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• Aart Johannis van Mourik, Zoelmond (Beusichem) (Buren) (GL)
• Frijda, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1872)
• Adriana Schellekens, Gemonde († 1945)
• Adriana Schellekens, Gemonde († 1945)
• Alma Celine Battiau, Volkegem
• Albert Johannes van den Heuvel, Bunnik († 1956)
• Alberdina AALDERINK, Steenderen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1876)
• Antje Mulder, Kuinre († 1944)
• Alida van der Plas, Katwijk aan Zee († 1872)
• Antje Gerlofs VAN DER TUIG, Tzummarum (Franekeradeel) Friesland Netherlands

• (26), ZEDELGEM
• Ate (Gerrits) Jongbloed (82), Wanswerd
• Ate Jongbloed (82), Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries Kuipers (57), Enschede
• Anna Mechtilde Demacker (58), Oirsbeek
• Antje Minnoltsdr Dijkstra (70), Akkerwoude
• Arnoldus Hendriksz Van De KANT (79), Alkemade
• Antje Minnolts Dijkstra (70)
• Frijda (0), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aleida Catharina Steen (2), den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1857 » Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France († 1932)
• 1866 » Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire († 1913)
• 1868 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1869 » Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer († 1939)
• 1873 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter († 1939)
• 1880 » Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach († 1960)
• 1884 » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician († 1951)
• 1884 » Lyda Borelli, Italian actress († 1959)
• 1885 » Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator († 1969)
• 1886 » August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia († 1963)

• 1820 » Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 » Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• June 14 » Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
• July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
• November 5 » Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
• November 30 » The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• December 4 » The crewless American brigantine Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board are never accounted for.

The temperature on March 22, 1872 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.