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• Alphonse de Nitsen, Verviers, Liège, Belgique († 1963)
• Adriana Bogers, Lexmond († 1966)
• Ale Dirks Klaver, Drachten († 1962)
• "Julie" Jeanne MICHEL, Ougrée, Province de Liège, Belgique
• Adrianus Bernardus Roovers, Rijsbergen, Nederland († 1978)
• Alma Bagwell († 1962)
• Senden, Wijer (B)
• Albert John Stafford, Winfield, Henry, Iowa, United States († 1932)
• Adrianus Daniel van de Laar, Ammerzoden († 1941)
• Adriana Boogers, Lexmond

• Aalbert van Remmerden (64), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthony David van der Wijk (26), Hoogeveen
• Aaltje Smit (18), Rasquert, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Poo (80), Schiedam
• Abraham Wessels (69), Tholen
• Anje Lammerts HOPMA (67), Breede, Groningen, Nederland
• * Hermanus Petrus Gijsbertus Baars (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, NL
• Anna Maria De Groot (81), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Aalbert Van Remmerden (64), Veenendaal
• Anna Maria de Groot (81), Tilburg

• 1874 » Antanas Smetona, Lithuanian jurist and politician, President of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and from 1926 to 1940. († 1944)
• 1874 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States († 1964)
• 1877 » Frank Marshall, American chess player and author († 1944)
• 1878 » Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author († 1957)
• 1880 » Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Dallas († 1964)
• 1884 » Panait Istrati, Romanian journalist and author († 1935)
• 1888 » Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark († 1940)
• 1889 » Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly († 1967)
• 1889 » Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and member of the WW II Polish Resistance († 1968)
• 1890 » Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia († 1954)

• 1862 » Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
• 1875 » Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (b. 1831)
• 1890 » John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b. 1844)
• 1896 » Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (b. 1846)
• 1913 » Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (b. 1869)
• 1915 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (b. 1887)
• 1916 » John J. Loud, American inventor (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Erich Löwenhardt, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)

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 24 » The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
• August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
• August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
• September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
• November 9 » The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.
• November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

The temperature on August 10, 1883 was about 17.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.