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• Adrianus Mijs, Vessem
• Adrianus Hendrikus Cornelis Maarschalkerweerd, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amalia van Gagern, Worms, Rheinland-Palts († 1967)
• Aletta van het Veld, Wapenveld {GE} (Heerde)
• Annetje van Driesten, Elburg († 1883)
• Alida Helena Matse, Gouda
• Annetje van Driesten, Elburg († 1883)
• Damstra, Ruurd, Oosthem († 1981)
• AEdske GAAIKEMA, Niehove (Oldehove) Groningen Netherlands († 1945)
• Aletta van 't Veld, Heerde, Nederland († 1949)

• August Scheper (28), Baltimore, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria van Tel ( Til ) (73), Overschie Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Albertus Altelaar (44), Den Helder, NL
• Antonij Jan de Jong (0), Steenbergen, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Jorem (4), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria van Tel (73), Overschie, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria van Thil (73), Overschie
• Aukjen Jans van WALLINGA (48), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Aagje Eriks (54), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Sijpkens Diekema (68), Eexta

• 1875 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor († 1964)
• 1875 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and coach († 1945)
• 1875 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian-Swiss poet and author († 1926)
• 1881 » Erwin von Witzleben, Polish-German field marshal († 1944)
• 1882 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright († 1969)
• 1884 » R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian († 1980)
• 1892 » Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain († 1975)
• 1892 » Liu Bocheng, Chinese commander and politician († 1986)
• 1893 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic († 1968)

• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)
• 1893 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
• 1902 » Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)
• 1926 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868)
• 1935 » Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864)

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.
• May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
• June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
• August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 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.
• November 9 » The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.

The temperature on December 4, 1883 was about 2.7 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.