About the day » Sunday October 5, 1879Calender converter

• Anna Valent, Haarlemmerliede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Harinxma Thoe Slooten, Leeuwarden († 1943)
• ABRAHAM VAN LEEUWEN, BENTHUIZEN († 1957)
• Alphonsius Joannes Josephus BRUYNINX, Kuringen, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Anna Philip van Harinxma thoe Slooten, Leeuwarden
• Alice Alma Holland, Rongotea, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand († 1940)
• Anne van Elsloo
• Adrianus den Ottelander, Gorinchem († 1949)
• Anna Catharina Daniels, Schilde
• Anna Louise Maria Hubertine Mettrop, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)

• Augustus Francisus ( Roose ) Rose (0), Stene ( Oostende )
• Anna Wilhelmina VERHAGEN (3), Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• anna wilhelmina Verhagen (3), stompwijk
• Anna Gertrudis Margeritha Thewissen (49), Membruggen
• Adriana Hendrika van Delft (0), Drunen
• Adrianus Smits (59), Zevenbergen
• Antoon SMULDERS (93), Tongelre, Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Gabes van der Weide (84), Terherne, gem. Utingeradeel
• Adriana Luijkx (77), Halsteren
• Adrien Beausar (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

• 1873 » Lucien Mérignac, French fencer († 1941)
• 1877 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1878 » Louise Dresser, American actress († 1965)
• 1879 » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic († 1945)
• 1883 » Ernst Pittschau, German actor († 1951)
• 1885 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat († 1969)
• 1885 » Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballerina and actress († 1960)
• 1887 » Manny Ziener, German actress († 1972)
• 1887 » René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)

• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 » Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)

• 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 25 » The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
• February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• March 29 » Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
• May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
• August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
• December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

The temperature on October 5, 1879 was about 13.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.