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• Ailko Veltman, Nieuwolda (gem. Oldambt) († 1880)
• Aart de JONG Bzn († 1881)
• Adriana cornelia maria De Wit, Steenbergen
• Agatha Willemsdr Cornax, Delft
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Zandvliet, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1880)
• Adriana Broersen, Numansdorp († 1881)
• Adriana Groenheiden, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Aaltje Sents Bron, Blesdijke, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Dijk
• Alma Elisabeth LAUTS, Schaar, Niedersachsen, Duitsland († 1948)

• Aagtje Knijnenberg (0), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Stroomer (0), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Arjentje Pieters Faber (73), Tzummarum, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aafje Polle (0), Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Wytzes Eizinga (39), Oudkerk (Friesland)
• Albert Andrew HINGSTON (16), Hagley, Tasmania, Australia
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• Abraham Gehman Angeny (77), Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
• Anna Maria Weyts (63), Reusel
• Albert Willem Sogen (67), Arriën

• 1869 » Arthur Rostron, English captain († 1940)
• 1872 » Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal († 1961)
• 1878 » J. L. Wilkinson, American baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1879 » Fred Englehardt, American jumper († 1942)
• 1880 » Wilhelm List, German field marshal († 1971)
• 1881 » George Murray Hulbert, American judge and politician († 1950)
• 1881 » Lionel Hill, Australian politician, 30th Premier of South Australia († 1963)
• 1885 » Otto Klemperer, German composer and conductor († 1973)
• 1887 » Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War († 1943)
• 1888 » Archie Alexander, American mathematician and engineer († 1958)

• 1847 » Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (b. 1805)
• 1860 » Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801)
• 1873 » Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (b. 1797)
• 1878 » Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830)
• 1881 » Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (b. 1805)
• 1889 » Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1809)
• 1893 » Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)
• 1906 » Carl Schurz, German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1829)
• 1912 » August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (b. 1849)
• 1912 » Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)

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.
• 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.

The temperature on May 14, 1880 was about 22.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.