About the day » Wednesday November 3, 1880Calender converter

• Dekker († 1976)
• Agatha Anna Katharina Bots, Wilnis († 1933)
• Alida Jacoba Rutgers, Voorschoten, Zuid-Holand, Nederland
• Aaltje Johannes Hielkema, Nieuwehorne, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1961)
• Adriana Helena Ooijkaas, Schiedam († 1961)
• Aaltje Hulshof, Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 1936)
• Agatha Anna Katharina Bots, Wilnis († 1933)
• Anna Henriette Ihnen, Tegal, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Aaltje (Ouders:Egge Hulshof, Gerberdina Hulshof (geboren Pomp)) Hulshof, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 1936)
• Anna Maria Brees, Halmaal, België

• Alida Meeuwissen (49), Schiedam, Nederland
• "Gerrit" Gerrits Adema (83), Garijp (Tietjerksteradeel), Friesland, Nederland
• Arie Pottuijt (39), Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Klok (69), Vrijenban
• Arendje Faasse (1), Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kramer (61), Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Aleida Huberdina Meeuwissen (49), Schiedam
• Anna Margaritha Ruding (73), Groningen
• Arie Klok (69), Vrijenban
• Angelica Maria Johanna de Wolf (1), Den Haag, NL

• 1871 » Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby player and manager († 1943)
• 1875 » Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer and conductor († 1910)
• 1876 » Stephen Alencastre, American bishop and missionary († 1940)
• 1877 » Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean general and politician, 20th President of Chile († 1960)
• 1878 » Bangalore Nagarathnamma, Indian Carnatic singer and activist († 1952)
• 1882 » Yakub Kolas, Belarusian writer († 1956)
• 1884 » Joseph William Martin, Jr., American publisher and politician, 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1968)
• 1887 » Samuil Marshak, Russian author and poet († 1964)
• 1890 » Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch-Brazilian priest and missionary († 1943)
• 1890 » Harry Stephen Keeler, American author († 1967)

• 1850 » William E. Shannon, Irish-born American politician (b. 1821/1822)
• 1858 » Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and author (b. 1807)
• 1869 » Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1792)
• 1890 » Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1900 » Carrie Steele Logan, American philanthropist, founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States (b. ~1829)
• 1914 » Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (b. 1887)
• 1917 » Léon Bloy, French author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1918 » Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Annie Oakley, American entertainer and target shooter (b. 1860)

• 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.
• 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 November 3, 1880 was about 3.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.