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• Aafke Medema, Onderdendam, Bedum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1962)
• Adriana Seelen, Gilze en Rijen († 1886)
• Aaltje Boer, de, Tietjerksteradeel, Fr, Nederland († 1880)
• Andrew Floyd Courtney, Mississippi († 1955)
• Andries Visser *, Steenwijk († 1927)
• Albert Kuipers, Meppen, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• Ebing, Zwartebroek
• Alwine Wilhelmine Helene Metelmann, Hamburg-Ottensen, Bezirk Altona, Hamburg
• Adrianus Jacobus Suijkerbuijk, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1882)
• Albert Asche, Addison Township († 1879)

• Antje, Rodmers van Wijngaarden (64), Utingeradeel
• Abraham ten Hove (32), Hengelo
• Geertje Huisjes (0), Kerkenveld
• Ann Adamson (57), Madison, Indiana, United States
• Adriana de Dreu (0), Kapelle
• Albertina van de Logt (78), Gassel
• Alida Cornelia Salverda (71)
• Antonius Manni (64), Uden (noord-brabant)
• Amos Hollingshead (71), of Newmarket, York, Ontario, Canada
• Anna Elisabeth Heijnen (78), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland

• 1866 » Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player († 1916)
• 1875 » Frederick Fane, Irish-born, English cricketer († 1960)
• 1880 » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor († 1958)
• 1882 » Jessie Redmon Fauset, American author and poet († 1961)
• 1887 » Warren Wood, American golfer († 1926)
• 1888 » Florence La Badie, Canadian actress († 1917)
• 1891 » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1953)
• 1893 » Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1939)
• 1893 » Draža Mihailović, Serbian general († 1946)
• 1894 » George Petty, American painter and illustrator († 1975)

• 1873 » William Macready, English actor and manager (b. 1793)
• 1882 » Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (b. 1803)
• 1893 » John Ballance, Irish-born New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1839)
• 1896 » Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
• 1915 » John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
• 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
• 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)

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 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
• February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• February 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• 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 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.
• October 21 » Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.

The temperature on April 27, 1879 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.