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• Alexander Spence, Keith, Banffshire, Scotland († 1969)
• Antje Dilg, Den Helder († 1884)
• Antonia Musch Muscus, Vlijmen († 1940)
• JAGER, Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• * Willem (2) Baars, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1881)
• Adrianus Gerrit van Straalen, 's Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Musch, Vlijmen († 1940)
• Anthonia Gerarda van der Pijl, Beesd
• Antje de Wit, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1886)
• Alice Apolant, Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany († 1943)

• Catharina Jacoba VAN DER VORST (41), Turnhout, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Cornelis van ELEWOUT (80), Klundert,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia De Hooge (78)
• Cornelius van Elewout (80), Klundert(NB)
• Cornelis Elisabeth van den Corput (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Arnoldus Pieter van Pommeren (1), Den Helder
• Alijda Stuber (0), Utrecht, Nederland
• Clementine Reith (42), Horwieden, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Betsy Elizabeth Davis (50), Epping, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten
• Corstiaan Nieuwenhuizen (31), Zuidland

• 1866 » Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer († 1938)
• 1866 » Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator († 1943)
• 1867 » Charles Dillon Perrine, American-Argentinian astronomer († 1951)
• 1872 » Albert Sarraut, French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France († 1962)
• 1874 » Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic († 1945)
• 1879 » Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party († 1966)
• 1879 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter († 1944)
• 1887 » Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor († 1968)
• 1887 » Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author († 1983)
• 1893 » Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer († 1952)

• 1835 » Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)
• 1836 » Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (b. 1777)
• 1842 » Clemens Brentano, German author and poet (b. 1778)
• 1844 » Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
• 1869 » Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
• 1878 » George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
• 1895 » Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 » John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)

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.
• January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
• February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
• 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 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
• 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 July 28, 1880 was about 20.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.