* 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 ).

Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler ( 29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936 ) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art.

* 1880 – Manuel Montt, Chilean politician and scholar, 6th President of Chile ( b. 1809 )

* 1809 – Manuel Montt, Chilean politician and scholar, 6th President of Chile ( d. 1880 )

He followed this rule when he stepped down ( 1880 ) after his first term and was succeeded by Manuel González.

* Manuel Sorola ( 1880 – 1957 ), first Hispanic FBI agent.

Alberto Villalón ( 1882 – 1955 ), and Manuel Corona ( 1880 – 1950 ) were of similar stature.

Manuel Azaña Díaz ( January 10, 1880 – November 3, 1940 ) was a Spanish politician.

The concept of the railroad was officially recognized in 1880, when the president of Mexico, General Manuel González, granted a rail concession to Albert Kinsey Owen of the Utopia Socialist Colony of New Harmony, Indiana, USA, who was seeking to develop a socialist colony.

He first married Teresa Aguilar Guzmán ( who died in 1899 ), granddaughter of then head of state Manuel Aguilar Chacón, and on November 4, 1900 he married Clementina Quirós Fonseca ( 1880 – 1953 ), daughter of José Quirós Montero and Florinda Fonseca Guzmán.

Manuel del Refugio González Flores ( 18 June 1833 – 10 April 1893 ) was a military general and Mexican politician who served as the 31st president of Mexico ( from 1880 to 1884 ).

* Manuel Corona ( 1880 – 1950 ), Cuban musician

* Manuel Montt Torres ( 1809 – 1880 ), president of Chile between 1851 and 1861

Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres ( September 4, 1809 – September 21, 1880 ) was a Chilean statesman and scholar.

Spyker was a Dutch car manufacturer, started in 1880 by coachbuilders Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker, but to be able to market the brand better in foreign countries, in 1903 the ' ij ' was changed into ' y '.

* Misceláneas de Alejandro Tapia y Rivera ( 1880 )

* Zárate, Julio ( 1880 ), « La Guerra de Independencia », en Vicente Riva Palacio, México a través de los siglos, III volumen, México: Ballescá y compañía, consultado en 6 de mayo de 2010.

Professor Juan Vilanova y Piera supported Sautuola's assumptions, and they published their results in 1880, to much public acclaim.

Line 2 was extended to the north and found the remains of the Cal y Canto Bridge ( built in 1782 and destroyed in 1880 ).

Among his other works include the first novel written by a native Filipino, Ninay ( 1885 ), and the first Filipino collection of poems in Spanish, Sampaguitas y otras poesías varias ( Jasmines and Other Poems ), published in Madrid in 1880.

It is believed that, in 1880, Chavez y Chavez murdered a dangerous convict in a New Mexico jail.

On the 12 December 1879, through a Royal Decree executed by the Governor General Domingo Moriones y Murillo, San Miguel became a duly constituted town and in 1880, it flourished as an independent political unit under the Province of Albay when Sorsogon, until the 10 October 1894 was not yet separated from its mother province.

Mesonero Romanos was elected to the Spanish Academy in 1838 and, though he continued to write, had somewhat outlived his fame when he issued his pleasing autobiography, Memorias de un Setentón, natural y vecino de Madrid ( 1880 ).

So did Pascual Agcaoili y Guerrero ( 1880 – 1958 ) of Ilocos Norte who wrote and staged " Daguiti Agpaspasukmon Basi ," and Isaias R. Lazo ( 1887 – 1983 ) of San Vicente, Ilocos Sur who wrote comedia and zarzuela.