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• Albertus Martinus KUIJKEN, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland,NL († 1944)
• Albertus Martinus Kuijken, Haarlem († 1944)
• Adriana van Rooy, Stratum (Eindhoven) († 1883)
• Albert Pieters Schipper, Ter Apel (Vlagtwedde) († 1942)
• Albert Lamberink, hardenberg (overijssel) († 1944)
• Adrianus Servaas VIIIL-1 Schoonen, Bergen op Zoom
• Albertha van Veggel, Lieshout
• Adriaan Spuijbroek, Sprang († 1883)
• Albert Schipper, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1942)
• Aaltje Kuilder, Holthone († 1889)

• Anton van Barneveld (3), Amerongen
• Berendina Schreurs (54), Markelo, Stokkum
• Aaltje Draaijer (7), Heerde (buurtschap Hoorn)
• Anna Maria Poels (33), Venray
• Carolus Meuris (0), Herentals, Antwerpen, België
• Aaltje Meijer (69), Heemskerk
• Auguste Henri Joseph De Roubaix, Fretin, 59273, France
• Antje Tjeerds van der Net (46), Nes
• Anton van Barneveld (3), Amerongen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• arie KRAMER (19), westmaas

• 1877 » Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1960)
• 1880 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1880 » Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist († 1943)
• 1881 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)

• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)

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.
• 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 21 » An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
• August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
• 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.

The temperature on August 12, 1883 was about 17.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.