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• Aagtje Tavenier, Goes
• Andries Broekhuizen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1968)
• Andries Cornelis Lemmens, Hoogeloon († 1921)
• Aaldert Bos, Vledderveen
• Amoe 'Anna' Emma Ida Peppler, Brisbane, Queensland, Australien († 1932)
• Adriana Johanna Roos, Den Haag († 1890)
• Alphonse Remigius Delaey, Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1976)
• Adrianus van Mierlo, Soerendonk, Cranendonck, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Aafje Brunetta Jongh, Jutphaas († 1936)
• Aaltje Giethoorn, Harlingen, Nederland († 1929)

• Camiel Joseph VANDENBERGHE (2), Sijsele,8340,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Barend Jan van de Wal (31), Ochten
• Albert Boer (70), Noordlaren (Haren)
• Adriaan van Roessel (44), Tilburg, Nederland
• Anne Jans Douma (2), Idskenhuizen, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland
• Abigail Lambert (85)
• Adriana Oerlemans (1), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Bastiaan Visser (28), Hellevoetsluis
• Alida Lukkien (0), Veendam, Gemeente Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Barend van de Wal (31), Ochten

• 1874 » Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer († 1949)
• 1877 » Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior († 1946)
• 1878 » Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint († 1903)
• 1880 » Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic († 1952)
• 1881 » Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland († 1966)
• 1882 » Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician († 1943)
• 1883 » Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist († 1961)
• 1888 » Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor († 1965)
• 1888 » Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist († 1965)
• 1890 » Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player († 1976)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

• 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 6 » The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
• June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
• September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
• September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
• December 16 » Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match.

The temperature on March 12, 1882 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.