* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor ( d. 1964 )

* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )

* 1880 – Earle Page, Australian politician ( d. 1961 )

* 1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

* 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, English poet, novelist, and activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1880 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player ( d. 1925 )

* 1800 – Hiram Walden, American politician ( d. 1880 )

* 1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Brazilian military commander ( d. 1880 )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

* 1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian author ( d. 1932 )

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* 1880 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian ( d. 1998 )

* 1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.

* 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player ( d. 1968 )

* 1911 – Addie Joss, American baseball player ( b. 1880 )

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

The British Dental Association, formed in 1880 with Sir John Tomes as president, played a major role in prosecuting dentists practising illegally.

* John M. Ford ( Shreveport ) ( 1880 – 1965 ), American local-level executive ; city's longest-serving official ; mayor ( 1918 – 1922 ); finance commissioner ( 1930 – 65 )

* John Ford ( American football coach ) ( before 1880 – after 1906 ), college football head coach for Marquette University Golden Eagles in Milwaukee during 1905 and 1906 seasons

* John Henry Young ( 1880 – 1946 ), Australian art collector, art dealer and art gallery director

* 1880 – John Flynn, Australian evangelist ( d. 1951 )

* Bascom, John, Natural Theology ( 1880 )

* 1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.

* 1880 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist and politician, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1971 )

** John Foulds, British classical music composer ( b. 1880 )

* June 25 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1880 )

* February 15 – John Sutter, American pioneer ( d. 1880 )

In 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate ; in that same year, the leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their convention.

In early 1880 Garfield endorsed John Sherman for the party's Presidential nomination in exchange for Sherman's earlier support of Garfield for the Senate.

Though less than expected by the Sinn Féin leadership, it was substantially more than the initial form of home rule within the United Kingdom sought by Charles Stewart Parnell from 1880, and a serious advancement on the Home Rule Act of 1914 that the Irish nationalist leader John Redmond had achieved through parliamentary proceedings.

# John McDowell Leavitt ( 1875 – 1880 ), Episcopal clergyman

* Murray John E. " Determinants of Membership Levels and Duration in a Shaker Commune, 1780 – 1880 ".

The John Tigard House, constructed by the son of Wilson M. Tigard in 1880 at the corner of SW Pacific Hwy and SW Gaarde St, remains, having been saved from demolition in the 1970s by the Tigard Area Historical and Preservation Association.

* John George MacCarthy, Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1874 – 1880

Venn diagrams were conceived around 1880 by John Venn.

Venn diagrams were introduced in 1880 by John Venn ( 1834 – 1923 ) in a paper entitled " On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical Representation of Propositions and Reasonings " in the " Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science ", about the different ways to represent propositions by diagrams.

* John J. Kennedy ( Republic of Texas politician ) ( 1814 – 1880 ), soldier and law-enforcement officer

John W. Spencer, a local rancher and trader, found a silver deposit in the Chinati Mountains in 1880 that resulted in the opening of Presidio Mine and the beginning of the company town of Shafter.

Completed in 1880 by the architect John Loughborough Pearson, the church has an ornate Victorian interior, a carved stone reredos and screen and stained glass, adjacent to its partners, St Augustine's Primary and Secondary School.