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• Albertus Antonis Antonis, Riethoven, Nederland († 1884)
• Albertus Antonis, Riethoven (gemeente Bergeijk) († 1884)
• Aaltje Visser, Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Doets, Schermerhorn († 1884)
• Aaltje Kuiper, Olst, Overijssel, Nederland († 1924)
• Adriaan Roggeveen, Apeldoorn († 1952)
• Alfred Herbert COLE († 1940)
• Alberta Hendrika Monck, Arnhem († 1883)
• Alfred Butler Coolidge, Cheshire, New Hampshire
• Adrianus Hendricus KOEN, Roosendaal en Nispen

• Adriana van den Berg (74), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelisse Spaans (82), Scheveningen, Nederland
• Adriaan van der Velden (64), Loon op Zand, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Alida Haddeman (1), Vlaardingen
• Ari�n van Diepen (56), in Zandwerven
• Arie Cornelisz Spaans (82), Scheveningen
• Albert Vasse (0), Den Velde
• Adriana Roes (36), Breda, NL
• adriana paulusdr van den BERG (74), delft
• Arien Diepen van (56), Spanbroek

• 1877 » Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter († 1968)
• 1879 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Harry McClintock, American singer-songwriter and poet († 1957)
• 1883 » Dick Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1977)
• 1883 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1884 » Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal († 1942)
• 1887 » Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner († 1972)
• 1887 » Ping Bodie, American baseball player († 1961)
• 1888 » Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author († 1964)
• 1889 » R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian engineer († 1983)

• 1834 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 » John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1936 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 » Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)

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 16 » The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
• June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
• 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.
• October 20 » Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
• December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
• December 21 » The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.

The temperature on October 8, 1883 was about 10.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.