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• Alexander Sterkenburg, Emmikhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1931)
• Alphonse Marie Isidore De Laet, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1957)
• Adriaan Jan Mijnheere, Oud-Vossemeer († 1877)
• Aleida Catharina van der Meer († 1923)
• Alexander Boons, Meerhout, België
• Anna Jacoba Peperzak, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aafje Petronella Thijssen, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba Peperzak, Nijmegen
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Zoete, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Til, Akersloot († 1950)

• Abraham van den Berg (0), Bergschenhoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bessel Kous (0), Putten,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna van Rijsewijk (0)
• Aalbert van Dolderen (19)
• Adrianus Jacobus van den Heuvel (0), Tilburg
• Bouchijn ATES (74), Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
• (Stillborn) SLAGMAN (0), Terherne (Utingeradeel) Friesland Netherlands
• "Ewald" August Friedrich Conrad von Kleist (52)
• Anna Catharina Böbs (72)
• Annetje (Antje) Kruijswijk (74), Weesp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1868 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright († 1955)
• 1874 » Charles Fort, American author († 1932)
• 1877 » Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1952)
• 1880 » Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer († 1964)
• 1881 » Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1881 » Leo Carrillo, American actor († 1961)
• 1881 » Louella Parsons, American journalist († 1972)
• 1883 » Scott Nearing, American economist and educator († 1983)
• 1886 » Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic († 1971)
• 1887 » Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver († 1957)

• 1850 » Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 » John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 » James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1893 » Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
• 1904 » Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)
• 1906 » George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)
• 1925 » Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853)
• 1925 » Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (b. 1848)

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.
• May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
• May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
• October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
• November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

The temperature on August 6, 1877 was about 22.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.