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• anna maria van de kerkhof, maasbree († 1880)
• ? Kornalijnslijper, Amsterdam († 1880)
• Albert Hidding, Wachtum, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1903)
• Anna Maria van den KERKHOF, Maasbree, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Hoekstra, Ee, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Theunis HOEKSTRA, Ee Friesland Netherlands († 1954)
• Adriana Judik van den Heuvel, Hedel († 1944)
• Anne Tjaarda, Joure, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Vader, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Roelof Beijer, Meppel († 1910)

• Adaline Schimmel (16)
• Antoine ROSENBLATT (19), Grentzingen (68960, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Anna Cornelia Petronella Tertoole (0), Rotterdam
• Arie NOL (0), Santpoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Petronella Tertoole, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnetha van Gein (55), Arnhem, Nederland
• Antje Ruiter (26), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Ruiter (26), Haarlemmermeer
• Antje Raat (45), De Rijp
• Anna Maria Catharina Sprangers (40), Dongen, Nederland

• 1866 » Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony († 1932)
• 1874 » Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts († 1950)
• 1876 » Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice († 1941)
• 1882 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer († 1937)
• 1886 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy († 1965)
• 1888 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot († 1918)
• 1891 » Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator († 1946)
• 1893 » Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1956)
• 1895 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic († 1981)

• 1819 » Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
• 1829 » Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 » Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)

• 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.
• February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
• May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
• September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
• November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

The temperature on October 6, 1880 was about 16.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.