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• Sillevis, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1880)
• Jonkman, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1880)
• Alexander Zadoks, Middelburg
• Amanda Antonsdatter, Seljemoen, Sørreisa, Troms, Norway († 1969)
• Alida Schoonoord
• Agatha van de Sluis, Bunnik († 1957)
• De Weerd, Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1880)
• Adriana Jannetta JACOBI, Arkel († 1942)
• Aaltje Schilder, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1957)
• Adriana van Hartingsveld, Nieuw Helvoet

• Albertje Hendriks Drenth (66), Avereest
• Adriana Cornelia Karremans (0), Oudenbosch, Noord Brabant
• Albertje Hendriks Drente of Drent (65), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrana van der Lee (57), Vlijmen
• Adriaan van Loenhout (65), Woensdrecht
• Adriana van der Linden (2), Amersfoort, Nederland
• Aaltje Timmerman (82), Oudkarspel
• Adrianus Kleijwegt (53), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje de Werk (44), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Levenloos geboren) de Weerd (0), Leerdam

• 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)

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

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%.