About the day » Wednesday April 5, 1882Calender converter

• achillle ferdinand MATHIEU, Jemappes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Ange Baptiste Marie CHEDEMAIL, Amanlis, 35150, France († 1965)
• Alagonda Geertruida Goedharts SIKKEMA, Uithuizermeeden, Hefshuizen, Eemsmond, Groningen, Nederland († 1969)
• Adrianus Veltkamp, Velsen
• Alida van der Kruidt, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Anna (Annie Emma) Heath, Commerce, Texas († 1961)
• adrianus cornelis LEEUWENBURGH, heinenoord († 1884)
• Adriana van den Heuvel, Eethen, Genderen en Heesbeen († 1970)
• Agnes Hesselmans, Ibbenbüren (D), Duitsland († 1949)
• Kuper, Barnflair, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1882)

• Abel de VRIES (80), Goedereede
• Aalt Bredewold (0), Zwollerkerspel (Gem. Zwolle)
• Annetje Teunis de Haan (72), Doornspijk, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Evers (76), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Jan of Joannes) Mathijs (of Mathias) Tegelaers (60), Weert
• Abigael van der Schoor (65), Mijnsheerenland
• Annetjen Teunissen de Haan (72), Werfhorst (Doornspijk)
• Prijkel, Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abigaël van der Schoor (65), Mijnsheerenland, Hoeksche Waard,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolphus DEMEULEMEESTER (59), Mullem, Oost-Vlaanderen (BE)

• 1878 » Albert Champion, French cyclist († 1927)
• 1879 » Arthur Berriedale Keith, Scottish lawyer († 1944)
• 1879 » Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, German naval officer and author († 1956)
• 1880 » Eric Carlberg, Swedish Army officer, diplomat, shooter, fencer and modern pentathlete († 1963)
• 1880 » Vilhelm Carlberg, Swedish Army officer and shooter († 1970)
• 1882 » Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky († 1962)
• 1882 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary († 1913)
• 1883 » Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer († 1950)
• 1884 » Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova († 1940)
• 1885 » Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer († 1978)

• 1865 » Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (b. 1806)
• 1866 » Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (b. 1798)
• 1868 » Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (b. 1834)
• 1871 » Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (b. 1798)
• 1872 » Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (b. 1812)
• 1873 » Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (b. 1824)
• 1882 » Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (b. 1806)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1891 » Johann Hermann Bauer, (b. 1861)
• 1900 » Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)

• 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.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• 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.
• September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
• October 16 » The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.

The temperature on April 5, 1882 was about 15.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.