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• Aagtje Olthof, Jukwerd (gem. Eemsdelta) († 1880)
• Hendriks, Valburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Eckhardt, Nisse († 1954)
• Anna Janna CAMBIER († 1955)
• Adrianus (Janus) Hollanders, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Adrianus Johannes van Lith, Drumpt (Wadenoijen), Nederland
• Anna Maria de Been, Made en Drimmelen († 1880)
• Adriaantje Hes, Rottterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adalberto Nascimento, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil († 1935)
• Andries Krab, Egmond aan Zee († 1960)

• Aloysius Alphonsus Vanderstokker (2), Geel, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Arnoldus Bleecke (2)
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• Barbara Theresia Van Neste (76), Oostende West-Vlaanderen
• Arend Willems Raadsveld (77), Heerenveen, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Mourik (83), Zoelmond
• Baby Girl Stillborn Jacobsdr van der Bent (0), Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barthelina Stoeldraijers (55), Valkenswaard
• Antonetta Frederika KREMER (34), Sumatra's Westkust Padangse Indonesië
• Antje Cornelissen (79), Wageningen

• 1877 » Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia († 1959)
• 1877 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator († 1968)
• 1879 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer († 1941)
• 1880 » Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer († 1972)
• 1881 » Janus Djurhuus, Faroese poet († 1948)
• 1882 » Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral († 1968)
• 1885 » Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian farmer and politician, 2nd President of Lithuania († 1969)
• 1887 » Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach († 1950)
• 1887 » Stefan Grabiński, Polish author and educator († 1936)
• 1887 » William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian († 1966)

• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

• 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.
• February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
• May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
• June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
• 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 26, 1880 was about 8.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.