About the day » Tuesday February 10, 1880Calender converter

• Alida Klazina Prummel, Wildervank (NL) († 1971)
• Alexander Thornton GORDON († 1930)
• Adamus Bossle, Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland († 1882)
• Akkelina Adriene Driessens, Middelburg (NL)
• Adelaide Louise Corbin, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1970)
• Aafke Pieters jellema, Achlum († 1970)
• Adrianus Abraham Hoogewerff, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Charles" Léopold Auguste d'Hennezel, Saint-Géréon, Loire-Atlantique, France
• Bernsen, Erica, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1880)
• Adrianus Nuyten, Tilburg († 1954)

• Anna Helena Többen (29), Swartsenberg (D)
• Andries Rienks Barwegen (47), Oostdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Lambregts (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jan van de Scheur (0), Rhenen
• Alois Rutz (70), Oberammergau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bayern, Duitsland
• Adriana Catharina van den Ham (1), Culemborg
• Aagje Kabouw (48), Hardinxveld
• Andries Rienks Barwegen (47), Niawier
• Anna Catharina Janssen (73), Stein,, Limburg, Nederland
• Abraham Jansen (0), Vianen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1868 » Prince Waldemar of Prussia († 1879)
• 1868 » William Allen White, American journalist and author († 1944)
• 1869 » Royal Cortissoz, American art critic († 1948)
• 1879 » Ernst Põdder, Estonian general († 1932)
• 1881 » Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director († 1954)
• 1883 » Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer († 1959)
• 1883 » H.V. Hordern, Australian cricketer († 1938)
• 1889 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey († 1982)
• 1890 » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)
• 1890 » Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist († 1918)

• 1854 » José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general. President three times (1844–1854) (b. 1792)
• 1857 » David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770)
• 1865 » Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (b. 1808)
• 1887 » Ellen Wood, English author (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850)
• 1904 » John A. Roche, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
• 1906 » Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1912 » Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (b. 1827)
• 1913 » Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (b. 1888)

• 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 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).
• June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
• June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
• June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
• August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

The temperature on February 10, 1880 was about 4.1 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.