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• Alida Reijers X Wijker, EaZ († 1942)
• Aleida Bruining-, Emmer-Compascuum, Nederland († 1964)
• Aleida Wijker, Egmond aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands († 1942)
• Anna Elisabeth Mom, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1969)
• Aaltje Feddes Kies, Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1957)
• Adrianus van Wezel, Middelharnis, Nederland († 1922)
• Aleida Bruining, Emmer Compascuum († 1964)
• Adriaan Broekhuizen, Oudshoorn gem. Alphen aan de Rijn Zhl. NL
• Verhoijsen († 1879)
• Anna Geertruida Ozinga, Urk († 1908)

• Anna Maria Mötter (53), Griethausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Aaltjen Jacobs (84), Deventer
• Anna Catharina Luyckx (3), Geel, België
• Antonia Manders (0), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Verhoeven (40), Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Heerding (61), Koedijk, Nederland
• Clasina HOOIJBERG (0), Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Constantia Augustina Pauline Pramschnieder (87), Summerfeldt (near Murray Bridge), South Australia
• Alida van Meer (42), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Antoinia Hendrina Hendriks (40), Vianen

• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)
• 1877 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1910)
• 1877 » Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1963)
• 1878 » Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general († 1928)
• 1884 » Denis G. Lillie, British biologist, member of the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition († 1963)
• 1884 » Vincent Auriol, French lawyer and politician, 16th President of the French Republic († 1966)
• 1886 » Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer († 1979)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

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 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
• February 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• February 15 » Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
• March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
• 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 2 » The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.

The temperature on August 27, 1879 was about 16.1 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 25 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.