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• Alfredo Buarque Pinto Guimarães, Belém, Pará, Brasil
• Adrien Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove
• Adriaantje van den Hoek, Dirksland († 1940)
• Adriana Kreuk, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Taanman, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Adriaantje van den Hoek, Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Angelus Franciscus Johannes Hufkens, Cauter, gem. Clinge († 1900)
• andries ("piette drees") spee, helden-egchel († 1961)
• Anna Portegies, De Rijp, Graft-De Rijp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1952)
• Alfred William Henry Saunders, St Helier Jersey Channel Islands, Channel Islands, Groot Brittanië

• Christianus Clerx (68), Alken, België
• Caesar Gustaaf Gerard van Mansfeld (77), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Caroline Belmans (74), Geel, België
• Adriana Lips (0), Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Frederika Daman (0), Dedemsvaart
• Arie Slingerland (63)
• Antje Schuffelen (57), Oudorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Schuffelen (57), Oudorp
• Antje Schoffelen (57), Oudorp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Angela Rosalia Waeyaert (87), Vladsloo

• 1871 » William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath († 1938)
• 1873 » Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic († 1949)
• 1874 » Walter Friedrich Otto, German philologist and scholar († 1958)
• 1876 » Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Mexican archbishop († 1936)
• 1879 » Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada († 1962)
• 1880 » Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer († 1954)
• 1884 » James Rector, American sprinter and lawyer († 1949)
• 1885 » Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player († 1962)
• 1887 » Julian Huxley, English biologist and academic († 1975)
• 1888 » Harold Hitz Burton, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland († 1964)

• 1868 » Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
• 1872 » Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentinian general (b. 1792)
• 1874 » Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
• 1892 » Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1819)
• 1894 » Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (b. 1823)
• 1905 » Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
• 1913 » Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (b. 1875)
• 1925 » Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1928 » A. B. Frost, American illustrator and painter (b. 1851)
• 1931 » Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (b. 1841)

• 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.
• March 29 » Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
• May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
• 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 21 » World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The temperature on June 22, 1879 was about 16.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.