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• Adrianus Nuijten, Tilburg
• Adrianus Gijsbertus Hermanus Wildschut, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1948)
• Amand Benedikt De Graef, Moerzeke († 1942)
• Anna Kreveld, Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands († 1942)
• Agnes Williams, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, England († 1974)
• Aletta Maria de Marez-Oijens, Amsterdam († 1970)
• Aaltje Denkema
• Alida Adriana Peetsold, Oude Tonge († 1945)
• , Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• "Friedrich Wilhelm" Hans Joachim von der Schulenburg, Potsdam, Allemagne († 1924)

• Alle Kornelis Lijfering (47), Noordhorn, gem. Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Kloosterziel (0), Cellemuiden (Zwollerkerspel)
• aloyisius gerardus henricus osewoudt (1), amsterdam
• Alida van Dokkum (80), Haarlem
• Anna Catharina Vandepoel (78), Kapellen
• Adrianus Klaasz (Aarjen) Konijn (78), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Adrianus Staats (75), Warmond
• Aaltje Hessels Miedema (86), Súdwest-Fryslân (Pingjum) (Friesland)
• ? (levenloos) den Haan (0), Sint Annaland gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Adamus Christianus Muller (72)

• 1876 » 13th Dalai Lama († 1933)
• 1877 » Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault († 1944)
• 1880 » George Preca, Maltese priest and saint († 1962)
• 1880 » John L. Lewis, American miner and union leader († 1969)
• 1881 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina and actress († 1931)
• 1882 » Walter Nash, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1968)
• 1884 » Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American author († 1980)
• 1884 » Johan Laidoner, Estonian-Russian general († 1953)
• 1884 » Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter († 1957)
• 1884 » Max Beckmann, German painter and sculptor († 1950)

• 1834 » Friedrich Schleiermacher, German philosopher and scholar (b. 1768)
• 1886 » Randolph Caldecott, English-American painter and illustrator (b. 1846)
• 1894 » Hans von Bülow, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Ambroise Thomas, French composer and academic (b. 1811)
• 1912 » Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (b. 1841)
• 1915 » Émile Waldteufel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, philosopher, and academic (b. 1831)
• 1929 » Lillie Langtry, English singer and actress (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani-Russian general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (b. 1855)
• 1935 » Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (b. 1846)

• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

The temperature on February 12, 1880 was about 4.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.