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• Aaltje van den Belt, Zwolle {OV} († 1879)
• Adriana Maria Haans, Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant) († 1960)
• Aaltje Haantjes, Hemelumer Oldephaert en Noordwolde († 1959)
• Aaltje de Kaste, De Krim
• Adriana Maria Haans, Tilburg Nederland († 1960)
• († 1953)
• adolphe françois BOCH, Séez (F-73) Savoie
• Adrianus Pieter Rothfusz, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Alfred Reinbach, Hagestedgêard, Skandedrup Sogn, Ribe amt († 1943)
• Teerde Sjouke Basstra, Kollumerland († 1885)

• Wolters (0), Wierden
• Anna Christina Elisabeth Danckelman, Gennep
• Albertus Dortmans (69), Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annette LECOURIEUX (7), Saint-Benin-d'Azy
• Adriana Cornelia van der Vis (0), Aarlanderveen
• Anna Theresia Delanoye (81), ESEN
• Andries Magré (31), Franeker, Friesland, Nederland
• Alberdina WOLTHUIS (75), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje VERSTEEG (34), Harmelen (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Anne Jacobs Kooiker- (47)

• 1860 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer († 1909)
• 1871 » Clark Voorhees, American painter († 1933)
• 1873 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer († 1918)
• 1874 » G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright († 1936)
• 1880 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher († 1936)
• 1892 » Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author († 1938)
• 1893 » Max Brand, American journalist and author († 1944)
• 1894 » Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer († 1989)
• 1894 » Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1897 » Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1957)

• 1847 » Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (b. 1766)
• 1862 » Franz Mirecki, Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (b. 1791)
• 1866 » Winfield Scott, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1786)
• 1873 » Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
• 1892 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 » Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)

• 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 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• February 15 » Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
• March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
• September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

The temperature on May 29, 1879 was about 10.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.