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• Adriana Dederica Johanna van der Breggen, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Adriana Dederica Johanna van der Bruggen, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Abel Starke, Zuidbroek († 1982)
• Adrianus Albertus Willibrordus van Hazendonk, Tull en 't Waal († 1956)
• Anna Catharina Huijng, Ulft (Oude Ijsselstreek), Gelderland, Nederland († 1887)
• Anna Catharina Huijing, Ulft, Gelderland, Nederland († 1887)
• Andrieske Spoelstra († 1884)
• Adriana Hobo, Zuilichem († 1904)
• Adriana Johanna Roovers, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1883)
• Aart van Harn, Lienden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1965)

• Antonia van Vliet (52), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Ynzes Dikkerboom (38), Haskerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Agnes U Todd **** (5), Hopkins, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Antje de Bok (0), Utrecht
• B(Bernardus) Mensink (49), Groot-Agelo (Denekamp)
• Albert van Dooren (72), Holterhoek (Eibergen)
• Arnoldus Jacobus Berends (40), Brink en Orden
• Adrianuis Gerritsen (11), Heerewaarden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Jacob Berends (40), Apeldoorn-Brink en Orden
• Antje de Bok (0), Utrecht

• 1876 » Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer († 1958)
• 1878 » Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic († 1968)
• 1879 » King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1879 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army († 1940)
• 1886 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician († 1935)
• 1888 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1888 » Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, founded the Black Army († 1934)
• 1890 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator († 1972)
• 1891 » Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD († 1938)
• 1893 » Leatrice Joy, American actress († 1985)

• 1862 » Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (b. 1775)
• 1872 » Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1833)
• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 1856)

• 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.
• May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
• May 24 » The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
• August 21 » An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
• October 4 » First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 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.
• November 9 » The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.

The temperature on November 7, 1883 was about 9.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.