* 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 ).

* Waldemar Deonna ( 1880 – 1959 )

Waldemar Bonsels ( 21 February 1880 in Ahrensburg – 31 July 1952 in Ambach ) was a German writer of children's books.

* Waldemar Pabst ( 1880 – 1970 ), German soldier and right-wing political activist

* PABST, Waldemar ( 1880 – 1970 ) Anti-communist soldier and Austrian Heimwehr organiser.

Waldemar Koch ( 25 September 1880 – 15 May 1963 ) was a German liberal politician and economist.

Fredrikstad Cathedral was designed by architect Waldemar F. Luhr and built in 1880.

* 1817 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician ( d. 1880 )

* 1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor ( b. 1880 )

* 1961 – Max Schöne, German swimmer ( b. 1880 )

* 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher ( d. 1936 )

* 1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter ( d. 1938 )

* 1916 – Franz Marc, German artist ( b. 1880 )

* 1880 – Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist ( d. 1930 )

* 1880 – Walter Brack, German backstroke and breaststroke swimmer ( d. 1919 )

The Reorientation of German Foreign Policy after the Congress of Berlin 1878 – 1880 ( 1974 )

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.

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 in Blankenburg ( then in the Duchy of Brunswick, German Empire ) at the foot of the Harz mountains, the eldest of four children, and the only boy.

of the Monumenta Germaniae historica Scriptores, and has been translated into German ( Leipzig, 1880 ).

In the latter 19th century French physical anthropologists, led by Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), focused on craniometry while the German tradition, led by Rudolf Virchow ( 1821 – 1902 ), emphasized the influence of environment and disease upon the human body.

Empress Eugénie ( widow of Napoleon III ) arrived in 1880 and the same year Prince Henry of Prussia arrived in a German frigate.

* 1802 – Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer ( d. 1880 )

* May 4 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal ( b. 1880 )

* December 21 – Paul Hausser, German Waffen SS general ( b. 1880 )

* May 8 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher ( b. 1880 )

* March 4 – Franz Marc, German artist ( b. 1880 )

* November – Alfred Wegener, German geophysicist and meteorologist ( b. 1880 )

* February 22 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician ( d. 1880 )

* Bavarian D VI, a 1880 German saturated steam locomotive

Reconstruction of costumes of Moorish nobility from a German book published in 1880