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• Adrianus Hendricus van Hienen, Breukelen Nijenrode († 1879)
• AEesger Sjoukes KLEEFSTRA, Mantgum (Baarderadeel) Friesland Netherlands
• van Gompel, Bladel
• Anna Maria Beuken, Weesp († 1954)
• Antonetta Pieternella Legemate, Serooskerke (Schouwen) († 1956)
• (Stillborn) STAAL, Siddeburen (Slochteren) Groningen Netherlands († 1879)
• Annie Cecilia Polander, Sutter,California, Verenigde Staten
• Ada Gozewina Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Nijmegen,Gemeente Nijmegen,Gelderland,Netherlands († 1945)
• Albert Gerrits, Anverveen († 1965)
• Antonia Josephina Catharina Geurdes, Rotterdam, prov. Zuid Holland († 1961)

• Antonia Huis in 't Veld (0), Apeldoorn
• Antonius Philippus Trouwborst (2), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van der Jagt (9), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederlandt
• Allegonda Leenarts (42), Vlijmen, Heusden
• Anna Wolf (41), Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Aaltje Hendriks Schaap (23), Eemnes
• Anna Maria van Liempt (85), Driel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana WARNAAR (0), Rotterdam
• Amelie Julie Verknocke (70), Cassel (F)
• Aquilla Hardesty (80), Greene County, Indiana, United States

• 1872 » Anna Held, Polish singer († 1918)
• 1873 » Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1916)
• 1875 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord († 1928)
• 1876 » Felix Jacoby, German philologist († 1959)
• 1880 » Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate († 1961)
• 1881 » Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician († 1960)
• 1882 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor († 1935)
• 1883 » Joseph Stilwell, American general († 1946)
• 1883 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1885 » Attik, Greek composer († 1944)

• 1816 » Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (b. 1730)
• 1871 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
• 1897 » Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 » Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1900 » John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)

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 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
• July 8 » Sailing ship USSJeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
• August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
• October 21 » Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
• 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 March 19, 1879 was about 14.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.