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• Adrianus Elshout, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1879)
• Alma Persson Svensson, Boalt, Visseltofta, Kristianstad, Sweden († 1951)
• Alida de Rooij, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland († 1948)
• Aart Middelkoop, Everdingen († 1963)
• Achil Van de Walle, Ruien
• Albert Girouard, Merland, Antigonish Co., Nova Scotia
• Adriana Petronella Elisabeth Zuijdwijk, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van Veen, Rotterdam
• Alida de Rooij, Wijk bij Duurstede († 1948)
• Ada May Eastaugh, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia († 1964)

• Antonij KALEVELT (64), Heino
• Aafje van der Valk (40), Vlaardingen
• Bregtje Feddes Koopmans (79), Woudsend, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jansdochter ROMKES-MOLENAAR (84), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Bakker (52), 's Gravenhage
• Adriana Roelse (18), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Arie Jan van der Steen (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie (Antonius Antonius) van den Maagdenberg (70), Breda, NB, Nederland
• Adrianus van Helden (59), Rotterdam
• Carolina Cornelie Geentkens (74), Wechelterzande

• 1868 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect († 1928)
• 1877 » Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer († 1960)
• 1879 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic († 1963)
• 1879 » Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer († 1933)
• 1883 » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar († 1948)
• 1884 » Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect († 1931)
• 1886 » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 († 1972)
• 1888 » Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator († 1958)
• 1892 » Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player († 1975)
• 1893 » Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect († 1938)

• 1843 » Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet (b. 1770)
• 1853 » Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
• 1854 » Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1859 » David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
• 1861 » Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
• 1863 » Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
• 1866 » Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
• 1879 » William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
• 1911 » Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)

• 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 22 » The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
• January 22 » The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
• 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.
• April 5 » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
• May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
• May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.

The temperature on June 7, 1879 was about 17.8 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.