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• Alicia Cecilia Lyphout, Staden, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Adrianus Doornenbal, Gerverscop, Utrecht, Nederland († 1970)
• Agnes Dyson, Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
• Anna Kaiser, Königsbach, Baden (D) († 1906)
• Alida Maria Swuste, Den Haag († 1963)
• Anna Barones Van. Lynden, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland NL († 1948)
• Anna Maria Stienen, Stramproy († 1961)
• Anna Cornelia van der Borden, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1885)
• Aaltjen Altena, Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1884)
• Aleida Maria van de Pol, Winterswijk († 1944)

• Adrianus Kivits (1), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Maria Kievits (50), Teteringen
• Antje Eenigenburg (72), Sint Maarten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia van Opbergen (0), Boxtel
• Arnoldus Slaats (86), Asten, Noord-Brabant, Pays-Bas
• Aaltje van Honk (67), Poederoijen
• Anna Elizabeth Frik (25), Holland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Arnoldus Gerardus de Brie (29), Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Annetje van Essen (2), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Harkdr Eenigenburg (72), Sint Maarten

• 1876 » Victor Hémery, French race car driver († 1950)
• 1880 » Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall († 1952)
• 1882 » Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian-American soprano († 1963)
• 1882 » Frances Gertrude McGill, pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist († 1959)
• 1882 » Jacques Maritain, French philosopher and author († 1973)
• 1882 » Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic († 1957)
• 1883 » Carl Vinson, American judge and politician († 1981)
• 1886 » Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian soldier and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary († 1967)
• 1888 » Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist († 1973)
• 1889 » Stanislav Kosior, Polish-Russian politician († 1939)

• 1830 » Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748)
• 1841 » Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (b. 1785)
• 1852 » Rose Philippine Duchesne, French-American nun and saint (b. 1769)
• 1886 » Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
• 1889 » William Allingham, Irish-English poet and scholar (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Renée Vivien, English-French poet (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Marcel Proust, French author and critic (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona Italian race car driver, explorer, and politician (b. 1871)
• 1936 » V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic (b. 1876)

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.
• March 28 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
• May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
• August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 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.
• October 22 » Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram, Vienna, Austria, first electric tram powered by overhead wire.
• November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

The temperature on November 18, 1883 was about 6.2 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.