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• Anke Wietzes van der Sluis, smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries Johannes Hoegen, Renkum / Oosterbeek
• Antje Adriana Kroon, Vlieland († 1972)
• Aaltje Vasse, Veendam († 1960)
• Haines, Paulding Co., Ohio († 1883)
• Anna Maria de Jagher, 's-Gravenhage († 1950)
• Achille Brogniez, Pâturages, Colfontaine, Hainaut, Belgique
• Anna Maria Heinenbernd, Ochtrup († 1918)
• Antje Taekes Rijpma, Witmarsum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1949)
• Anna van Stein, Vlaardingen († 1961)

• Adrianus Schrama (69), Benthuizen
• Arie Schrama (69), Benthuizen (de Bent)
• Anthonius Heemskerk (0), Haarlem, NHO, Nederland
• Anna Maria Van Bulck (39), Boom
• Anna Elisabeth Mooren (0), Blerick, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Koning (57), Zandvoort
• Arij Trees (65), Brielle
• Adrianus Josephus de Jong (0), Schiedam
• Anna Langereis (19), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cuijten (47), Heeze

• 1878 » C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India († 1972)
• 1882 » Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1945)
• 1882 » Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1950)
• 1883 » Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic († 1973)
• 1885 » Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor († 1967)
• 1886 » Victor McLaglen, English-American actor († 1959)
• 1889 » Ray Collins, American actor († 1965)
• 1890 » László Bárdossy, Hungarian fascist politician and diplomat, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary († 1946)
• 1891 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada († 1969)

• 1850 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 » Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
• 1865 » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)

• 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.
• June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
• August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
• August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
• October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

The temperature on December 10, 1883 was about 0.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.