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• Adriana Johanna Lippe, Den Helder († 1954)
• Albert Koyen, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1949)
• A(Arnoldus) Hoek, Wierden
• Bernzen, Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1879)
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• Alida Verheus, Broek in Waterland
• Alice Barber, Keddington, Suffolk, England († 1974)
• Adriana de Zwart, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1879)
• Albrie August Albregts, Cadzand, Zeeland, Nederland († 1934)
• Albert Jan Grootemarsink, Archem (Ommen († 1888)

• Allegonda Wilhelmina Maria Kock (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Kievit (68), Den Burg (Texel, NH)
• Aafje Vis (62), ..........
• Anne Joseph CRAYBEEK (63), Nil Saint Vincent
• Anna Catharina Scheltema (24), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Verstrate (74), Zaamslag
• Aaltje Cornelisd MONSTER (71), Brielle
• ANNE JOSEPH TOULOUSE, SAINT-NICOLAS
• Adriana de Crom (71), Woensel
• Anna Elisabeth Driessen (41), Grevenbicht, Provincie Limburg, Nederland

• 1862 » Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel († 1939)
• 1867 » Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer († 1950)
• 1870 » William Laurel Harris, American painter and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Harry Brearley, English inventor († 1948)
• 1883 » Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright († 1957)
• 1885 » Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator († 1954)
• 1890 » Adolphe Menjou, American actor († 1963)
• 1890 » Edward Arnold, American actor († 1956)
• 1892 » Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician († 1944)
• 1893 » Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist († 1938)

• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
• 1873 » Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)
• 1880 » Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
• 1906 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
• 1911 » Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Frank James, American soldier and criminal (b. 1843)
• 1923 » Alois Rašín, Czech economist and politician (b. 1867)

• 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 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• May 2 » The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
• May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• July 8 » Sailing ship USSJeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
• September 3 » Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
• December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

The temperature on February 18, 1879 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.