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• Minderhoud, Borssele († 1879)
• Aaltje GELDERMAN, Meppel (Drenthe)
• Albertus Jacobus van Wijk, Leiden († 1952)
• Aleida Maria Egbertsd van der Wijk, Vollenhove, ov.nld
• (not named) Geverding, Delft, TheNetherlands († 1879)
• Adriana van Herwaarde, Den Haag
• Farmer, East Fork, Clinton, Illinois, United States († 1879)
• Adrianus Cornelis HAGENAARS, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND († 1957)
• Aldert MENNINGA, Adorp Groningen Netherlands († 1942)
• Aartje de Bon(d)t, Streefkerk († 1949)

• Allegonda Vialle (64), Eindhoven, Nederland
• Arendtien Doldersum (4), De Noord (Hoogeveen) 85
• Arnoldus Josephus Meuwis (14), Lubbeek Vl.Brabant
• Anne Wytzes Kramer (54), Kubaard, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Ann Hylton (73), Greasy Creek, Floyd, Virginia
• Baukje Beekhuis (69), Groningen
• Adriaan Willem Katsman (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Ingen (43), Tegelen, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Melchers (80), Schiedam
• Antonius Arnoldussen (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1868 » Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player († 1954)
• 1873 » Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland († 1950)
• 1881 » Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1943)
• 1881 » Edgar Guest, English-American poet and author († 1959)
• 1884 » Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg († 1976)
• 1885 » Dino Campana, Italian poet and author († 1932)
• 1886 » Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher and theologian († 1965)
• 1887 » Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar († 1959)
• 1888 » Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam († 1980)
• 1890 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist († 1937)

• 1854 » Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (b. 1801)
• 1859 » Juan Bautista Ceballos, President of Mexico (1853) (b. 1811)
• 1882 » James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1820)
• 1887 » Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (b. 1860)
• 1893 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1897 » Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
• 1912 » William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 » Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)

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 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
• March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
• March 23 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
• May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

The temperature on August 20, 1879 was about 16.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.