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- 1883 – Mary Truehart Woodfolk is born to Sallie Kimbo and John Truehart of Albemarle County. An active member of Mount Zion First African Baptist Church, Woodfolk helped her daughters organize their own quartet known as the "Woodfolk Family Singers" and eventually became the namesake of Woodfolk Drive within the Ridge Street neighborhood.
- 1900 – University of Virginia professor Charles Scott Venable, a mathematician, astronomer, and civil war military officer, died.