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• Agatha van de Sluis, Bunnik († 1957)
• Aaltje Schilder, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1957)
• Anna Tekela Jorna, Bolsward,, Friesland, Nederland († 1958)
• Angeline Alexandre SCHIETECATTE, Antwerpen,2000,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1919)
• Amanda Antonsdatter, Seljemoen, Sørreisa, Troms, Norway († 1969)
• Alexander Zadoks, Middelburg
• Tops, Herenthals
• Adriana van Hartingsveld, Nieuw Helvoet
• (Levenloos geboren) de Weerd, Leerdam, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1880)
• Anna Maria Lucia DIEMEL, Utrecht († 1880)

• Agatha Catharina Baart (59), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jonkman, Hoogeveen, Noord
• Adriana Cornelia Karremans (0), Oudenbosch, Noord Brabant
• Aaltje WEERT, de (85), Kerkwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• De Weerd (0), Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Willems Top (74), Leek
• Adriaan Goudzwaard (70), Poortvliet, Zeeland, Nederland
• (Levenloos geboren) de Weerd (0), Leerdam
• Adriana Verhagen (51), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Aafje de Werk (44), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1867 » Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer († 1950)
• 1870 » William Laurel Harris, American painter and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Harry Brearley, English inventor († 1948)
• 1883 » Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright († 1957)
• 1885 » Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator († 1954)
• 1890 » Adolphe Menjou, American actor († 1963)
• 1890 » Edward Arnold, American actor († 1956)
• 1892 » Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician († 1944)
• 1893 » Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist († 1938)
• 1896 » Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat († 1970)

• 1851 » Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
• 1873 » Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)
• 1880 » Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
• 1906 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
• 1911 » Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Frank James, American soldier and criminal (b. 1843)
• 1923 » Alois Rašín, Czech economist and politician (b. 1867)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Jacoba
15. Geertruida
16. Antje

• 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.
• May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
• 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 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.

The temperature on February 18, 1880 was about 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.