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• Albert van Rulo, Vught († 1874)
• Aaltje Plomp, Woerden († 1925)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Keller, Katendrecht († 1914)
• Adriana Bareman, Terneuzen (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1922)
• Abraham van Seggelen, Alkemade († 1942)
• Alexander Schieffer, Austin, Travis, TX († 1947)
• Aafje Kooij, Enkhuizen († 1920)
• Abram Hendrik Veen van der, Rotterdam
• Adriaan Pieter de Jonge, Axel (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1944)
• Adrianus Lagas, Breda († 1946)

• Aaltje Coevert (0), Oostwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Smits (70), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne (Anna) Marie (Maria) Janssen (82), Maastricht
• (l.l.) Pino Post (0), Tilburg
• Aafke Nieuwenhuis (22), Stroobos
• (22), Stroobos
• Anna Poelgeest, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
• Aafke Klases Nieuwenhuis (22), Friesche Stroobos, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Jans' Sijm (70), Enkhuizen
• Anna Catrina Westerhuis (23), Dedemsvaart

• 1865 » George Owen Squier, American general († 1934)
• 1866 » Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist († 1952)
• 1867 » Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., American director and producer († 1932)
• 1869 » David Robertson, Scottish-English golfer and rugby player († 1937)
• 1874 » Alfred Tysoe, English runner († 1901)
• 1876 » Walter Tewksbury, American runner and hurdler († 1968)
• 1877 » Maurice Farman, French race car driver and pilot († 1964)
• 1878 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect († 1944)
• 1880 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, and producer († 1971)
• 1880 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter and academic († 1966)

• 1843 » Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (b. 1786)
• 1843 » Robert Southey, English poet, historian, and translator (b. 1774)
• 1854 » Pedro María de Anaya, Mexican soldier. President (1847-1848) (b. 1795)
• 1863 » Edwin Vose Sumner, American general (b. 1797)
• 1869 » Juan Almonte, son of José María Morelos, was a Mexican soldier and diplomat who served as a regent in the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1803)
• 1884 » Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Joseph E. Johnston, American general (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Frederick Winslow Taylor, American golfer, tennis player, and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1920 » Evelina Haverfield, British suffragette and aid worker (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)

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.
• February 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
• April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
• 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.
• July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

The temperature on March 21, 1873 was about 6.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.