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• Anje Gerritsen, Bedum (gem. Het Hogeland) († 1880)
• Anje Gerritsen, Bedum, Het Hogeland, Groningen, Nederland († 1880)
• Anna Millaard, Assen
• Aartje Boot, Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• CABOOTER, Maldegem,9990,Oost-Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 1923)
• Anna Maria Jozefa Beaujean, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1880)
• Aaltje de Jong, Vianen († 1953)
• Anna Helena Gargoskie, Rheden († 1959)
• Annigje Dingena Baan, Zwijndrecht († 1945)
• Adriaantje Jans de Vries, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1880)

• Adriaan, Willemen (75), Gilze en Rijen
• Angelina Verheyen (74), Zelem, 3545 (Halen), België
• Aalbert de Wild (52), Pella, IA (USA)
• Adriana van Doormaal (49), Tilburg
• Alida Leenderts Kokshoorn (72), Zoeterwoude
• Adriana Punt (45), Fijnaart en Heijningen (N.B.)
• Alma Ledeganck (2), Eekloo
• Afien Gerrits Kelderhuis (80), Echten
• Alida Leendertsdr. Kokshoorn (72), Zoeterwoude
• Adriana Punt (45), Fijnaard, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL

• 1875 » Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman and philanthropist († 1966)
• 1882 » William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter († 1960)
• 1883 » Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1939)
• 1884 » Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer († 1965)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian sailor and captain († 1951)
• 1887 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist († 1963)
• 1888 » Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer († 1976)
• 1888 » Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer († 1972)
• 1889 » Ernst Niekisch, German educator and politician († 1967)
• 1890 » Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer († 1966)

• 1841 » Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Jacoba
15. Geertruida
16. Antje

• 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 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 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
• June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
• June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
• August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
• September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
• September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

The temperature on May 23, 1880 was about 14.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%.