About the day » Saturday February 24, 1883Calender converter

• Aleida Christina Johanna de Gier, Grave († 1941)
• Adelaide Eliza Birrell, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia († 1967)
• Angelika Müntz († 1939)
• Adriana Johanna Schoenmaker, Rotterdam († 1950)
• Anna Maria VROEMEN, Berg en Terblijt (NL/LI) († 1968)
• Adrianus Thomas Tempelaars, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Aleida Christina Johanna de Gier, Grave, Nederland († 1941)
• Adrianus Zuijderwijk, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1889)
• Anna Clasina van der Kooij, Hillegersberg (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia Hendriks, Beek, Limburg, Nederland († 1923)

• Anna Catharina Faase (35), Haarlem
• ARENDJE VAN DER VOORDE (64), OOSTVOORNE
• * Petrus Jacobus van Slagmaat (0), Woerden, Utrecht, NL
• Age de Vries (4), Folsgare, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Meester (38), Aengwirden
• Abraham Baartman (2), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans Meester (38)
• Anna Katharina Maria Hellmann (55), Schwerin, Landeshauptstadt Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Antonie Cornelis van Stapele (27), Harderwijk
• "Edmond" Charles de Martimprey (74), Paris

• 1868 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player († 1949)
• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)
• 1890 » Marjorie Main, American actress († 1975)
• 1896 » Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer († 1983)

• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)
• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)

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 16 » The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
• May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
• June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
• October 4 » First run of the Orient Express.
• 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.

The temperature on February 24, 1883 was about 8.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.