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• Ada Isabell HADLEY, Pleasant Creek, Victoria, Australia († 1956)
• Alfons VAN LOKEREN, Vrasene
• Aaltje Bergers, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1969)
• Aaltien Timmer, Zuidbarge, gem. Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1921)
• Aletta Christina Margrieta Hoekman, Amsterdam († 1962)
• Anna Catharina Boerema, Siddeburen, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland († 1920)
• Adriaan de Waard, Colijnsplaat, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Cornelia Schnitker, Maasland († 1964)
• Anna Maria Kockelkoren, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland († 1918)
• Aaltien Timmer, Zuidbarge, Emmen († 1921)

• Antonie Adrianus Pols (0), Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Arentje Stolk (27), Rockanje Z.H
• Antoni Navis (76), Aalten
• Arie Keus (0), Katwijk
• Bartholomeus Nas (75), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• augustin HUART (52), Pâturages (Belgium)
• Adriaan Oomens (0), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Catharina Tichelaar (0), Leeuwarden
• Arentje Stolk (27), Rockanje, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Driessen (39), Ottersum, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1867 » Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor († 1945)
• 1876 » Alexandros Papanastasiou, Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1936)
• 1882 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer († 1961)
• 1885 » Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1977)
• 1885 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss († 1948)
• 1890 » Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter († 1973)
• 1892 » Pavel Korin, Russian painter († 1967)
• 1892 » Richard Aldington, English author and poet († 1962)
• 1893 » R. Carlyle Buley, American historian and author († 1968)
• 1894 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)

• 1822 » Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (b. 1792)
• 1850 » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
• 1859 » Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)
• 1873 » Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)
• 1887 » Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1905 » Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1913 » Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)
• 1917 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
• 1930 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)

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

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

• 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).
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 8 » Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
• February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
• July 21 » After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
• September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.

The temperature on July 8, 1877 was about 17.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 48%.