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• Adriaantje Lijntje Jacoba Dam, Nieuw-Vennep, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Adrianus Maanen, van, Leersum, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1881)
• Aleida Catharina ten Cate ov, Doornspijk {GE} († 1881)
• Plomp, Vrijenban († 1880)
• Adolf Merckx, Erembodegem
• Anna Maria de Lepper, Sint Oedenrode († 1895)
• Adrianus Johannes van Beusekom, Culemborg (Gld) Nederland († 1948)
• Aldegonda van Vugt, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Aalt van Bokhorst, Nijkerkerveen
• Aldegonda VUGT, van, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)

• Arie Klovert (38), Overschie
• Anna van Reijen (70), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Post (0), Moordrecht, Netherlands
• Agnita Wijsbroek (97), Delfshaven, Nederland
• Bartha (Bartje) Bijl (68), Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Otten (71), Nijmegen (Neerbosch)
• Catharina Rombout (85), Grave
• Arie Molendijk (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Zwang (28), Dordrecht
• Amalie Levy (2), Krotoszyn, Wlkp., Poland

• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1892 » Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author († 1979)
• 1896 » Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa († 1975)
• 1899 » Elmer Keith, American gun designer and author († 1984)
• 1900 » Howard H. Aiken, American physicist and computer scientist, created the Harvard Mark I († 1973)
• 1902 » Jennings Randolph, American journalist and politician († 1998)
• 1902 » Louise Beavers, American actress and singer († 1962)

• 1844 » Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1869 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 » Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 » Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 » Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
• 1887 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 » John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)

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.
• 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 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
• 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 March 8, 1880 was about 5.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.