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• Adelaide Olivia Johnstone
• Akke Hoekstra, Kollumerzwaag (Friesland) († 1968)
• Adriaantje van Wolferen, Nieuw-Beijerland
• Alida van der Kooij, Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Albertje Hidding, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Maria Velders, Den Haag,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1955)
• Agnetia Zwager, Amsterdam
• Adriaantje Vat, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Pieters Hoekstra, Kollumerzwaag († 1968)
• Adriana Smulders, Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1879)

• Charlotte Francoise Bik (6), Tjisaroea
• Catharina Maria Stellema (66), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Casper Mentz van Scheele (83), Hoogeveen nederland
• Adriaantje Heiboer (89), Dreischor
• Arend Hendriks Koopman, Rande (Diepenveen)
• Anna Maria Bremmers (1), Maasniel, Limburg, Nederland
• Andreas Ignatius Ossewold (10), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Coleta van Reeth (53), Boom
• Adriana Heijboer (86), Dreischor, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arend (Hendriks) Koopman (72), Diepenveen

• 1863 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter († 1930)
• 1869 » Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator († 1959)
• 1870 » Lavr Kornilov, Russian general and explorer († 1918)
• 1879 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general († 1970)
• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)

• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)

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 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 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
• May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
• July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

The temperature on August 18, 1879 was about 14.7 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.