About the day » Sunday August 24, 1879Calender converter

• Wijmenga, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1879)
• Adriana BAKKER, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, PAYS-BAS († 1942)
• Albertus Koops, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aartje Klein
• Anna Hamilton Banks, Lowndes County, Mississippi († 1959)
• Albertus Westenbroek, Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan († 1954)
• Alida van Leeuwen, Katwijk aan den Rijn († 1880)
• Adrianus Johannes Hollander, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolph Bernard Schulte, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Adriaan Dekker, Wemeldinge, Nederland

• Andreas Hubertus Senden Zenden (1), Bocholtz
• Abraham August Friedlander (84), Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
• Arie Zwartveld (0), Zwartewaal
• Adriaan Filius (84), Wissenkerke, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha van Ruijven (10), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Eekhoudt (0), Lent, Elst, Prov.Gelderland, Niederlande
• Adam Boonen (67), Linne
• Antje Doekles Banning (0), Pingjum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adamus Boonen (67), Linne, Maasgouw
• Anna Margaretha TACKEN (39), Horst, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1863 » Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer († 1918)
• 1865 » Ferdinand I of Romania († 1927)
• 1872 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist († 1956)
• 1884 » Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright († 1933)
• 1887 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player († 1974)
• 1888 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company († 1942)
• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)

• 1821 » John William Polidori, English writer and physician (b. 1795)
• 1832 » Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
• 1838 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1841 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)
• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
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. Trijntje
14. Jacoba
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.
• May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
• June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
• July 4 » Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
• August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
• December 21 » World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The temperature on August 24, 1879 was about 20.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.