About the day » Saturday May 6, 1882Calender converter

• Andries Michiel PRETORIUS
• Albina Eugenia Antonia Justina Schols, Maastricht († 1960)
• Adriana Maria van Ostaden, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 1950)
• aaltje SCHUTTER, klaaswaal († 1937)
• Adrianus Gijsen, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Leentje Noordam, 's-Gravenzande († 1947)
• Albina Eugenia Antonia Justina Schols, Maastricht, Nederland
• Wijbenga, Sint Annaparochie
• 00 Cornelia Petronella van den Oever, Delft, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1953)
• Aaltje Renting, Sleen († 1947)

• Alexandre PICALAUSA (60), Virginal-Samme, 1460, Brabant Wallon, Belgique
• Antje Sakes Boonstra (67), Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• aafje WEIJERS (75), nieuw-beijerland
• Alebert Vermaak (71), Utrecht
• Aaron W. Cadwell (39), Flatonia, Fayette County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje (Antje) Dolman (Dolleman) (59), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Gemeente De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Sakes Boonstra (67)
• Andries Veurman (0), Oldeberkoop, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antje Boonstra (67), Ferwerd, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aalbert Goudkuil (74), Zevenhuizen (Apeldoorn)

• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1872 » Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general († 1922)
• 1872 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1934)
• 1879 » Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist († 1952)
• 1879 » Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer († 1929)
• 1880 » Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter († 1938)
• 1880 » Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator († 1959)
• 1883 » Alberto Collo, Italian actor († 1955)

• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)

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 29 » The Knights of Columbus is established.
• April 3 » American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
• May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
• August 20 » Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.

The temperature on May 6, 1882 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.