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• Albertine Snackey, Padang, West-Sumatra († 1950)
• Anna Catharina Smeets, Ohé en Laak († 1964)
• Adrianus van Ginneken, Roosendaal en Nispen († 1880)
• Anje Smith, Groningen († 1951)
• Anje Smith, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Adriana Petronella van Wingerden, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Bouwman († 1961)
• anthonie MONTIJN, benschop(UT)
• Adriana Neeltje 't Gilde, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Adriana Dijkman, Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1959)

• Simon Klaaszn Bol (75), Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• Alida Florentine Pauline den Tex (46), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Calvin Goddard Child (46), Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina van Eijck (75), Netersel
• Anna Osinga (1), Dokkum
• Carolus Ludovicus Vanderhyspaillie (41), Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Anna Catharina van Eijck (75), Bladel
• Antonius van de Mortel (0), Deurne
• Ananias Warners (0), Foxwolde (Roden)
• Adèle Julie Jeanne Böttcher-Rapp (68)

• 1868 » Evelyn Beatrice Hall, English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire, and wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre († 1956)
• 1870 » Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic († 1958)
• 1877 » Albert Young, American boxer and promoter († 1940)
• 1878 » Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player († 1962)
• 1881 » Pedro de Cordoba, American actor († 1950)
• 1882 » Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer († 1963)
• 1885 » Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee († 1974)
• 1887 » Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee († 1975)
• 1889 » Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach († 1973)
• 1890 » Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer († 1982)

• 1844 » Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
• 1859 » Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779)
• 1873 » Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 » Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
• 1918 » Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)

• 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.
• February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
• May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• 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.
• September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
• November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

The temperature on September 28, 1880 was about 17.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.