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• Abraham Wondergem, Kruiningen, Nederland († 1970)
• Anna M Martin, St Anthony, Washington, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1958)
• Andries Klazes Keizer, St. Jacobiparochie
• Aaltje Hollander, Zwartsluis († 1926)
• Adriana van der Meer, Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• de Ridder, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland († 1877)
• Adriana Catharina (Jaantje) van der Meer, ,, Pijnacker, Nederland († 1926)
• Abraham Wondergem, Kruiningen († 1971)
• Adriana Buitendijk, Zuidland († 1878)
• Romers, Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1877)

• Andrea Hannes Sinningh (75), Beerta (gem. Oldambt)
• Romers, Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia de BEUKELAER (1), Zandvliet, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Andrea Hannes Sinning (75), Beerta
• Andrea Sinningh (75), Nieuw Beerta, Groningen, Nederland
• Annigje de Kruijf (96), Kamerik
• Anje Timens Bosch or Bos (76), Ezinge, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adrianus Horsten (74), Antwerpen, B
• Alexander Swartwood Jr (83), Exeter, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus den Reijer (81), Raamsdonk

• 1865 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1865 » Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer († 1957)
• 1865 » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general († 1946)
• 1874 » Ernst Moro, Austrian physician and pediatrician († 1951)
• 1875 » Frederik Buch, Danish actor and screenwriter († 1925)
• 1877 » Paul Ladmirault, French pianist, violinist, and composer († 1944)
• 1880 » Johannes Aavik, Estonian linguist and philologist († 1973)
• 1881 » Albert Gleizes, French painter († 1953)
• 1884 » Francis Balfour, English colonel and politician († 1965)
• 1886 » Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and educator († 1957)

• 1856 » Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
• 1864 » George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
• 1869 » Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)

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 20 » The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
• March 2 » Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
• April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on December 8, 1877 was about 3.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.