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• Abraham Johannes VAN DER LIJKE, Bloemendaal Noord-Holland Netherlands († 1955)
• Alphonsius Carolus VAN REUSEL, Eindhout, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Alfons GOUWKENS, Herselt, Provincie Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgie
• Ambrosius Nannes, Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Adrianus Aloijsius Cornelis Geijsen, Vlissingen († 1879)
• Agatha Wallaart, Heiloo († 1960)
• Abraham Sprangers, Dordrecht
• Aaltje van de Wal, Putten-Dorp († 1884)
• Alida Landkroon, Assen (Drenthe) († 1879)
• Abraham Cornelis Linse, Rotterdam (Z-H) († 1880)

• Alida Leur (51), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Meijers (71), Loosdrecht, Nederland
• Anna Louisa Vellekoop (1), Rotterdam
• ANNA LOUISA VELLEKOOP (1), ROTTERDAM
• Aleida Bernardina Pruijn (2), Gendt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Arens (64), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arendje PIETERSEN (68), Dordrecht
• Anna Margaretha Senden Zenden (83), Heerlen
• Aaltje Meijer (71), Loosdrecht
• Angenietje Vrijlandt (1), Maasdam

• 1874 » Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet († 1938)
• 1877 » Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician († 1950)
• 1879 » Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar († 1962)
• 1880 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire († 1968)
• 1882 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler († 1964)
• 1882 » Leopold Stokowski, English conductor († 1977)
• 1884 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician († 1937)
• 1888 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1889 » Jessie Street, Australian activist († 1970)
• 1892 » Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor († 1962)

• 1832 » Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)
• 1873 » Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1898 » Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1912 » Martha Ripley, American physician (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)

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.
• May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
• July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• September 3 » Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
• October 21 » Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.

The temperature on April 18, 1879 was about 6.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.