About the day » Thursday December 13, 1877Calender converter

• Aaltje Ruijg, Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands († 1933)
• Veltrop, Erica, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• Aleida Catharina Roos, Spijk († 1941)
• Alida Hendrika de Graaff, Alblasserdam
• Angela Adelheid Arens, Geest, Wesuwe
• Alphonsius Ysewijn, Weert, Antwerpen, Belgi�
• Abraham Gezang, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1943)
• Aart Quak, Rozenburg
• Aaltien Stevens-, Exloerveen, Nederland († 1956)
• Aleida Diks, Apeldoorn († 1933)

• Anna Maria Rennen (25), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberdina van Meeteren (50), Culemborg
• Antonie Harpman (61), Rotterdam
• Alida Hendrika Klever (2), Benschop, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Breure (0), Kats
• Anna Hendriks Bontekoe (80), Bolsward
• Albert Slagman (0), Gorssel (Lochem)
• Alberdina van Meeteren (51), Culemborg
• Antonie Andries Bulten (86), Doetinchem, Nederland
• Antonie Harpman (61), Rotterdam

• 1867 » Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author († 1917)
• 1870 » Edward LeSaint, American actor and director († 1940)
• 1871 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author († 1945)
• 1874 » Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist and educator († 1944)
• 1882 » Jane Edna Hunter, African-American social worker († 1971)
• 1883 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer († 1950)
• 1884 » Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor, director, and playwright († 1951)
• 1885 » Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician († 1940)
• 1887 » Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient († 1964)
• 1887 » George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic († 1985)

• 1837 » Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (b. 1756)
• 1849 » Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, German botanist and entomologist (b. 1766)
• 1862 » Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1863 » Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813)
• 1868 » Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794)
• 1881 » August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838)
• 1883 » Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1908 » Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)

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.
• April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
• June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
• November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

The temperature on December 13, 1877 was about 1.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.