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• Aldegonda Hagen, Nieuwkuijk
• Abraham Mooten, Delft
• Adolf Van der Meersche, Wanzele
• Abraham van Dijk, Steenwijk († 1880)
• Adrianus KERSTENS, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1879)
• Aaltjen Krebbers, Eibergen, gem. Berkelland, GD, Nederland
• Adrianus Lobregt, Zuilichem, Nederland († 1962)
• Akke Palma, Tzum, Friesland, Netherlands
• Jentje Kreuzen, Kerkenveld († 1884)
• Adrianus Kerstens, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1879)

• Adrianus SUIJKERBUIJK (61), Rucphen,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Amelia Maria ANECA (1), Zedelgem
• Anna Catharina Vinck (80), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia KUIJPERS (65), Dordrecht
• Anna Van Gulik (74), Haarlem
• Adrianus Richard König (60), Bergen op Zoom
• Anna Adelheid Büter (52), Nieuw Dordrecht, Emmen ( gemeente ), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Rosa Van Oudenrode (36), Lier, België
• Adriana Dominicus (9), Kattendijke
• Alida ♀ Koper (0), Zandvoort, Noord Holland, Nederland

• 1871 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant († 1951)
• 1873 » James Harcourt, English character actor († 1951)
• 1875 » Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet and lawyer († 1909)
• 1879 » Paul Poiret, French fashion designer († 1944)
• 1882 » Holland Smith, American general († 1967)
• 1884 » Daniel Varoujan, Armenian poet and educator († 1915)
• 1884 » Oliver Kirk, American boxer († 1960)
• 1884 » Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1966)
• 1889 » Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, lawyer, and activist († 1996)
• 1889 » Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland († 1918)

• 1831 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
• 1873 » William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
• 1881 » William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
• 1887 » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
• 1899 » Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)
• 1912 » Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
• 1918 » Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)

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.
• 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.
• 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 4 » Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.

The temperature on April 20, 1879 was about 8.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.