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• Albert Strijker, Avereest
• Albertus van Lith, Wadenoijen († 1953)
• Adriana Johanna van Velden, De Lier, Nederland
• Alice Featherstone
• Abraham Johannes Risseeuw, IJzendijke, Zeeland, NL
• Agnes Augustina De Moor, Denderleeuw († 1961)
• Hendriks, Zwolle († 1880)
• Albert Baudry, Anhee, 5537, Namen, België († 1938)
• Alida Muus, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1886)
• Anna Cornelia van den Hout, Tilburg († 1967)

• Anna Zijlstra (54), Zevenhuizen (Leek)
• Alonzo Beekman (65), Mount Vernon, New York
• Antje Smit (21), Den Helder
• Annigje Hilberts Pekel (0), Tiendeveen (Beilen)
• Albert Keegstra (0), Kommerzijl, NL-GR
• Augustinus Geerts (46), Kieldrecht
• Charles Elliott (50), Heilbron, OFS, South Africa
• Antje Smit (21), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hendriks (0), Zwolle
• Alexander Erskine (81), Lanark, Ontario, Canada

• 1871 » Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1871 » Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscaper and author († 1959)
• 1873 » Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager († 1963)
• 1873 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician († 1924)
• 1875 » Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist († 1935)
• 1879 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator († 1955)
• 1882 » Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel († 1945)
• 1883 » Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer († 1963)
• 1883 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler († 1950)
• 1890 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor († 1977)

• 1850 » Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)

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.
• May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on October 2, 1880 was about 15.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.