About the day » Friday February 7, 1879Calender converter

• Abraham Toorenberg (Toorenburg), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Anna Maria Rijkelijkhuizen, Haarlemmermeer
• Reesing, Didam († 1879)
• Anne Marie Bruynincks-Jergen, Leopoldsburg, Heppen, Limburg, Belgium († 1956)
• Abraham Albert Pinczower, Cloverdale, Sonoma, California, Verenigde Staten († 1880)
• Aaltje Rienks Klompstra, Tietjerksteradeel (Bergum) († 1908)
• Anna Maria Virginia GRIETENS, Herent, 3020, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen, België
• van Loenen, Vlissingen
• Allegonda PEELS, Deurne,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1928)
• Abraham Toorenberg, Amsterdam (NL)

• Adrianus Aloijsius Gabri‰ls (0), Riethoven (gemeente Bergeijk)
• Adriana Weil (56), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Hanenberg (40), Wageningen, Nederland
• Adrien Seels, Postel, Mol, Antwerpen, België
• Aaltje Klootwijk (85), Rhoon, Zhl.NL
• Anna Maria Van Brabant, Herk-de-Stad, Limburg, Vlaanderen
• Reesing (0), Didam
• Aaltje Aries KLOOTWIJK (85), Poortugaal
• Anna Roovers (78), Princenhage
• Aart Helsloot (0), Aarlanderveen

• 1867 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author († 1957)
• 1870 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist († 1937)
• 1871 » Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist, composer, and conductor († 1927)
• 1873 » Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)
• 1878 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor († 1936)
• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)
• 1889 » Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American engineer and theorist († 1976)

• 1849 » Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (b. 1797)
• 1862 » Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
• 1864 » Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
• 1871 » Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (b. 1797)
• 1873 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
• 1878 » Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1891 » Marie Louise Andrews, American story writer and journalist (b. 1849)
• 1897 » Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
• 1919 » William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (b. 1874)

• 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.
• January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
• February 8 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
• May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
• July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• 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.

The temperature on February 7, 1879 was about 7.5 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.