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• Adriana Johanna van Kampen, 's-Gravenhage († 1943)
• Adeline von Liebieg, Liberec / Reichenberg, Tchéquie († 1932)
• Aaltje Tjipkes Hofma, Berlikum
• Amelia Bellefleur, Montreal, Quebec, Canada († 1961)
• Adrianus Hamers, Tilburg († 1955)
• Annie Gregory Kennedy, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1917)
• Anna Steenks, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1880)
• Anna Steenks, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1880)
• Albert Slender, De Huizen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1881)
• Annetta Johanna Jacoba van Doornum, Eerbeek, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1937)

• Antonius Koenen (75), Ottersum, Limburg, Nederland
• Koudijs, Enkhuizen
• - van der Helm (0), Delft
• Anna Elisabeth Evertsen (89)
• Jochems, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha (Margrita) Streeder (Streder) (86), Utrecht
• Anna Engel Berends (47), Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems)
• Anna van Dijk (78), Lopik
• "Thomas" Louis Garnaut (68), Rosewater, Australie
• antonius (antoon) koenen (75), ottersum

• 1874 » Edward Harkness, American philanthropist († 1940)
• 1874 » Jay Hughes, American baseball player and coach († 1924)
• 1875 » D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1877 » Tom Jones, American baseball player and manager († 1923)
• 1879 » Francis Picabia, French painter and poet († 1953)
• 1880 » Bill O'Neill, Canadian-American baseball player († 1920)
• 1880 » Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1956)
• 1881 » Ira Thomas, American baseball player and manager († 1958)
• 1886 » John J. Becker, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1961)
• 1887 » Helen Hoyt, American poet and author († 1972)

• 1840 » Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1850 » Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 » Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1901 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)

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.
• May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
• June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
• July 27 » Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
• 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 22, 1880 was about 0.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.