About the day » Saturday March 22, 1879Calender converter

• Agatha Overtoom, Ursem, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Regina Maria van Lieshout, Tilburg († 1933)
• Albertus Folbert, Vriezenveen († 1956)
• Andrew Jackson Leadingham († 1961)
• Aleida Blomer, Zuid Eschmarke, Lonneker, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1880)
• Aleida Blömer, Lonneker, Overijssel, Nederland († 1880)
• VAN BELLEGHEM, Beernem († 1879)
• Andries Selie, Hoorn († 1963)
• Aaltje Freerks van der Meulen, Tietjerksteradeel (Oenkerk) (Friesland)
• Adrianus van der Ven, Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)

• Anna Hendriks Busscher (40), Hoogkerk
• Adrianus Theodorus Leonardus Haasbeek (0), Leiden
• Arie van Duijvenbode (48), Katwijk
• Aaldert Pool (33), Hoogeveen
• Adriana Nijssen (0), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonius CLEIREN (0), Zandvliet, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Anna Cornelia Beekmans (69)
• Aaldert Pool (33), Hollandscheveld Hoogeveen Drenthe
• Alexander Smeets (43), Maastricht
• Arent Derk Wormgoor (44), Neede

• 1868 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1869 » Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer († 1939)
• 1873 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter († 1939)
• 1880 » Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach († 1960)
• 1884 » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician († 1951)
• 1884 » Lyda Borelli, Italian actress († 1959)
• 1885 » Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator († 1969)
• 1886 » August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia († 1963)
• 1887 » Chico Marx, American actor († 1961)
• 1890 » George Clark, American race car driver († 1978)

• 1820 » Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 » Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
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. Trijntje
14. Jacoba
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 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• May 2 » The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
• May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
• September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
• October 15 » The Segura river in southeastern Spain floods, killing 1077 people.
• December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

The temperature on March 22, 1879 was about 1.5 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.