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• Age Sijbrens Visser, Oldeboorn, Friesland, Nederland
• "Magdelaine" Marie Antoinette d'Estève de Bosch, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France († 1966)
• Adriana Maria Hamers, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• Aartje Meeta van Reekum, Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1880)
• Alice Katt, Ferrysburg Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Christen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert van Ogtrop, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1880)
• Anna Maria Moonen, Klimmen, Voerendaal († 1880)
• Adriaan Abraham Remeeus, Dreischor, Zeeland, Nederland († 1940)
• Aaltje Rozema, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 1957)

• * Agnes van Beijnen (80), Ammerzoden
• Agnes van Beijnen (80), Well, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Reeuwijk (0), Zoeterwoude
• Anna Gertrude Daemen (70), Jabeek, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Spelthahn (80), Kerkrade, Limburg, Niederlande
• Alfred Ludovicus Petrus Cooreman (0), Gent Oost Vlaanderen *
• Antonia Klem (31), Lenthe (Dalfsen), Overijssel, Nederland
• Anneke Nieuwkoop (64), Wijk en Aalburg
• Schopman (0), De Lutte
• Adrianus den Biggelaar (52), Klundert

• 1873 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1874 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach († 1938)
• 1876 » Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer († 1957)
• 1878 » Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor († 1968)
• 1879 » Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator († 1968)
• 1880 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware († 1962)
• 1882 » Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss († 1957)
• 1883 » Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss († 1968)
• 1883 » Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1888 » Lead Belly, American folk/blues musician and songwriter († 1949)

• 1848 » Christian VIII, Danish king (b. 1786)
• 1850 » Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1779)
• 1852 » Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 » Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
• 1907 » Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (b. 1842)
• 1908 » John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)

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 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
• 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.
• November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
• December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

The temperature on January 20, 1880 was about -2.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.