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• Annigje Hendriks van der Sluis, Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1964)
• Allegonda Johanna Merkus, Druten († 1958)
• Anna Santing, Roswinkel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1922)
• Achille Verslype, Klerken
• Anna (Derk Spreeuwers) Santing, oude schutting († 1922)
• Annigje Hendriks van der Sluis, Genemuiden († 1964)
• Anne Marie Gertrude ACHTEN, Merem (Limburg) (B)
• Adriana Kuijt, Katwijk († 1974)
• annigje geertrui van LEENEN, goudswaard († 1886)
• Alcides Mendes de Araujo, Guarapuava, Paraná, Brasil († 1936)

• Adriaan Witte (36), Oud-Vossemeer
• Antje Klaas Velthuijs (0)
• Aaltje de Wilde (56)
• Ann Bruce (78), Crossfields, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Anne Harmens Nijboer (43), Drachten
• Antonia de Jeu (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Boers (40), Windesheim (Zwollerkerspel)
• Albert Rigterink (75), Genemuiden
• Sjoerd van der Veen (18), Huizum
• Aagje van den Oever (2), 's-Heerenberg en Bergambacht

• 1872 » Frank Cooper, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland († 1949)
• 1872 » Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer († 1928)
• 1880 » Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author († 1966)
• 1882 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge († 1937)
• 1883 » Charles Sheeler, American photographer and painter († 1965)
• 1884 » Anna Vyrubova, Russian author († 1964)
• 1887 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager († 1951)
• 1888 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)
• 1888 » Percy Kilbride, American actor († 1964)
• 1889 » Arthur Bowie Chrisman, American author († 1953)

• 1831 » Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (b. 1763)
• 1849 » Sarah Allen, African-American missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (b. 1764)
• 1868 » Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (b. 1840)
• 1879 » Edward Deas Thomson, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Chief Secretary of New South Wales (b. 1800)
• 1882 » Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States 1861-1865 (b. 1818)
• 1886 » Ned Buntline, American journalist and author (b. 1823)
• 1896 » Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and publisher, founded Académie Goncourt (b. 1822)
• 1915 » Ellen G. White, American theologian and author (b. 1827)
• 1917 » Philipp Scharwenka, German composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1939 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)

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.
• April 25 » French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
• December 16 » Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match.

The temperature on July 16, 1882 was about 22.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.