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• Adriana Scheffer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Mulder, Diever, Drenthe, Nederland († 1927)
• Aaron Lawson McKinney, Oklahoma (State) († 1955)
• Albertje LEEVER, Rolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1964)
• Adriaan Jonker, Kerkwerve († 1939)
• Adriaan Jonker, Kerkwerve
• Abraham (Abram) Bierman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Albertje Leever, Rolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1964)
• Adrianus van der Ende, Scheveningen († 1882)
• Abraham Klijnsmid, Nieuw-Beijerland

• Anna Cornelia Jorissen (71), Calmpthout, Antwerpen, België
• Andreas Antonius MEULEMANS (69), Rotterdam
• Adriana Vermeer (0), Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Rijnaard (41), Zwijndrecht
• Anna Cornelia van Tichelen (76), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
• Antonius van Steijn (81), Dussen
• Anna Leinenga (3), Scheemda
• Adrien Antoine Marie le Jeune- (0), Tilburg, Nederland
• Aafje Slagter, Buiksloot, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1859 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright († 1916)
• 1860 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician († 1961)
• 1862 » John Jay Chapman, American lawyer, author, and poet († 1933)
• 1876 » Pope Pius XII († 1958)
• 1878 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver († 1944)
• 1886 » Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher († 1942)
• 1886 » Willis H. O'Brien, American animator and director († 1962)
• 1900 » Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer († 1950)
• 1901 » Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher († 1984)
• 1902 » Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy († 1972)

• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)
• 1864 » Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (b. 1842)
• 1865 » Carl Sylvius Völkner, German-New Zealand priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1880 » John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790)
• 1895 » Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1895 » Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Jubal Early, American general (b. 1816)
• 1921 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)

• 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 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".
• 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 March 2, 1880 was about 7.6 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 35 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.