About the day » Saturday November 8, 1873Calender converter

• Alex Walter Nichols, Wilson County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1965)
• Aaltje Barteles Bouma, Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1954)
• Alwine Althaus, Benfe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Agatha Maria Brenninkmeijer-, Sneek, Nederland († 1874)
• Aafke Ottenhoff, Groningen († 1952)
• Adriana Veltenaar, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1874)
• Aaltje Bartelesd Bouma
• Alexandre Touraine, Jouhet, 86117, France († 1928)
• Albartha Wilhelmina Kappers, Harderwijk († 1921)
• Alida BAKKER, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, PAYS-BAS († 1916)

• Commerijntje Pelle (84), Waardenburg
• Adrianus de Kruyf (40), Gouda
• Auke Hettes Jellema (25), Batavia, Java, Indonesia
• Alfreda McFarlane (0), Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America
• Anna Elizabeth Plomp (37)
• Catharina HEILIGERS (74), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Ponger (53), Nieuwendam
• Anna Steenks (0), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Philipsdr Baartman (69), Hardinxveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Walter Franklin (0)

• 1866 » Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company († 1941)
• 1868 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1878 » Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist († 1951)
• 1881 » Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1883 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet († 1953)
• 1883 » Charles Demuth, American painter († 1935)
• 1884 » Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1922)
• 1885 » Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect and academic († 1966)
• 1885 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter († 1959)
• 1885 » Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic († 1951)

• 1828 » Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator and author (b.1753)
• 1830 » Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
• 1873 » Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796)
• 1887 » Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker player (b. 1851)
• 1890 » César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (b. 1828)
• 1901 » James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
• 1905 » Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
• 1917 » Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
• 1921 » Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (b. 1849)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• March 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.

The temperature on November 8, 1873 was about 9.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.