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• Anna Catharina de Greef, Wassenaar († 1883)
• Adrianus GEERTS, Schijndel (Noord Brabant) (NL) († 1882)
• Adrianus Peperkamp, Gorinchem († 1962)
• Adèle Claude Jeanne ZURSTRASSEN, Verviers, 63079, Liège, Belgique († 1971)
• Anna Catharina de Greef, Wassenaar, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1883)
• Kloosterman, Kloetinge († 1882)
• Anna Pach, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Anna Maria van den Heuvel, Herpen († 1944)
• Kieboom, Steenbergen († 1960)
• Aartje SCHOLTEN, Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.), Neth († 1908)

• Adolf Frederik Tap (0), Den Haag
• Antje Ham (0), Wijdenes
• Adolf van der WEERD (0), Kampen
• Kloosterman (0), Kloetinge
• ANTHONIJ VELLEKOOP (73), ROTTERDAM
• Adrianus De Ren (67), Stabroek
• Catharina Bollingerfähr (63), Heede, Emsland
• Anna Elisabeth Rasing (0), Rotterdam
• Catharina Muit (62), Reeuwijk
• Antonius de Werdt (7), Helvoirt

• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
• 1897 » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic († 1994)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)

• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Arie
12. Adrianus
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Neeltje
11. Grietje
12. Aaltje
13. Petronella
14. Jacoba
15. Trijntje
16. Geertruida

• 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 24 » Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
• March 29 » The Knights of Columbus is established.
• 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.
• 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 May 16, 1882 was about 11.3 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.