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• Aloijsia Maria Josephina van den Hout, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Aloijsia van den Hout, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Marie Schippers, Vlaardingen († 1966)
• Ammon Witteboon, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1880)
• Andreas Bolkestein, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1931)
• Aantje de Jong († 1961)
• Adelaide Theresa Carels, N.I. Batavia
• Adrianus Beljaerts, Klundert, Nederland († 1880)
• Aantje de Jong, Lexmond († 1961)
• Alida Willemina van Beesten, Schiedam († 1880)

• Auguste baron d'Overschie de Neeryssche (78)
• Anna Catharina van Vugt (63), Oss
• Bernardina Catharina Johanna Bischoff (0), Utrecht
• Barbara Theresia MOERMAN (86), Avelgem
• Aaltje Schupper (0), Rotterdam
• Anthonius van BECKUM (64), Rotterdam (Z-H)
• Adriana van Groningen (15), Doorn, Nederland
• Arie Kuijntjes (1), Zuilichem
• Antonie KERSTENS (0), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annetje Elzerman (9), Oldebroek

• 1876 » Swami Kalyan Dev, philosopher [year disputed] († 2004)
• 1876 » Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic († 1956)
• 1880 » Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician († 1961)
• 1880 » Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant († 1941)
• 1881 » (O.S.) Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator († 1962)
• 1882 » Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer and soldier († 1966)
• 1882 » Lluís Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia († 1940)
• 1882 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator († 1971)
• 1883 » Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator († 1958)
• 1884 » Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal († 1981)

• 1824 » Étienne Aignan, French playwright and translator (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824)
• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)

• 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.
• February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
• June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
• August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
• November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
• December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

The temperature on June 21, 1880 was about 18.5 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.