About the day » Thursday August 7, 1873Calender converter

• Alberdina Margaretha Tonckens, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1930)
• Antonius Cornelissen,, Druten († 1962)
• Anna Schild, 's-Gravenhage († 1960)
• Albertus Petrus Maaren, Utrecht († 1944)
• Aaltje Windemuller, Lemelerveld
• Antonius Cornelissen, druten († 1962)
• Anna Catharina Feistemantel, Amsterdam
• Albertus Eliza van Es, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1926)
• Alfred Frédéric LAURENT, Bavans,, Franche-Comté, FRANCE
• Anna Maria Catharina Bothmer, Kerkrade (L († 1932)

• Aleida Vloedbeld (20), Wierden
• Antje Wagenaar (0), Nrd-Scharwoude
• Abraham Fuqua (85)
• Catharina Gerarda Aussems (0), Loon op Zand
• Arie Schouten (1), Kortenhoef
• Adriana Willemsen van den Berg (69), Arnhem
• Antonia Drost (54), Rhenen
• Arie Pruijt (0), lekkerkerk (zuid holland)
• Arij Schuit (Schuijt) (0), Arnemuiden
• Charles Polak Abas (0)

• 1862 » Henri Le Sidaner, French painter († 1939)
• 1862 » Victoria of Baden († 1931)
• 1867 » Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator († 1956)
• 1868 » Huntley Wright, English actor († 1941)
• 1868 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician († 1931)
• 1869 » Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician († 1959)
• 1876 » Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy († 1917)
• 1879 » Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer († 1931)
• 1884 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer († 1970)
• 1884 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator († 1940)

• 1817 » Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
• 1834 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)

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.
• 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.
• June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
• September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
• October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

The temperature on August 7, 1873 was about 23.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.