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• adrianus theodorus schravendijk (s'gravendijk), den haag († 1883)
• Adriana Don, Vlaardingen
• Kouwenberg († 1884)
• Agostino Coppola († 1964)
• Anna van Gent, Utrecht († 1963)
• Anna Linschooten, Leiden († 1884)
• Albert Vasse, Den Velde († 1883)
• Anne Martens Blaauw, Hoornsterzwaag, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Pieters Fiat, Middelstum († 1953)
• Albert Stellinga, Slagharen († 1892)

• Berendina Grevink (39), 's Gravenhage
• Catherine Adeheid Brockhouse (21)
• Catharina van Leeuwen (51), Leiden
• Andries Oosenbrugh (44), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Catharina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Tisper (61), Weltevreden-Batavia-Indonesië
• Catharina (Catrina) Peek (87), Zeist
• Arie Groeneveld (46), Aarlanderveen
• Cornelis Brandwijk (78), Giessendam (Hardinxveld-Giessendam)
• Catharina Elst (58), Wernhout, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Tisper (61), N.I. Weltevreden Batavia

• 1875 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer († 1942)
• 1876 » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author († 1945)
• 1876 » William Stanier, English engineer († 1965)
• 1878 » Anna Cervin, Swedish artist († 1972)
• 1879 » Hans Lammers, German judge and politician († 1962)
• 1879 » Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter († 1971)
• 1884 » Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer († 1968)
• 1887 » Frank Woolley, English cricketer († 1978)
• 1888 » Louis Durey, French composer († 1979)

• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 » Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)

• 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.
• February 23 » Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
• March 28 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
• June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
• July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
• November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

The temperature on May 27, 1883 was about 14.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.