About the day » Saturday April 29, 1876Calender converter

• Andreas PUTZ, Haaren (D) († 1903)
• Andries KOEHOORN, Lemsterland
• Almyrah (Myah) Igo, Yale, Menifee, Kentucky, United States († 1963)
• Anna Catharina Matheve, Sint-Gillis, België († 1912)
• Anna Margaretha Rauws, 's-Gravenhage / den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Aagje Wentink, Strijen († 1957)
• Anna Gertrud Gorissen, Kerkrade Spekholzerheide
• Alphonse Louis STRADIOT, Ellignies-Sainte-Anne, 51018, Hainaut, Belgique
• Alida Elisabeth Bervoets, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriaan Karel Hartog, Scherpenisse († 1963)

• Adriana van Leeuwen (70), Aalsmeer
• Anna van den Brekel (75), Waalwijk
• Alida Bakker (22), Den Helder
• Antonia Ham (75), Rotterdam
• Aafke Cornelis Smit (21), Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Netherlands(Dijkhuizen)
• Andrieske Josephs Witteveen (25), Doniawerstal, Fr, Nederland
• Arie Potuijt (33), Bergambacht, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Abram de Haan (73), Waddinxveen
• Abraham de HAAN (76), Waddinxveen,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ANNA MARIA BORGERS (35), Arendonk

• 1872 » Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and academic († 1952)
• 1872 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and lawyer († 1930)
• 1875 » Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer († 1950)
• 1878 » Friedrich Adler, Jewish-German academic, artist and designer (d.1945)
• 1879 » Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961, March 8)
• 1880 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish military officer, diplomat and politician († 1943)
• 1882 » Auguste Herbin, French painter († 1960)
• 1882 » Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer, typographer, and Nazi resister († 1945)
• 1885 » Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author († 1948)
• 1887 » Raymond Thorne, American swimmer († 1921)

• 1833 » William Babington, Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (b. 1756)
• 1854 » Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)

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. Wilhelmus

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 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
• February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
• May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• 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 April 29, 1876 was about 14.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.