About the day » Saturday December 13, 1879Calender converter

• Aaltje van 't Pad, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1880)
• Adele Rosalie Henriette Boux, Brussel (B)
• Alma Evertt McDanel, Chariton Township, Appanoose, Iowa, United States († 1959)
• Agatha Berdina van Vianen, Rotterdam († 1897)
• Adrianus Verdoorn (Dorrestijn), Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Dorrestijn, Utrecht († 1961)
• Agatha Kruijer, Heerhugowaard, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Janna Bodbijl, Serooskerke († 1955)
• Albert BERKELDER, Wisch, Nederland, Gelderland, Silvolde († 1953)
• Aart Van Silfhout, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1962)

• Annetje Zandbergen (73), Ede
• Aartje Rozendal (63), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana BURG,VAN DER (66), Pijnacker,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Christophorus Stanislaus STERK (79), Grave,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van der Burg (66), Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Marchand (0), Woumen (Diksmuide)
• Albert Smid (29), Groningen
• Aartje Rozendal (63), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Petronella Maria Langelaan (0), Delft
• Anna Catharina Casteleijn (76), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1867 » Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author († 1917)
• 1870 » Edward LeSaint, American actor and director († 1940)
• 1871 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author († 1945)
• 1874 » Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist and educator († 1944)
• 1882 » Jane Edna Hunter, African-American social worker († 1971)
• 1883 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer († 1950)
• 1884 » Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor, director, and playwright († 1951)
• 1885 » Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician († 1940)
• 1887 » Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient († 1964)
• 1887 » George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic († 1985)

• 1849 » Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, German botanist and entomologist (b. 1766)
• 1862 » Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1863 » Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813)
• 1868 » Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794)
• 1881 » August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838)
• 1883 » Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1908 » Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
• 1919 » Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (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.
• January 11 » The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• 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.
• July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• October 7 » Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
• 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).

The temperature on December 13, 1879 was about -3.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.