About the day » Wednesday February 16, 1876Calender converter

• Albert de Groot, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida Henriette Louise WAAGE, Oude Amstel († 1959)
• * Levenloos kind Baars, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1876)
• Abraham Post, Delfshaven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Adriana van Rijsbergen, Oudenbosch († 1930)
• Abraham Post, Delfshaven († 1918)
• Aalt van Kommer, Leersum
• Aaltje van Groningen, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1922)
• Aaltje Dekker, den Helder, prov. Noord Holland
• Aalt van Kommer, Leersum

• Adrianus Simonszn Hoek (80), Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia de Bruijne (65), Koewacht (Zeeland) Nederland-The Netherlands
• Aant Kornelis Post (72), Oostdongeradeel
• Adriana Oreel (78), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Albert Bosch (21), Arnhem,Gemeente Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Uitdewilligen (4), Wouw
• Adriana Oreel, Middelburg, Walcheren, ZL, Nederland
• Aafje Koops Smit (78), Smilde
• Alice Maria Oktavia VOGEL (26), Zürich, Zürich (Zwitserland)
• Anna Bongaards (37), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1866 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager († 1940)
• 1868 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer († 1952)
• 1873 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author († 1908)
• 1876 » G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic († 1962)
• 1878 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss († 1920)
• 1878 » Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator († 1951)
• 1884 » Robert J. Flaherty, German-Irish American director and producer († 1951)
• 1886 » Andy Ducat, English international footballer (forward and manager) and Cricketer († 1942)
• 1887 » Kathleen Clifford, American actress († 1962)
• 1891 » Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic († 1968)

• 1820 » Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 2 » The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
• February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
• April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
• April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
• July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
• August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.

The temperature on February 16, 1876 was about 6.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.