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• Aaltje (Alice) NIES, Holland Ottawa County Michigan U.S.A († 1929)
• Aloysius Dekeirel, Zarren West-Vlaanderen, België
• van den Ende, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Mielard, Amsterdam († 1880)
• Alida Achterberg, Jutphaas, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Metelmann, Parchim, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern († 1970)
• Amalia Johanna Maria Scholte, Amsterdam († 1944)
• Aaltje Bijvank, Rotterdam († 1880)
• Anna Philomena Schat, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Veenema, Wonseradeel

• Catharina van Oosten (76)
• Arie Jacobsz Hoogschagen (0), Anna Paulowna
• Catharina Maria de VRIES (0), Antwerpen
• * Wilhelm Adranus (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, NL
• Anna Maria van Rems (27), Amsterdam
• Cornelia Margaretha Schimmel (0), Utrecht
• Antje Looper (31), Haskerland
• Aaltje Reindertdr de Beurs (44), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Jane Kelder (25), Rochester (Mombaccus), Ulster County, New York
• Arie Hoogschagen (0), Anna Paulowna

• 1863 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter († 1930)
• 1869 » Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator († 1959)
• 1870 » Lavr Kornilov, Russian general and explorer († 1918)
• 1879 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general († 1970)
• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)

• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)

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 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• 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 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
• 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.
• December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

The temperature on August 18, 1880 was about 18.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.