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• Adriana Boone, Kruiningen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1961)
• Amelia Voorn, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1914)
• Adam Ferdinand Karl von Schall-Riaucour, Gaussig († 1949)
• Alphonse Vercauteren, Moerbeke-Waas
• Albertje van der Laan, Farmsum, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Alfred Léon LANDES, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe († 1947)
• Lefeber, Nieuwer-Amstel, Nederland († 1883)
• "Adam Ferdinand" Karl Borromaus Otto Joseph Maria von Schall-Riaucour, Schloss Gaußig, Doberschau-Gaußig, Allemagne († 1949)
• Adam Ferdinand Karl Borromaus Otto Joseph Maria VON SCHALL-RIAUCOUR, Gaußig, Sachsen, Germany († 1949)
• Agatha Johanna Wassink, Utrecht 17:00 uur

• Auke Hartog (29)
• Annie Alcock (40), Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
• Anna Christina Huidink (38), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• ARIANA VAN ELDIK (85), Ochten
• Anna Christina Branger (38), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Bernhard Joseph Timmerman (87), Rotterdam
• Albert Loos (64), Zandvoort
• Arij Rosmolen (62), Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Pieternella Bras (50), rotterdam
• Albertina Catherine Robette (23), Gouda

• 1867 » Charles Dillon Perrine, American-Argentinian astronomer († 1951)
• 1872 » Albert Sarraut, French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France († 1962)
• 1874 » Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic († 1945)
• 1879 » Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party († 1966)
• 1879 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter († 1944)
• 1887 » Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor († 1968)
• 1887 » Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author († 1983)
• 1893 » Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter († 1926)
• 1898 » Lawrence Gray, American actor († 1970)

• 1836 » Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (b. 1777)
• 1842 » Clemens Brentano, German author and poet (b. 1778)
• 1844 » Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
• 1869 » Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
• 1878 » George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
• 1895 » Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 » Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1930 » John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)

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

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
• June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
• July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
• September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
• October 4 » First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• November 9 » The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.

The temperature on July 28, 1883 was about 12.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.