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• Anne Willem Jonkheer van Holthe van Echten, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1962)
• Anna Maria Van Der Lugt, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Aaltje Rotman, Den Ham († 1881)
• Abra Zevenbergen, Abbenbroek (Nissewaard), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• Anna Geertruida de Ronde, Rotterdam
• Roervink, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Schippers, Wissenkerke († 1879)
• Alfred Vermeersch, Gits West-Vlaanderen België
• * Jan Baas, Leerbroek († 1957)
• Agnes Page, Wellington († 1962)

• Anthonie Hageman (0), Oegstgeest
• Arend van Dragt (0), Elburg,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina (Bücker, Buckner) Beukers (74), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana de Kraker (66), Nieuw-en Sint Joosland
• (Anna) Maria Catharina Beukers Bücker (74), Emmen, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Bogaard (92), Erp
• Antje Jacobdr Bakker (9), Akersloot, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Berend Jans Luining (31), Groningen
• Anthonie Hageman (0), Oegstgeest
• Adriana de Kraker (66), Nieuw-en Sint Joosland

• 1869 » Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group († 1956)
• 1870 » Georges Dufrénoy, French painter and academic († 1943)
• 1872 » George Carpenter, American 5th General of The Salvation Army († 1948)
• 1875 » Reginald Punnett, English geneticist, statistician, and academic († 1967)
• 1882 » Daniel Sawyer, American golfer († 1937)
• 1884 » Johannes Heinrich Schultz, German psychiatrist and psychotherapist († 1970)
• 1884 » Mary R. Calvert, American astronomer and author († 1974)
• 1885 » Andrzej Gawroński, Polish linguist and academic († 1927)
• 1887 » Kurt Schwitters, German painter and illustrator († 1948)
• 1889 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic († 1951)

• 1837 » William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
• 1840 » Pierre Claude François Daunou, French historian and politician (b. 1761)
• 1847 » Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (b. 1782)
• 1869 » Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (b. 1835)
• 1870 » Jules de Goncourt, French historian and author (b. 1830)
• 1872 » Élie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
• 1875 » Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (b. 1810)
• 1888 » Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player (b. 1842)
• 1906 » John Clayton Adams, English painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 » Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (b. 1845)

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.
• January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
• 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.
• October 22 » Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasts 13​⁄₂ hours before burning out).
• December 21 » World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The temperature on June 20, 1879 was about 21.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.