* 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 ).

Mack Sennett ( January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960 ) was a Canadian-born American director and actor and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film.

* 1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director ( b. 1880 )

** Mack Sennett, Canadian film producer and director ( b. 1880 )

The tornado that swept through Southwest Missouri that devastated Webster County on April 18, 1880, also killed Polly and Sallie Scott and Mack, according to Goodspeed, in Wright County.

* Mack Sennett ( 1880 – 1960 ), mogul

* Mack Sennett ( 1880 – 1960 ), director, known as the " King of Comedy "

* November 5 – Mack Sennett, actor, producer, screenwriter and film director ( b. 1880 )

In 1880 the Mack estate was owned by Sylvester Smith.

Europa-Park is run by the Mack family which have produced vehicles since 1780, circus wagons since 1880 and rollercoasters since 1921.

* 1880 – Otto Christman, Canadian football player ( d. 1963 )

FamilySearch also includes an 1880 United States federal census index, an 1881 British census index, an 1881 Canadian census index, and the U. S. Social Security Death Index, as well as research guides and genealogical word lists.

The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony ; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.

* 1880 – George Bretz, Canadian lacrosse player

* November 29 – George Brown, Canadian politician ( d. 1880 )

Canadian sovereignty, originally ( 1870 – 80 ) only over island portions that drained into Foxe Basin, Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, over all of them was not established until the 1880 transfer by Britain to Canada of the remaining islands ; the District of Franklin was established in 1895, which comprised almost all of the archipelago ; the district was dissolved upon the creation of Nunavut in 1999.

* Bertha Harmer ( 1880 – 1934 ), prominent Canadian / American nurse

Competitive pressures had forced all the Canadian railways to convert to standard gauge by 1880, and Illinois Central converted its south line to New Orleans to standard gauge in 1881, putting pressure on the southern railways.

It was named for William Colling, a Canadian who purchased of land here in 1880.

* See J. C. Dent, Canadian Portrait Gallery ( 1880 ).

In 1880, Andrew Onderdonk, an American who was one of the Canadian Pacific Railway construction contractors in British Columbia, originally enlisted Chinese labourers from California.

George Brown ( November 29, 1818 – May 9, 1880 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.

The British demanded that Galt's position be formalized, and in late 1880, he became the first Canadian High Commissioner in London.

The Museum originated in 1880 as a collection of military artifacts in the possession of the Canadian federal government, organized by militia officers of the Ottawa garrison.

In the United States, Methodists had been ordaining women from 1880, but it was still a contentious issue in Canada, and it was not until 1936 that the Reverend Lydia Emelie Gruchy of Saskatchewan Conference became the first woman in the United Church to be ordained and, in 1953, she became the first Canadian woman to receive an honourary Doctor of Divinity degree.

Although the British government was concerned about this nascent Canadian diplomacy, it finally consented to giving Galt the formal title of High Commissioner in 1880.

Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur ( Chassé ; August 29, 1880 – April 16, 1998 ) was a French Canadian supercentenarian who, upon the death of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, became the oldest recognized living person.

** his son John Beverley Robinson ( 1821 – 1896 ), Canadian, mayor of Toronto 1856 and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1880 – 1887

* George Brown ( Canadian politician ) ( 1818 – 1880 ), Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician

* April 16-Marie-Louise Meilleur, supercentenarian, the oldest validated Canadian ever ( born 1880 )