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• Albert Postma, Eze (Steenwijkerwol. Ov) († 1942)
• Anthonie Hendrikus Binnenkade, Waddinxveen († 1906)
• Andreas Gillebaard, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Pieters de Jong, Drachten († 1944)
• Agnes Elizabeth Digges, Missouri († 1964)
• Anna Elisabeth Paland, Berg-Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland († 1953)
• Antje van Druten, Valburg († 1964)
• Amelia Ludovica Joosen, Ekeren, Antwerpen († 1883)
• Anna Gertrud Milchers, Ubach over Worms, Limburg, Nederland († 1941)
• Adriana Maria Vleugel, Berkhout, North Holland, Netherlands († 1880)

• Alida Johanna Coeleman (49), Leiden
• Abraham Henneman (0), Amsterdam
• Agnes (Niesje) van Maris (70), Overveen, Nederland
• Agnes van Maris (70), Bloemendaal
• Anthonij Schaap (76), Katwijk aan den Rijn
• Alberta Hermsen (40), Gendt, Nederland
• Anthonij Verschelling (0), Terneuzen
• Bernardus van der Steen (67), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Wilson (57), Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
• Baukje Johannes Haitsma (44), Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1872 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer († 1933)
• 1874 » Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist († 1954)
• 1875 » George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist († 1957)
• 1876 » Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman († 1942)
• 1880 » Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright († 1966)
• 1880 » Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Native American activist († 1947)
• 1884 » Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect († 1964)
• 1885 » Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer († 1950)
• 1885 » Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal († 1955)
• 1886 » H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist († 1961)

• 1842 » Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1842 » William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
• 1851 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (b. 1787)
• 1867 » Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1788)
• 1889 » Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
• 1891 » David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (b. 1804)
• 1898 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
• 1905 » Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
• 1915 » Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1879 )
• 1915 » Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)

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 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
• 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.
• October 8 » War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
• October 22 » Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasts 13​⁄₂ hours before burning out).

The temperature on September 10, 1879 was about 15.7 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.