Jansen, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 1967)
• Alida Cornelia Tanis

• Anna Elisabeth Augusta Van Mecklenburg Schwerin (16), Schwerin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Albert Buel Sage (37), Colebrook, Litchfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Kornelis (Cornelis) Romkema (72), Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Augusta van Mecklenburg Schwerin (16), Schwerin
• * Antonetta Hendricks (52), Boekel
• Anna Geertruida Caris (75), Haarlem
• Aartje Post (7), Leeuwte (Vollenhove-Ambt)
• Anna VonMecklenburg-Schwerin (16)
• Anke Siebrens STAVASIUS (27), Oldekerk, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Mous (76), Ossendrecht

• 1876 » Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter († 1907)
• 1878 » Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and academic († 1965)
• 1880 » Franz Marc, German soldier and painter († 1916)
• 1880 » Viktor Schwanneke, German actor and director († 1931)
• 1882 » Thomas Selfridge, American lieutenant and pilot († 1908)
• 1883 » Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and political scientist († 1950)
• 1884 » Snowy Baker, Australian boxer, rugby player, and actor († 1953)
• 1886 » Charlie Ruggles, American actor († 1970)
• 1888 » Edith Evans, English actress († 1976)
• 1888 » Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet († 1970)

• 1849 » François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (b. 1781)
• 1849 » France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (b. 1800)
• 1856 » Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and academic (b. 1773)
• 1907 » Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)

• 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 6 » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
• 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.
• September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
• September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

The temperature on February 8, 1882 was about -1.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.