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• Adriana Groenheide, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1938)
• Aaltje Bron, Weststellingwerf, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aart de JONG Bzn († 1881)
• Adrianus Josephus Leroi, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1880)
• Adriana Broersen, Numansdorp († 1881)
• Alphonsus Joannes FAES, 'S Gravenwezel,2970,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Adriana cornelia maria De Wit, Steenbergen
• Agatha Willemsdr Cornax, Delft
• Aaltje van Dijk, Zuilen
• Albert Harry Augustus BAILEY, Lady Oak, Goudhurst, Kent († 1964)

• Adrianus Stroomer (0), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje van Hanswijk (37), Schiebroek
• Aaltje Wytzes Eizinga (39), Oudkerk (Friesland)
• Arent Jan Saaltink (58), Eibergen
• Aafje Polle (0), Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Zandvliet (0), Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Arentje Pieters' Faber (73), Tzummarum, Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Weijts (63), Reusel
• Adrianus Bakker (69), Lambertschaag
• Yke Oenes Politiek (50), Aengwirden

• 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)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

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%.