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• Albert Kleinlugtebeld, Lemelerveld, gemeente Ommen († 1881)
• Adriana Cornelia Hulspas, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1946)
• Alice WIBALDA, Oostdongeradeel († 1946)
• Adam Bruin, Den Hoorn (Texel, NH) († 1881)
• Alois Henri Bervoet, Woumen
• Alexander Hensels, Maastricht (Borgharen) (Limburg) († 1939)
• Adrianus Westdijk, Oude-Tonge († 1883)
• Alphonsus Adrianus Josephus Marijnen, 's Hertogenbosch († 1881)
• Adriana Janna Kole, Kruiningen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1915)
• Agnes Maria van de Pavoordt, Gouda († 1939)

• Albert Douwes Veenstra (65), Kollumerland c.a,, Friesland, Nederland
• Alice Russell Hathaway (74), New Bedford, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Gorel (0), Almelo
• Anthonie van Gessel (1), Kapel-Avezaath
• Anna Rusthuis (69), sneek
• Albertine Henriëtte van der Bruggen (68), Gent, Vlaanderen
• Anna Oenes Rusthuis (69), Sneek huis no. 510, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham van Egmond (2), Bennebroek
• Abraham van Egmond (2), Bennebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Bombeeck (29), Roubaix, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France

• 1871 » Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino jurist, historian, and scholar († 1927)
• 1873 » John McGraw, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, German-American painter († 1939)
• 1876 » Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach, and lawyer († 1945)
• 1882 » Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricketer († 1971)
• 1882 » Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany († 1934)
• 1883 » Gino Severini, Italian-French painter and author († 1966)
• 1884 » Clement Smoot, American golfer († 1963)
• 1886 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier († 1971)
• 1889 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)

• 1849 » Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777)
• 1850 » William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
• 1858 » Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (b. 1781)
• 1868 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Begum Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (b. 1804)
• 1889 » Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876 (b. 1823)
• 1889 » Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese soldier and politician (b. 1823)
• 1891 » P. T. Barnum, American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1810)
• 1917 » Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer and playwright (b. 1861)

• 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.
• January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
• May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• 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.
• 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 April 7, 1880 was about 13.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.