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• Adrianus van der Bijl, Loon op Zand
• * Henrica van Summeren, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Assendelft 336
• Amandus Debruyne, Klerken West-Vlaanderen, België
• Abraham van de Velden, Kortenhoef, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Josephus HEYLEN, Antwerpen Belgie
• Adriana Rensen, Delft, Nederland († 1965)
• Anna Alberdina van het Lindenhout, Appeltern, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)
• Ailko Marinus Loman, Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1960)
• Anna Christina Lenaerts, Vlissingen († 1969)

• Anna Dortu (67), Maastricht
• Anna Maria RIJKX (84), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Andries Dirks Beerstra (77), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Mol (71), Borssele, ZL, NL
• Anna Dortu (67), Maastricht
• Anna Maria Koolen (64), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Aartje van der Meiden (75), Deil (West Betuwe), Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Bedaf (69), Baarle-Nassau
• Aagtje Lubberts Radema (84), Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Bedaf (69), Baarle-Nassau

• 1875 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever († 1997)
• 1878 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader († 1973)
• 1881 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer († 1945)
• 1885 » Sacha Guitry, Russian-French actor, director, and playwright († 1957)
• 1887 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of War († 1945)
• 1888 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright († 1965)
• 1892 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1949)
• 1893 » Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist († 1987)
• 1893 » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress († 1979)
• 1894 » Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic († 1955)

• 1829 » Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen and freedom fighter (b. 1778)
• 1846 » Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800)
• 1862 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)
• 1888 » William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804)
• 1891 » James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
• 1919 » Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)
• 1938 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

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 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
• March 20 » The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
• August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• October 4 » First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
• November 30 » The style of western calendar, Common Era is conveyed to Joseon (Early-Modern Korean kingdom]].

The temperature on February 21, 1883 was about 7.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.