About the day » Wednesday August 13, 1873Calender converter

• Aaltje Wytzes Van der Heide, Tietjerksteradeel († 1967)
• Antonius Adrianus K√∂ster, Schiedam,South Holland,Netherlands († 1928)
• Ada Leigh Breedlove, Granville County, North Carolina († 1944)
• Aurelia Johanna Gezina ter Spill, Dantumadeel,, Friesland, Nederland († 1933)
• Antje Dirks Helfrich, Eernewoude Friesland Nederland († 1923)
• Adriana Wilhelmina ROMEIJN, Hof van Delft († 1928)
• Alfred Elwood Hass, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1942)
• Bartholomeus Quispel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Antonie van der Gun, Everdingen († 1943)
• Albertus Kuipers, 't Haantje († 1941)

• Adrianus Lucasse Stolk (68), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
• Adrianus Stolk (67), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht(ZH)
• Berend Leurink (0), Twello
• Anna Cornelia van Loon (0), Bergen op Zoom
• Barbara Francisca Eijsermans (0), Wouw
• Anna, Maria Lens (58), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Leurink (0), Twello,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ann Cumberbirch (54), Green Bank, Sutton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
• Aagje Sjirks Faber (5), Hemelum
• Anna Cornelia van Loon (0), Bergen op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands

• 1851 » Felix Adler, German-American religious leader and educator († 1933)
• 1860 » Annie Oakley, American target shooter († 1926)
• 1866 » Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S.p.A († 1945)
• 1867 » George Luks, American painter and illustrator († 1933)
• 1872 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate († 1942)
• 1879 » John Ireland, English composer and educator († 1962)
• 1884 » Harry Dean, English cricketer and coach († 1957)
• 1888 » Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor († 1975)
• 1888 » John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television († 1946)
• 1889 » Camillien Houde, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal († 1958)

• 1795 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (b. 1725)
• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)

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 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
• February 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
• March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
• March 10 » The first Azerbaijani play "The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran" prepared by Akhundov was performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.
• April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

The temperature on August 13, 1873 was about 20.7 °C. There was 10 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.