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• Adriaantje Goemaat, Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Verhoog, Bergambacht († 1967)
• adriaantje MAST, klaaswaal († 1941)
• Aagje Buik, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adelheid Helena Lina Weckert, Parrott Hill, South Australia, Australia († 1886)
• Adrianus Marinus Susannus Hello, Sambeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1974)
• Albertien Beekelaar, Tiendeveen {DR}
• Adriana VERHOOG, Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)
• Augusta Stephania Breijaert, Koewacht († 1955)
• Alexander Joseph Grashuis, Batavia (Ned. Oost Indië) († 1881)

• Adriana Maartendr Volger (76), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Francisca Theresia Boudou (5), Antwerpen
• Adriaan van Baal (68)
• Adriana (Adriaantje) Maartens VOLGER (76), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Uitterlinden (88), 's-Gravendeel, Binnenmaas, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonia van Veen (33), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinette Cecilia Maria Luijben (62), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Hössen (38), Rotterdam, Government of Rotterdam, South Holland, The Netherlands
• Adriaantje Volger (76), Assendelft, North Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaantje Maartens Volger (76), Assendelft

• 1866 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna († 1914)
• 1866 » Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet and author († 1900)
• 1870 » Alexander Berkman, Lithuanian-American activist and author († 1936)
• 1870 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician († 1946)
• 1870 » Stanley Jackson, English cricketer and politician († 1947)
• 1876 » Olav Duun, Norwegian author and educator († 1939)
• 1877 » Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer and educator († 1933)
• 1878 » Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of Justice († 1949)
• 1886 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician († 1968)
• 1894 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician († 1984)

• 1859 » Yoshida Shōin, Japanese academic and politician (b. 1830)
• 1861 » Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French priest and activist (b. 1802)
• 1870 » Karel Jaromír Erben, Czech historian and poet (b. 1811)
• 1874 » Marià Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ami Boué, German-Austrian geologist and ethnographer (b. 1794)
• 1899 » Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Harry Boyle, Australian cricketer (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
• 1908 » Carl Friedrich Schmidt, German-Russian geologist and botanist (b. 1832)
• 1909 » Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (b. 1851)

• 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.
• February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
• May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
• 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).
• 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 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 November 21, 1880 was about -3.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.