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• Aaltje Santifort, Eierland (Texel, NH)
• Anna Josefine Blumentritt, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Rikstje Houtman, Gaarkeuken († 1936)
• Aartje Veldhuizen, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1938)
• Anastasia Urbana Van Riet, Opdorp, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Aartje Veldhuizen, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1938)
• Alice Sikkinga, Kalamazoo Township (Kalamazoo County) (Michigan) († 1946)
• Alice G. HANSELPACKER
• Aaltje Sandifort, Eierland
• Anna Catharina Joanna Maria Vermeylen, Ekeren, Antwerpen

• Anna Maria van der BRUGGEN (66), Berlicum
• Antonius van Santen (68), Stompwijk, ZH, Nederland
• Adriana de Heus (75), Langbroek
• Antonius van Santen Zanten (68)
• Adriana van der Horne (73), Uithoorn, Noord Holland
• Anna Maria VAN SANTVLIET (85), Schilde, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• "Theodora Maria" Dorothea Dorothea, Aarle Rixtel
• Albert Pieters de JONG (56), Zevenhuizen, Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert de Jong (56), Zevenhuizen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Albert Jan Willem Bielderman (85), Laren, Lochem, Nederland

• 1866 » Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S.p.A († 1945)
• 1867 » George Luks, American painter and illustrator († 1933)
• 1872 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate († 1942)
• 1879 » John Ireland, English composer and educator († 1962)
• 1884 » Harry Dean, English cricketer and coach († 1957)
• 1888 » Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor († 1975)
• 1888 » John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television († 1946)
• 1889 » Camillien Houde, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal († 1958)
• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)

• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Antje
16. Petronella

• 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• March 23 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
• April 23 » Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
• May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
• September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
• December 28 » Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.

The temperature on August 13, 1879 was about 17.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.